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Become conscious that they are your own mind. That will humble you a lot.

Companies buying Trump crypto to influence tariff policy: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coins-freight-influence_n_68153967e4b03d516aad99d3

He seems pretty based though: I thought the cardinals might do a hard conservative pivot after Pope Francis, but it appears not. Looks like they are committed to moving the church in a more moderate, but somewhat still liberal direction. Also, he has a BS in mathematics from Villanova and a doctorate. Very interesting guy.

I never remember being able to use the paragraph key for splitting sections. My issue is that I sometimes have problems quoting multiple sections within a single response. It will only let me do one quote, which I have to manually override with copy + paste. This was not an issue for me before.

But they shove it by selling themselves as the solution. That's the opposite of what lefties do. You can't control it a 100%. But you can control it enough to make a difference. You don't need to explicit hate trans. You just need the normalcy part. Normalcy is exactly what most people want. Only progressives don't want normal.

They were still bigots who didn't care about trans-right. And they still don't. And I grew up in a conservative small town too, so I can also play that card. "Minding your business" is not about far left issues. They will care when it's shoved in their face. And even if they didn't care, that also means they will have no issue if trans-rights are taken away. No! The trans hate boner is primary. Right-wing propaganda is secondary. Because of how unpopular trans-rights are. You can frame it that way. Just don't expect it to work.

No, no, no. That frame was NOT normalized. It was normalized for progressives. That is not the same. I think it's wrong, but I also understand most people are freaked out by trans-people. And they do not care about trans-rights.

Yes, but you also need realistic expectations about how effective that is going to be. It is not going to work as well for progressives as it will for right-wing media. Progressives need to strap in for the long-haul. Progressing society is slow business and requires much more than just advancing the status quo. But they almost never understand that and expect society to already be onboard with their agenda. We could say right-wingers understand power better. But really, it's mostly just a function of their lower state of development. Lower stages of development are more power hungry. They also have less ego identification, so they are less concerned with externalities. And in general they value truth less. So overall they are more willing to play dirty. Also, right-wingers are playing into the status quo. So of course they have lots of funding and influence. Wanting progressives to be as good as right-wingers at the game of power is a lost cause. Again, realistic expectations. Progressives need to pick their battles. They do not need to win every issue and always control the frame. They also have to assess whether some policies were ever good policies to begin with, as Leo pointed out.

You are talking about elite, instituitonal, non-partisan media. They may have skewed liberal but barely. And even that didn't last very long. Rush Limbaugh was already coming up in the 80s.

The distance is absolute truth! Imagination becomes reality.

I am the simulator

Simulation is not the right framing. Simulation implies there's a real thing (the simulator) and a fake thing (the simulation). And often the simulation is meant to mimic the reality, but isn't actually it. This is loaded with ontological mistakes. Look around at your experience. This is as real as real gets. There is not another, deeper, "more real" layer of reality.

If God is a simulation, what is doing the simulating?

It is not a simulation at all. It is absolute truth. Don’t fall for Joe Rogan internet theories.

That's too simplistic of a human idea. Reality should not be described by anything mechanical like frame rates.

Frame is a term pulled from psychology. It usually refers to the overall assumptions and perspective one is working from. Are cheeseburgers good or bad? You could frame the answer in many different ways. Don't forget though, these terms are somewhat arbitrary and could be changed if you really wanted. You could say state = having a dog. We are just defining them in a particular way here for the purpose of communication. There is not an objective meaning to any word.

The body is mind because everything is consciousness. But consciousness is more fundamental than having a body. So there is a difference. Yes, respecting the body is important.

You don't need to remember everything. Write down what you want, otherwise I'd just enjoy the insight.

@Adrian colby beautiful descriptions, really well done.

High: moving beyond binaries, construct-awareness, multi-faceted thinking

On a deeper level, it's even more profound than that. Having a "physical" body itself is a state of consciousness. Consciousness does not need a body or to be physical at all.

Propaganda and media manipulation favors the right-wing. Progressives will not win at that game.

Conservative, I'd say no. Moderate, yes.

That part doesn't track. You are not more intelligent than God.

Straight to hell