Leo Gura

Oh, I will bear them in mind.

Materialism was never based on proof, so it cannot really be disproven either. Materialism is a set of philosophical assumptions that are taken on faith. So it's like trying to disprove the flying spaghetti monster.

This guy is on another level:

Boobies irritate Allah the Almighty.

1) I am a philosopher freak. 2) I am still interested in girls.

Dude, there is a very long history of animosity with Iran. I cannot recap it all for you here. Iran took US hostages. Iran seeks to dominate the region through proxies. Iran proxies disrupt oil shipping lanes and oil fields. Iran tries to make nukes. Iran supplies arms to Russia. Iran is a repressive theocracy. Iran executes and imprisons pro-Western journalists. Iran is hostile to Western capitalist interests. Iran expropriated Western capital. US overthrew Iranian leaders. The list is endless. I am not saying Iran bad, US good. I'm just saying why there is hostility.

There's truth in both views because, as I said, nations scratch each others backs. It's an alignment of survival agendas. That's what all relationship is fundamentally about. Don't forget that Israel is also a hedge against Iran.

I mean the current left. Not Mao. Although Mao and Lenin certainly had very delusional and utopian ideas about how society functions. Although they were also ruthless, pragmatic, opportunistic, Machiavellian creatures.

Your position just isn't serious. It's based on leftist ideals, not how the world actually works.

A lot! Israel is a Western bastion and military base in the Middle East, a region of critical geopolitical importance. Israel shares intelligence on terrorism and Middle Eastern leaders. Mossad is powerful. Israel has many defense contractors and important technology companies. Many important and powerful Jewish tycoons in the USA have a fondness and loyalty for Israel, and they need to be placated. All that is politics 101.

Then there is some hope.

Has anyone noticed how liberals and leftists keep being surprised and shocked by the right's victories? Why do you think that surprise and disappointment happens? Could it be because the left does not have correct sense-making of how society functions?

Aye aye.

I don't see how final cut could have saved that film. Unless you leave 50% of it blank But, yeah, I know he regrets it.

Could be both. They dovetail.

I don't get insanity from it, but it is blackpilling and emotionally difficult for sure to see all of mankind's corruption. It's been difficult. In the end, truth is your North Star. Follow truth wherever it leads. A genuine commitment to truth means that you don't get lost in sugary fantasies of life, but also don't overfixate on negativity and fall into pathology. The path of truth is an exquisite balancing act, with crocodiles to the left and right.

Consider those two hostages dead.

Higher than China, Middle East, Russia, and the non-Western world. The West still has the highest values of what's found around the world. You gotta keep things in proper perspective. Neoliberal tech-bro democracy is still more advanced than Putinism or Islamic theocratic monarchy or Chinese communism.

As I said, once Israel has the hostages, they will have no mercy and no honor. The pig-headedness will continue. Gaza now has zero leverage and Netanyahu will punish them for it.

That's right. That's because I've become much more grounded, shredding through fantasy. The world is much bleaker than people want to believe. Especially than leftists and spiritual people want to believe. Reality will beat your liberal ideals out you. The only reason liberals and spiritual people can be so delusional is because they live in a bubbles of fantasy disconnected from reality. But eventually all those bubbles will burst, like with this Trump victory. Just notice that you liberal spiritual lovey-dovey ideas do not match up with how the world actually runs. This doesn't mean you shouldn't have vision. Vision is vital. But it needs to be grounded in what is realistic. Good intentions, high ideals, and love are not enough. I have made this calibration in my worldview and it has made my view so much more potent. But it also more biting. My view of mankind is more accurate than ever before. The aim is not liberalism, the aim is accuracy. Wherever that leads is where I will go. Your political view needs to accurately predict political happenings. You will notice, I predicted this Trump win would happen right before it did. Because I wasn't operating off my ideals, but what I saw in real life. This sort of predictive power only comes from grounding your view and cutting through all the fantasy. In fact, I will be teaching you guys how to do this because it is so powerful and core to our work. We are not spinning New Age fantasies here. We want a stone-cold sober view of mankind's true nature. This is a painful, disillusioning process but vital to our commitment to truth-seeking and epistemic rigor.

Because it's easy cheap content for the endless mill. All these people need to pump out new content every day no matter what. So they blattermouth whatever they can scramble together to get some clicks. It's so much harder to actually say precise and original things. Speculation is the low-hanging fruit of the mind.

No country serves another country. It's about shared values and interests. It's about finding common ground, alignments, and scratching each others backs. The US, EU, and Israel have a lot of common ground on values, economics, intel, tech. This is why they largely blindly support each other. It's like an old marriage. Even if your spouse misbehaves you don't abandon them because there is something much larger at stake.

No. It is intuitive. Mankind has succeeded in reverse engineering intuition. That's the mindfuck of our time.

Western countries think alike on these "terrorist" issues.

Material success, power, and fame do not interest me, since they can never satisfy me. What you regard as mediocrity I regard as one of the deepest minds on the planet. All depends on your values and what will satisfy you. Only you can figure that out.