Ray

"To win, you have to lose. You win by losing." The underlying lesson of this quote that a good, honest person needs to be tricked and betrayed 20 times before can they learn their lesson and recognize who the bad people are. Charlie Brown and the football principle.

600k student visas for Chinese students but if you're an American, you'll no longer be able to defer student loan payments while unemployed. Absolutely insane anti-American policies from this administration.

My 3 point plan for saving the future of Europe: 1. Give each immigrant $60k to leave Europe. 2. Make a deal with third countries with low cost of living that they will take immigrants if it is not safe in their home country, in return for large financial support. 3. Cut all welfare to immigrants. This will save billions and billions over the future decades, and prevent a large number of rapes, and not a single immigrant will be left destitute or unsafe.

Don't blame evil people for doing evil things, they can't help themselves. We have to help them.

Generally, the people at the top aren’t sociopaths either. They’re just inside a giant machine they didn’t create. They see everything through the machine’s screen. How else would it work? But once you allow for this—and they for the reverse—they’re easy to get along with

Just let people do whatever they want. People that do bad things can't help themselves, it's who they are. They'll keep doing what they do until they're stopped.

This type of meme (see screenshot) is intuitively appealing, but one can just as easily flip it. People who can defend themselves physically (high-T men, fighters) parse information through a dominance filter as a status mechanism. They literally do not ask “is this true,” they ask “does believing this make me look strong?” This makes them very malleable to brute-force strongman narratives; if a confident, aggressive figure says something, they will adopt that position because their brain interprets dominance signals as credibility. Only people unburdened by status competition — women, cooperative men, and neurotypical people skilled at reading social complexity — are actually free to update their beliefs based on evidence, because they don’t experience changing their mind as a humiliation. This is why diverse, deliberative democracies outperform autocracies and oligarchies in long-run decision-making. Inclusive, but with institutions that slow down impulsive dominance-driven thinking. — But both the original and my reversal are, of course, only stories when absent data. And data could easily be found for both sides, precisely because they’re just stories — vibes designed to appeal to you by placing you above the outgroup. Such stories can be useful, they often generate ideas for empirical research. But don’t mistake the latter for the former because it makes you feel good. In fact, if it makes you feel good, you should probably question the narrative.

If heaven is real, then "don't resist evil" is actually the best way to live. You suffer in this life when evil attacks, but you are welcomed into the next life, where evil is not allowed. I just don't see any heaven, is all.