Basman

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.

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.