Basman

Islam is written as a rule set for a medieval society. It makes sense to perhaps avoid eating pigs in the middle of a desert where sanitation isn't the greatest. Our survival standards rise, thus much of Islam is outdated as a guide for living.

But people ARE their culture. If you attack any ideology you attack its ideologues by proxy by virtue that your undermining their identity. I think Islamophobia is going to be to certain extent inevitable, with the terrorism of Islamic extremists in the recent past and the backwardness of certain majority Muslim countries. The solution is that people just need to feel that their borders are secure and solid and that their values aren't being compromised. So no honor killings, genital mutilation, burqas, etc. Respect the liberal culture, etc. Basic stuff which are already mostly present to be fair. There was a recent incident in Holland where a Muslim family conspired to and murdered their daughter because she refused to wear a hijab. They are all in prison now but they really should've gotten the death penalty in my opinion. Politically, that would calm some of the fascisation of locals. The trend of the progressive treating the political issue of Muslim integration as if it is not an issue at all backfires as it hurts their credibility and subsequent trust in institutions. Progressives seem very aware of how easily people can develop islamophobia. It's why they covered up the rape scandal in Cologne. It is also probably a big reason why feminists don't really criticize Islam much (in fact, you see a bunch of attempts at whitewashing the concept of hijab for example, to avoid the issue). But then you got to question if there is perhaps is some legitimate cultural incompatibility to a certain extent that needs to be acknowledged. But Muslims do gradually secularize as they grow up in western countries. I've met a bunch of Muslim guys who the only thing they are really pious about is not eating pork. You still see them drink and fuck casually. Getting into combat sports and shit. They are probably less strict on boys though, I imagine.

You couldn't find a less Muslim immigrant either LOL. It's like if Apu from the Simpsons stopped 9/11.

You can litterally sue the government and win in the US. You have nothing compared to that in China.

Most of these guys where apparently gun nuts. They probably wanted to know what it actually felt like to shoot someone.

Scandinavian countries are social democracies. Capitalist but the populace contribute to welfare programs through extensive taxation and the government heavily regulates business. Very liberal in spirit. It's not reformist or revolutionary, like true socialism. Something like the nordic model works in Scandinavia because the culture is compatible. People are not that ambitious, easily content and decently educated. They are bit dogmatic about liberal values as well. You don't tend to see that same fiery ambition there as you see in Americans.

Don't throw pearls at swine.

When you don't have limits on power your hoping that power isn't abused (which it is in the case of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Falung Gong practitioners, human rights activists and political dissidents, both domestically and internationally). The upside of a dictatorship is that you can plan for the long-term without having to worry about elections and pleasing voters. China prepared for the EV boom that way. The downsides of a democracy is that it requires an educated populace to work and that people tend to be quiet depoliticized. But like Elliott mentioned, China has a slew of wealthy liberal democracies as customers, from whose innovations it built itself off. Even the concept of progress is a western invention. Their success didn't happen in a vaccum.

Your wasting your time and energy trying to change the mind of fundamentalists. Your better off keeping your cow worship to yourself. You fucked up by even making it a topic in the first place, because now they are worried their son's a blasphemer.

Ambiguity is their point. It is necessarilly confusing when you deconstruct gender, but then also assert certain ideological conclusions politically.

Watching Tiktok instead of longer more substantive videos.

Gaming instead of developing an interesting life. Oof 😬😬

People on social media largely only read the headlines of articles.

Your Spotify is missing all of the latest episodes since 8 unique proofs of god, circa July. Spotify is way better for podcasts in my opinion and my preferred way to listen to your stuff and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Not to sound like I'm trying to put pressure on you. Just a gentle little prod

Did you just forget or something?

The point is to stick to facts. Not exaggerations and half-truths, like for example a plant-based diet being healthier can be linked to several factors, like eating less junk and being more health conscious in general. It would be dishonest then to claim that a plant-based diet is always more healthy, bar none, as you then create a false image that meat is inherently unhealthy, which is untrue. Playing fast and loose with the truth is how you end making people disgusted with your cause philosophically. Vegans are stuck in a culture of ideological purity, which makes them narrow minded and unwilling to compromise. If vegans where more willing to compromise, like advocating for less meat as opposed to no meat politically, you'd probably gain more trust and have better results. This is simple stuff.

Cooking. There's so many food products and services who's selling point is convenience. When I worked as food delivery you would always have regulars who'd order all the time. They must have been on benefits.

Dan Bilzerian should really just been bold about the fact that he is a trust-fund baby as opposed to insecure and construct this whole lie about how he is some badass ex-navy seal poker player #self-made. Just like, "yeah I'm a trust fund baby, you mad bro?" and just live it up on Instragram.

Dan Bilzerian specifically is fighting an uphill battle against irrelevancy. It's such an obvious and desperate ploy.

It is a fact that meat is easier to digest with better bioavailability for nutrients. Meat is sort of preprocessed plant matter if you think about. Just look at the digestive tract of herbivores VS carnivores, or the fact that we as humans can only digest a fraction of plants that exist, and they are only as nutritious as they are after generations of selective breeding. See, this is what I mean by the greed of vegans ideologically. They have no issue just making up shit. If you can't be trusted to stick to facts how can you be trusted to know anything about health?

The solution to people not being vegan is canibalism.

It's an attention grab, just like when Kanye West announced he was running for president (incidentally, right before an album drop). Untill I see some genuine campaigning i'm not taking these celebrities "running for president" serious.

Care to elaborate on your experience, if you don't mind. I'm curious what it looks like myself.

Here it is. It wasn't a day dream.

Apparently Teal tends talks to her phone softly like it's a pet because she thinks that if you don't treat technology nicely it won't learn to be nice "energetically" in the future and will instrumentalize and abuse humans, mirroring our current behavior. It's some kind of future skynet prediction. She apologizes to her phone when she accidentally drops it. It's super funny Teal Swan might be a good way to test you epistemic skills like that LOL.