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He definitely seems odd to me, though I’m not sure why. Probably because I’ve been watching him for several years and still don’t have a solid read on him. He’s the only person I can think of who I can’t get a read on. He’s probably a good dude, maybe I just don’t have experience with his particular personality.

I’m suspicious of this one. David’s new book sales probably went the through the roof after posting this video. The comments are filled with people saying they just bought the book after the video dropped. If this story is actually true, Pakman lucked up big time. I’d hate to think this is a scheme to drive up book sales but I do wonder. I still like Pakman but something about him seems off. Almost seems like an intelligent sociopath or something.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-intelligence-investigating-whether-fbi-involved-2020-capitol-riot-2025-04-09/ Trump admin investigating if the FBI was instrumental in the sparking of the Jan 6 riots. Lol. Hmmm, wonder what Tulsi will come up with. Then there’s Fox News, which just hit an all-time high in viewership—surpassing ABC, NBC, and the rest. If the day comes when Tulsi’s sham investigation—or whatever narrative they manufacture to exonerate Trump of all wrong-doing of Jan 6—is made public and Fox runs with it, millions will take it as truth. And with that, the American public inches closer, if not over the line, of epistemic collapse. If that day comes—if the Jan 6 propaganda is released and accepted as fact—this won’t just be about a misinformed belief or a political difference. It will mark the mass adoption of a false narrative that required the coordinated decay of truth itself. It’s not one lie; it’s the culmination of years of manipulation, loyalty tests, media distortion, and the hollowing out of institutions. If half the country accepts this version of Jan 6—a version built not on evidence, but on propaganda engineered by loyalists placed in key positions—it wouldn’t just be frustrating for those living in reality. It would be unbearable for many of us. Not because those living in unreality are wrong, but because the machinery of truth itself would have been successfully hijacked and repurposed to serve an easy-to-identify con artist and his loyalists. It would leave those still grounded in reality in a condition where coexistence itself begins to feel surreal—because they can no longer occupy the same social, moral, or even psychological space as people living in something so unreal, while being expected to treat it as valid. It’s not just disagreement—it’s dissonance so deep it corrodes the very possibility of shared life. But I guess humanity has always lived on the edge of unreality. From folklore to state propaganda, the line between belief and truth has never been fixed. Falsehood is often more attractive than truth. It flatters, simplifies, unifies. It gives people heroes and villains, clarity and belonging. Truth, on the other hand, is often complex, inconvenient, isolating, and slow. Mass belief in untruth is not new. From myths and cults to propaganda and conspiracy theories, societies have always built large swaths of meaning on foundations that can’t hold up under scrutiny. What’s unique now is how fast it spreads—and how deeply embedded it becomes in institutional systems. Truth rarely wins by being true alone. It needs stories. It needs champions. It needs infrastructure. Without those, it often loses to the more appealing fiction. This moment may feel new, but it’s part of an ancient pattern. The people who cling to reality have always been a minority. The burden of clarity has always been heavy. What’s different now is the scale—and perhaps the speed—of collapse, along with the hard-won progress that’s everyday being erased. Maybe it’s too early for truth. Or maybe it was never meant to survive in a species wired for comfort, certainty, and tribe. We like to think we’re on some upward path toward truth, but history suggests otherwise. If anything, this might be as close as we ever get. What will you do when you realize you can't share reality with half the country anymore? Lol.

Good point. Success would likely depend on how bad things get and the extent to which right-wing influencers and media acknowledge it. If that day ever comes, there'd be high demand to ease the dissonance. I intuit that day will come, but who knows.

They say you can’t fix stupid, which tracks with my experience. Most Americans would feel tortured and would suffer if forced to muster up the cognition required to read and understand that article, and even if you could get them into it, theyd reject many of its premises cause their echo chamber said otherwise. How do you get a large hoard of irrational, illogical, foolishly stubborn and willfully ignorant people to not be? That’s what has to be solved for the country to be fixed. Nice article though. Thanks for sharing.

Damn bruh! 😂 I'd never bring myself to do it but it is tempting. You could build a case that they're only responsive to vultures, so if you want them to change, you have to get their eyes and ears somehow, but obviously, ideas like this would require some moral compromise, so it would be a very fine line and hard to not corrupt yourself.

I have a guilty pleasure of brainstorming ways to manipulate MAGA into shedding their delusions, while also getting paid for my efforts. Here's a brainstorm sesh with ChatGPT, which is an idea centered around the coming cognitive dissonance millions of Americans will experience when they start suffering from Trump's policies. Let me know if anyone else has any creative ideas.

Prices going up bro. IMO, there’s a near zero chance Trump’s tariff bs will lead to a healthy, stable economy. I’m no economist, so I mostly rely on simple heuristics to arrive here. Like, an absolute fool and lunatic who knows nothing about complex systems, nor interested in learning about how they work, who randomly tweaks dials and pushes buttons on a 10,000 parameter control board, will fuck shit up with near certainty. It’s also likely not just a one time price change. You think Trump won’t shift on this multiple times? He’ll increase or decrease tariffs as he sees fit to dole out reward and punishment. Next time Zelenskyy doesn’t meet his “thank you” quota, he might get slapped with an extra 5%, or if a fascist regime builds a monument in Trump’s honor, they might earn 0%. If these tariffs remain, when we reach what some would like to think of as equilibrium, it will just be cope, and the US and global economy will be significantly less healthy than before the tariffs, and they likely won’t know it due to the complexity of the topic and propaganda that will shape public opinion over the next several years. Paying higher prices for everything will get normalized, while the Trump admin assures everyone America is stronger and richer than ever. And they’ll have deceptive charts to prove it. Kind of like that chart that mislead everyone into thinking Vietnam imposed a 90% tariff on US goods, when in reality it’s 1.2%. Right wing media will be looking for “Trump was right, he’s the business genius we always knew he was” angles for the next few years to make up for this colossal fuckup. It’s going to be so annoying listening to their viewers proclaim Trump’s tariffs were genius and worked out well for the next few years.

20-40 years before mass robot adoption

Trump comments on a 3rd term once again this morning. Says he's "not joking" about a 3rd term and "there are methods which you could do it". I think at least half of Trump supporters, if not more, will come to support a third term. They're simply too easy to manipulate.

I think he’s planning a 3rd term. I saw a commercial on TV today that was painting Trump as a strong, driven leader whose doing everything in his might to deliver a better country for the American people. It seemed like a campaign ad. I think they’re gonna attempt to propagandize the citizenry in hopes of getting enough support for a 3rd term. Their reasoning will probably be something like “The 2-term limit rule is only fair if the terms are consecutive. Trump didn’t get two consecutive terms, so he should get a chance to see how he can turn things around with two consecutive terms because that’s only fair”. The American people can definitely be manipulated into accepting this if they’re properly propagandized for the next 3.75 years.

Haha. A rape conviction will soon be an unspoken requirement and political consultants will handicap you if you don’t have one.

This is good to keep in mind. On the whole, really nice work. Thank you!

They're far from bored. They're narcissists who hit the narcissistic supply jackpot. After watching the video above, I imagine that If they get bored, they just blink their way out of the current matrix and into a future reality where boredom doesn't exist. These mother fuckers are retards.