Leo Gura

Psychedelics can't help you if you're so biased and have poor epistemics and attachments. You have to be willing to throw your old views away, which neither of these men are willing to do. You have to be willing to admit you were fundamentally wrong.

Cool it down and don't derail this thread please.

It's only like 2 hrs long. You don't need time off work.

Very few YT videos warrant such work.

Hegel had some serious understanding of God. I have quoted him in the past.

I don't see the point.

You have to keep in mind how marketing works: 1) Only 1/300 people will buy something. So the odds are very small, but with tens of millions of views it adds up. 2) Marketing makes you generally aware that a product even exists. This awareness is very subtle, but when you finally need the product you will know it exists to be bought. 3) Marketing makes you aware of a brand, so when you are in the store and deciding which version to buy, you buy the version you are familiar with. 4) Most of the time a marketed product will not fit your needs, but that 1/300 times you will eagerly buy it. 5) You might be outside the target demographic for certain product ads. For exmaple, product placements in Hollywood movies are designed to appeal to teenagers and young people who are very suseptible to such things. All the superhero movies are made for teens. If I market some ass itch cream to you, you will ignore it. But in 5 years when your ass starts itching you will remember and buy it.

That's the difference between theory and practice. The fundamental contradiction of Marxism is that it tries to give weak, incompetent, and unambitious people control over the powerful, competent, and ambitious. That's impossible. Marxism fundamentally misunderstands what power is and how it works. More fundamental than economics is power. Power means I beat your skull in with a baseball bat. If you are not willing to do what it takes to wield power, you cannot have power. Lenin and Stalin understood this. Today's Marxists do not.

@Raze I don't even have a problem with NK having nukes. The problem is their criminal and delusional system of government.

I agree with you. North Korea isn't so much a threat to the US but to South Korea and Japan.

IDF is pure propaganda. Nothing they say is to be trusted.

My Dad was put in Soviet prison for starting his own business. He wasn't even around when I was born, because he was in a Soviet prison in the Arctic circle. I grew up in the Arctic circle to be near him. That's Marxism in a nutshell.

People who think they can reduce reality to "facts" are naive as children.

Why don't you see her more? And make some guy friends? Girls are not supposed to fill a man's socialization needs. That's what guy friends are for.

Cause they know they were lucky enough not to end up in a Gulag

But why would those achievements not exist under capitalism?

Hard to do that when fatman is brandishing his nukes and runs a total dictatorship. North Korea does some nasty cyber hacking and theft. You wanna feed that machine money? Cuba I agree to remove sanctions. Cuba is harmless.

China was a disaster under Mao. After Mao was out of the picture and people opened up to capitalist markets, things started to work.

I study many countries. I've studied North Korea. I studied Cuba. I studied Lybia. I studied Mao. I'm studying Venezuela. Mao was a monster. Yeah, and whenever you implement your version of Marxism is it will be your own sick spin on it. No one is gonna let you implement a pure version of Marxism. You will be have to kill 1000 people just to have a chance to implement some half-assed sick version of it. You're gonna have resistance. Your own Marxist friends will want to kill you in the end because they disagree with your version of it and they will want power for themselves. So either you kill all of them or they will kill you. And that's not to even the mention the capitalists who will try to kill you. When you talk about implementing Marxism, you're talking about murdering people. That's the reality of it. Otherwise it's just pipedreams. Lenin understood this. You have to be psychopath just to get it bootstrapped.

Don't worry about that. Save yourself first. Then you can patch things up with them. You don't owe them your whole life. Create a good life for yourself, then you will be in a nice position to reconnect with whatever good family members you have. But you can't do that while you are suicidal and stuck in hell. Just keep taking baby steps each day towards moving out on your own. You will start to feel better just from taking that action each day.

If you really wanna understand Marxism, don't read about Marx or even Marx, read the history of the Soviet Union. That shows you how it plays out in the real world rather than theory. Reading that history will make your jaw drop at the devilry of it all. I will add some good books about that soon. I studied it a lot.

Yeah, Marx had some good critiques. But again, the real question is how you improve upon capitalism. How do you know your system improves upon it rather than making it worse? I can critique mankind for being demons all day long. But in the end, how do you stop them from being the demons we all know they are?

The bad wings are the psychopaths, sociopaths, rapists, and Stage Reds. Watch out for those. If you avoid those, you can find some really cool guys.

That wasn't a genocide, it was a classic war. And it is irrelevant to the fundamental flaws of Marxism. That awful history was 70 years ago. Time to move on. The rest of the world did.