Leo Gura

I think Musk is gonna feel a lot of backlash for endorsing Trump so openly from his liberal and progressive friends and employees. Which is why he seems to be backing down. He might support Trump with dark money instead. Most of Tesla's customers are liberals. So Musk is in a tough spot with his openly MAGA stance.

Sorry, I meant Joe Walsh. Joe Scarborugh is very intelligent and decent. He's not a leftist, but he doesn't need to be.

That's the same kid we were already discussing!

There are many Never-Trumpers on YT like Joe Walsh, Joe Scarborough, Rick Wilson, David Frum, Michael Steele, The Bulwark, and more! Never-Trumpers don't get enough love.

I precieve him as genuine. He's genuine and he wants endless power to actualize his genuine feelings because he thinks his ideas are best.

Putin has said that he has been trying to negotiate with the US and NATO for years, and they kept rebuffing his proposals. I don't think Putin is lying about that. NATO just refuses to back off from its own expasion and eventually Putin had enough. You can blame that on Biden. But again, this means you want a weaker US president. At least admit that.

@Husseinisdoingfine We already addressed this in the Elon Musk thread:

No it isn't. You are making wildly inappropriate extrapolations from such small data. This is a bastardization of statistical method. The simple truth is that a war can land on any president's term at any moment for any reason outside his control. If you think electing an authoritarian is gonna save you from war, you are kidding yourself. "Let's elect this corrupt emotionally unstable egomaniac who says he will be dictator from day one and has unlimited immunity. He will save us from war." I mean, this is a joke. Only in a comedy could people take such logic seriously. This is like a Simpson's episode.

Because your sample size sucks. Putin didn't invade Ukraine because he was exhausting all the other options. He was trying to come to some diplomatic arragnment, but those fell through.

If you wanted to make a legit case for Trump here, you could say: "We need to elect Trump because Trump is so weak he is unwilling to go to war. We cannot afford to have a strong president against Putin because that will lead to WW3. We are too scared to elect a strong president." That is the only legit argument here. But of course right-wingers do not dare make that argument. Instead they have to twist themselves into pretzles about how Trump is so strong while also backing down from Putin.

Note that if Kamala was running against a normal, emotionally stable Republican, these two goobers would be saying that we can't take the risk of having a woman president because women are too chaotic and emotionally unstable. But when it suits them, now emotional instability is a plus.

When she funds Ukraine with another $100 billion, that will be no joke for Putin. Putin is not fighting against Kamala in a boxing ring. He is fighting her money and the entire US Defense Department and CIA deep state. Putin understands this. He is not stupid enough to think that he's at war with Kamala's personality.

Your are describing the mercurial chaos of an unstable personality. That is not desirable for international relations. Other nations need to know that when the US makes a promise, it will follow through on it. Trump is incapable of that. He is an unreliable partner for allies and an easy mark for enemies.

Putin does not respect Trump. All world leaders understand that Trump is a useful idiot who they can emotonally manipulate. This is what intelligence agencies do: they look for and manipulate buffoons like Trump. Because they are the easiest weakest marks. Trump is not strong. Trump is weak. His ego and insecurity and greed make him the weakest president of all time.

Reality is experiential. And so what?

An embarassment.

CORRUPTION has existed for 500,000 years, before humans existed!

Reality is mystical. If QM has any truth to it, quantum mysticism is the nature of reality. If not, non-quantum mysticism is the nature of reality. Checkmate. Case closed. It is not science which is accomodating mysticism. It is mysticism which is accomidating science. If you want any of your science to be true, it must fit inside mysticism. If it doesn't fit, it is false. Whether it fits or not is a human problem, not a problem of any existential import. Because science is ultimately a human fiction. Nothing science does or says will ever touch Infinity. Infinity does not care. However, if you are very intelligent you might recognize Infinity within all your science monkey games. The founders of QM were intelligent enough to realize that reality is a gaint Mind. And Dave is not intelligent enough to do so. The end.

It's not a reinvention of the dollar because dollars can be printed and Bitcoin cannot.

Consider your tears when Genocide Trump is in charge.

This is like saying Hitler spoke some truth. Okay, so what? It's not like we didn't know Biden was old and was bad at communicating. We just had to put up with it because we had no choice. The debate was needed to draw the issue into national consensus. Trump gets no credit for attacking Biden's age. Lol

Leftism is a huge domain. Sure, I subscribe to some of it. But I hope you see that I rarely speak from dogma. Well, you haven't watched the second half of that video where it gets uncomfortably personal. I am nowhere close to a narcissist. But I do exhibit arrogance and ego, sure. I don't deny my faults. I am painfully aware of them. I don't hate Trump. I just understand the danger he poses.

I was working on it today.

I didn't consider the positions in this thread worthy of serious intellectual engagement because they are based in obvious leftist dogma. I'm mostly here for my own entertainment. Maybe hoping someday someone will say something intelligent. See my last video.

Lol. Never say Trump and truth in the same paragraph or you are going to Hell.