Former Democrat, but during COVID, the party’s embrace of authoritarian pandemic measures, mandates, and censorship of dissent, pushed me away. The Democratic Party I once knew, which championed civil liberties and skepticism of state overreach, had shifted toward top-down control, dismissing legitimate concerns about individual freedom. That disillusionment led me to find common ground with independents and even some segments of the MAGA movement, particularly on issues like free speech, medical autonomy, and opposition to endless foreign intervention.
Yet my alignment with parts of the populist right was never wholesale. While I agreed with their critiques of the administrative state and the military-industrial complex, I’ve since diverged sharply from the MAGA/neocon stance on Israel. The reflexive, unconditional support for Netanyahu’s government has revealed a troubling hypocrisy among those who claim to prioritize sovereignty and restraint abroad. Blind allegiance to any foreign nation contradicts the principles of non-intervention.
Despite this, I still follow and engage with voices across the spectrum, progressive, conservative, and independent, as long as they argue in good faith. There’s value in hearing opposing views, provided they’re sincere and grounded in facts. Too many people retreat into ideological bubbles, cutting off anyone who disagrees. But growth happens at the edges of our comfort zones. The truth isn’t owned by any one party, and finding it requires wrestling with uncomfortable perspectives.
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This is not even close to being factual. TX Children’s had even stooped to filing a complaint with Child Protective Services because the family wanted to move her. I intervened with the Department of Family Protective Services that oversees CPS.
TX Children’s is purposely blocking her transfer.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
@ogsvg The next productive step is to create blends where eachpeptides retain structure and can be administered in one or two injections without multiple daily .
@krobits@hubermanlab@AbudBakri Thank you for offering nothing to this conversation. How about the tens of thousands of human n=1 experiments being conducted now? Ignore all the anecdotes?
MOTS-c is sold as fat loss. it did nothing for my weight. what it gave me was endurance I've never had, added 3 miles to my long run without trying. it's a metabolic/mitochondrial thing, not a scale thing. people buy it for the wrong outcome and call it a dud.