Leo Gura

@Natasha Tori Maru That seems like fair criticism. "Paid premium lecture service" is exactly what it is. I see Peterson Academy more like The Teaching Company than a university. That's how JP should have framed it. Framing it as an alternative to university is silly because it cannot be anywhere close to that. These are lectures for casual self-study, not a serious major in a field.

I never promised content for Patreon. Not sure where you got this idea. Patreon was a donation thing. That money goes into supporting my general YT channel. All the content that I might post to Patreon I just release for free on my blog. So I don't feel any empty promises were made there. There will be at least 500 clips in this vault. Plus other longer videos. So at least 25 hours of content. At least 50% of it will be exclusive. Everything in the vault is 100% new recorded content. There are zero clips taken from my YouTube videos. Everything in the Vault was recorded in the last month. After I fill this Vault up to 500 clips / 25 hours, I might create a paid Vault Part 2 with another 500 clips / 25 hours. These vaults are sold for a one-time fee. This is not an annual subscription. I will record at least 1000 clips/shorts in the next year. How exactly it will be organized and monetized is still to be determined. My basic idea is to package 500 clips per Vault part plus some longer videos too.

To clarify my position: 1) I am not saying 100% that he was killed. But it is reasonable to suspect foul play. 2) If he was killed, he was not killed for arms dealing but for knowing too much dirt on powerful people. The kind of dirt and blackmail material he definitely had was severe enough that killing him feels reasonable and warranted.

Hasan is problematic in that he radicalizes leftists to be even more dogmatic in their far left views. This makes leftists feel like they are superior to everyone else in an unhealthy way. Youngsters who go down the Hasan rabbit hole will fall into leftists dogma, arrogance, and closedmindedness. Hasan's community is a far left Marxist echo-chamber.

There wouldn't be a life left if you were fully conscious of Infinity. Life requires finite consciousness. That's what life is.

I spoke to Connor because he emailed me saying he was going to kill himself. I tried to help him but he just used it to get clicks. I have done more to educate people about how actual cults work than anyone calling me a cult leader. Such is the absurdity and ignorance of mankind. Cults are antithetical to everything I teach and stand for. Actualized is not even remotely a cult. And it never will be as long as I am alive. We are less of a cult than the comment sections of the YouTuber trolls who try to call us a cult. Have you seen the comment sections of YouTubers like Professor Dave. They exhibit more conformity and cult behavior than anything found on this forum.

@Natasha Tori Maru What did they get banned for?

I am announcing a new paid Actualized product called: Premium Clips & Videos Vault I recently recorded 17 hours of new 3-minute long short-form videos. 338 videos in total. It's the kind of stuff I've been posting on Instagram recently, but 17 hours of it all in one place. With much more added in the future. I will expand it to 500+ shorts soon. This is available for purchase now: https://www.actualized.org/store I plan to release about 30-50% of these clips across social media like Instagram slowly across the next year, but the rest will be exclusive to this product. And I plan to add more exclusive and longer videos to the Vault in the future. I have not yet created a proper sales page for this product. I'll do that in the coming week. But for those of you who already know you want it and don't need a sales pitch, it is fully functional and available for purchase right now. If you run into any bugs with the checkout process, please let me know here. This is like early access. I want to make sure it all working flawlessly before making a much broader announcement to the entire Actualized audience. You can see samples of what you're purchasing on my Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/leogura1/ It's the same kind of vertical format videos, but 330+ of them on a wide range of topics. If you do decide to purchase it, please post some feedback here so I can make future improvements. I plan to do a lot more work on this product over the next few months. Note: Please be ware that over the next year I will be posting a decent percentage of these clips on Instagram. So if you want to be cheap you can just wait for freebies on Instagram. But at least 50% will be exclusive for those who purchase. You can binge watch them all today if the purchase without waiting around a year for the slow trickle. Or if you just want to avoid Instagram. The Vault is designed so that I can conveniently post random premium videos to it in the future whenever I feel like it. It helps support my business because YouTube does not pay well like it used to. In the future I will also add exclusive videos which are longer than 3 minutes which don't fit on Instagram.

We have to be a bit careful because leftists can have an axe to grind against JP. So I am leery of fake students who join his Academy just to trash it.

Classic example of self-bias.

If you surrendered to it entirely you'd be dead.

Sam's denial of the obvious ethnic cleansing of Gaza by focusing on Hasan is the real issue. Right wing Israelis are certainly genocidal. And they run Israeli policy. Sam refuses to take responsiblity for how the West causes terrorism.

Hasan is problematic, but no one on the left is as bad as on the right.

I don't want to generalize so broadly.

The problem is structural because he likes to speculate, prognosticate, and spin narratives. This cannot be epistemically sound. The more he does it, the deeper into self-deception he and his students will sink. He is not being epistemically responsible. He like to make imaginative leaps because it gets him more views than just not-knowing.