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Are you honestly arguing that stab attacks are more of a threat than an AR-15?

It would still be an improvement. You can stab a lot less people than you can shoot with an AR-15.

Reincarnation is irrelevant when you understand God.

Evolution is just another form in consciousness. It's part of the dream-construct that is your life.

Your framing of the issue is still off. Slut-shaming is not just about a bunch of bitter guys who can’t get laid. This is a failure to understand the phenomenon.

That's not really true. That's more of a useful lie PUAs tell themselves, wrapped in a bit of truth.

That’s good you’re looking to put the puzzle pieces together. The most important thing is an honest sense-making process.

He has many libertarian / free-market fantasies. I'm not interested in debating it. I'm just pointing it out.

I would not consider this tier 2. He is making many errors.

Teal implied it. I'm willing to give her some benefit of the doubt on this, but not a great take from what I heard. Certainly there are pros / cons that aren't always acknowledged. Talking about those are fine.

I get that pretty women have their own unique set challenges. But the idea that they somehow have it harder than everyone else is ludicrous.

The issue is not using money. The issue is what's your priority?

But your analogy to government is not equivalent. You are talking about starting a private company.

And why should your vision for society matter more than someone who is less conscious? What if I agree with how government currently allocates wealth? What if you're corrupt? Why do you get to be king? A major function of government collecting taxes is to ensure that someone doesn't do exactly what you are describing. Government is a public entity, owned by no one and run by collectively elected officials with checks and balances.

Even that will only be minimally effective. You're not going to top-down develop the red-states. It doesn't work that way. Grassroots campaigns are only as good as the grassroots participants.

Good luck with that.

No obviously not. I'm just saying it probably won't happen in our lifetime. If I'm wrong, great. But I doubt it. Long-term societal change does not happen on a human-centric timeframe.

That's not how it works. I think there's space for life purpose and conscious people taking some action in the world. But why rationalize power / money seeking? You don't need to save the world.

They don't. Expect that you will probably die without seeing deep change.

@Hardkill Isn't it obvious? People in red states don't hold their elected officials "accountable" because their elected officials already represent their collective level of development. They are getting what they want overall.

@Hardkill good addition. Lots of different factors at play. From what I've read, they were printing too much money for interest rates to really have a positive effect on inflation. Also, their central bank and currency in general were not trustworthy. It will be interesting to see how dollarization works out for them.

@Daniel Balan I don't really see a contradiction here. We already knew that Nazi Germany was a heavily authoritarian regime under state control. Obviously it was not libertarian. I'd say this is also wrong within the context of spiral dynamics. Mysticism is not just found at stage purple. You can easily have mysticism at stage Blue. And of course Blue will treat people as inferior! Their entire perspective is that they have the absolute Truth, therefore all others must be flawed.

Austerity. He's essentially just doing neoliberalism. Nothing new here.

Double-standards. Corruption for me, but not for thee.

People don't seem to grasp that many big corporate CEOs are essentially just employees of the Board and shareholders. They are hired and fired based on performance. If you're not willing to maximize profits for the company, you won't last long.