Basman

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  1. I'm honestly quiet indifferent to GTA. I'm not really into these cinematic games. They are way too self-important and focused on cutscenes and graphics as opposed to fun gameplay and a novel art style. A good game doesn't need cutting edge realistic graphics to be a timeless classic. In fact, I find the emphasis on realism to be creatively boring.
  2. Nobody hates the US more than liberal Americans.
  3. God's command still applies since we are still "post-fall". Veganism would be disobeying god and therefor haram.
  4. I'm currently redoing it. Fell off kind of the first time. Felt like I rushed things a bit back then. Actually, I think I've done parts of it twice before. My current iteration has been the most clarifying, though I think I already kind of know the final answer. It still feels good to figure out the minutia of one's values, strengths, etc.
  5. This sounds like a delusion to be honest. Your creating a bogeyman out of government. Suicide among men is more correlated to macroeconomics than direct policy. It's largely a money issue in my opinion. Men are also worse at giving and recieving emotional support.
  6. Technically, the issue isn't that humans are "destroying" nature but that it's changing too fast for many species to keep up. The only law of nature is adaptability. Human domination is an expression of nature.
  7. How does the government cripple men?
  8. Welfare solutions to a certain extend subsidize for an individualized society. Tight knit communities combine resources effectively which can supplant the need for government allocated resources up to a certain degree. It's through tight knit communities that humans survive in the absence of a government authority. Our thinking relative to collective survival is highly individualized, though there exists alternatives. Individualism doesn't seem perfectly suistanable to me.
  9. It's more aboug leverage than guarantee in my opinion. Social services like subsidiced health care, education, etc. gives people more autonomy. Some kind of UBI can also contribute to this, but it doesn't need to guarantee a comfortable life. If you can afford to live inside of a closet on just UBI, then that's sufficient in my opinion.
  10. They don't report when people jump infront of trains because it could inspire copycats. It's all not really newsworthy most of the time. Male virgin loser kills himself. Ok and? Not unusual.
  11. A part of why criminal sex is conducted among elite circles is so it can be secretly recorded and be used as blackmail. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a video in some harddrive somewhere of Trump having sex with a minor at a sex party. Maybe why Trump is so beholdent to Israel, among other reasons. Epstein could've used his sex trafficking ring to gain blackmail material on all kinds of people for Mossad. It was an asset. I believe P. Diddy had a huge amount of secret cameras in his mansion for similair reasons. It's also because you can. You can get used to indulging certain kinds of fetishes even though you know it's hurting people, but you still do it because it makes you 10x harder and it's all you can fantasize about. Epstein is smart enough to know what he is doing is hurting people. He might even once have been both disturbed and aroused by it at the same time but eventually got used to it, and was (for the most part) too powerful to not get away with it. When your free from consequences, your free to not care. This is true for everyone, like common folk throwing trash into bushes.
  12. It's probably easier to become wealthy if you don't value truth to a maximalist degree. You need truth to create a lot of value and know how to manipulate systems, but being open to creating falsehoods gives you more options.
  13. Great thread idea. A Boy And His Dog An old ass post-apocalyptic movie about a lone survivor and his dog who he can communicate telephatically with. The main character goes on a quest to get laid, as women are really rare in this world. Pretty weird with some funny surprises.
  14. Conflict is a consequence of finitude and human beings are finite creatures, thus conflict. Conflict will continue as long as survival is a factor. As we evolve, we find more effective ways of survival that are less and less violent. Business for example is just a civilized and formal version of pillaging.
  15. Even dictators needs to legitimize their power or there will be anarchy. Kings are divine represntatives of god, etc. Democracies legitimize power through votes. Democracies are also characterized by checks and balances of power, most promptly term limits. Trump is an authoritarian but he can't do whatever he wants currently. I see comments like these as a symptom of technocratic alienation. Common people can't make sense of it, and seemingly the government doesn't take people's genuine concerns seriously. For example, the threat of Russias hybrid warfare in Europe is making the government look ineffective, the long-term goal of which is to make future governments more ideologically aligned with Russia through a populace that increasingly prefer a more authoritarian style of government for said reasons. Immigration is another case of alienation. People feel insecure when they feel that their borders are too soft. The issue that progressive tend to have is that they treat political and moral issues as if they are not issues but a given. It's inherently culturally elitist, which also upset people.
  16. I'd be more worried about social repurcussions than anything. In of itself I don't thinks its a big deal. But I'm extraordinarilly open minded compared to most. I've met a guy who was so hairy and muscular that you wouldn't think he was 23. But his energy tells me that he genuinely still get excited over something like Fortnite. As you got older, your tastes refine and your driven by more complex motivations. You settle more into the mundanity of reality. You also look up less to people. Like, if I yelled at this guy he would probably be genuinely hurt despite being bigger than me, whereas someone like you would probably just be confused. You wouldn't internalize how other people treat you.
  17. Progressive politics are complicated and require education to understand, let alone appreciate. They look cuckish and foolish to conservative minds, like giving free housing to asylum seekers. The often felt but rarely fully understood grievances like economic exclusion or untethering from communal bonds are complicated and not at all obvious and part of certain greater trends that have been going on for decades now.
  18. You're very particular. Physically your going to be attracted to any kind of fertillity. You don't jerk off to people's minds. It's also cultural to consider 18 as a kind of child in the broad sense. In the the past you'de be considered an adult much sooner. As survival requires more and more specialization, our perception of what is considered adult has become older I believe. In the past you could substantially and meaningfully contribute to survival at a younger age and where then considered adult, like in a hunter-gatherer society or a medieval farm.
  19. I believe Trump had to kick him out of his parties because he was hitting on the daughter of one of Trump's rich friends, making him look bad.
  20. I've heard that as a European, you could temporally move to the US for work and make a lot more more money than you would locally, pay less taxes, etc. What are some recommended places for experiencing America, ignoring job opportunities for a bit?
  21. Uncompromising vision, for sure. That kind of persistence is rare.
  22. Epstein is the CEO of networking. He has a little black book full of contact details of all kinds of people. He was very good at connecting with people, which was probably his bread and butter. He would feign expertise by knowing a lot of general stuff, then switch topics before people realized that he isn't that knowledgable. From what I've seen he likely worked for Mossad as an intelligence asset.
  23. *weight when you see how much storage space this fucker is going to pilfer. Its going to make your eyes water. I'm calling it now, people are going to complain about the file size, with a subsequent backlash of people going "shut up, it's GTA!"