Joel3102

In general, ideological socialists have a poor understanding (or desire to understand) economics, finance or how capital markets work.

Capitalism definitely has it's issues, but people shouldn't discuss these things in a vacuum in such a moralistic fashion, what are the alternatives? I'm yet to hear a convincing case for socialism rather over a well regulated social democracy.

Lol, I literally think most wars and striving by men throughout all of history is to have access to the hottest women. It's that strong a motivator. Imagine a world where the nicest guys were rewarded with the most sex....

Lol I forgot about that. But everybody except the fringe fucking hates her in Australia. That’d be a good example for the stage blue mega thread

In Australia the US is generally considered right

I consider myself a fairly empathetic person, and it can be a burden sometimes. Like you have to stop yourself from getting super sad or feeling sympathy to the point where it hurts for other people who have misfortune.

I agree 100% that nothing Obama did compared to the Iraq invasion, which was primarily a Republican led neoconservative effort. But why did 58% of Senate Democrats vote for the invasion. Maybe some drones and foreign interventions are necessary for world order. I’ve somewhat moderated my view from full blown non-interventionism. I’m agnostic on how much the US should do overseas. But the truth lies somewhere in between invasions like Iraq and isolationism.

I agree. The Rs are 100% worse than Ds on policy, but doesn’t give Ds a free pass when they do bad stuff.

@Leo Gura Obama did 10x more drone strikes than Bush. Biden also voted for the Iraq war. Why can’t we call out both sides?

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He’s technically not a baby boomer, he’s part of the silent generation

@Leo Gura Safe bet by the seems of it

Green is usually against retributive justice, unless it comes to right wingers

Yikes that’s kinda insane if even he isn’t that great. He’s done it non stop for like 20 years...

The guys from Charisma on Command run a great podcast and just name dropped @Leo Gura at 1:26:50 when metaphysics came up. Imo it’s a fairly stage yellow show, especially Charlie (who has also talked about Ramana Maharishi). Perhaps Leo would be a good guest

@The Lucid Dreamer Agreed, he exhibits a large degree of nuance and open mindedness. Not to mention he’s very charismatic (duh)

Whilst he should have been convicted, this might work out well for the Democrats. If Trump runs as a third party he'll split the right vote, which would be great

@Strangeloop Have you fantasised and obsessed about fucking attractive girls that you come by? If not, I’d say you’re gay, or maybe even asexual? The desire to screw women is strong, my sense is you’d know if you had it

That question could apply to every trait. “Why doesn’t every girl have big boobs then”, “why isn’t every a genius” etc. people exist relative to a spectrum of what is advantageous for survival. I’d agree that it’s not actually extroversion or introversion itself that makes someone more or less attractive. You can be a super grounded confident introvert, or you could be a goofy extrovert that no one takes seriously. However, in practice extroverts get laid more because it lends itself over putting yourself in optimal situations more. IMO, if you’re truly a natural introvert, don’t try and become “the life of the party” guy if it’s not actually you. Just work on being super confident when you are in social situations

I watched this whole thing, complete shitshow. it wasn’t really a socialism vs capitalism debate. It was more a debate about the nuances of what standard you should hold your personal actions in the real world in relation to your socialist ideals. Interestingly, even Vaush doesn’t believe it’s wrong as a socialist to employ workers or be a landlord

I subscribed to Sam Harris just to check out the Jim Newman episode...

@Air that is an interesting point. Sam’s position is that we don’t know whether idealism or materialism is true

Jesus, Sam Harris and Jim Newman is a crossover I expected even less. How do they even have a comprehensible conversation, they’re from different universes

What the fuck! That is a crossover I never expected