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Where I've not given your point enough credit is that in foreign policy weakness is not respected and gets abused. Nixon had the saying "Probe with bayonets any situation that looks mushy, withdrawing only when the bayonets meet steel." I think not conceiting and staying strong can help get us a better deal. I just worry about needlessly antagonizing narcissists. If they feel insulted they'll sabotage the negotiation at the benefit of no one. Sometimes you have to placate people that are crazy like Trump so that they feel like they won and everyone wins in return. I hope you're right and Carney is playing it right and not falling into his ego in this case.

@oOo I would say it's a case of magnifying glass not having the exact right angle and once it does; it'll burn through anything. I agree with you at the moment its best used as an advanced calculator to synthesized massive amounts of data. That amount of synthesizing is all that's needed for massive insight though, that's how humans learn as well. Pattern recognition with a goal in mind.

What a victim mindset. You're the one that turned it from a fact based conversation on Islam to your flailing out with insults. Get a grip.

Now you're gaslighting me. He didn't ask me to stop he doubled down. When people are good faithed and ask to stop the conflict and get back to productive conversation I take them up on it. This boils down to fight, flight, fawn or freeze. You're asking me to do the later when I will win at the first one. That is not serving me in any way whatsoever nor is it even serving this forum to tolerate bad points and passive aggressiveness from people that are wrong and not championing the values that it's based on. It's not ethical to let a fox eat you.

Yes, life is made of the self and others. Sometimes others want to challenge us and backing down is not the net positive outcome. I think honestly it's a male competition thing. For women harmony is a higher value concept than for men. If another male challenges me I don't see a reason to not accept his challenge if I'm gonna win.

I agree with you on the mechanics of persuasion, @Natasha Tori Maru. If the goal is cooperative debate or changing someone's mind, sledgehammering logic creates instant polarization. But persuasion requires a willing, good-faith participant. Sometimes grace and cooperation advance a discussion. Other times, you encounter an irreconcilable conflict with someone who brings bad-faith hostility, personal jabs, and dogmatic posturing. When someone chooses that route on a forum dedicated to high-level intellectualism, cooperative debate is off the table. My goal isn't to convert a hostile actor; it's to establish a firm boundary and completely dismantle the credibility of their position. I always prefer good-faith, cooperative exchange. But if someone chooses an adversarial road, I have zero problem meeting them on those terms and not backing down. That's just the reality of high-stakes dialogue.

@Thought Art Not about who is smarter, just about keeping the focus on macro data when discussing geopolitics. Take care man.

Right so your main point is that we are trusted and have many trade partners. I then debunked that we cannot pivot as 75% of our trade goes to the US and these are multi industry procurement deals that take years or decades to make. You then invalidate my point and link to random videos of Carney appealing to the country saying slogans like WE ARE STRONG AND WE DO NOT BACK DOWN. Like really? Sorry man I think you are probably a well meaning person but our standards for intellectual rigor are different. My whole point with calling you emotions over logic is that in both discussions you strayed away from the hard conclusions in favour of more a more sentimental conclusion that I then proved wrong. Your main point was that Muhammad was not a warlord and that you enjoy the spirit of islam and the poetry of it. That's cool but I linked the definition of a warlord. You could say that you don't think he's a warlord and he was a rapper and that's your truth but that's just as inaccurate. You once again based your thoughts on Mark Carney based on how he appears not what the country's actual situation actually is. We will see how it goes and it's fine if you wanna discuss vague generalities but to me that's not really helpful in anyway shape or fact. What exactly is your problem against using AI to quickly find and identify the actual numbers that shape this negotiation? Did I say anything incorrect or is this once again a feelings based objection? This was exactly my criticism of Carney in my first reply. He appeals to people's pride and ego and pumps people up YES WE ARE PROUD CANADIANS WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN and I think he likes to feel strong and powerful and it's hurting his negotiation abilities with the Americans. You're kind of proving my point by falling for it without talking about what we are negotiating about and running away from the actual reality of our economy. These feelings of pride will not help Canadians when hundreds of thousands of people lose their job due to ego based posturing. Sorry like this is geopolitics not spirituality. If we aren't talking facts what are we talking about?

It's a masterclass in human psychology, I don't understand why people are investing in it. Every fact I learn about it is wilder than the next. They sold over 2000 of these shits at $5k a pop and raised $10M from this concept ship in like 1 day. It's not playable though it's a concept for a ship. I don't think it's evil because they are legitimately trying to build it but it's a dumpster fire of a project and like I said I think unfortunately it's gonna implode at any time.

Got it man sounds like you're not really comprehending how the global liquidity and macroeconomics work nor are interested in educating yourself. As I've said I read books on this stuff and keep researching and learning more each week. I wish you the best of luck, you'll need it. This is a good video on the history of human economy and capitalism if you actually wanna understand macroeconomics and how Bitcoin fits into it. As I've previously recommended, reading the Bitcoin Standard is also pretty mandatory reading to have a non comical discussion around it.

Of course it needs to be explained. If it's a store of value why has gold been outperforming it? The Trump Family and other elites globally are heavily invested in crypto. Does that give you confidence that it's a solid asset worth investing a lot of your money in or that it's market manipulation meant to enrich themselves at the expense of the population? Bitcoin hasn't always made ATH, its only existed for 17 years. In terms of asset class that's very little. It has a strong history for sure but we can have about 5000 years of history as a species with commodities as money. Many assets have risen and fallen since then. Let's discuss fundamentals otherwise price performance is not a solid point to lay the foundation of your argument on. I don't really believe in technical analysis that much, it's a very shorted sighted way to understand macroeconomics IMO. I watch Benjamin Cowen at times and he makes some good videos but I still am not that much of a crypto believer. I read The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous and about half of the sequel to it Fiat Standard. I think it's an incredible book that taught me a lot about macroeconomics. If you asked me 10 years from now will BTC be at new ATH like $500k-1M or will it go to $0? Hard to say but I would say %65 $0 and 35% $1M. @pablo_aka_god So hard to say bro. Depends what our individual investment strategy is. As I said mine is to build a cashflow business based on my own operational skills as well developed and scale the multiple media brands I currently operate. Every other strategy is too flimsy for me. I believe AI as a concept will help the average person sometime in the next 50 years with UBI. Whether there will be a 15 year period where the standard of living of most of the masses globally collapses drastically before that; hard to say. I think that's the most pressing concern really. K shaped economy and reverse market crash(market pump that makes everyone holding assets rich and everyong relying on labor poor) are both terrible for the general population.

No worries. I don't think I am misinformed and I think you are misinformed. When I brought actual facts into it that are the real numbers that our country is facing you had no other rebuttal but to try to invalidate my point. Consider why that is. A trade dispute is solved with numbers not feelings. Mark Carney not only has a geopolitical crisis to manage but he also has to appear strong domestically and I do honestly believe that is hurting his negotiation skills and that is why I called it ego in my first reply to this thread. I don't think that posturing is how you negotiate on a high level. It doesn't work in business in my experience and I assume it's not gonna work politically. I understand that it is an anxiety inducing situation but you handwaved away my attempt at discussing it thoroughly by just saying Mark has a good resume he'll figure it out. Is that the mark of a responsible citizen and high quality intellectual? I apologize for being harsh but I find it a common pattern with you to use emotions to discuss a topic over the actual facts. You did the same thing to me in the Islam thread. Standing up for our head of state without being able to discuss their short comings in a matter of fact way is an emotional reaction that helps nobody. Let's discuss the hard numbers. Why do you think Canada is in a strong position to play hard ball against the United States in this negotiation?

It is very on topic though. This is a discussion on Islam vs actualized.org and which value system is superior. Leo himself said that religion is for weak minded people that can't handle direct confrontation with reality and need an authority to tell them how to think. Which I think is absolutely correct. Look at what happened when I had a very matter of fact debate about Islam's history. He flipped out and resorted to name calling. That is anti-intellectualism and a weak ego. He was not interested in the truth, he felt his identity and religion being attacked and he lashed out. That is what someone with a weak character does. He dmed me to edit the post which I thought was silly since why does he care that much if I tagged him on a reply? Because he has a weak sense of self as most Islamic people do since they are living in under an authoritarian religion where character development and challenging authority is discouraged. When I told him I wouldn't he flipped out at me just like he did in the thread. He brought up my thoughts on sex why? Just me having a life outside of his religion's ideology triggered him enough to start calling me a narcissist. To me that shows extremely weak character. What happened when I deconstructed the original's posters points with facts and my own lived experienced? Was he happy to chat about it or did he never reply again in the thread? What do you think would've happened if we had this discussion in an islamic country? It would've been a valuable exchange of ideas that enriches both parties or I would've gotten shot or stabbed? Half of my family is muslim, I have lived experienced in this. One of my uncles last year almost killed one of my other uncles for a very silly reason that escalated. Islam is a dangerous cult that produces cognitively deficient individuals with poor emotional regulation. It sounds like insults but they are very matter of fact definitional terms. I didn't write out what I actually think about this user, just what I'm noticing. My actual opinion of him as a human is much worse. This is what happens when you confront truth, people with an unintegrated sense of self get triggered. Same thing that happened on the sex thread. I still think it is valuable exercise and I refuse to be intimated or silenced by such limited people.

Sexpionage? Easily a 30% chance this is how I die. I love powerful women it would override a lot of my survival instincts. I need to bang first though otherwise I'm haunting her from the afterlife for 1000 years as revenge. If it's consummated then you know you lose some you win some, that's life.

Intelligence is the ability to problem solve. How many problems do you see the average dog having? They are most popular than most humans. Often times dog owners love their dogs more than they love other humans. Most human females think more highly of dogs than human males. Literally conquering us. The average dog has a better life than the average human. Dog is a very advanced life form using love to conquer mankind. Don't only rely on IQ and intellect to assess if someone is intelligent, most high IQ people have terrible lives and can't solve their problems due to neuroticism and overthinking and lack of emotional understanding. Dog almost never sad always happy, superior levels of emotional mastery than human. Average dog better at content creation than average human. Try it start a Youtube account and post shorts of cute dogs and random humans dog wins each time. Even if you take the average channel on youtube that features humans doing anything vs dog and cat video 100% the pets win get more views on average. Dog winning. Overpowered species. Nerf when?