Tim R

True! But again, the point is to make sure that no one like Hitler raises to power in the first place. How do you think (almost) every war is justified, hm? Everybody thinks "THEY are the bad guys, WE, the GOOD GUYS must FIGHT THEM!" And that's just pure f*cking ignorance. "Fighting wars for peace" you see the irony? Nah don't worry about that, I was born in Sibiria, Russia in the 90s and my parents lived during bad, bad times under communism, too. They told me some scary stories about what they had to deal with during and after the collapse of the soviet union. That's why we left the country. You sound a lot like someone who listens to Jordan Peterson? Not that there's anything wrong with that, just be careful not to let him hypnotize you with his horror stories.

@The Don Dude, the world doesn't become a safe place by spending a shitload of money on weapons - it becomes a safer place by making sure that there won't be any reason to buy weapons in the first place.

Seems like Leo was right

Are there things Trump could go to prison for when Biden becomes president?

Question: why does the US still have such an undemocratic election system? The majority of voters could still lose, this is so ridiculous?

What stage do you think Vladimir Putin is at? Since there's so much to consider with him, I kinda have a hard time estimating his level of development... Your thoughts?

@lewis-j Nice. It comes out of the blue, no introduction, no lead up, no nothing, it just kicks in your front door and suddenly you're there, realizing that you were there all the time

Can somebody please explain to me how exactly Trump wanted to justify to stop the voting? "We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 am in the morning." What?!

This has gotta be some of the most undemocratic shit I've ever heard a western politician say...

Exactly.

@Leo Gura Why do you keep insulting people? Since I started checking out the forum and your new video a couple of minutes ago I read two new cases of you insulting people. 1. Somewhere in the comment section of your new video about science, 2. in the thread about the presidential debate you said you'd gladly pay a shit load of money to get rid of dumb people Not no mention the other times you call people dumb straight to their face (and even dumbest, like in the conspiracy video). This is not okay, at all. I politely ask you to stop doing this. You know how many good reasons everyone who backs this up has.

Mental health is a relative notion and adjusts/orients itself according to the psychological condition of the majority of the population. What happens, when we discover the relative nature of "healthy" vs "unhealthy"? How will this affect society? What happens when we find out that the "unreality" of the hallucinations of a person with a "schizophrenic disorder" is just as real as anything else? Will we still arbitrarily classify certain behaviors and perspectives as "mental disorders"? Who gets to decide? @Leo Gura Will you make a video on this issue? I think it's really important because it already peaks its head out here and there... The rest of this giant socio-psychological iceberg still lurks in the murky waters of our naive scientific, materialistic absolutism about reality, but it will flip, and I think it will happen more rapidly than we can handle.

Yes, uh.. Is Rudolph part of the Amanita muscaria shamanism? Did Santa drink Rudolph's pee to get high?

What about cuckoos? Cuckoo babies are parasites but they grow up and once they leave the nest, they aren't parasites anymore.

@Origins You said that which is simply not true. That was my only point

It's the other way round

Yes, I've also experienced that. The visual distortions make it difficult sometimes. On the other hand, I sometimes get "visuals" with closed eyes, but it's way more pleasant - my head sometimes fills itself with white light. Haven't figured out what that might be but it's kinda nice.

@Leo Gura Thank you so, so much!! Now I can take you everywhere with me <3

No they're not. Babies are, unlike parasites, part of the mother, during pregnancy they are literally the same organism (and yes you could go "oh but aren't all organisms basically the same organism, where's the boundary? It's only concepts!" or whatever, but in that case you wouldn't have to declare anything as a parasite in the first place), whereas a parasite is a foreign organism which feeds off some other organism, either from within the body like worms or from the outside, like that fish in the picture Leo posted above. A baby is not a foreign organism. Even when he baby is born, it doesn't feed off the mother like a parasite, because parasitism is a one-way relationship, only the parasite gets something out of it. A baby is part of the mother's strategy, so it's more like symbiosis.

Is this actually a conceivable possibility? I think I read about him in the forum being a possible candidate but I really thought it was a joke? Because... if it actually were to come down to Kanye or Carlson as the final candidate for the republicans, you guys are properly f'd.

I pray for America and the rest of the world that Trump was just a glitch in the history of the US. “If history teaches us one thing, it is that history teaches us nothing.” - Peter Ustinov I sure hope he's wrong this time. Just imagine, maybe Trump was just a foretaste of what is yet to come?... Who knows, with a country as deeply split in so many regards as the US?

The best and most difficult) way is to try to unite both intention and interpretation. Have a good intention and try to get it across in consideration of the way your collocutor might interpret it.

What do you think reality is?

@Shin Wouldn't go that far tho