Hardkill

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  3. Posted

    Considering the fact that every politician working in Washington (except for all of the progressives) has in essence bee controlled by all kinds corporate lobbyists including the military-industry complex, what is stopping corporations such such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and other defense contracting companies from being to convince Biden to deploy our US troops back to Afghanistan?

  5. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    So, I watched Leo's vids on "Why Valuable Things Require Development Over Time" and after he talked about what it generally takes to escape wage slavery, I am actually doubting it. I get that there is no quick scheme or fast and easy way to get out of wage slavery just like there is no get rich quick schemes that actually work; however, I am not sure if it is a realistic goal for everyone to achieve even if someone put many years of blood, sweat, and tears into getting out of wage slavery. How does a poor person who has little to no realistic chances of upward mobility and wasn't born with any kind of unique talents that are also marketable end up creating a successful business of their own? How does someone who barely makes him a living get out working for someone else during times of economic recessions? Furthermore, how does one even come up with a successful business of their own if things have gotten way too competitive and practically every kind of business idea has already been done before by someone else? Moreover, even if one does end up succeeding in making a sustainable profitable business of their own how does that person know that their business won't end up being taken over by some big corporation from either a hostile takeover or by simply being outcompeted? Additionally, what if your successful business ends up folding due to a nationwide or worldwide recession or economic crisis that will happen in the future?

  7. Posted

    15 minutes ago, Johnny Galt said:

    The mocking and ridiculing, do we not see the causes and effects of this, within our own interiors? 

    If one believes that they are God, that they are all sparks of awareness having an individualized experience, then why would one choose to attack themself?  

    "To experience myself!!!!!"

    Yes, this is a part of it, and yet what happens when one is "awake" to it? At this point, does one not now have a choice? to cultivate towards life or death? 

    More directly, to the topic in this thread, I ask, why is it, that experts seek to silence conversations, rather then face it head on, with long format dialogue and debate? Why has there been such absence of this, in society?

    The implications of this, I urge you to take a moment to feel into this. If this is happening in the house of science and medicine, pillars of society, that's a huge red flag, as these are the houses that require open dialogue the most. 

    Here are some examples:

     

     

     

    Because debating about it doesn’t seem to work so well for convincing either side because of how defensive each person is going to be with their arguments.

  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, TDLH said:

    Totarialism  

    Is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control and regulation over public and private life.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqPJiM5Ir3A

     

    You couldn’t even spell totalitarianism right. Lol

    Besides, I honestly still think that totalitarianism is a great thing for any society that is in any kind of emergency or dire situation.

     

     

  9. Posted

    28 minutes ago, Roy said:

    No, the cat is out of the bag. Things will never be quite as they were before. They will probably get closer to how it was before, but it will never be the same.

    Lots of different countries, provinces/states, and probably cities will all have varying degrees of lockdowns yes. It's a tool that will need to be used unless we want the virus to run completely rampant and overwhelm healthcare infrastructure. Though I'm sure lockdowns will be less common as better vaccinations and other medicines come out, not to mention their growing unpopularity.

    I'm sure some will. Many will get better at dealing with it over time, and they won't need be overwhelmed if people are responsible and governments actually commit to certain plans and protocols instead of the mass confusion and incompetence we see now.

    Well it says 4.82 million have died already now but the number is probably in the 6-8 million range or even higher when you consider most of humanity is actually in third world countries that can't report accurate data + bad healthcare infrastructure.

    So I'd estimate another 2-3 million die per year, for the next few years.

    Things will get better it will just take some time. In the meantime tell every anti-vaxxer you come across to go fuck themselves for making this pandemic worse and longer than it has to be.

    I see.....well, I like how China literally forces everyone in their country to take the vaccine.

  10. Posted

    7 hours ago, Roy said:

    Yes it is unfortunate in some of the ways people are behaving, but you can't really control them, and it's not worth the cost of trying to. So best not to waste energy on it. If they want to learn the hard way and put themselves and others in close relation at increased risk, that's on them. They will be the ones facing the worst of the consequences. 

    If people want to remain ignorant and stupid in face of so much evidence, there is nothing we can do to change that. Just accept it.

    It should have been obvious from how contagious it is that it was never going anywhere. We are going to have to learn to live with Covid for our lifetimes most likely, and hope that with enough measures it's potency is reduced to more of that like an actual seasonal flu.

    Improve your health, get vaccinated, follow basic protocols, and just continue living your life.

     

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    Their minds are rotted. You can never rely on these people to turn around and stop the pandemic. You gotta accept that 25% of folk will just be dogmatic on this issue come what may and that will not change. Our Covid strategy must assume that 25% will never be vacinated or lift a finger to help society.

    Then, will things never get back to normal? Should we also assume that there are going to be more lockdowns in the US in the future? Will hospitals around the world forever be overwhelmed by the amount of COVID patients they have? How many more people in this world are going to die from this virus?

  11. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    All of the remaining unvaccinated Americans throughout the entire country still won't take any vaccines despite the current gravity of situation with Omicron.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/25/us/omicron-unvaccinated.html

    At least a majority of them say that they won't even take the new antiviral pill, Paxlovid, no matter how sick they got from the disease.

    https://www.newsweek.com/majority-americans-would-take-covid-pill-if-they-got-sick-except-unvaccinated-poll-1654126

     

    This is unbelievably frustrating and very worrisome, guys. Now, I am not feeling optimistic about COVID ever ending.

  13. Posted

    24 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    The bill was popular among his voters.

    It's his corpo donors who wanted it killed.

    The dude has investments in coal companies.

    Yeah, but you said that voters don’t vote logically on policies regardless of what the polls say about how popular certain ones are. They vote base on how electable something or someone is based on how emotionally compelled they are about a certain politician or a certain policy. So, is it possible that while the West Virginian voters who voted for Manchin may have liked all of the provisions within the Build Back Better bill from a logical standpoint, they were more afraid of the bill granting more government takeover of some kind if it had passed through both Congress and Biden?

  14. Posted

    47 minutes ago, Opo said:

    I doubt anyone's argument is that the money completely controls the laws. 

    It's just that you can tip the scale a bit in your favor. 

    Yeah, that's what I was kinda thinking. I hope that's true.

     

    1 minute ago, Joel3102 said:

    It's not because of the lobby money lol. He's a Senator for West Virginia, one of the most conservative states in the country. If he voted like a normal Dem he'd just be voted out and replaced with a Republican. He doesn't want to lose his seat

    Yeah, I was thinking that too.

  15. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    42 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Democrats are also corrupted by lobbying money. The Dem admins have been pretty weak amd neoliberal for the last 30 years.

    Clinton and Obama were both neolibs.

    Joe Manchin is a fucking Dem who acts like a Repub thanks to the lobby money. Single-handedly stopped a $2 trillion deal. Stuff like this happens all the time.

    Yeah, from what I understand, Dem became neoliberal and weaker when the New Democrats (Clintonian Democrats) first emerged during the late 1980s in order to effectively counter Reaganism. Though wasn't Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s pretty weak?

    Also, I still don't get why corporate lobbyists weren't able to stop liberal legislation that did create more progress for our society  such as the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the 1993 Clinton tax increase, Dodd-Frank Act which passed in 2010, or the ACA which also passed in 2010?

  16. Posted

    1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

    Obviously it's not that easy.

    But lobbying money is retarding all progress.

    Hmm, I see.

    So, if corporate lobbying contributes to getting in the way of all progress, then how were Democrats ever able to pass any liberal legislation such as raising the taxes on the wealthy and other laws that would benefit the middle class during Clinton's first presidential term in the 90s or pass both the ACA and Dodd Frank act during Obama's first term?

  17. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    14 hours ago, mw711 said:

    Yes, correct. The Colors build upon another. 

    So, then why not skip Blue unless you're in the military, the police, some kind of religious organization, or in a 2nd or 3rd world country?

    Why does Leo say that you can't forgo the stage Red or stage Blue work values? Why not just skip to the stage Orange work values?

  18. Posted

    1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

    If lobbying didn't significantly distort government, it wouldn't be a thing. Think about it.

    People like to say that lobbying isn't significant, yet billions are spent on it every year. So obviously it must be significant or no fool would be paying billions.

    So are you saying that without lobbying then the Democratic and liberal independents would be able to easily get enough Republicans in the country to to vote for passing something like a constitutional amendment that would abolish the electoral college or a law that would allow reform or expansion of the Supreme Court?

  19. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Gerrymandering, the whole electoral college system, the Senate, and the Supreme Court all need serious reforms. Lobbying makes these things impossible to reform.

    Health care industry spent $300+ million in lobbying just this last year to stop medicare for all and cheaper drugs.

    Joe Machin killed Biden's whole bill and he is corrupt with lobbying money.

    But I thought that it was mostly the conservatives and Republicans throughout the entire country who are getting in the way of eliminating the electoral college, gerrymandering, and voter suppression even if they weren’t lobbied by any corporations. Don’t we definitely need at least half of all Republicans in the entire country to agree with every Democrat and left leaning Independent throughout the whole country to pass a major constitutional amendment that would permanently abolish the electoral college?

    I kinda wish Biden and every single Democrat in the Senate all decided to vote for eliminating the filibuster in order to get voting rights passed, Supreme Court reform, and much much more. However if they eliminate the filibuster completely then wouldn’t that put the entire country at great risk of going through radical reversals of major legislation? Mitch McConnell has already warned Democrats that if they do it then one day when the Republicans regain control of the whole government trifecta again then they will repeal all kinds of liberal legislation that had been passed throughout all of US history including all civil and voting rights acts, all of the federal abortion rights acts, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, etc. What do you think about that?

    Yeah...I am so depressed that Manchin ruined the whole Build Back Better bill. If  Biden doesn’t get any more passed then couldn’t the Democrats end up in great jeopardy? 

     

  20. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    14 minutes ago, Roy said:

    I wonder if Cenk is aware of the irony that TYT is also one of the most biased and delusion filled outlets you could consume in this day and age?

    They are a pretty prime example of toxic Green.

    - Cenk has openly denied the Armenian holocaust, as well as apologized for Islamist Terrorism.

    - Hasan has become a fulltime grifter for annoying online activist lefties.

    - Ana well, you can just see the righteousness and anger spewing out of her face. The only thing holding it back from exploding is the 4 pounds of makeup she wears every day.

    But yea it isn't even worth talking about. I don't even know why I am to be honest.

    Yes, they do have a tremendous amount of Green in them, but don't they also have a lot of Orange and even some Blue in them? After all, in terms of Orange, they all have had a solid, disciplined, work ethic and have been running a successful business of their own. Hell, they even have way more YT subscribers than Leo does. Also, Cenk graduated from a top law school and top undergrad business school and Ana got both her Bachelor's and Master's degree and started teaching at a university in her late 20s. Furthermore, unlike a lot of other toxic green people out there, the TYT people understand and accept the importance and need of having law and order, military, and police which are all Blue values.

    Cenk never denied the Armenian genocide: 

     

     

    Also, Leo said that even though every progressive media outlet has a significant degree of bias, it still has better political analysis than any of the mainstream media news outlets.

    Ana is hot, but I'll admit that she is really making feel depressed about the world.

  24. Posted

    I know that stage Red, stage Blue, and Stage Orange each involve the idea of having a strong work ethic.

    Stage Red has the values of action, hard work, willpower, ambition, pragmatism, and taking initiative & ownership.

    Stage Blue has the values of hard work, discipline, duty, structure, rules, and order.

    Stage Orange seems to have all of the values of both Red and Blue including action, hard work, discipline, duty, obsessive desire for achievement and success, determination, pragmatism, and independence & sovereignty, structure, rules, and order.

    Is this correct?

     

  25. Posted · Edited by Hardkill

    13 hours ago, Tim R said:

    The vaccines are still the most powerful weapons we have against COVID. 

    Prevention is better than treatment. This is the key difference that must be understood. 

    Pfizer is 95% effective in preventing infection, Moderna 94% and J&J 66%.

    And all all of the above are extremely effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death. 

    Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir) and Molnupiravir are what are called "antiviral drugs". They are of course extremely valuable as a further asset in our toolkit against COVID, but they are not a replacement for the vaccines (but of course, people will treat them as if they were).

    If people don't get vaccinated, the pandemic will go on. And they will very, very likely be infected at some point, if not multiple times. Yes, we can treat them with antiviral medication after they got infected, but that's not the goal.

    The goal is that they don't need any treatment in the first place, and that will only by achieved by getting vaccinated. 

    Yeah, that's what I am saying.

     

    10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    I wonder what it costs.

    They may run out of it too given the Omicron surge coming.

    Yeah, I wonder about that too. Though this source says that the pill will be available at no cost: https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/covid-19/fda-pfizer-antiviral-pill