SeeLogica

Movie buff, used to be politically homeless, lots of other specialized knowledge, law, politics, and other weird things

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

No modern political event will make sense until you understand the two reasons why a man will hate you.

He will hate you because you harm him, which is easy to understand.

And he will hate you because he harms you.

No, that's not backwards. That is what you must understand.

Here's how it works.

Once upon a time, a man was given an ultimatum. He had to dissociate himself from me, or his long-term benefactor would withdraw all support.

Some people deliberate from principle, while others examine their bread to determine with side it is buttered on. I try not to judge people too harshly if they don't have much butter.

But, suffice to say, he followed his benefactor's commands, despite having nothing in particular against me.

But he then began to dislike me, and make childish comments behind my back. This was utterly predictable if you understand how humans work.

See, having acted against me, he needed to feel that his actions were just.

A man who has harmed you needs you to deserve it, so that he can still feel good about himself. And he will find excuses to think that, because humans are good at telling stories.

Welfare takers don't hate you even though your taxes keep them alive. They hate you because your taxes keep them alive.

The criminal underclass doesn't rob you because they hate you. They hate you because they rob you.

The teeming brown hordes of the third world don't hate you because of history. They hate you because they want to ruin your country and take all your stuff.

Bernie Sanders doesn't try to tax away everything you have because he hates you. He hates you because he wants to tax away everything you have.

It's important to understand this difference.

If a man hates you because you have hurt him, you can appease him. You can apologize, you can make amends, and he can forgive you if he chooses to.

Because forgiving you doesn't violate his self-image.

But if a man hates you because he has hurt you, then you can never appease him. The more you are kind to him, the more you try to placate him, the more sympathy and understanding and gifts you provide, the more he will find reasons to hate you.

Because if you are good, then he is bad. So you can never be good in his eyes.

This is why no amount of sympathy is ever enough. This is why reparations for fictional injuries are a demand that never ceases.

This is why communists want to kill you, no matter how much you benefit them. And the more you do for them, the more they will hate you and want to kill you.

You must never turn the other cheek unless you struck first. You must never apologize unless you have actually done wrong.

You must never pay the Dane-geld, or you will never be rid of the Dane.

You have to fight them. You have no choice.

Because they do not hate for your sins. They hate you for theirs.

And they will continue to hate you until you punish them. Only when they have been punished do they stop needing to tell stories about how you really deserved what they did.

Mercy is for after you take vengeance, not before.

[Stefan. @paradeevic]

A Stanford professor stood in front of a full lecture hall and told them that depression has almost nothing to do with sadness. Then he wrote two words on the whiteboard that nobody in the room could define. Anhedonia. Psychomotor retardation. That, he said, is the actual illness.

The man is Robert Sapolsky, the neurobiologist who built his career following wild baboons across Kenya to measure what stress does to a living body.

What makes the video worth 52 minutes is not the subject. It is the method.

No slides. No notes he ever glances down at. One camera, one whiteboard, and a man taking depression apart the way a neurologist takes apart a stroke.

He is doing something deliberate, and it takes a while to catch. Every time the material could soften into sympathy, he hauls it back into biology. Hormones. Neurotransmitters. Genes that do nothing whatsoever until life goes wrong, and then decide everything.

Somewhere in the middle he says one sentence about depression that viewers have been pulling out of this lecture for 16 years. It is 5 words long. It reads like a contradiction until he unpacks it.

Under the video, sleepy_and_caffeinated quoted that exact sentence and wrote two words beneath it. That got me. 4.3 thousand people agreed.

Johnny_boy777 said it from another angle. The best thing about the internet, he wrote, is that any ordinary person can sit in on this without ever enrolling at Stanford. 2.6 thousand likes.

16 years old. 6.2 million views. 9410 comments. One of 25 lectures in the Stanford course Human Behavioral Biology, and every one of them is free.

Most people assume they understand depression because they have felt bad. 52 minutes is enough to learn they were describing something else entirely.

52 minutes. 5 words. It is in the video.

[SeeLogica @lolidefi]

@kcasto12 @thehoffather @Westernwold1 @JNS_org They’ve done that to the right with great glee from the left starting in the 2018s. It angered me then and this angers me now. Let people hear all ideas, even the bad ideas and debate them in the public arena.

[Epic Man Thinker @NMasculine7]

This will completely change the way you think your life and universe coincide..

[SeeLogica @lolidefi]

@RyanWeather What will the snow be like in Lake Tahoe ?

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

The closest thing to fascism the United States has seen was the COVID-19 pandemic response, instituted and vigorously mobilized by Left-wing groupthink.

[Dr. Urso @richardursomd]

The science evolution into silence

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

COVID didn't just expose a virus. It exposed how quickly Washington will strip away your basic freedoms the moment it's given an excuse.

Lockdowns that closed churches while liquor stores stayed open. Mandates that cost people their jobs. Restrictions with no science behind them, just fear and control. We cannot treat that as normal. Liberty doesn't survive if we forget how easily it was taken.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Never forget.

[🌹 Boosted Gold 🌹 @schiffgoldpunch]

"We shouldn't be relitigating covid, it isn't helpful"

Bitch, we've never litigated it which is why we are all still fucking pissed a half a decade later.

[SeeLogica @lolidefi]

@RheaMaria_ @aspecctu It’s so hard for these people to understand logic. Too busy trying to own the other side.

[SeeLogica @lolidefi]

@ToujoursADroite @aspecctu Daily usage is the problem. And not allowing your skin to ever make Vitamin D. But absolutely if you know you are going to be at the beach all day or on the lake use sunscreen. It’s about moderation. No one should burn. Or fry skin to a crisp.

[SeeLogica @lolidefi]

@fpkadn @aspecctu Agreed. However you could spend a short time each day in the sun without sunscreen to get vitamin d and slowly build color. Without getting sunburn, and without slathering chemicals. But again, may increase wrinkles

[SeeLogica @lolidefi]

@GBBranstetter From a tick??

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Scott Galloway is a perfect example of perhaps the most pernicious people in society: the stupid-smart person.

Educated beyond his intelligence. Smart enough vocabulary to justify his ego and smugness, but too stupid to understand basic realities of communists.

Smart people internalize history and make good decisions. They also know the dangers of hubris. Stupid people don't know enough to even opine on the issues in the first place, so their stupidity isn't a threat. But the stupid-smart person can teach at NYU, he can build a big successful business, he can even give a good TED Talk, but he's not smart enough to see the limits of his own capacities...so he asserts himself in society with an outsized level of confidence. Sadly, he's articulate enough to fool lots of people into elevating his stupid ideas...and that's the problem.

People listen to the stupid-smart guys, like him. Then they're genuinely baffled when there's a Kalashnikov pointed at their head as they're staring at a cinder block wall behind the politburo headquarters. In a functional society, this clown would be a pariah. I have precisely zero empathy for his plight in NYC. He endorsed it. Now he can eat it, good and hard.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

The surveillance state is real. Nothing is safe. One of the main rules of the internet still applies: Everything you say can and will be taken out of context to the worst possible interpretation.

[Lil’C @C25216702C]

I listened to the nurses who walked away from their jobs because they didn’t trust the jabs