Leo Gura

I cannot take Lenin seriously. He was a power-hungry ideologue. He was not a serious intellectual. He turned Marxism into a religion and it ended exactly as Bakunin predicted 50 years earlier: Stalin's gulags.

I was reading an Iraqi torture manual once and I had to put it down because it was just too much to stomach. You don't want to read even one such book.

I don't think a hundred books on torture have even been written.

That is not how he does research.

When the shoe fits. The shoe fits well for folks below Tier 2. This case validates Spiral Dynamics more than it doesn't. I can easily use Spiral Dynamics to understand Hasan and his critics. They are not doing anything original. I would love these guys to not fit in such simplistic categories. But unfortunately they insist on it.

@Monster Energy That is freaky. I have turned into a MILF.

That guy is not an ideological actor. He does quite good and fair research.

That is a function of ideology and ideology is part of Stage Green. You guys are expecting too much from Green. Green is not free of ideology. Just as Orange simps for capitalism, Green simps for socialism. Yes, Hasan is rooting against capitalism. That is his view. Nothing crazy about it. Of course he is more forgiving of his ideological allies. That's the Marxist view of the world. Capitalists are the enemy.

Reminds me of this kid

@Jodistrict That is exactly what is being disputed here. "Taught to her" is a very loaded phrase. I could "teach" a parrot to speak epistemology at you. That doesn't make the parrot a genius.

I have not said I read thousands of books on that. Dozens, yes. If I read a thousand books on torture I would kill myself. Lol

I don't see why we need a new word for this. This is a feature of leftists. I just call that Green/leftist. I think Hasan is intelligent enough to understand that Hamas is not some pro-gay leftie organization. He knows they are barbaric terrorists. He just thinks they are justified in fighting back against the injustices done to them. The notion that Hasan is some terrorism promoter is silly to me. He is just realistic about why terrorist exists and may even be necessary when your oppressor is a gigantic machine. Hamas does not need to adhere to progressive values for us to recognize that they are just defending their homeland and families from getting raped by Zionists. It is silly to expect Hamas to have progressive values or else we refuse to see the validity of their grievances. Hamas are barbarians and they are also victims of heinous crimes that made them barbarians. No great paradox here. It is also silly to side with Israel just because Israel has some gay rights. As if gay rights somehow makes ethnic cleansing okay. This is actually an absurdity of the Sam Harris position: Israel is more progressive so they are allowed to ethnically cleanse anyone less progressive than them. Keep in mind, slaves were less progressive and less developed than their slave masters. But that doesn't mean that slaves were wrong for overthrowing their masters. The entire issue is that Israel is progressive off the land they took from primitive Palestinians. The progress came at Palestinian expense and now the bill has come due. America is also progressive thanks to our exploitation of 3rd world nations. It is legitimate for 3rd worlders to be pissed off about that.

Dude, the above video beautifully presents the evidence and the case. You are choosing to deny it. You are defending the claim that a completely blind woman wrote epic poetry about the colors of a sunset. This is absurd. She clearly could not write that. She had no way of knowing what colors are. Or she wasn't blind. Another possibility is that her handicaps were grossly exaggerated. Perhaps she wasn't truly blind or deaf. People love to exaggerate handicaps too because it makes them seem more impressive than they are. And I am very vocal about the evils of AI slop.

I should buy a chimpanzee, put his name on all my work, and then tour the country with my legendary, epistemic genius chimpanzee. I shall name him Coco. Coco the first chimpanzee to teach humans epistemology

Why would Mark Twain not have been duped along with everyone else? How could Mark Twain know? He didn't have all the facts. He wanted the legend to be true as much as everyone else. The issue isn't plagiarism. The issue is that her caretakers were doing all the physical writing for her and injecting their own heavy interpretations and polish on everything she said. This was not a single incident, this was her entire lifestyle, origin story, and legend. Imagine if I had all my work edited by a secret nameless worldclass author and then presented it as my own. That would be fraud. But it was never at the same level of quality/depth. And who was her replacement?