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The more I look into the current state of affairs, the more it seems like some big shit is going to go down if Rs lose the midterms. Trump has been threatening election officials that they'll go to prison if their elections aren't clean, he's sending 1000+ monitors out on election day, which is 3x higher than any other election, and just all sorts of stuff like this. He even made his rally repeat after him and promise that no matter what, they'll go vote, even if they aren't registered, try it out anyway because the other side does it. If the Rs lose, I don't think Trump is just going to just roll over and become some lame duck. He's not going to let that happen without a big fight. What he does in response, IDK, but I don't think he's just going to roll over and let it happen. I feel like it's gonna be big. We'll see soon enough. People should brace for some potentially fucked up shit.

Project 2025.

If you say it 20 times a year, yeah, probably, lol.

I suspect we’re about to be in for many “the election was rigged” claims. It could get ugly.

I knew about him and Meg Kelly.

Trump admin tried to attain a voting machine to find potential exploits. Not to hack the machines, but to be able to bring the exploits to the courts when they inevitably claim the Dems rigged the elections.

If you were a woman who was horrible with kids, you might object to the claim because for such a woman the claim is just false, and maybe “sexist” is her best explanation for why you’re wrong.

I’m guessing 95% of people correctly understand the physical differences between male and female. You guys are always dissecting fringe positions and acting like they’re more common than they are. For example, probably not even 1% of the population would agree with the above video. Obviously, it’s fine to analyze it, but I get the sense you guys are inflating the numbers in your head and thinking these fringe positions have proliferated or will soon reach critical mass.

I haven’t been tracking it. Who have you noticed jumping ship?

Polymarket:

@Leo Gura

Must watch Trump press conference: Trump loses his shit multiple times, and a reporter asks Trump if he'll endorse Vance for 2028 with Vance standing right behind him. Hilarious.

lol. They must have some idea because it ranked the #1 issue in a Fox News poll.

Fox News put out a poll that said the top issue was corruption, even above gas prices/affordability.

I see it that way as well.

@Ramanujan Often, the best thing an INTJ can do is max out their Te. I'd develop that and forget about Se. I mean, you can practice Se if you want, but it will require ongoing maintenance forever and you probably don't even care that much about it, so it would only add stress to have to maintain it. In theory, "developing my Se" sounds good. In practice, it's usually not worth the effort. Se is low for a reason: you don't naturally give a fuck about it.

I would say the majority of Leo's ideas are not new. I remember reading a book a while back that was explaining Leo's entire Structure vs Content video and I felt like Leo straight up ripped it off. That's happened a few times.

Compensatory superiority: Establishing one's superiority over others to compensate for underlying feelings of inadequacy, inferiority, or insecurity. They use SD the same way. They think they're just engaging in truth-seeking and reality-understanding, blind to the motivation behind the inquiry.

Called it:

"Thruster-assisted flight in consumer cars can’t be made safe enough, because the problem isn’t whether a thruster can be made reliable, it’s what happens at scale when one inevitably cuts out. No propulsion system is 100% reliable, and across millions of hops, even rare failures become a daily event. Unlike a helicopter, a cold-gas car can’t glide or autorotate. When thrust stops, it simply drops. A short drop is only survivable if three things all hold: the car stays low, the seat is built to absorb a vertical impact, and the car lands level. Consumer use undermines all three. People will fly higher than they should, skip maintenance, run low on gas, overload the car, and take drops mid-maneuver when the car is tilted. So even if the engineering can make a single hop safe, you can’t make millions of people flying their own cars safe."

For the vast majority, it's coping, fa sho. How happy, easy-going, light-hearted, worry-free, and secure in one's survival is the average AO member? It's probably lower than average. I agree that this flavor of spirituality doesn't really do much to increase those things. Happiness is not to be found here. It's more about addiction to insight, and the effect or the utility of the insight is rarely even considered because the striving for and deriving the insight is the point.