Leo Gura

A $35M mansion for my family, a rat box for your family. That's peak Elon Musk.

This was tried and failed. Bernie is incapable of winning a national primary. And he didn't plan to run.

I call BS on this. He lives in private jets and billionaire rental properties or friends houses, or lavish corporate headquarters. When you are billionaire you don't need a house, you can rent a new house every week or live out of 5 star luxury resorts. Normal people need real houses, not rat boxes. The reason Musk doesn't have a house per se is because he travels around so much for business. Realistically he probably spends most of his time in hotels just because that's most convenient.

That's blindspot of the center. Yeah, it's a shitty dynamic to be caught between lunatic right-wingers and conformist centrists.

I understand. But you are comparing historically underdeveloped Eastern Europe with Germany -- an industrial powerhouse and a top world economy.

That threatens everyone's survival. Be careful that your revolution does not end up eating you. Notice how people here push back on me even when I post a video on nationalization. And you think you can just abolish private property? That will start a civil war. You want me to advocate for a civil war in the middle of a fascist takeover of America? You think Wall Street and DC will allow you to abolish private property? This is a joke. You don't understand how power works. You might as well charge the White House lawn in a full frontal assault with a shotgun. You'll get further. I'm not going to fill my audience's mind with pie-in-sky political ideas. This would be irresponsible for me to do.

That's fine. It's a phase. I've been there. Read the political books on my book list. Question the idealistic dogmas of progressivism. The way to transcend Green progressivism is to realize how utopian and unrealistic their ideas are. You can realize this by deeply studying human nature to see that human nature is much more regressive and conservative than progressives imagine. Basically, study survival deeper and deeper until you understand why conservatism is necessary. The better you understand human nature and how power works, the more you will see that progressive ideas are pie-in-the-sky. As one example, not voting for Kamala just because Biden was funding Israel was a very stupid progressive way of thinking. Because now with Trump Palestine is dead. A more realistic view of power and human nature would have revealed this to you ahead of time.

Bernie is literally not a Democrat. So no, it's not his party. Which is why they snub him. Of course professional Dems will not want to elect a guy who isn't even a Dem. This is another blindspot within leftist thinking. Leftists want Bernie so bad that they fail to reason properly about why he lost. Bernie does not have wide enough appeal to win major national elections. But progressives cannot admit that fact into their worldview, so they double-down on demonizing corporate Dems.

He's pretty good but he's also got a problematic debate-bro facet. He's too eager to win debates rather than truth-seeking and sense-making. This limits his understanding. The goal is not own people in debates. This is childish. He's a bit too distracted by that. Medhi has a kind of obnoxious element to him, like he's trying too hard to win arguments. Like his ego feeds off it. But he makes many very solid arguments. But with all these leftists, they are still fundamentally paradigm locked. They are missing Tier 2 understanding of politics.

In terms of style, yes. We are distinguishing here between style of delivery vs policy. Is he a Zionist? I wasn't aware. I haven't watched him in a long time. I don't recall ever hearing his full views on Palestine.

@Cathy92506 If you mean to say that Awakening is nothing more than skill at handling emotions, then the answer is definitely NO. Technically, Awakening has nothing to do with emotions. However, if you seriously pursue Awakening then emotional skillfullness will come as a byproduct of much consciousness work.

If everyone had the development level of a saint then libertarianism would be the proper form of government. Obviously our average level of development determines what form of government is currently sustainable. A Yellow government cannot work because less than 1% of the population is Yellow. Who's going to run it? Show me a single Yellow politician or congressman.

It is an error in reasoning to regard all nationalization efforts as the same. Airports in America are nationalized. They work just fine. Obviously communism and even socialism is wrong. But that doesn't mean nationalizing some industries is wrong. It has to be done in an intelligent and selective way. USSR is an outdated model. Study China instead. China proves that it can work.

In an intelligent, mature, and self-aware way -- which they are incapable of. They can only behave up to the level of their cognitive and moral development.

No, they are just obnoxious on their own. Except for Pakman, he is fine. It's not autism, it's egotism. When you speak for a living on YT, especially doing criticism, it slowly poisons your mind.

Charisma is easy. What's hard is to have zero moral standards and the shamelessness to tell people exactly what their reptile brain want to hear. Only a pervert can excel at that.

I don't disagree. But even in America your speech has such consequences that it is never really free. You think I would be able to say the shit I say if I was employed by anyone but myself?

The right wing in Israel is lost in a genocidal fever dream.

No. I rarely watch shows.

Free speech is never perfect because that is too dangerous and problematic. Ego always abuses free speech to do selfish, heinous things. You give devils enough free speech and they will use it to kill you and rape your corpse.

@AION I don't regard Europe as having free speech.

Yes, I am sometimes forced to ban people whose posts are just too low quality to be worth constantly dealing with. It's an imperfect and unscalable way of dealing with things. But, yes, I do ban low quality posters eventually.

Actually that is free speech. Nazis are protected by free speech. Free speech is disgusting. Which is why it is banned in most parts of the world. The issue is that people disagree about what genocide is.

You underestimate the degree to which people have wacky and biased views no matter how empathetic or spiritual they are. Especially when it comes to political views. There's really no limit to the insane things humans can believe. You will be surprised when your closest friends and family or gurus reveal their weird views. I don't know anyone on this forum deeply enough to predict all their views.

The fundamental flaw with this logic is that Russia has no right or authority to control the constitution of any other sovereign nation but itself. If Ukrainians want to write such a constitution, that is their right. Russia treats Ukraine like a vassal. This kind of attitude is why NATO exists in the first place. Russia is like an abusive ex-boyfriend who thinks he can veto who the woman can date. This is the mentality of a self-absorbed barbarian.