Leo Gura

Last week Danny Masterson, a celebrity, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for rape. So it's certainly possible to get to bottom of some of these cases.

I agree that homelessness in California is a problem. However, blaming that simple-mindedly on Democrats is deeply disingenuous. The cost of living in California is very high precisely because it's such a desirable place to live, with the best weather in the country. Texas also has homelessness problems. And if your solution to homelessness is just to relocate them out of view, that doesn't solve much. All the conservatives want to do about homelessness is to arrest or deport the homeless. So to portray right-wingers as caring to solve homelessness is a sick joke.

To be clear, if Brand actually commited rape that is a crime and should be investigated and punished.

By who's measure? All states with large populations are successful. California is the most successful state by economics. California has become so successful no one can afford to live there any more. Relative to the problems caused by Republicans it's a drop in the bucket. And Republicans are the kings of creating income inequality.

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Your enlightenment is delusion.

The story didn't say she was picked up from school. It merely says she went to school, which any 16 year old does. So this means nothing. Of course dating a 16 year old when you are 30+ year old man is commically immature. But Russell Brand was a commically immature heroin addict. If she was above the age of consent then technically it is allowed. Of course that would have been a toxic relationship. Anyone dating Russell Brand should expect a toxic relationship. Of course she was too stupid and addicted to him to understand that. Girls love to screw around with celebrities and then act innocent. It's all fun and games until you get fucked. Would the stories really honestly say if the girls were drunk or high? Is a girl gonna self-report that? These were likely party situations, not dates. Just try to imagine what a Russell Brand party would be like. I wouldn't be surpised if they were snorting meth off his dick.

I don't see them as different. It's all the same disease.

@Osaid I want to slap you so hard. But you are too dense for it to knock any sense into you. You have learned nothing from me. The way you guys misuse spirituality is stunning.

Okay, no more derailing this thread with politics.

Lol I hope Chomsky gets a titty-twister from Putin.

That's more group-think than anything else. The truth that no one wants to face is that elite and non-elite Americans were both too biased and too ignorant to not go to war with the Middle East after 9/11. Which was exactly Osama Bin Laden's strategy. Bin Laden outsmarted the Americans but Americans are too proud and ignorant to admit it. No. A real democracy will have tons of group-think and bias.

American media has enormous diversity today. You can find any flavor of media you want. So this is nonsense. During the Soviet Union you couldn't even watch Hollywood movies, they had to bought on the black market. I know cause my Dad made a business selling them. RT was a shameless Russian propaganda factory. That's just national group-think. Every free society will have their group-think. Again, this is just the bias of being American and appealing to Americans. American news media has to sell news that appeals to average Americans.

Nothing has made America fall more than the conservative movement of the last 40 years. It's not the homeless you should be worried about, but leaders like Gingrich, Bush, Cheney, Trump, Matt Gaetz, Margery Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, etc.

This is such a ridiculus take from Chomsky. The Left is slowly losing their mind. Brand's politics is as scummy as his womanizing.

More details on the story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66831593 Seems like typical playboy behavior. Nothing surprising here to me. Did anyone really think Brand didn't use women for sex? How naive.

Not for me. For some strange reason my DPT trips have morphed into realms of insanity consciousness. Quite distrubing and impractical. I try to avoid DPT. But your results will likely be different.

Poor man. Groped by a girl.

A drunk girl's regret factor will be even higher when she is with a major celebrity like Brand. Celebrities can abuse their fame to easily get laid. If I'm at the club and I bumb into a girl who knows my work (very rare), I have to be extra careful not to abuse that position because it would be much easier to use her. I try not to hit on fans. So there's the factor of abuse of power here too. And then if you two are doing drugs together, that's an additional huge factor. I'm sure Brand has done a lot of drugs with girls. Those girls are then zonked out of their minds.

The discussion is rape by women. Don't be dense.

You never hear stories of a man crying: "I was drunk and she raped me."

Rape is an asymmetrical thing. Drunk men don't have the problem of being raped.

I seperate them, but not too strictly. There needs to be a revolving door there. One of the biggest problems in science is the siloing of research. Even just between different branches of science. All the branches need to interpenetrate with each other and spirituality. Science also involves 1st person observation. It always has. You can make 1st person observations more "solid" by cross-referecing with others. All science involves a lot of theory, which is never itself empirical. The epistemology I propose involves a lot of deconstructing and reconfiguration of the theoretical aspects of science. You can still continue to gather 3rd person data as usual. At this point our discussion has become too abstract and vague to be useful. Use specific examples if you want a productive discussion. Speaking of science and spirituality as these gross abstractions doesn't get you far. I don't see what you even want to know at this point. It is undeniable that science is held back by poor metaphysics, poor epistemology, poor theorizing, lack of spirituality, and materialism.

I decided my take was gonna get misinterpreted so I took it down.

It makes sense that he has shagged a lot of drunk or high girls and some of them might have regrets. You gotta think twice before pulling a drunk girl home. He might have been too drunk or high himself to even know the difference. As an addict he's had a very crazy life.