Basman

I had an epiphany relative to shame. Basically, I realized that shame comes first. It is the cause not the result. I don't experience shame because I don't have the things I want to but I'm ashamed of myself and I feel not good enough so I emotionally can't connect with others in the way that I want. It is like a distorting filter which I notice when I talk to people. I can literally feel it in the back of my mind whenever I talk to people. Yesterday I spoke to my dad conscious of this filter and decided to forego it and I spoke from the heart. Not in a corny sappy way, I just didn't try to game my speech which felt like speaking from the heart. It felt both relieving and elating, like I for the first time truly spoke. It's pretty clear what I need to do now.

They act like Europe is the little brother they are forced to play with.

Trump's groupchat got leaked. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

You can't outsource learning wisedom to an institution because it is a matter of attitude to a large part in my opinion. Formal beurocratic learning is well suited for basic knowledge and skills but less so for more personal and esoteric stuff like learning to understand yourself as a person or relationships, etc. Ideally, you are taught to educate yourself and be curious about the world in addition to just school.

Acting on a creative interest can be very fulfilling. It is something you nurture for years and watch grow into something that expresses your particular brand of love. Act on what excites you and that you are passionate about and turn that into an art, something you hone for it's own sake. That is never futile. Don't get stuck in the stereotype of art being drawing naked people or playing the guitar.

I find this to bring hope. Thank you.

Depends on what I'd think would apply most to my mate's interests but it would probably skew towards something practical. The spiral dynamics, conscious politics and survival series are all great for someone who's interested in politics. The career oriented videos, like "how to escape wage slavery" or "should you go to college" are great too. I feel that you definitely need to sell them unto the content a bit in the process because a multi-hour long video on some niche topic is going to feel like a commitment to an Actualized virgin. I wouldn't hit anyone with the deep shit unless I'm certain they are interested in spirituality. That stuff will instantly flacidify most people and make them call Leo a cult leader.

This is the exact kind of compromise that green parties aren't willing to make. Either we save (insert social issue) today or never, even if technology/culture aren't up to task yet. Green policy tend to make living more expensive which ends up primarily burdening society's poorest, like for example mandating the use of electric cars in inner cities. Or increasing tax on pollution, which customers end up paying via higher prices. Or increasing immigration in spite of social polarization. It's "feel good" politics and categorically minority rule. The Danish green party "Alternativet" published a write-up of all the potential downsides of their policies. It is in Danish so you'll need to use Google translate but it is a great read into how green parties can be politically ineffective. They essentially admit that their policies will be nonviable. I commend them for having the integrity to actually make this. https://alternativet.dk/der-er-et-alternativ/politisk-program-og-nye-ministerier/ulemper-ved-vores-politiske-program

Green parties are too ideologically entrenched and bullheaded to be politically effective in my opinion. They are circlejerks.

In my experience, contemplation is a bit like directing a character in a top down RPG like Path of Exile or Runescape to use a gamer analogy. You don't directly control the character, instead you just direct what they do and then they act. I find contemplation to be kind of similar. The mind will figure things out if you focus and give it space to unfold.

L + ratio + ur bald + pedo logo + didnt ask + dont care + touch grass

Identity politics is easy to grasp. You just latch unto whatever side you resonate most with and go from there. It is crazy how American voters especially seem to be more concerned with identity politics over policy. Even just the appearance of policy.

I mean, Trump is not a permanent fixture. This will be his last term unless he coups the government I guess.

I don't like that it is a thing and I think it is unfair when it does happen but it is not as big of a deal as it tends to be portrayed as. Arguably, it is a symptom of society taking women more serious, as false allegations are nothing new. The problem is that there is no neat solution that I can see at least that also doesn't undermine real rape victims, which by far outnumber the amount of false allegations levied. If there is a viable solution then by all means but don't get all doomer over it, is what I'm saying. We can eat the cost as a society.

I'd like to keep my organs.

It is a tricky situation but there are many things that could ruin your life that are more likely to occur. You are unlikely to be falsely accused of rape in the first place. Counter-intuitively, by stigmatizing false accusations you risk discouraging vulnerable people from reporting real sexual crimes.

the whole debate around seems very similar to gun control, with people either for on the basis of some rationale or vehemently opposed to the point of making it an identity. It's so over the top with people calling themselves pitmommies and stuff and dismissing any concerns of pitbulls being potentially dangerous. What I don't get is the attachment? Why do certain Americans care so much about owning pitbulls of all dogs? Is it just this kind of counter-culture "don't tell me what to do" contrarianism? When some scary looking dog gets banned in a European country nobody complains except very eccentric people.

The main argument I see against ownership of "dangerous dogs" is that you don't need to own a dog that could potentially be dangerous due to its size and power for the same reason that elephants make bad pets. Most pet animals are smaller and weaker than humans for a reason. This is an argument I hardly see addressed by "pitmoms".

You have to put things into proper perspective though. More people are maimed and die in traffic accidents than there are men who's lives are ruined by a false allegation, but no one is saying that society is falling apart because of cars (unless you're Dutch). In a sense, it is a cost we've accepted because cars are that useful to us. False rape accusations only represent 2-10% of all accusations while overall accusations that lead to actual charges are rare. And that is before accounting that sex crime is overall highly under-reported. You could rape someone today and odds are you would get away with it. If you want to end false rape allegations then you have to solve the inherent difficulty of processing sex crime so it is less of a murky he-said-she-said affair. You would have to figure out a way to reliably extract hard evidence of a crime while also protect victims from negative social stipulations for reporting rape. Then it would be a matter of just presenting the evidence. But that is almost an impossible task. I can't find the source where I read that right now. Sorry.

Makes you appreciate Leo being a dick. Never meet your heroes.

Women are more likely to under-report sex-crimes than make false allegations. Legit rape reports hardly lead to any charges let alone false allegations. The majority of false accusations don't even name anyone. Don't blow things out of proportion.

America was founded on the idea of self-betterment. American exceptionalism, which conservatives tend to subscribe to, is all about America as a nation being a heroic endeavor to escape poverty and tyranny. Americans like to see themselves as heroes coupled with this kind of libertarian idea of the frontiersman wrenching success through hardship. That is what they mythologize. Much of their history is framed as heroic, like the revolution or WW2.

Your school teacher hates you.

The vast majority of stalking cases target young women 18-24. That it coincides when a woman is in her reproductive prime is telling.

"You've done DMT right?"