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@Lyubov He is copying what Putin did when he first took power. Here is the logic: 1. Trigger an Economic Crash on Purpose • Use chaotic, unpredictable policies (tariffs, trade wars, regulatory rollbacks) to destabilize markets. • Scare off foreign investors, weaken institutions, and create economic panic. • This forces companies and assets to lose value rapidly. 2. Ensure Only Pre-Selected Insiders Have Liquidity • While regular people panic and suffer, those in Trump’s inner circle hoard cash and prepare. • The average investor can’t move quickly enough to buy the dip. • Mass layoffs, bankruptcies, and financial struggles push desperate companies and people to sell their assets at fire-sale prices. 3. Let the Oligarchs Buy Everything for Pennies on the Dollar • The only people with capital left standing are the pre-approved elites (Musk, Thiel, and other Trump-aligned billionaires). • They buy up distressed assets—media, infrastructure, real estate, corporations—for a fraction of their actual worth. • This further consolidates wealth and power into an even smaller class of elites. 4. Control the System & Never Let the Wealth Flow Back • Once the economy “recovers,” these new monopolies and corporate empires become permanent. • Any regulatory barriers to prevent this type of buyout are removed. • Massive wealth extraction takes place as the middle class and small businesses never fully recover. Also, the back and forth on the tariffs... you better believe trump's team is doing the most disgusting insider trading scam in history.

@Leo Gura ... Bitcoin is uncorrupted? Really? Its value is based purely on speculation, with no underlying asset or stabilizing mechanism. At best, it’s a glorified virtual gambling chip with extreme volatility. • Gold is a physical, scarce asset with real-world utility. • Stocks represent companies that produce tangible goods and services. • The U.S. Dollar is a stable store of value, backed by the strength of U.S. financial institutions and proven trust. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is propped up by FOMO. That is literally it. abstract FOMO speculation. The moment a crisis hits, it will be the first to crash due to its decentralized, unregulated nature and lack of intrinsic value. A true store of value requires either real-world utility or mechanisms to ensure stability—Bitcoin has neither.

@Raze People didn't vote for trump because our education system is inefficient. They voted for him because they don't care about anything other than maximizing their personal financial earnings for the next quarter, shitting on minority groups, and triggering liberals. Let's not intellectualize or validate their profound stupidity and selfishness.

OP, you do not deserve an ounce of fucking empathy, but I personally forgive you for your repentance. Please understand that what you did is a such a profound transgression against the gift of consciousness itself. But also please forgive yourself and do the right thing going forward. and pray on your knees every night that we will still have elections despite you and all the other 49.9% of brain dead americans' cartoonishly idiotic decisions. Guys, please do not try to reason with anyone who voted for trump and is still proud of it. Anyone who was stupid enough and selfish enough to have voted for him after everything that happened is beyond having the cognitive capacity to respond to reason. I am at awe people can watch Leo's content, get enough value from it to be on this forum, and still be so asinine. Shame on all of you. Honestly, it is disrespectful to Leo that y'all are supposed to be students of his. Anyway, we have tried reason with the magats for years. We tried being nice, we tried logic. They don't respond to anything other than bullying and appeals to selfishness and racism and quarterly financial gain. At this point, the best way to handle all the Trump religious zealots is to bully and demean them into submission. That is much more likely to get them to open their eyes than trying to approach them in good faith. They only respect bullies and that is all they will respond to. On some real shit, I wonder what it is going to take for all the Trump dipshits to finally unanimously repent and admit that liberals were 100% right about him since the day he went through that elevator in 2015. I hope I live to see the day when the cartoonish retardation and selfishness of trump and trump supporters are so ubiquitously understood by every member of society that they are literally the butt of school children jokes. That is the only deserved legacy of trump and all his deplorable maggot cock suckers.

Authoritarian governing system and culture is excellent in transitioning from an agricultural based economy to a manufacturing based economy. In terms of making the next step, going from manufacturing based economy to an innovation, consumer-driven economy requires a different value system. and this transition would be necessary in order to seriously compete with the United States as a dominant global power. Following orders, not standing out, submitting to authority, not embracing diversity. they can't compete in innovation. The Chinese can steal tech and make lateral technological improvements on existing American, but they are not built to make the kinds of paradigm shifting vertical tech break throughs with the scale and consistency that America can. They literally can't even access google. The paradigm that accelerated their development will soon set a glass ceiling for their development. it is kinda like islam. What do you think?

Good content and good example of stage yellow shooting from the hip

This channel is textbook yellow. really good tier 2 social, cultural analysis.

I been thinking a lot about the current geopolitical turbulence we've been having. Ukraine War, Israel Palestine war, Houthis cutting off trade, China eying Taiwan... I am concerned for the US regardless of who is going to be president over the next 4 years... but the possibility that Trump wins is kinda stressing me out. Him inheriting our domestic and geopolitical situation... Even if Trump loses, the amount of internal instability in our country from him continuing to spread conspiracy theories that are now precedented as being a part of the mainstream Republican Party platform more or less. But this time, he had 4 years to plan a scenario like this... The fact there's no accountability for him and for all the people in our government and media who validated his explicitly treasonous acts and promoted the lies that led up to it. We are going to eat shit no matter what it feels like. The consequences of either trump winning or trump losing would create so much internal and international instability... The fact I am seeing people still defend him. Like the main people on fox still defend him. It is genuinely disturbing that he can literally do nothing wrong in the eyes of at least 33% of our country. And the more accountability he gets, the more he leverages that to deepen loyalty. "They're only going after me because I'm anti establishment. I'm not a sellout like the fake republicans. look at this double standard-- where's hunter?? They are after me because I'm the only thing stopping your from George Soros poisoning the blood of our country with immigrants"... THEY EAT THAT SHIT UP DUDE. AM I EXPECTING TOO MUCH.... ISN'T THIS COMMON SENSE???? THAT HE IS AN EXTREME CHARLATAN???? and... the stakes are so high on every level right now, domestic and globally. having someone as president whose top priorities are being popular, winning at all costs, being better than everyone else. Having someone who has committed acts of treason against the United States not be held accountable by the government/media and still being able to run for office again. I can't predict the future, but one thing I know is the next 365 are going to be something else... History will be made.

would someone like tony soprano classify or is he just stage red? the distinction between narcissism/sociopathy and stage red are not clear to me…

@Hardkill it’s precisely the degree of state interference itself that is inhibiting them from having the level of democracy and freedom that europe has though.

@Leo Gura Why are you so certain early educational/life exp related to gender identity contributes to an increase in trans people and “gender confusion” but don’t think early educational/life exp related to sexuality contributes to an increase in gay people? i think one’s educational and social environment will always play a role in shaping kids world view, brain circuitry, and even hormonal profile in the long term. Note: I am not against gay or trans people and advocate for their rights and inclusion within society. Just an inconsistency i noticed

Shit is crazy good y'all... especially spiral dynamics analysis, which 3.5 was pretty underwhelming on. Here is an example you guys might like:

@Leo Gura you can have a conservative who has certain stage yellow tendencies. still, i think people i have met in this category tend to have some major green blind spots, which would make it hard to fully characterize them as “stage yellow”. it is a false equivalency to say that trying to map conservativism vs liberalism on spiral dynamics is comparable to trying to map sexuality or personality types to stages. conservativism and liberalism are based in values that do in fact map onto spiral dynamics, with liberal/progressive values mapping higher than conservative values

THIS