Joel3102

He has stated recently he’s distancing himself more and more from the streamer dramas. His main arc at the moment is focusing on empathising with opposing views and actually hearing them out to better have a chance of moving them over. He definitely has a lot of yellow. There’s basically no other big YT channel in politics I’m interested in watching, it’s all just predictable dogma from either side

Sometimes I feel he’s intentionally extreme and vague with his answers just to fuck with us

@Leo Gura Just cause it’s imaginary doesn’t mean this particular dream won’t come to an end. It’s still pretty scary not knowing what the hell is next unless you’re at superhuman levels of consciousness

I think enlightenment means an actual stabilised state of no self/oneness that you’ve permanently realised (yes I know technically it’s not permanent)

Destiny is undeniably tier 2 at this point, whether he realises it or not

I’m about halfway through season 2 and gearing up for the depression that will hit from the fact that it was cancelled because people couldn’t appreciate quality TV

https://youtu.be/txgWzvZtVXA

Yeah I almost felt bad for the guy

@Leo Gura I just finished season 1, it’s pretty damn phenomenal to be honest. Would be cool if you did a blog video dissecting the show some time

The Wire is the greatest, but those two are incredible too

So far I can tell it’s incredibly well made and written. Shame it got cancelled for poor ratings. Some of the best early HBO shows had the same treatment (Rome and Deadwood)

I’m just sad that it got cancelled cause of bad ratings after only two seasons

I remember my parents watching this when I was a kid. Seen two episodes cause of Leo’s post, it’s very intriguing and mysterious but the story hasn’t gripped me yet.

Do you have any tips on how to become less logical? I’m increasingly realising being logical is the main impediment to charisma and game

Here’s a great article I ready today actually, that focuses on the need for technology. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/climate-change-isnt-that-hard

Arguably saying that it was a “criminal” physician who performed surgery on Elliott Page and then compared the medical procedure to Nazi medical experiments in the video, is an implicit call to violence

This clip made me lose any remaining respect I had for him, just unhinged. Comparing voluntary trans affirming surgery to the nazis…

This is a fantastic stage yellow conversation on politics. They touch of the decline of Jordan Peterson etc at one point.

Exactly. If the Senate was abolished, a very real secessionist movement and maybe civil wars would begin.

Unlikely given the filibuster in the Senate.

Perhaps the US founding was kinda fucked and the idea of uniting so many states with such different interests is proving to be a mistake, with the insane polarisation now. California still has a bigger say over the country obviously. There’s 53 vs 1 house seats in that case. The idea is to provide some balance to represent each states interest. Like it or not it’s not gonna change in the short or medium term.

Another thing to note is the system you support completely comes down to which party you support. If it happened to be that the Senate and Electoral College favoured Democrats, there’s 0 chance liberals would be arguing against it using the same principled arguments.

If you wanna abolish states all together an become more like the UK, that’s a seperate argument. But given the very founding of the US is a union of states with seperate interests, that idea would be completely unrealistic

I do, which is why I don’t think a President should get elected without the majority vote. But it’s the United *States*. Small states will basically have no say if the Senate is gone. Australia also has a Senate is 12 Senators from each state regardless of size. Works fairly well

I think getting rid of the electoral college but keeping the Senate is a good middle ground. I think some state representation makes sense so that the minority states don’t get fucked over, but the electoral college is overkill.