Daniel Balan

Rebellion and revolt. I wanted to revolt against the herds. That's why I cut all the people from my life. They are all so conformist and obedient to religon, culture, traditions. I abhor religion, I abhor everthing the herd stands for. I choose the opposite as a middle finger that I showed to a stage blue herd that I deeply abhored.

Hi @Leo Gura, a while back you said that you will shoot a video on the topic : How to think? How to think independently. I am so in need of that video, is it coming anytime soon? Or you scratched that idea?

Outstanding analysis. I understood that like 2 years ago and from that moment forward, I decided I will to the opposite the herd around me was doing. The herd believed tha covid was a hoax? I believed it was really dangerous. The herd voted far right? I voted liberal. The herd is pro Russian in the Ukraine war? I am pro Ukraine. The herd is all in on Crypto? I will never invest a dollar in crypto Etc This might be a way too simplistic way to interpret reality, but as far as I am concerned, doing exactly the opposite of what the herd is doing saved me from being scammed and fooled by evil actors.

It is also the content the consume on their phone on a daily basis. If all the extremist right wing propaganda would disappear off the internet, after a month no one would be a MAGA or a authoritarian regime advocate any longer. Malicious actors are poisoning the informational ecosystem that is the internet deliberately. Right now, consuming stuff from the internet is the same as swimming naked in a swamp full of giant crocodiles. They will eat your mind if you are not careful. The same way people check if their food isn't poisonous, they should also do the same in regards to the information they put in their brain when they access their phone.

I agree 100% with you! But why do you say that stage orange doesn't care about culture and traditions in the slightest? I don't care about culture or traditions or anything related to that, in fact I abhor culture and traditions of any kind, I view myself as citizen of the earth, I couldn't give a damn about the social construct that a country represents. I don't believe I'm yet at stage orange, I view myself at a red'ish stage blue yet.

The false equivalence is through the roof here. I'll give myself as an example. When I was 16, my country had been in the European Union for only 9 years, things for the most part were the same as when this country was a dictatorship, although the dictator was gone, the old ways of doing business and how little government cared about its citizens was still in place. When I was 16 I got beaten and robbed for all my money (like 30 dollars) then I went to the police and police started laughing when they heard my story, I filed a complaint but I never got any news from it and the robber escaped scot free. I started working construction and other blue collar jobs when I was 16, there were no work protection, no hard hats required, no minimum wage, no worker protection no nothing. The work days were literally from dawn till dusk. As long as there was even a sliver of light outside, we had to work. This meant working from 6 AM to 10 PM during summer when days are long. Once I needed desperately money, I worked for 3 months and the boss didn't pay me one dime, even to this day. I couldn't quit because the first month passed and I hoped that he would fulfill his promise and give me the money he owed for my work, I did that until 3 months passed and I couldn't bear any longer the situation and I accepted that I was robbed of 3 months of my income and I left. Fast forward 2025 the things that happened to me in my teenage years no longer can happen today. Recently someone stole a phone from someone, in a couple of days the thief was cought, the phone retrieved and the case was solved. 10 years ago the thief and the police shared some commissions between themselves once the stolen phone was further re-sold. Now if you are a boss and you fail to pay your workers, the government takes your house and puts it on auction. If you are caught that you don't employ your emplyees with legal contracts, you face serious repercussions. If you slap someone in the face, you could go to jail. Back then police slaped you once more if you came to them to bother them with such silly problems. All these improvements happened only after integration with the west. In Russia, China and all the countries that oppose the west, every thing that happened to me in my teens happens all the time today. The west has problems, but the nobody in Madrid will be protected and cherished by the government, he will get his 1200€ no matter what. No one can exploit him. But on the other hand the poor soul in Manchuria or the poor soul in Omsk will only get the paycheck he deserves after grueling work only if the boss is in a good enough mood. I lived on my own skin what West vs Non-west means, only the ones that used to exploit me, are longing for the days when we were under a dictatorship, or without dictatorship but not yet alligned with the west.

The irony is that I view myself actually more to the left than the right, a centrist liberal I'd define myself. But I will admit, when it comes to policing and safety, I am dictatorial, fascist and totally extremist in my views. I have no problems with people that have a different color than mine, I treat everyone with respect, but as soon as someone, regarless whether he is a local or immigrant, commits a violent crime, I believe that punishment should be as severe to the extent of the crime commited. Basically an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Leftists will say "yea but until the whole world goes blind" this is bullshit, if someone commited a pre meditated murder of somebody, in my eyes that someone's right to live has expired. That murderer must be annihilated. It is all fun and games until somebody kills you or somebody you hold dear, then all the leftist ideals of "caring for the feelings of murderers", fly out the window. I don't care what anybody thinks of what I said here, in my eyes society should punish with the utmost force and determination any acts of violence. And regarding to immigrants, I have no problem with them, hell, they could ever replace the natives almost totally, I have no problem with them as long as they are not violent. If you are a muslim or a black person that behaves civil and respectful I'd always be more of a friend to you than a white local countryman of mine that is a violent thug.

Look, no one says that a dictatorship can't be a prosperous country, oftentimes a dictatorship can even overpower a liberal democracy in terms of industrial production like how China is doing now. However, the individual is squashed, it's soul is ripped off his body, he is only a cow to be milked to death of its labour force and when the cow dies, it gets thrown away and replaced as if it was nothing. You have to understand that in a dictatorship human life is no more precious than cattle life. Cattle is useful for food, humans are useful to be worked to death. Although this approach can make the oligarchs that own the country and the country itself extremely rich, the nobody in Manchuria who works 12 hours a day non stop, is solely living to work, that's it. There is no difference between a caged hen that is forced to lay eggs non stop and a human that lives in a dictatorship. That's why liberal democracy is the best system on earth and it is in dictatorships interest to make sure they dismantle all democracies so that once they are dismantled, those democracies will no longer be able to project indirect or dirrect influence onto the dictatorship. China would love to have all of Europe under Putin like dictatorships, this means Europe will be more of a ideological vassal to China rather than a staunch competitor.

What you quoted is what I would do to even the natives of a country if I'd be a dictator. I'd deport to Antarctica anyone who ever commits violent crimes. And for those who do murder, I'd propose to hang those in broad daylight at a bridge. No one should pay taxes to feed criminals and murders. If you took someone's life with full intention and will, the person who does this must be unalived ASAP. I think no one would DARE to behave like a devil ever again if my vision would be implemented.

You fail to appreciate how much hatred dictatorships have towards liberal democracies. That's the whole reason for the Ukraine war. It wasn't the bullshit the Russian stooges tell you, it wasn't about NATO enlargement and security threats. It was all about Ukraine not becoming a liberal democracy. If the people of Russia saw that Ukraine becomes successful and prosperous while being a liberal democracy, the Russians would have demanded the same type of governance framework at home, thus this meant the entire mafia state that is currently enslaving the Russian masses with an iron fist would have lost the ability to rule supremely over the slaves. In a way this is your American civil war, Ukraine is the union that wants to abolish the notion that the whole population must be at the whims of the oligarcs and Russia is the confederacy that is willing to sacrifice everything in order to keep exploiting the masses without any regulation. A liberal democracy nullifies the ability to transform your citizenry into cattle that you abuse and milk dry of every ounce of workforce. That's precisely what Russia and China are doing to their citizens and thus, they want to make sure that no liberal democracy can ever influence the way they are currently doing their exploiting of the masses.

The response to this question requires a lot of nuance and we shall avoid over simplification. In my eyes, stage blue's approach is very narrow-minded, they don't hate migrants for being violent, they hate them for diluting their culture. Stage blue is also viciously violent and the people from their in-group commit murder and rape among their own people, so blue is more concerned about the loss of traditions and culture rather than violence. My personal stance on immigration is that we shouldn't shy away from allowing immigrants, but I'd only allow immigrants that have a squeaky clean criminal record, that have job expertise, that are coming legally etc. But as soon as one immigrant commits any kind of violent crime, even if he steals money from someone's pocket, that person should get kicked forever out of the country together with his family. Also I wouldn't allow too many of them because at some point they start to form big communities that clash with the locals. For example if a country has 20 million people, I'd never allow more than 2 million of immigrants. Also I'd never take refugees, those only wreck havoc and destroy societies. Only skilled workers and squeaky clean criminal record people and only in moderation.

I think that @BlueOak is right. China and Russia are doing their damnest to end democracies in the west. Otherwise how do you explain the mammoth amount of right wing propaganda that sprout out of the blue in late 2020? How come in African countries there isn't this utter madness right wing propaganda displayed non stop as it is the case when it comes to westerners phones? Why it isn't the case for countries in South America that have much worse economies than countries in Europe or The USA? Here in Europe we are living in the most spoiled conditions on earth, yet far right extremist movements are off the charts, how come? Why it isn't a similar strength left wing progressive movement? After all only progressive policies can help revigorate the middle class. Right wing populism will only deepen those inequalities as the newly made oligarcs will exploit the masses like never before.

Honestly I'm not that educated on self deception. What you are asking me is something that I personally have no idea. That is something I actually struggle a lot, I am not being able to distinguish wheter I am truthful or I am self deceived. Also I am not able to tell whether I'm fully self deceived or just moderately or just a little bit. Your question is something I am contemplating on a hourly basis almost, but thus far, I am unable to decipher whether I am correct or the degrees to which I am self deceived, but I am good at recognizing in myself self deception, but I'm not yet capable to see when I am not self deceived

The devil outsmarts you precisely in the moment you think that you have outsmarted him.

For example when you strongly believe that something is totally true, when you are the most certain of your beliefs, that is when you could actually be self deceived. You should always operate under the assumption that you could be self deceived, regardless of what life endeavour you might deal at hand.

The best cure for self deception is to acknowledge that you are already self deceived this very moment. Is to constantly acknowledge that you could be self deceived in this very moment. To acknowledge that everything you pretend to know, all of your beliefs, all your opinions are the result of self deception. Acknowledge that you are constantly self deceived. The moment you think you are not self deceived, it is the moment you are the most self deceived.

Yea, In my eyes trying to be overtly masculine and trying to display to the world how masculine you are makes you look like a clown TBH. Only women want to overtly expose their make-up and Prada purse. Trying to look "Masculine", to display to the world how masculine you are makes a man look cringe. Real men are "masculine" by taking care of their family and behaving decently in society, not by quoting from Makiavelli or speaking "Toughly" or "Manly" on podcasts.

I hate the words masculine and powerful. You shouldn't try to be a "Man", you should try to be a person that is capable to handle survival and be decisive. Also a person that respects himself and doesn't allow himself to be a pushover. If you let go of all control life will transform you in a pushover homeless. I cringe whenever someone uses the word masculine. I'm actually a very feminine man, I sometimes cry when I feel sad or I express my insecurities and fears to my girlfriend without regret. HOWEVER, when it is time to do something, to be decisive about something I am dictatorial about my life. I control tyranically everything that has to with my personal survival. I won't control what friends my girlfriend has or what she wears, but I will control the face of somebody than wants to harm her. I won't be this passive hippie if someone wants to rob me or my girl. I will control that MF's teeth.

I live by this principle: I am as dictatorial, as ruthless as possible when it comes about controlling my life and what I do with my time. But on the other hand I am as liberal, as non-controlling when it comes to others. I'm not gonna tell my friends, my family, my girlfriend what to do with their life, I'm as non-intrusive as possible. But when it comes to my life, I am grabbing the bull by the horns big time, I'm almost tyrannical.

If you let go total control of your life you become homeless. Your girlfriend/boyfriend sees that you don't care about anything and leaves you for somebody else, your car drives of the road, your house gets infested by rats and bugs etc. By all means assert more control over your life, be as dictatorial as possible with your life. Being a weak leaf being blown by the wind means you end up in disastrous life situations.

Random insights Stop being a sheep. Be unique, start doing things that you percieve to be the best. Stop copying others. Stop looking at what the best individuals in a particular field do, do what you think is the best in that field, don't be a sheep to copy what the best players do. Become the best by yourself without being a mindless sheep copying some authority figure or successful individual.

From this day forth, this will be my blog. Come read it once in a while! My mind is a temple of darkness and evil. I will share here all the insights that such a vile mind can possess. May darkness live on!

He is just a stage blue propagandist. Engaging seriously with such characters is already a mistake. Thinking Tucker is an intellectual honest actor is already a mistake. Tucker is just a right wing propagandist. He should be taken as such. There is nothing serious, or intellectually honest about him. His job is to spread hatred towards liberals, to push right wing naratives without any qualms or shame and to shape the minds of American citizens along the right wing conservative agenda. His life purpose is to destroy stage green.

Lonely Lonely - Tune I love Russian music so much! I don't understand a word, but in a way I feel like I understand the meaning behind the words even though I don't know the language at all.

That's why people in Russia and other places want dictatorships as opposed to literal democracies. In the 90's after the collapse of the USSR, after Russia become a flawed kind of democracy many people didn't have a job, during the soviet era everyone had a job but once the dictatorship collapsed, once the state planned economy disappeared many people were left jobless. But then Putin came, he transformed the Russian society in such a way that most of the people had work again, although they are paid only to have food and a roof over their head, but they have work, in the chaos that ensued the collapse of the USSR no one grabbed the bull by it's horns, everyone was fighting for himself to have money to buy at least food, but then Putin grabbed the bull by the horns and stabilised the chaos. This answers also to people who wonder why people want dictatorships, that is precisely why.