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Those influencers are definitely being corrupted by that money. They are just in denial about it, as politicians are.

I did not delete it. I linked it recently.

It's amazing how bad the writing is, but the show is still watchable. That's quite a feat of Hollywood magic.

Eventually, but that might take 50 years since we live in the times of libertarian fantasies. Holding independent private actors accountable for not taking bribes is harder than holding politicians (public officials) accountable for not taking bribes. This tells you how difficult it will be. We can't even pass a law to stop a Senator from taking corporate money. Nevermind a TikToker.

@Davino A more general formulation of what you're saying is: mechanics. Logic, mechanics, structure -- these are interrelated. And of course Being. Being itself is logic and mechanics. Which is why science is so mechanical. Mechanics is God. Then again, everything is God, so....

Yes, of course liberals are corrupt. And the purest leftists are corrupt. Corruption is so deep that it touches everyone. We are only arguing over relative differences. What we want is to elect the least corrupt people possible. This means they will still be relatively corrupt. There is no way to go from our current system to one free of all corruption. That takes thousands of years of development to accomplish.

Yes, this is the larger point. It's not about these creators or Democrats. The larger pattern is that corporations and the ruling class will try to buy independent media as they did with mainstream media. That's the lesson here. That's why I shared the video, not because I care particularly about Chorus or these specific YouTubers. We want to understand how independent media will get corrupted in the years to come so we are not fooled by it.

Bro was smoking that Datura

I don't have a way of translating physics models to consciousness. These are very different domains and you should be suspicious of simple-minded correlations between them.

How naive does one have to be to think that this money is not being paid to influence creators? The only defense I've heard from the paid creators is that they will take the money but the money will not change their positions in any way. Which is exactly what politicians say when they take money from lobbyists. It is quite clear to me that this is a case of lobbyists trying to capture social media influencers as they do with politicians and mainstream media. Their contract clearly states that they are supposed to keep this influence operation hidden. I have listened to the rebuttals of these paid creators and it sounds full of rationalizations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf_X5m7u7JY

@ExploringReality I will make a Part 2 and 3. But you still need to contemplate it yourself since it's too serious a topic to take my word for it.

I don't know what that means. No, I have no problem enjoying it. I just don't take it seriously so my expectations are set properly. I enjoy the bad writing like watching a train wreck. I watch in a more meta way, like Red Letter Media does. I am a student of the enshitification of Hollywood thanks to hyper-capitalism.

@ExploringReality Explaining relativity is no small feat. Contemplate it for yourself. I have a video on it.

Because the point of being conservative is to defend corruption. But the point of being left-wing is to cure corruption. When a conservative is corrupt he is be authentic. When a leftist is corrupt he is a hypocrite. Trump is a pig, he acts like one, and pigs love him for it. A Dem cannot do the same because the Dems aspire to more than being pigs. At least true progressives do. The sad reality is that many Dems are also pigs.

Transparency is necessary at the least. The fact that these paid pundits now act like nothing is wrong, nothing to see here, makes it all the more damning. They are acting like they don't even know what conflict of interest is. Basically you need people of integrity, and that will always be rare. Most political pundits will be hacks. I can't really comment on how to best wage a political propaganda war. That's not my area of interest. I focus on truth-seeking and sense-making, which is different from political activism. Can you make a case that things are so bad with Trump that we need an anti-Trump propaganda campaign? Maybe. But I want no part of it. Don't forget that trying to astro-turf a left-wing Joe Rogan may backfire. Dems already had an authenticity problem. These kind of programs feed into the view that Dems are fake. Although of course conservative pundits are shamelessly fake and corrupt and they get away with it.

That's not going to happen. Israel will complete its ethnic cleansing project and destroy the Palestinians. All I want is truth about the matter. If you're going to destroy the Palestinians, at least don't gaslight us about it. Just admit that's what you're doing. At least Hitler was honest about his plans for the Jews. The problem is that Zionists are not conscious of what they're doing. They're in denial about it. They cannot admit it to themselves because it is too ugly to face the truth of it.

@Revolutionary Think @Inliytened1 Until Israel stops the settlements, Zionists have no leg to stand on. You cannot claim Zionism is innocent while building and expanding settlements as we speak. Your position is intellectually bankrupt.

@Revolutionary Think You are deflecting from facing the current ethnic cleansing project that Israel is and has been from day one. Just because there was some minor ethnic conflict 100 years ago doesn't mean anything. Ethnic conflicts are a typical thing in the pre-modern world. That does not excuse an ethnic cleansing project in the 21st century funded by American and European resources. I also do not deny that antisemitism exists, especially 100 years ago. But that is irrelevant to what is happening today. You can't keep hiding behind antisemitism. Most of the examples you listed are just the consequences of Zionists enacting an ethnic cleansing project since the 1930s. Ask yourself why Arabs hate Jews. It is not because of your blood, it is because you took -- and continue to take -- their land through violence and subterfuge. If I did not speak out against the falsehoods of Zionism I would be discredited as an intellectual and philosopher. I'm not going end up a Heidegger. Your autonomy was always the goal. But be careful what you put it towards.

Predator 1 is legend. Predator 2 is junky.

Putting children into adult bodies and then having them deal with deadly serious emergencies is a juvenile plot. Why would anyone think that is a good premise for an Alien show? That's the premise of a Mickey Mouse Club teen show. Watching people make stupid childish mistakes is not interesting. All the main characters are fools. The plot will be advanced by their foolishness and immaturity.

True spirituality cannot be based in beliefs. Jesus is a belief.

Good, good.

Nothing is ever going to feel that good. There's only so much you can do with Xenomorphs. Maybe if James Cameron came back he could make it good, but he's too busy making Avatar 9. Even Ridley Scott does not know how to write an Alien film.

Jesus is not even a person. He is a fantasy. If Jesus was an actual person you knew, that would be okay. But he isn't that.