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Indeed. I used to joke and fuck around a lot with an old friend but now he got into vipassana shit and he tries to play a role of a serious mediator who does not fuck around anymore. He just lost one of his best features, playfulness. Be careful to not become a spiritual baboon or a meditative empathetic party stopper.

How hard would be to obtain a residence permit in such country for you?

We got a progressive president now, and what can I say... It slowly shifts from Blue to Orange with some Green here and there in the big cities. Even the most progressive politicians are some sort of neoliberals who think austerity and cutting gov. costs will fix problems. I mean it can help, but we have to increase the tax to GDP ratio and promote innovation rather the just playing this "cheap labour and resources for foreign companies" card. But economically, the whole Europe is a bit fucked, because we are so fragmented. hard to compete with China and US which are huge capitalist powerhouses. Personally, I left because my profession is not well paid, because of air pollution, bad infrastructure, no bicycle lanes, and for my personal development. Moving to Sweden changed my life, I understand the world much better now. I really recommend moving to a country radically different than yours, learn the language and blend in with the locals.

Yes! I saw some vlogs from there. It felt like Romania 25 years ago.

yup, more or less like Romania.

@Nemra if you are not masculine, you'll fit like a glove here. Where do you live and how do you experience leftists in your country?

Certain areas, not even close to the levels of crime US experiences. But it makes the news all the time because people are not used to such stuff here. A school shooting here is a catastrophe, in the US it is just side news.

I would say yes. High points: -good salaries -good infrastructure -good safety net -good regulations: clean water, clean air, clean food -somewhat easy to grow a business. -cool fun women Low points: -as a masculine guy you will face problems as the culture is not masculinity friendly. You will feel like you have to walk on egg shells especially with other guys around. They won't feel inspired by your maturity and development(as they should), they will become jealous, intimidated ,and offended. -they even have some "law" that penetrated society called: the law of Jante. Quote: "you should not think you are better than us"; "you should not think you are special"; "you should not think you are someone"; "you should not think you are good at anything". -cold people. It takes much effort to make close friends. The best technique is to get a girlfriend and she will introduce you to her circle. After you learn the culture, it becomes easy.

Wow crazy man. This culture appropriation thing is nuts.

@Daniel Balan welcome man. Grijă de tine.

Man, your problem is that you only lived in Romania. I also had the same views when young and inexperienced. And we, romanians, overly romanticise the West as being some alien nations who figured all shit out. After living in Sweden for the last three years I can assure you that most people here are far from "developed aliens" as we used to see them. Most people are some naive sheep following the mainstream narrative. And many guys here I perceive being even worse than romanian guys. When you brainwash guys into woke cancel culture shit, they become very nasty beings. In Romania, there still is a bit of right of passage remaining for men, you still have to prove yourself a bit in order to be called a man. But here... You just need a cock. By simply daring to question that some guy is not a man can get the shit canceled out of you. Don't tell me that this is Green healthy behaviour because you are kidding yourself.

And in that city all the stairs that lie besides ramps are removed in order not to offend disabled people

Great point. No, you are not necessarily woke in this case. What I perceive as "woke" is the ideological adoption of Stage Green ideas. If you further insult and shitpost about how many racists we have in society all day, then are you woke. You don't need more than 15 neurons in the head to throw shit, you will need many more to properly adress racism. This is what these JP/Red Pillers miss, they criticise woke from an Orange perspective, instead of sorting out the good sides of the left.

@Leo Gura I don't perceive Bernie as woke. He is better than that.

Well that is good news.

Fingers crossed man. I hope Bernie wins, not some woke retard.

The thing is we will go green anyway. China has no woke shit in it but it still has more electric cars and I predict that they will have more and more renewable energy etc. That without any woke nonsense. Because it makes total sense to do that. Why do people buy Teslas and solar panels for their houses? Mostly because it is cool, cheaper in the long run, cleaner, better... Jeremy Rifkin predicts we will switch to renewables by the end of the decade.

Lots of immigrants results in stronger far-right. Stupid climate policies results in weaker green party. Opression of expression leads to weaker far-left. It is an FU from the public, something like: "You don't change our country as you like and you don't tell us what to believe and what products to consume."

They don't want to leave the left, but they long for a more mature left. In Sweden I finally observe that the social-democrats are coming with this alterantive, but in many countries, that is still being waited for. In most Western EU you have: -the far-right: immigrants are the problem narrative sponsored by the rich in order to shift the public focus away from them -the center-right neoliberalism, which is also helping the rich getting richer and making society even shittier. -the center-left: labour/social-democrats who try to play safe and compromise a lot with neoliberals -the far-left woke, which we know already how they work. I even observe a movement against pride, which is unheard of. Maybe parents had enough of their kids indentifying with ambulances instead of focusing on their studies.

Basic unconsnciousness. This was done by Red and Blue people for thousands of years. We had the masculine opression, now we have the feminine opression.

Biggest problems with the far left: 1. Endless whining and insulting conservatives, which leads to more conservattivism, racism and sexism. 2. Lack of understanding of power dynamics. They don't get that hierarchies are part of life and they will always be. Not undertstanding this leads to frustrations, bad decisions, bad proposals etc. 3. Too much progress at once. Good luck convincing religious fanatics that gender disphoria is not a mental illness. 4. Inefficient and dumb climate action. They should push for green innovation instead of endless whining and telling people to consume less or some nonsense like that. 5. Lack of masculine integration. WIhout rationalism/systems thinking/dettachment from empathy, there is no chance for success in today's world. 6. Lack of understanding of how men work. Men are not women. 7. Us vs Them mentality and arrogance. We are always right and those who are not with us are against us. You are either a gender studies dummy or a Red Pill macho. Not understanding that there is a THIRD, better alternative. 8. Not focusing on fixing wealth inequality. Instead they focus on dividing the society even more with identity politics. 9. Not understanding that you cannot just take all the possible refugees in the world in your country. In developed countries with many political parties, there is the center-left alternative: the social-democrats, which are a more mature verion of the left. Less whining, more careful progress, more in touch with power dynamics and systems thinking.

So cool to see Leo taking intellectual risks. Even if he can be wrong because it is something that was never done before, he still takes the risk. This is something that I very rarely experience in real life. People just playing it safely especially with people they just met. It is always me who takes the risk to push the conversation to the next level with some teasy jokes or some deep ideas in order to create some connection. North Europeans became some nations of boring pussies.

Maybe it sounds good on paper but it might not work in real life for most sports.

Still controversial. Many trans-men take T which is considered doping in performance sports.

@Leo Gura this is the epistemology of a person shortly after they WOKE up from a hangover