Basman

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.

Putin is part of a current wave of political authoritarianism, which Trump is also an expression of. Russia has been way more conducive to authoritarianism through Putin due to it's particular cultural and historical trends, which is why it stands out. Putin doesn't want to integrate with the West. Russia culturally isn't even sure if it's "European". His goal currently is to maintain power and protect his life from a violent upheaval, like what happened with Qaddafi. Integrating with the West would long-term mean checks on power, which is a big reason why Putin seeks political control over Ukraine, a country very closely linked to Russia historically and culturally which is democratizing and integrating with the west. A threat to Putin's position and eventual life. Currently Russia would only integrate with the West if Putin somehow could undermine it from within, but he doesn't seem interested in doing that.

Because its woke technocratic big government. MAGA hates the EU ideologically. Authoritarians hate checks on power. Not because they are planning to conquer Europe necessary. It's laughable to think that Russia can take on a head on war with Europe. If it could it would already done so, instead of bothering with all this hybrid warfare. A head on war is the last thing Russia wants.

This is a pretty deep insight I learned from Teal Swan which I had forgotten that I learned from her. It's pretty fundamental to understanding the female experience actually. There's another of how sexual fetishes reflect latent desires for particular emotional experiences, like needing to feel in control or vice versa, which seems true to me following my own contemplation of the topic. She can be extraordinarily insightful into relationship dynamics, though I find I need to verify her ideas more than I would from others because she doesn't qualify her statements much. I'm a little cautious of her epistemically too with all the new age babble and the weird rumors that surround her.

People on this forum can be quiet close minded when they really want to.

It should be pretty obvious that European countries have their own agency. The US and Russia even less have that ability to dictate European sovereignty like it's the 1940s. Russia can't even take a small country like Ukraine after hundreds of thousands of deaths and three years of continuous war. A mistake I often see when people analyze the Ukraine war is discounting the agency of Ukraine and other European countries and acting like big countries like the US, Russia and China are the only players on the field. Treating geopolitics as a cause and effect of the whims of big countries, which is partially true, but reductive if treated as the whole and only picture when it is not.

Healthy conservatism is necessary for a healthy society because it keeps it based in reality. Like budgeting against deficit spending, maintaining the border by kicking out illegal migrants, being sufficiently harsh on crime and promoting healthy gender roles that the populace wants (shocker, but most people want to be men and women). The current American conservative base is overrun by lunatics and authoritarians. It's a shitshow. But using the current sad state of American politics to argue for some knee jerk reaction against capitalism is equally ridiculous.

It is correct that Trump and Putin are ideologically allies.

I doubt very much that the goal is to physically split Europe. They can't realistically do that. More likely, they seek to promulgate governments in Europe that are ideologically aligned with the Kremlin, IE. authoritarian. More AFDs, Trumps, Nigel Farages, etc. Undermine the EU and NATO as much as possible. Soviet nostalgia is being used as propaganda to justify the war, but it is really about political control for the sake of regime security. Putin isn't actually a communist. He's only interested in the part where Russia was "once great". Putin personally is in "self-defense" mode and sees Ukrainian sovereignty as a threat. The goal is political control, which is why it is not necessarily necessary to be physically at war with Ukraine if it sufficiently undermines Ukraine's sovereignty (Russia would agree to a peace deal if the outcome is worse for Ukraine politically than continued war for example). You see this with the hybrid warfare against Europe. The goal is to promulgate governments that are conducive to Russian influence.

Right, because I'm sychophant who constantly just makes up shit and can't be trusted to tell the truth. It must be mirroring my undiagnosed schizophrenia.

Apparently, your more likely to get hired if you use AI to help write your resume. Probably because all the HR monkeys themselves use AI to sort through applications.

Having a small penis was idealized in Ancient Greece. They where seen as more civilized. Alexander the Great had a small penis.

They are both dead so I'm not sure how they would accomplish that.

Pig head liberalism is completely scrapping a framework because it didn't work for a fraction of the population and replacing it with something that doesn't work for anyone. Rejecting healthy conservatism because you hate your boomer parents. Like how they want to completely get rid of capitalism somehow because certain aspects work poorly, as opposed to just improving those aspects. The "alternatives" that progressives come up with are damaging and dangerous. You can see it with all this incels that shoot up schools and vote AFD because they can't get a girlfriend. It's a societal failure. Likewise with the US risking losing it's democracy to goons like Trump. Progressives need to take responsibility for how they contribute to societal degradation due to how they prioritize ideological purity over reality.

Male disenfranchisement is one of factors that lead to democratic decline and authoritarianism. Historically, societies used to provide a different frameworks for developing men. Such as largely fallen to the way side. I had a phase where I looked up a lot to older men as a young adult, an instinctual way of looking to grow myself. Past societies would've had some frameworks ingrained into the culture for developing men since they appreciated the need to turn boys into men. You get minimal if any guidance growing up from our culture. It's a shame and an example of a lack of healthy conservatism. I don't think girls receive much guidance either, which also isn't good.