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It's a genuine question. Life will certainly get worse for your ordinary American citizen. But I think the answer is it's only worth leaving if you are physically endangered. Don't forget, you could move to Germany thinking you're escaping all this. And then Elon Musk shows up on a screen and supports AfD. At this point we need to fight for our democracy, not run away.

It's unclear how this all ends. Saying they are "playing with fire" doesn't cut it. More like they are playing with a nuclear bomb. War or other forms of violence may be coming soon.

A rapid-fire compilation of pre-modern low perspectives. Lots of examples of justification, self-deception, demagoguery, ignorance, toxic religiosity, superstition and more:

Level-headed critique of Musk’s libertarian nonsense:

It does in the sense that Europeans also have a bureaucratic administrative state. Right-wing groups will likely use this same line of attack, seeing how it was effective in the US.

Some places to start looking: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ https://indivisible.org/

They are going to continue to try and undermine the independence and authority of the courts. This is an authoritarian power grab. They’re not interested in playing nice.

No it’s a separate EO. Along the same authoritarian lines, but different.

This one is maybe worse: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

It's bizarre that after all these years of fighting Russia and allying with western Europe, Trump is flipping that. Europe is woke. Europe is DEI. Europe is democracy. Europe is the deep state. It's a spiral dynamics mismatch.

It doesn't apply to the judiciary branch (e.g federal courts), the legislative branch, state law or independent entities like the Federal Reserve. I'm not some legal scholar but that's what I've gained from reading about it.

It's definitely bad, but also don't unnecessarily exaggerate. This EO only applies to legal interpretation within the executive branch. It's not "all laws everywhere", for now.

Low: manifestation group think, pseudoscience, oversimplication, new age fantasy

Your tech buddies are looking to build a corporate dictatorship. The power will be entirely centralized, with them at the top. Contemplate your devilry.

The apologetics you do for Trump are grotesque. The most serious threat to America right now is in the White House.

There is no serious, nuanced discussion to be had about these issues under the current administration. They are not honest actors. The goal right now needs to be resisting America decline into a criminal corporate autocracy.

Here in my crystal room I was going to say he is asking to get investigated, but this is Trump's America and fraud is now cool. He'll probably have a spot in the administration before we know it.

I've been consistently following Leo's content for about a decade, so there's a lot I've done. I never thought about it like I was trying to escape relativity. I just contemplated what's true. And eventually I necessarily realized that a higher-order Absolute does and must exist. Contemplate, contemplate, contemplate. Use tools like psychedelics, meditation, yoga, journaling etc if those feel right for you. But be perpetually curious about reality. That's more fundamental than any tool. Can you truthfully say you've absolutely determined that absolute truth cannot exist? If not, then your work must continue.

I don't want to dunk on this woman too much. I'm sure some people get value from her work. But the way she continually parrots new-age memes, I have to call this Low. Low: manifestation group think, lack of critical thinking, new age fantasies

Low: blatant pseudoscience, oversimplification, ignoring expert consensus, trust-me-bro, potential deliberate grift

High: independent thinking, skepticism, truth-seeking over pragmatism, conventional / post-conventional morality It's a shame Russell never actually realized God. He had an impressive mind and I think the right temperament for it. But God is tricky business.

High: Transitioning from pre-conventional morality to conventional / post-conventional

This could be consider a high perspective relative to many. But specifically in relationship to Hegel's perspective, I'm going to call this Low. Failure to grasp the Absolute, lack of holism, lack of metacognition, materialism.

Low: Justifying selfishness, bluster & charisma, rationalizing with math, making up facts (you would never lose 25% of the value of your dollar over four years without consistently high levels of inflation) Low: demagoguery, conspiracy, justifying selfishness, ad hominem (this was the speech with the "pimp handlers" comment, which has been edited out of this video).

Low: False equivalency, both sidesing, close-mindedness, group think, christian bias, denial of basic facts In practice, this is what Conservapedia actually leads to. This is the "non-biased" perspective you are supposedly getting. *Note* other entries in Conservapedia may potentially be less problematic or make good points.