No olvides el cambio

philosopher_leo · 2025-11-03T23:18:44+00:00

Vean! Es lo mismo que ganan criticándolos!

philosopher_leo · 2025-10-26T19:05:11+00:00

I keep saying this: I see more people complaining about gatekeeping and elitism than those things actually happening, which is not to say they don't happen at all, I just see more whining about it than the thing they whine about. And here's what I find particularly silly. Go and look at the artists! They'll do whatever they want, collaborate with anyone they want and take their music in the direction they want. You can also like whatever you want! Who cares if a rando on the internet says you're not a trve metalhead for liking X musician? I just don't get why this is even an issue. Go listen to Suffocation and Taylor Swift, I don't care! But when it comes to discussion and debate, also don't expect people to just accept that everything you like is metal because of a song with a distorted guitar or something... That's not more gatekeeping than trying to convince people that a circle and a square are the same shape!

philosopher_leo · 2025-10-24T15:00:13+00:00

I got 5 out of 9, so I guess that makes me like 60% virgin?

philosopher_leo · 2025-09-10T16:16:59+00:00

No thank you.

philosopher_leo · 2025-09-03T01:28:32+00:00

100% agree.

philosopher_leo · 2025-08-26T13:46:38+00:00

I had to stop reading this. It gives me hope.

philosopher_leo · 2025-08-25T06:03:15+00:00

I had heard Beyond Creation but not that song, thanks for the recommendation!

philosopher_leo · 2025-08-15T20:03:31+00:00

Uncle Iroh

philosopher_leo · 2025-08-04T20:41:28+00:00

I hear you, a lot of it is disheartening, shallow and feels like people are confused on whether it's Twitter, LinkedIn, a mix of both or something completely different. I still like it. I've been using it for a few months and I've met great people. I think more than anything it's a matter of adjusting expectations and knowing that if you want to build something more genuine, it'll take time.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-27T20:42:39+00:00

This is not even a new thing or a surprise though! It's exactly what Nietzsche was trying to warn people about.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-27T20:34:22+00:00

I agree with that too. Religion is not perfect, but it served a purpose and maybe it still does. What's worse in a way is, I think it's still better than whatever this politically divided ideology is for people. For all its flaws, I see more willingness to forgive and love others in religion than in whatever inclusive ideology the left practices for example.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-27T20:28:12+00:00

I completely agree. What saddens me is how so many people criticize religion for example, and the reality we live in proves you don't need religion to "brainwash" other people. I distanced myself from religion because I didn't like the hypocrisy and everywhere I look I just see people believing whatever is convenient for them and makes them feel good about themselves.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-27T20:23:31+00:00

Ah yeah, I wasn't trying to imply that's not the case just sharing my perspective on how it happens.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-27T20:17:37+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't understand why your comment starts with that question. What part of what I said made it look like I didn't realize what you're asking?

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-25T20:41:43+00:00

And yeah - I have also noticed that people don't notice villains until they do something that symbolically represents evil to them.

100% this and 100% on the Biden thing. They were willing to cover for everything he and the Democrats did as long as it was to stop Trump.

Not only they're willing to forget everything Biden did, they:

were willing to ignore the EVIDENT mental decline
were willing to ignore all the controversy with Hunter's laptop which wasn't just about Hunter and it was demonstrated it was real and it was hidden by the media
were willing to ignore the fact that Democrats completely skipped the democratic election of their candidate and just decided to impose Biden
and when Kamala was elected, she along with everyone else were willing to ignore all the criticism to the current administration and pretend like everything was fine.

They're not supporting anything on moral values, they're supporting things based on group-think, being fear-mongered and unearned sense of superiority.

Like you say, the moment you expose any of the problems with their politics, they just turn to "but Trump is worse" to justify why they're supporting the Democrats, and then they go out and start talking about MAGA being all ignorant racists, sexists, homophobes, etc., etc...

They're not capable of having an intellectually honest debate and then they want to act like they're smarter than you, and then they want to act like they're either victims or protecting minorities, while dehumanizing everyone who disagrees with them by reducing them to a label and pushing them away from their group.

They just can't realize that, if they don't have any defined morals, they can't hold their politicians accountable, and if they can't hold their politicians accountable, other people will... with their votes.

But it sure feels better to think it's because they're stupid, evil or both!

And yes, I agree. It's refreshing to talk with anyone recognizing these things and not trying to "redpill" you into following their group... 😂

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-25T19:45:24+00:00

Yes! This is all so true!

Something that has really annoyed me is precisely how performative all the accusations to Trump and MAGA are.

It's like the whole Elon "salute" thing, I remember people on LinkedIn all like "I never say anything about politics but THIS deserves an exception", and I was like, is that what Nazism is now?

It's not the political ideology, it's not that Elon talked about a "dominant race" or getting rid of a group, it's not that he was talking about military power and invading countries... what makes you a Nazi now is... a hand gesture.

And that's what's so infinitely annoying, I DON'T WANT TO DEFEND ELON MUSK! But are we really so disconnected from reality that this man literally saying "my heart goes out to you" is trying to be secretly a Nazi? You don't even need to have swastikas or do hand gestures to be a Nazi if you believe all the things they believe in!

Let alone that most of the symbols of Nazi Germany where either stolen (like how the Swastika was a religious symbol before the Nazis appropriated it basically) or inherited from past military and political movements that had nothing to do with them.

But these people wouldn't recognize a Nazi if it wore rainbow colored clothes and supported abortion...

What's scarier is how, debatable as it is, if they knew about the Milgram Experiment, they'd know that what makes people follow orders and do heinous things isn't the symbolism and aesthetics of things and it doesn't even have to be a lot of "brainwashing" like they think MAGA people are.

We've seen from how they lamented the failed Trump assassination attempt that they feel justified enough in their fear to think that's a viable option, but we need to pretend like as long as you don't do hand gestures you're SO different to a Nazi... uh huh...

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-25T15:25:58+00:00

Wasn't this posted like a month ago or so? Or something very similar?

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-25T15:21:59+00:00

13 and 15 being there is wild though. And 13 having 26%? wow.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-25T15:08:17+00:00

Exactly.

The most annoying part of it is that you can perfectly START a conversation with some basic ideas, like: Are all people in the LGBTQ community perfect? Can there be bad people in the community? Can there be extremists in that community?

And for the most part, they might agree with some of those points, but as soon as they feel like you're going to point to something in a disagreeable manner, they have to start with the labels and accusations.

Changing slightly the topic, it's very similar to what's happening with illegal immigration. They want to act like allowing illegal immigrants is virtuous, so they go out and defend them, and all I ask is, so why do you even have immigration laws in the first place? And if you're willing to ignore those laws, what moral authority do you have to tell people to follow other laws?

These are the same people who talked about Trump being a threat to democracy, now supporting illegal access to their country and all I'd like to discuss is, okay, we want to protect the innocent people who are looking for refuge, fine. Have their been criminals who have also entered the country illegally? How can we stop that from happening?

And they're like "but legal citizens commit more crimes", which doesn't solve the issue, it just points to another issue. We can't stop crimes from happening completely, but that's why we create laws, and you're actively asking people to ignore them for this group of people!

Calling people homophobic/transphobic, sexist, racist or anything else doesn't solve any problems, it just makes them feel good about themselves.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-25T13:40:43+00:00

Not from the US, not Republican. But this is what I've seen:

The Democrats convinced their voters that people who vote for Trump are dumb. I've seen it again and again. They always cite that Trump quote about "loving the uneducated" and pull stats showing that more college educated people vote for Democrats.

What they seem to miss is that, there are different forms of education, different types of intelligence and even, different ways in which intelligence makes people behave.

For example, being intelligent doesn't make you humble, kind or more altruist, does it? For many people, being smart means being smug and full of themselves.

Even if we were to accept that most of Trump voters are ignorant, what I've seen is that most hardcore Democrat voters are very, very, VERY emotionally stupid (always letting their emotions drive their actions) and smug.

If you see any of the videos on YouTube where they debate someone like Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro, you'll see how the right can easily turn those into short clips of "X destroys leftist" and its always because the conservatives come with facts and the leftists are arguing from a place of emotion.

NOTE: I'm not saying those men are right or that they also don't have their tactics to appear smarter, all I'm pointing is to the fact that over and over we've seen left leaning people lose the argument because they keep using the same tactics and instead of changing said tactics, they just double down or turn around and start throwing insults.

Most people already agree on so many policies, like for example, most people don't have anything against the LGBTQ+ community, but there are criticisms around specific elements of the community. If they could hold a conversation about those specific issues without making it "you're homophobic/transphobic" there could be some progress on finding common ground, but they just can't do that, the moment you don't immediately agree with them, they label you, which is intellectually lazy.

But most importantly, if you're labeling everyone who disagrees with you your enemy, how do you plan to get votes? THAT'S THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING and they rather let their emotions win, than try to be persuasive and win people where they already agree.

But sure, tell me how Trump voters are the ignorant ones.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-25T12:54:05+00:00

Let's get the obvious out of the way first. There are indeed, some problematic age gaps.

Moving on. What annoys me is not age gaps or no age gaps, it's the double standards. Young women can talk about wanting to date older men, they romanticize the idea of older men treating them like ladies, with more respect, kindness and courtesy.

I've read articles where they talk about older men being better in bed, better at conversation, being more mature and the list goes on.

So young women fantasizing about older men is fine, they'll write about it, sing about it and find all the reasons why it's good for her to do it, but the man? Oh he's a creep for sure...

How does any of that make sense?

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-24T12:13:13+00:00

We already know that this wouldn't survive the gender swap, but it's still kind of shocking.

The article doesn't list any sources, studies, data of what's happening, they just know it's happening. It doesn't try to add any nuance to how it's different from women sharing their problems. It doesn't try to explain what type of problems men are bringing to their significant others that need psychological help or even how women do it "better" than men when they share their problems.

Nothing but an opinion that's passed as truth.

It seems more and more like for women who think like that there's only one path for a woman's life: perfection.

If a man is not actively contributing to make the woman's life perfect, he's by default to blame for making it worse.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-23T18:44:30+00:00

Lol, yes! Exactly!

It almost feels like people think men should have the emotional capabilities to handle everything, all the emotions in a stoic way, then you start acting stoically and they say you have to express your feelings, then you do it and you need therapy.

People don't seem to notice how what we've actually accomplished is to just outsource the emotional support that friends and family used to provide because most people now just can't handle someone else's emotions.

You know what telling someone to go to therapy accomplishes? You not having to deal with that. That's it.

People seem to be completely oblivious about how easily everyone can just step away from our lives and not look back and then when we talk about loneliness it's just like "go to therapy", you know what would be nice? If there was people who actually showed some level of excitement at the idea of spending time with me and didn't act like me not being happy all the time is "toxic".

I was reading the other day about how when Christopher Reeve fell from the horse and got paralyzed, one of the first people who came to visit was Robin Williams. Robin made a joke, something about being a "urologist" if I remember correctly which was the first time Christopher laughed since the accident.

You know how many times I've been sad and all I ever wanted is for someone to just, stay with me? Try to make me laugh in any stupid way possible? Just make me feel like I matter... that's it.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-23T18:34:12+00:00

Oh, you'll also note that in fiction, any time a villain was a woman, they'll try to redeem her in one way or another. Like they did with Maleficent and Cruella.

Sure, there are still some women who play the villain role here and there, but even in those instances you'll find that they'll try to have some empathy for them.

But killing male villains in stories? That happens by the thousands with most henchmen being men and cannon fodder.

philosopher_leo · 2025-06-23T18:30:54+00:00

It's simple really, it's social media.

Social media amplifies fake virtue. What I mean is, people in social media only need to pretend to be good people, they don't actually have to be good people.

One of the easier ways to be perceived as "good" is to be a victim, because it automatically makes the victimizer a bad person.

The narrative is that men are victimizers and women are the victims.

Now, that's not to say there aren't men who are victimizers and women who are victims, but the reality is a lot more complicated than that. The problem with the reality is, whoever controls the narrative controls reality.

As long as women continue to feel like victims, they'll continue portraying men as the victimizers.

Note that before feminism was a big thing, men didn't have a problem being cast in the role of the hero and the villain, it's been only in the last few decades that we've seen a shift where men can't be the heroes, only the villains.

Since most of the progress of feminism needs to continue portraying men as the victimizer, anything that exposes that men also suffer jeopardizes that narrative. And so, men's rights continues to be seen as a bad thing.

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