Everything I understand tells me the situation is very serious. It's not a 100% chance of losing our democracy but something like a 25% chance.
You guys who downplay it with rationalizations, excuses, and false equivalencies are not helping.

I would rather have one enlightenment experience than all of Jeff Bezo's wife's money.
Careful who you role-model. You just might end up with their miserable life.

It's not dualistic. That's mistaking the map for the territory.

Ego is belief in separation, which can be unbelieved and seen to never have been experienced at all. Self-inquiry, meditation, etc, helps to "untie" or "dissolve" the belief. Ultimately leading to a clear perception that there was never time or separation, or any entity which had either quality.

There were never dualisms. That's what non-duality tries to get you to see. Like mistaking a rope for a snake your entire life. The snake being analogous to ego/separation.

Lol!

"Rupert cheated on his wife"

"Proof?"

*Shows a private group of a bunch of disgruntled people on Facebook accusing him of spreading nihilism*

Enough that I am too lazy to itemize them all.

The best benefits of pickup are not the sex.

Dude, the reason you're not getting laid is not the porn, it's that you don't socialize enough. It's time to redesign your lifestyle so you are social 3 nights a week at least.
As long as you go out 3 nights a week, watch whatever porn you want. That's the deal.
The only reason you are shy is because you don't talk to enough girls each week. This is not rocket science. Strike at the root, not the fruit.

You can be a child at any age. In fact, most adults are children. So this says nothing.
Yes, I have to be careful about people using my work to justify whatever fantasies they might have. I'm not saying that is the case here. I have no idea. But self-deception is always at play. You just have to be careful that you are not deceiving yourself.
I have considered deleting my Gender Is A Social Construct video because I worry that people will misuse it and cause harm to themselves. I take this issue seriously. This stuff is way more tricky than progressives understand.
And yes, thinking of the children is important on this issue.
Anyways, I do not want to derail this thread with a debate about trans politics.

Not sure what to say here. I'm conflicted about this whole trans phenomenon. But if you are truly happy and not just kidding yourself, then I'm glad.

I think Destiny's rationalizations of Israeli domination of Palestinians is one of his weakest positions that I have heard.
Destiny may be right on some technical points there but he is wrong in the big picture of what Israel is doing. Israel is engaged in domination and exploitation of a weak minority group through underhanded Machinavellian machinations and lies.

That's why, on the whole, I have no problem with Distiny. He has better core takes than many Progressives who just parrot Marxist dogma. Destiny actually thinks about nuanced factors on both sides. He's not just shilling for one side. So huge points to him for achieving that much epistemic intelligence as a gamer.
Destiny's problems are more in style than substance. He has an immature style.

The insane part is how these Christians will spin Trump into a religous martyr.
It's just comically predictable.
It's like, if you shoot the devil in the ear now he becomes an angel. 
This is where the devil really plays his trick.

@egoless Absolute is Absolute. You will not understand that until you encounter the Absolute yourself.
By all means, don't take my word for it. You must discover all this for yourself. I am just giving you a push in the right direction. None of this is to be taken as a belief system.
Reality IS a delusion within a delusion within a delusion -- to infinity! That's what enlightenment means! It covers absolutely everything possible. You literally become conscious of everything that could possibly be. You become God. Your consciousness becomes so total, nothing else remains.

Lol
Enlightenment explains evil perfectly. It's the simplest thing possible: evil doesn't exist!
The problem is, the ego doesn't want to accept that. Because the ego feels threatened by things like murder, rape, and theft. The ego's job is to be biased, to favor itself at all costs. So this notion that rape isn't evil offends you. Because you don't like the idea of absolute freedom. It's literally too much freedom for you to handle. It's so free, it will kill you. So you want to constrict infinity to a manageable, finite size which your mind and psyche can easily handle.
The cost of that, however, is that you are very easily disturbed and you suffer. As soon as reality goes against you, you cry and shout and get angry. That's because you refused to surrender to the fact that your very life is worthless and meaningless in the big picture. The whole point of your life might be to be a cum receptacle for a rapist, or fuel for Hitler's ovens. But of course you don't like that idea. It's too REAL.
Yet nonetheless, no matter how much you resist all this, the fact remains that reality has all these freedoms. There is a real possibility that one day you will get raped or thrown into an oven. And even if you don't, no matter what, you will die. So you will lose this ego-game you're playing no matter what! The only question is, will you resist the freedom of reality or accept it?
Of course there is nothing wrong, bad, or evil about ego. You can be selfish if you want. Reality doesn't care if you remain lost in untruth, or rape a horse. To reality, there is no preference for one thing over another. From the enlightened perspective, ego isn't bad or evil. Ego is confusion of the mind. And there is also nothing bad or evil about confusion.
Of course! You are one with all the rapists who ever lived, and ever will live. They are literally you, and you are literally them!
Which is why judgment of people is pointless and delusional.
Jesus told you to love people, and not to judge them, for this very reason. He wasn't telling you to be cute or lovey-dovey, or "a nice person" so that Saint Peter could let you into the gates of Heaven. He was telling you to surrender all of your attachments to self, until the point where someone could nail you to cross, and you would be happy about it, because whatever happens to your body doesn't matter. It's not you, and it will die anyways.
Enlightenment literally means: self-less-ness. No self, no evil, no resistance, no problem.
vs.
Self, evil, resistance, suffering << the way you live now.
Heaven is not a place you get to for being "a good person". Heaven is just the state of being without a self.
This is True Religion. Mainstream religion corrupts this truth because it's too unpalatable. The whole point of culture is to serve the ego's self-biases. So a truth like this cannot be transmitted uncorrupted through mainstream culture.

Of course it feels damn wrong to the ego.
You're not grasping that we are talking about a radically different mode of living here. After enlightenment, life as you know it is gone. Reality has literally ceased to exist, you are dead inside. Like REALLY! Imagine that! You are a zombie inside and you will NEVER return to the old you! Someone could rape you, and you wouldn't care, because you've already died! Try to imagine that radical of a transformation. Imagine yourself not being human any more, but still appearing human to others from the outside. They will think you're a human, but you will know you're not.
I have done it before, and I will do it again. There is nothing better than death.
We are dealing with highly counter-intuitive stuff here. It utterly boggles the mind. It is totally unbelievable until you arrive there. It's such a deep mindfuck, the realization of it alone is enough to kill you.
P.S. They are two separate things, but once you've become it, you have no more need to judge it. The judging is what you do to distract from becoming it. The sooner your stop judging, the sooner you will become it.

Crypto is dumb, but stocks are legit. You just gotta pick solid companies and hold for years. Stocks generate real value, not as trades but from the work and innovation of the people in the companies.

That's not good enough of an epistemic evaluation . 
pseudoscience is not synonym for bullshit. Pseudoscience means there isn't enough science yet which leaves a lot of room for uneducated interpretation, this has been happening all the time throughout the history of humanity.  It can also mean that there is actually so much science that the public is left overwhelmed and people just sort of make up their own pseudoscientific conclusions based on hearsay, feeling, marketing and guessing. Pseudoscience can also be a source of future science for example an accumulation of personal anecdotes can be a stage of of clinical trial design eventually.
Personal anecodes become collected as Case Studies -> those are being collected by doctors as case series -> sufficient amount of case series may trigger first experimental case control studies or cross sectional studies -> with enough data and time and money, these may progress into retrospective cohort studies and later on with more funding and data into prospective studies -> eventually RCTs and if we get enough of everything, the data will be systematically reviewed and meta-analysed.
At that stage because so much has been collected, we can have faith that what the science shows is probably more reliable than hunches and guesses although it does not mean it has 100% correct answers, just makes it more likely that the true effect has probably been captured relatively precisely....with more time it will either be narrowed down further or actually the direction may start changing. 
Who says all health benefits are coming down to theobromin, I think its just one of many compounds that are responsible for the effects. Kinda like green tea. There are probably hundreds of polyphenols in cocoa that we have no knowldge on. 
To me , DC falls into a category of processed foods that are beneficial and their benefits outweight the cost until they start tipping you over your caloric limit, causing weight gain and at that point they become more harmful than beneficial. Some other examples of such category would be: seed oils, nut butters, plant butters, plant-based meat replacements, wholegrain bakery, starchy foods etc/. 

No. They just never cared about truth in the first place.
It took me decades just to realize that truth is a value very few humans actually have.
Once you understand that, it all makes sense.

Get your blood work done. Check your thyroid and hormones. Many people have thyroid or hormone imbalances. Low energy is often associated with under-active thyroid.
Of course cleaning up your diet is very important. If you eat shit you will feel like shit. Stop eating all wheat products and all junk food. Carb heavy foods make you extra sleepy.
You should also do a urine test for heavy metal toxicity. Heavy metals like mercury and lead cause all sorts of energy problems. There are detox protocols for detoxing heavy metals if you have them.

No one cares about reality. They are just using reality to survive, like monkeys.
Your mistake is assuming that people care. Even scientists and philosophers don't really care.

Science has already shown that some people are genetically nightowls.

Trump doesn't really have a life purpose. His only purpose is to puff up his ego and create illusions of success.

A typical Vegas summer day.
There is a pine forest on a mountaintop 45 mins drive from Vegas where the weather is perfect room temperate in the summer. I go there to hike and hang out. It's perfect.

There are many factors.
Mental illness is a big factor.
Misuse of the mind is a big factor.
Bad childhood and parenting is a big factor.
Bad life choices is a big factor.
Health is a big factor.
Lack of socialization is a big factor.