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@Raze They may feel non-political but this is actually most dangerous because such shows have huge sway over undecided voters. Rogan is not very political but he skews his audience to the right over time by subtlely dripping on their minds about the "crazy" left. Theo Von is a Trump supporter. No? These comedian podcasts are dangerous sources of politcial influence because they aren't overtly political. The power is with shows that are not overtly partisan but gradually shift their viewers against Green. They did leave out Destiny for some reason. He should be a big blue dot on the chart. Lex is relatively neutral. I agree he should not be classifed as a right-wing influencer. They didn't include FoxNews either. They were comparing non-mainstream online sources. I think the chart has a few problems but the overall picture is correct.

Now we see how bad this gets. The biggest question is whether Trump will call off his tariffs. If he doesn't, this will be a bloodbath.

Zizek is a sick, lost, fragmented mind. There is a resolution to metaphysics. It is God-Realization. Whole, Perfect, clear, radiant. Metaphysics is not resolved at the level of concepts, it's resolved at the level of realizing Self. Self is not some tortured, perverted Zizekian mind. Self is the wholeness of God. Zizek is literally missing himSelf. His sickness manifests outwardly in his ramblings and ticks. Ontology is not negative, it is positive. God positively exists.

Mankind has been massively corrupt for 10,000 years. That doesn't stop progress. You can't fix corruption from the top down. There is no system you can invent to fix corruption because the human mind itself is corrupt and no one is going to change that.

I doubt he will be convicted. Too long ago and not enough hard evidence.

That's not going to work because God will tell everyone different things, based on their unique survival needs and biases. God is relativistic, which Christians don't understand. Trump thinks God is on his side. Dugin thinks God is on his side. Iran thinks God is their side. Neo-Nazis think God is on their side. Rapist thinks Jesus is on his side.

Shit will just break down and we will deal with it, as mankind always does. Then bring on the civilizational collapse. Because the human race will sooner kill itself than operate in Game B fashion. If Game B is needed for mankind to survive, then mankind is already dead. Which I cannot buy. Game B requires humans to behave like a different kind of animal than they are. Which is a non-starter. Game B thinks it can just bypass ego and all of human psychology and survival. Which is why it cannot be taken seriously. I would rather prep for WW3 than believe that Game B will work. Game A is how mankind will keep living and thriving. Invent solutions that work within that.

What?? @integral is my crowd and I believe the women in this case. Logic points to Russell's guilt. Men who blindly defend him are being emotional, not logical.

The rape card can def be overplayed. But Russell's past is egregious. If anything, his past is probably worse than we know.

@zurew There are many practical solutions. Game B just ain't one of them.

His well-documented notorious past + 4 accusations. I can't be sure, but there's a lot of smoke there. It's like asking, how do you know Jeffery Epstein molested anyone? All you got are stories from victims and his notorious past.

It's not gonna be proven. It's the girls words vs his.

You can read the reports of his behavior from that era from many bystandards. Innocent he was not. He was a notorious sexual harasser and exploiter. Like a drunk horny monkey on meth. That he abused his celebrity power is a given.

I don't see this thread going anywhere good.

Lol He's exactly the type if you read about his past. He matured a lot since then.

@DocWatts Very impressive. More of that in our future as the shit hits the fan.

Russell is so deluded that he very likely believes he never raped anyone. The problem is that his notion of "consensual" is very different from the girls who regreted being with him. Russell has become so good at bullshitting his audience with his charisma that he also bullshits himself at the same time. Do I believe that Russell forced himself on star-struck groupies like a drunk fratboy jackass? You bet. Did he rape strangers in a dark alley? No.

This is so wrong. Game B is not a solution at all, so it certainly doesn't need to be done. There is nothing these people will do other than create careers for themselves rambling about Game B, which helps no one. Political solutions are not solutions if they are not workable for ordinary people in our existing political situation. These Game B people are not intelligent enough to understand that society is not designed top-down by a group of intellectuals, it is constructed bottom up by collision with cold hard survival. Climate change will never be stopped. It will happen and mankind will simply have to deal with the mess. No pointy-headed intellectual is going to invent a solution to climate change, nor invent a new magic Game B political system. And capitalism will also not be stopped. We cannot even get people to agree on wearing masks in the middle of a deadly pandemic. And these guys are talking about Game B. What cluelessness! Humans are too stupid for Game B. All your social ideas have to take human stupidity as principle #1.

I've reached a point where I don't even agree there is a meta-crisis. I think they blow it way out of proportion. But mostly I disagree with their idea that they can stop growth and design their way out of it. If there is a meta-crisis none of the Game B solutions will come anywhere near to fixing it. We have a lunatic Trump in power and these people keep rambling on and on about Game B. They are so politically and developmentally out of touch with our situation.

Yes Maybe

Yes, I started listening to his metaphysics until I quickly realized it is nonsense. This entire meta-crisis community is full of sophisticated self-deception. Watch out. It sounds smart on the surface but the more critically you think about it the more absurd it becomes. Game B will fail. It is completely out of touch with how power, economy, politics, society, and culture works. These Game B people jerk each other off in their own echochamber.

Everything you see is the world.

Game B nonsense.

What did you mean?

Yes. But God is the whole world so the whole world can be known.