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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.

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.

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.

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.

On one hand, Christianity can be as beautiful as other high teachings, but on the other, the teachings have been bastardized so bad that it is one of the largest contributors of continued suffering on the planet. It’s current form is diametrically opposed to truth and integrity. My sister and her whole family feared hell so much, their lives now look like something out of a Christian cult movie. They’re so far gone, they ain’t ever coming back. It has robbed humanity of way more than it will ever provide. It’s modern form deserves to be rejected and condemned, IMO.

I first saw him several years back as a key contributor at a SAND conference and just figured he was legit spiritual. Some of his skits were funny around that time as he was poking fun at the spiritual ego and things like that. Then one day I got on YT and saw one of his thumbnails had Biden in ugly fluorescent light and Trump right next to him in a nice yellow glow. lol. That was my first clue. I figured maybe it was just a fluke with images or something, but that was soon proven false. Strange AF.

If they weren't famous and you ran into them out in the real world, your first impression of them would be the correct one, which would be something like "arrogant, rude, dismissive, entitled, think their shit don't stink, bullies, flashy and loud braggarts". In a world where no one knew them, this would be the first impression most people would have of the Tate brothers, and it would be correct. It's only after you run your culture war program that your mind starts to view the despicable in a good light.

He does it to himself. lol

This reminded me of this: "Traditional virtue often involves conscious effort - trying to be good, kind, or ethical through willpower and intention. It's like constantly checking yourself against a moral compass and adjusting your behavior accordingly. Natural virtue," by contrast, emerges spontaneously from clear perception and understanding. When you truly see a situation clearly, the right action presents itself as the most straightforward and practical response. Vernon Howard told a story about a young man who kept getting pulled over for not wearing his seatbelt. Each time, he was baffled, convinced the cops were unfairly targeting him. But the truth was—he wasn't seeing reality clearly. The law existed for his protection, not to restrict his freedom. If he had truly understood the situation rather than resisting it, wearing the seatbelt wouldn't have felt like an external rule to follow—it would have simply been the obvious thing to do, like carrying an umbrella in the rain or wearing a coat in winter. His resistance wasn't to the rule itself, but to his misperception of why the rule existed. This explains why wisdom is so valuable. It transforms virtue from a constant effort of will into a natural expression of clear understanding. Instead of being caught in the chaotic cycle of desire, moral calculation, and bad outcomes, the wise person is spared the headache of constantly colliding with reality. When we see clearly (wisdom), our actions naturally harmonize with how things actually are. This alignment with reality has several benefits: It eliminates the internal conflict that comes from fighting against what is. The young man fighting the seatbelt law creates his own suffering through resistance to reality. It resolves the artificial separation between knowing what's right and doing what's right. When perception is clear, action follows naturally without the need for willpower or moral calculation. It creates a kind of freedom—not freedom from rules, but freedom from the constant internal struggle of forcing ourselves to comply with external standards. (reminds me of House, M.D. ) " This is why wisdom is so badass. It's freedom.

Of course it's possible and very logical (which is why it's effective), but it's not consistent with his character. What's more consistent, Tucker is willing to spend 2 years chasing after Truth or Tucker is fabricating stories to gain even more influence in the space he's been intentionally grifting for years? I think your default starting position should be the latter. To assume a professional liar is telling the truth here seems like bad thinking.

Tucker and Russell Brand have been joining each other on speaking engagements. It’s not a coincidence both of these grifters have recently been making public spectacles of Christianity. Tucker’s story is most likely fabricated. Does this sound true : Tucker was so stricken by the incident that it prompted him to begin his quest to understand reality and it just so happened to lead him to reading the Bible in solitude for 2 years, and he intentionally avoided being influenced by preacher men because he needed to make sure he wasn’t led astray. Lol. That’s hilarious. Tucker is conscious of his own bullshit and my guess is he accepts it as part of his apex predator mindset. Not everyone is doing the best they can. Some people knowingly embrace falsehood, and Tucker is one of them.

Even Claude can't debate it:

I'm gonna check this video out but I feel like diving into all these factors takes your eye off the root causes. Like, there's a reason those factors are factors. What REALLY happened here was you had two key factors: 1) Low level of development, stupidity and ignorance 2) The exploitation and manipulation of those Americans are unwitting victims of stupidity, ignorance, propaganda, manipulation, and deception. The fact that the American people chose a guy who, out in the open, attempted to coup the U.S—without recognizing the truth or its implications—reveals the extent of the manipulation that took place. When you grasp the scale of this deception, the key factors are clear. Aside from culture war entertainment and identity building, Trump voters were largely not interested in politics and didn't/don't care what happens to any part of the world so long as their ignorance is allowed to persist and if anything bad happens, it happens "over there". Kamala Harris comes on the scene and the apolitical fools are all of sudden interested in politics and want to know what Kamala will do to improve the state of things. lol. All of sudden, they put on their thinking caps and took this politics thing seriously. 🤦‍♂️They started learning about the economy and all sorts of stuff and they chose Trump because he was the clear winner. These are the stupidest ideas I've ever heard. It is all about vibes, but more importantly, the manipulation of vibes. Probably half the people who voted for Trump because of "the economy" are now tariff sympathizers who are all about that long-game. When the "economy" voters double down on Trump instead of denounce the policies that hurt them... that's vibes, right? Trump’s win is a symptom of mass propaganda and manipulation of public perception rather than a legitimate ideological contest. Falsehoods were pounded into the American psyche so effectively and by so many, the unwitting American didn't stand a chance at knowing what was true. So yeah, The Dems need to face that, as well as everyone else, but it's too much truth to handle, so no. IMO, there should be no compromise with falsehood. The falsehoods people embraced should not be "accepted" by the Dems. This itself would corrupt the Dems even further. While the Right is carving out channels of corruption at scale, now is the perfect time for the Dems to rid themselves of their own corruption and come back with more integrity than before, but that's not gonna happen, at least not as effectively as it could.

Elon now buying swing state governments, supreme courts, etc.

Obviously: