Leo Gura

We know exactly how it came to be. The founders of Zionism state it clearly in their writings. Israel cannot exist without displacing a native population of people and taking their land by any means necessary including theft, war, rape, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, manipulation, and deception. Literally on Mossad's office their motto is written: "Wage war through deception and trickery." You got no leg to stand on here. Deception is their stated aim and they are shameless about it and proud of it.

Dude, I shared a single video of a person. I don't know their whole life story. It's one video filled with many valuable insights. That doesn't mean I endorse her worldview or lifestyle. I barely know her. She was one part of that video, not even the main subject of it. Can I know someone's skeletons in the closet from watching a few videos of them? Obviously not.

@Lucasxp64 But Leo's patented Quantum Perfume is legit. Made from genuine Schrodinger's Cats and Niels Bohr's sweat.

He's a charmer.

That's not a documentary, that's a Megan Fox sizzle reel.

This fails to appreciate how deep resistance goes. Resistance to change transcends the issues of Stage Green. It existed long before Stage Green. There is a deeper dynamic at work. The ego-mind is inherently resistant to change regardless of whether the change is effective or good. The Islamists in Saudi Arabia are also resistant to liberal change. It is not because liberalism failed to properly replace their systems. The conservative mind will resist positive changes regardless of how well the changes are made. You can give an Islamist a material-techno-paradise and he will still be angry at you for allowing women to drive and sing. Conservatives will not allow a good-faith attempt to improve society because they are attached to the corruption. They love the corruption. That's key to understand. That's why they are do stubborn. Blaming that stubbornness , closedminededness, and attachment on a fail of the left is gaslighting.

God IS Identity. God IS Infinite Identity. God's true identity is Infinity. The relativity of defining finite identity IS the key feature of Infinite Identity. Infinity cannot be precisely defined because it is all things and definition is finite. The indefiniteness of God is what allows God to create endless finite sub-identities. Logic deals with the sub-identities of God. Yes, you can say A=A. That's the definition of truth. God = God.

Yes, but even modern socialism would still involve a heavy-handed redistribution of power and wealth, otherwise it would be pointless. But given the historical track record of socialism's implementation over the last 100 years in dozens of nations, you can appreciate why capitalists would be so leery and resistant to try that experiment again with their wealth on the chopping block. Imagine you worked hard and honest for 30 years to earn yourself $10 million dollars. And now some naive socialist comes along and suggests taking that away. Of course you will fight it tooth and nail.

That's really for his consciousness to know, not yours. It depends on all the details of why he's doing it and what the alternative options are. It is up to Warren Buffet to become conscious of Truth and then decide how best to align his resources and energy with that. Truth is not something you force upon someone, they must become conscious of it themselves and then act accordingly, or fail to do so.

This is not true since most successful people are lairs.

This isn't some new thing. People must compromise to make a society work and no one gets exactly what they want. This is how things work. The problem with leftists is that they expect to win with no compromises. Leftists will never get what they want because survival trumps their ideals.

Yes, capitalists will always undermine socialists, because socialists want to take away their property and capitalists thrive on leeching labor from plebs. Also because socialism fails miserably when implemented by anyone anywhere.

They are allies relative to fascists. I am not saying they don't undermine far leftists. Of course they do. But MAGA wants to execute leftists. Just keep that in mind while you battle with centrists. Of course Dems will oppose socialists. This is not something to be outraged about. This is exactly as expected.

I don't particularly even care that liberals are organizing against MAGA and fighting fire with fire. I'm not some fool who expects politics to be squeaky clean. I still consider establishment Dems allies. I still consider Pakman, Destiny, BTC, and Kamala Harris allies. Centrists are needed to defeat MAGA. Realistically Dems need dark money to defeat MAGA because MAGA are ruthless barbarians who will stop at nothing to corrupt society. My blog post was about a larger issue about how easily social media influencers can and will be corrupted going forward. My points are never about some one political issue like defeating Trump. The issue is that this money and influence will be used to create biased propaganda that poisons the epistemic ecosystem. So my concern is about the ecosystem, not defeating Trump. Although of course I want to defeat Trump too. If all I cared about was politics, I wouldn't mind this Chorus thing because it can help win elections. But I don't like epistemic cost.

No. That's just chump-change and window dressing. It is funded by wealthy people who are dark so we don't even know who they are. Influencers are not necessarily told what to say but influenced what to say. This is as silly as a politician saying, "I took the money but I wasn't told exactly what to say". Her WIRED article speaks for itself. "To fund creators" is not necessarily a problem. The problem is who is doing the funding, why they doing it, what their agenda is, and their level of influence.

No. I encourage you guys to read the original article for yourselves. Nothing in the article has been disproven, in fact, proof of the contracts has been shared. https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

I watched all the videos, and more, and I watched the creator denial and debunk videos and attacks on Taylor. Taylor's story is solid. Nothing has been debunked. These creators take dark money to coordinate propaganda for corporate Dems.

@Elliott Again, Chorus was public but the dark money aspect of it was not. And their contract terms and details were not public. It's also disingenuous to say that this group supports progreszives. They only supports centrist progressives who will tow the moderate party line. There are many progresaive influencers who were not invited due to their leftist views. Plus, personally I was not aware of Chorus. If I had known about it earlier I would have also found it problematic. Coordinating news coverage is already a problem. Taylor has done a service just by making this Chorus thing widely known. It's not like we follow the inside baseball of these creators. How many people have ever heard of Chorus before this week? Zero.

It's not a nothing-burger. It's a very something-burger. Don't discuss the Taylor Lorenz person, address her factual claims. The YouTubers participating in this program literally have a meeting EVERY DAY where they get talking points for the day's news from this Chorus group which is funded by dark money. It's outrageously corrupt. The dark money aspect of Chorus was NOT disclosed until Taylor broke this story. That's the story. The Chorus group was public knowledge, but the dark money funding and other details was not. This is corruption 101. The excuses these creators have is cringe nonsense. They did not debunk Taylor in any way. A journalist being in a photo with a right-wing talking-head is a nothing-burger. Sagaar Enjeti is friends with JD Vance. Does this mean his reporting of stories on Gaza are false? No.

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.