Says someone writing pages about it along with many lies.

lol what? That is entirely irrelevant to what you were responding to. Writing many pages has nothing to do with a cult of personality, wtf are you talking about?

Dishonesty requires being dishonest about something.

Incredible and elucidating point.

What is he being dishonest about?

His concern for the poor.

Cool so suppose he did that and was sufficiently poor for your liking would you have something to actually say about his views?

Yes.

You seem way more invested in hating than engaging with his ideas.

They aren’t his ideas lmao, he’s not exactly Marx or something. He parrots basic socialist rhetoric. I can engage with that just fine without ever having to waste my time on Hasan.

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Yeah if you want to be pedantic he may not strictly fit the dictionary definition:

Someone who grifts is a thief, but of a particular sort: they illegally obtain money or property by means of cleverness or deceit, and do not usually resort to physical force or violence. A grifter might be a pickpocket, a crooked gambler, a scammer, or a con artist.

But generally language used in regular conversation, like this, is colloquial, not formal. And he firmly fits the colloquial use of the term, as described by urbandictionary:

A money-making operation that is either dishonest and takes advantage of people, or is simply a cause of annoyance or scorn to those who pay. Typically, a grift is a source of easy money to whoever runs it.

He is dishonest by pretending to align with socialist ideals while hoarding money, to the extent of buying oversized property in what is probably the 3rd or 4th most infamously-expensive place in the country. He could’ve donated that money to help the people he claims he wants to see helped.

He takes advantage of people by selling them the false image of him as a progressive / socialist, when in fact he only is to the extent that it benefits him.

It is a source of easy money to him.

He’s what you call a “champagne socialist”. I have no respect for such people and don’t think anyone else should either.

Besides that, there’s no healthy reason for you to be this invested in defending a streamer. Politics should not be a cult of personality if you actually want to achieve anything.

He’s a “”“socialist”“” living in a mansion in LA.

We may have different definitions of “substantiated”.

That’s an odd way to admit you’re less cool than a conservative.

Strong point, Blue MAGA

If he was poor and arguing for socialism he would be called jealous.

Not by me.

Now he’s rich and arguing for socialism and your criticism is…what exactly?

That he’s rich. And a grifter, which I already said.

I agree with everything you’re saying buuuuuuuuuuut also

the dude lives in a mansion in LA (which his excuse for was that he has a large family, someone better tell all the large families in my single-family suburban neighborhood that they should upsize ASAP) and plays down the importance of mutual aid. He’s a grifter and the left should be demanding better.

MeansTV is great and less braindead-Twitch-stream-formatted

I have broken through on DMT but I don’t think I’ve ever broken through on salvia.

I promise you salvia is weirder.

Firstly DMT is a serotonergic psychedelic. It acts on the same receptors as psilocybin and (if I’m not mistaken) LSD. It’s euphoric, your body may freak out because it thinks it’s dying as it separates from your consciousness temporarily, but ultimately you still physically feel good when you are aware of your physical being.

Salvia is an atypical hallucinogen. It’s generally not considered a proper (or at least classic) psychedelic like DMT, shrooms, mescaline, LSD, etc, or even newer substances like 2C-B. It’s also not considered a deliriant like datura or DPH. It is a secret third thing. It’s a hallucinogenic compound which acts on opioid receptors but is entirely non-addictive. It allegedly has a reverse tolerance, meaning the more you use it over time, the more it hits you. I’ve heard it described as “dysphoric”, so opposite of euphoric, but I would strongly disagree with that - it doesn’t feel bad. I’d almost want to call it “aphoric”, which isn’t a real word lol so may not be linguistically correct, but essentially it doesn’t feel, period. You don’t feel like you have a body.

DMT feels like you’re leaving your body but your consciousness remains a distinct vessel that is sort of witnessing the grandeur of reality’s architecture (at least at the dose I experienced); salvia feels like your consciousness is dissolving into the world around you along with your body.

And I haven’t even properly broken through! I’ve felt immobile and had full-on hallucinations but I still don’t feel it was a real breakthrough. And I’m not particularly in a rush to do so either, even though I have plenty of salvia on hand lol

Disagree, sort of.

Salvia isn’t unpleasant if that’s what you mean… it’s also not particularly pleasant. It’s very remarkable in its absolute neutrality imo. It is an experience you can choose to have.

But also worth mentioning that everyone here (including me) has probably only smoked it. Indigenous users in Oaxaca kind of press the leaves against their gums which makes for a more chill and gradual experience. The particular shaman (I think that would be her title?) shown in the Hamilton’s Pharmacopia episode on salvia said that salvia does not like being exposed to fire, I think she may have even said that the goddess or spirit considers it disrespectful.

I’m obviously going off memory here so watch the episode if you’re interested in salvia. It’s very good. If you (like most people) don’t have access to fresh salvia leaves, you can find tinctures online which are probably the closest approximation (assuming it’s legal in your area, but it generally is).

I once saw mushrooms described as “the most forensically accurate character assassination known to man”

Which is why I think it’s very important that everyone try them, or at least westerners

This is boring, we already did this

What? I did vote. For Jill Stein.

Voting for democrats categorically is not “attempting to stop fascism” any more than supporting the Weimar Republic was “attempting to stop Nazism”. They’re weak, corrupt, feckless, and ineffectual. Their corporate-owned neoliberal politics and suppression of leftwing populism paves the way for fascism’s inevitable rise through rightwing populism.

Didn’t read the rest of whatever you said there. I’m not really interested in addressing your Blue MAGA meltdown or reading about how you’re sad that people give you shit for supporting an avowed genocidaire.

You may view Dems as being an obviously-better option than Republicans. I do not, so if you do not convince me otherwise, I literally could not care less if your party continues losing.

Run better candidates if you want to win. That’s how democracies work, right?

The same thing that would happen if Harris won: more death. I imagine Hamas also knows they were not going to win a military victory. The victory to be had for them is, I imagine, a moral one: exposing the moral vacuum at the heart of the American Empire (so Israel included). And in that, they have achieved a massive victory without a doubt.

It’s disgusting that any Palestinian was killed regardless of administration, but that’s the pragmatic reality until Israel ceases to exist. So the question has to be how to achieve that, and I think they’ve made massive strides towards it. And as for America, it’s dying all on its own.

Capitalists are not vulnerable to political pressure from the left because capitalism is inherently contrary to the demands of real leftists. So, my answer to your second question is: neither. And you don’t even have to take my word for it: my evidence is Biden refusing to end political aid to Israel and Harris pleading “no change” from that genocidal policy. I mean for fucks sake, Trump even pretended to reschedule cannabis before Biden did!

That all makes perfect sense, but if it could be established for tobacco, why not for cannabis? The ROA is identical, the confounding factors are more-or-less identical.

and then blame the Democrats somehow.

Yes, how could anyone possibly blame the guy who prematurely declared the end of the pandemic, resulting in the discontinuation of preventative measures and robust data tracking, for the consequences of that decision?

Only those crazy tankies!

The list of known carcinogens is quite short. That is mostly because it is difficult to conduct studies with a large enough sample to be sure that something is a carcinogen with high statistical reliability.

Benzene is certainly one of them, and it’s present in cannabis smoke (well, all smoke from burned plant matter, so cannabis included).

Otherwise I’m not sure what your point is. They wouldn’t need to identify specific compounds to establish a strong correlative relationship between lung cancer and cannabis. Such a relationship has never been established, and not for lack of trying.

Yes, America inspired the Nazis, then both America and the Nazis inspired the Zionazis. I totally agree that the American Empire is the greatest sponsor of global terror and the most violent entity currently, or perhaps ever, existing on our planet. I also agree that Israel is effectively just one colonial outpost of that American Empire. Nothing I said was contrary to that, and words aren’t “buzzwords” just because you’re uneducated on their actual meaning.

Okay, so the left caused your candidate to lose. Aside from the fact that Holocaust Harris would’ve lost even if she received every single third party vote except RFK’s, even including Libertarians who are usually more right-leaning, sure, let’s go with that narrative anyway.

The left is the reason your candidate lost, because the left did not find your candidate worth voting for.

Sounds like you should listen to the demands of the left if you want to stop losing then. And we demand an end to all aid to genocidal Israel and no corporate campaign donors.

Otherwise, you can keep losing. You may view Dems as being an obviously-better option than Republicans. I do not, so if you do not convince me otherwise, I literally could not care less if your party continues losing.

Run better candidates if you want to win. That’s how democracies work, right?

I can live with that.

They value the abstract risk to their personal safety, and that of their loved ones, over the assured mass-murder of Palestinians. I stand by what I said.