Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Thought Art said:

So, people really vote on feeling and personality hey?

Tall, attractive, and charismatic men are disproportionately represented in positions of power.

How many short, ugly and stutterer CEOs are out there? 

Why is that?

[Thought Art]

@Davino Hmm, personality matters. That’s really the value of people like Trump and Musk. 

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Thought Art said:

@Leo Gura 

Is someone like Trump the strongest person on earth?

Huh? Trump is an embarassment to mankind.

Edited October 26, 2024 by Leo Gura

[Jayson G]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Huh? Trump is an embarassment to mankind.

@Leo Gura do you know why everywhere I look on social media there is only support for Trump? Owen cook's comments, and even Eminem showed his support for Kamala harris and the whole internet is only talking about trump in Eminem's comments. 

I'm just trying to make sense of this.

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, Jayson G said:

@Leo Gura do you know why everywhere I look on social media there is only support for Trump? Owen cook's comments, and even Eminem showed his support for Kamala harris and the whole internet is only talking about trump in Eminem's comments. 

I'm just trying to make sense of this.

Be careful with internet echochambers. They don't reflect reality. They a simulacra.

[Jayson G]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Be careful with internet echochambers. They don't reflect reality. They a simulacra.

@Leo Gura I try not to let it affect my inner reality, but don't they represent a good portion of societal thinking and societal reality, sort of?

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, Jayson G said:

they represent a good portion of societal thinking and societal reality, sort of?

No!

Stop consuming garbage. Go read a book.

I read 30 books in the last 6 months. That's where the gold is found. Social media is a swamp of shit.

Edited October 26, 2024 by Leo Gura

[Whitney Edwards]

1 hour ago, Davino said:

Tall, attractive, and charismatic men are disproportionately represented in positions of power.

How many short, ugly and stutterer CEOs are out there? 

Why is that?

Cheap talk and excessive communication no matter how trashy creates an image of friendliness. I don't see a lot of intelligent people in powerful positions. Intelligent ones are generally quiet. People are charmed by a compulsive talker even if he talks rubbish. The next is drama and stimulation. People like drama. A dull person cannot hold the attention of masses. People like Trump are familiar with entertainment and can generate drama that the lowest common denominator feeds on. There is a need to directly rile up people's emotions by fear mongering or sympathizing their hopes, this is the opium. You feed people with rubbish talk and drama so they are engaged like little children. That's why Hitler was popular. He emphasized people's hopes. He gave them constant drama. He created friendliness in German people through constant rubbish banter. 

That's the key. 

[Jayson G]

@Leo Gura It's not like I'm only on social media all day. But social media, from my understanding plays a big role in the election votes right and societal thinking? It's currently the most powerful form of media distribution and the influence on society's mind. 

I'm not talking about my own mind. I primarily get my information from books and high quality videos. I'm talking about the minds of mainstream society.

[Yimpa]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Social media is a swamp of shit.

 

[HelluvaGuy]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

That would have been the case with Hillary, but it wasn't.

But that was before Roe v Wade was struck down, so ya never know. 

[Raze]

40 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Huh? Trump is an embarassment to mankind.

The pro-Palestinian number 1 issue left is very small and mostly in solid blue states.

The Arab American vote is also small and only major in Michigan where she is still leading.

They probably aren’t going to swing the election.

If it does effect the election it’ll be as general demotivating factor among others probably among the youth vote. Kind of like how Hillary didn’t have one main thing but rather the culmination of many disappointments reducing overall momentum.

If this is why they lose it’s really Biden’s fault for letting it get this far and Kamala’s fault for not endorsing an arms embargo despite it polling well in swing states and basically showing open contempt for the pro-Palestinian voices every time they talk to her.

The democrats can’t just berate voters into voting for them while they do the opposite of what they want election after election. 

Edited October 26, 2024 by Raze

[Raze]

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

 If she loses one major Rust Belt state, she basically loses.

That’s not true if she takes Nevada, Georgia, or North Carolina 

[Princess Arabia]

8 hours ago, Davino said:

Btw, I would like to thank @Princess Arabia for the idea of making a Blog Discussion Mega-Thread. It had a very positive domino effect

Thank you all for engaging and to Leo for agreeing with the idea.❤️

[Davino]

1 hour ago, Buck Edwards said:

I don't see a lot of intelligent people in powerful positions. Intelligent ones are generally quiet.

Most CEOs are quite intelligent, but the question is for what they use their intelligence for. They use it to manipulate others and the system to their advantage. If you know how business and corporations works, you need to be quite smart to get to the top, so I wouldn't take out that from them.

Musk is really hard-working and visionary.

Trump is really clever. Just look at the ammount of shit he has been able to get away trough. This level of mental gimnastics is remarkable.

However, the key understanding here is that raw intellect is actually a disadvantage without maturity. Once you get maturity and intellect together then you are on fire. Otherwise intellect creates nuclear bombs and all the systematic tools for enforcing selfishness.

1 hour ago, Buck Edwards said:

People like Trump are familiar with entertainment and can generate drama that the lowest common denominator feeds on. There is a need to directly rile up people's emotions by fear mongering or sympathizing their hopes, this is the opium. You feed people with rubbish talk and drama so they are engaged like little children.

I think Trump appeals to the primal animalistic human facet. The most instinctive fears and human drives he uses to manipulates american people to his own benefit. For that oratory and eloquence is a must. 

I'm having quite profound realizations lately on how amazing so called "bad actors" actually are. They have amazing tools and talents, they are just using them in selfish ways.

Imagine if Trump put all his talents to the service of America and humanity. Wow! Maybe that's a republican party that would benefit the world.

[Thought Art]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Huh? Trump is an embarassment to mankind.

Yeah, that’s true. But, he isn’t weak. 
 

Facing the whole world like he does is not normal. 

Edited October 26, 2024 by Thought Art

[Thought Art]

@Jayson G My news feed is all pro Kamala. 
 

Echo chambers are a sad truth but they exist all around.

[abundance]

Loved the most recent blog post. I agree that people aren't taking a 2nd Trump presidency seriously enough. This time there will be no guardrails to prevent him from following through on his worst impulses. 

However, I do think there's a possibility that the 25th Amendment is invoked and Vance becomes president. And I think that will be in some aspects worse. He'll undoubtedly carry out Project 2025 and be a vessel for right wing billionaire silicon valley tech bros like Musk and Peter Thiel.  

Edited October 26, 2024 by abundance

[What Am I]

6 minutes ago, abundance said:

Loved the most recent blog post. I agree that people aren't taking a 2nd Trump presidency seriously enough. This time there will be no guardrails to prevent him from following through on his worst impulses. 

However, I do think there's a possibility that the 25th Amendment is invoked and Vance becomes president. And I think that will be in some aspects worse. He'll undoubtedly carry out Project 2025 and be a vessel for right wing billionaire silicon valley tech bros like Musk and Peter Thie. 

Holy shit, what an Uno reverse card this would be. Let's hope for all our sakes that if Trump wins, there's not a crazy Christian Theocracy coup being planned behind his back. I'm personally more scared of those types than I am of Trump.

[Ulax]

5 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

Thank you all for engaging and to Leo for agreeing with the idea.❤️

Yeah thanks for suggesting the idea @Princess Arabia :)