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Don't get bogged down in name calling and hate...it's a trap

The facts, and even the "western values- no genocidal ethnostate" are on our side, so we shouldn't fight dirty.

And honestly I suspect they want us to fight dirty ( name calling, claiming they all in on it ) because then our arguments are easy to dismiss...then the antisemitic boogyman is easy to point out

Without calling anyone a 🧃

Point to the genocide, live streamed in 4k, even though a record number of journalists have been killed so far

Point to them being the highest cumulative recipient of USA foreign aid, despite having no debt and universal healthcare

Point to AIPAC, how it clearly pays off our politicians, to get pro-isreali legislation passed. No other ally has a lobby like this trying to steer our elections

There are a lot of easy targets that are completely legitimate, just don't fall for the trap of hate, because it will weaken this movement

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We share the longest border in the world. We speak the same language and share a deep history. They are a fellow Five Eyes and NATO member. Plus they are flush with resources!

We are culturally so similar that it's often hard to tell a Canadian apart from an American.

Sure, we have our differences, but from a global perspective, there is no doubt they are our civilizational brothers.

So why on earth would we disrespect them, tariff them, and look to embarrass them on the world stage?!

It's like spray-painting "f\\\\\\\*ck you" on your neighbor's house...who also happens to be your cousin...in broad daylight. It doesn't make your neighborhood better; it only weakens you.

Like a canary in the coal mine.... evidence something is deeply wrong/corrupt with our foreign policy... America is clearly not acting in its own interest....even from the most "America first" point of view...this is just foolish. Like the Iran war...it's just not clear to me why on earth we would do this.

We obviously are stronger standing with our civilizational partners

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We share the longest border in the world. We speak the same language and share a deep history. They are a fellow Five Eyes and NATO member. Plus they are flush with resources!

We are culturally so similar that it's often hard to tell a Canadian apart from an American.

Sure, we have our differences, but from a global perspective, there is no doubt they are our civilizational brothers.

So why on earth would we disrespect them, tariff them, and look to embarrass them on the world stage?!

It's like spray-painting "f\\\*ck you" on your neighbor's house...who also happens to be your cousin...in broad daylight. It doesn't make your neighborhood better; it only weakens you.

Like a canary in the coal mine.... evidence something is deeply wrong/corrupt with our foreign policy... America is clearly not acting in its own interest....even from the most "America first" point of view...this is just foolish. Like the Iran war...it's just not clear to me why on earth we would do this.

We obviously are stronger standing with our civilizational partners

To me this is just clearly evident.....even how people brains "break"" when something like a stroke happens....It's clear that different parts of the computer have failed, and thus no movement on one side of the body for example. Its clear to me that the brain is a biological computer....an electrochemical computer. I don't know how any logical person could not see the parallel.

The real mystery to me....is how "we" got inside here to experience it.

I've seen so many coincidences at this point. So many things that just line up in strange ways....talking about some random thing...and then it just appears. Feels like it's happening more and more all the time...

I could tell you, but it wouldn't prove anything to you. It's better to just discover it yourself. It's strange, but also quite beautiful.

Let me share with you...a few things that have helped me find peace and meaning here.

1. Your experience here is made of information being processed...whether that's neurons in your brain, or some higher dimension computer... For the purpose of your experience here...it almost doesn't matter which one. Find peace in that...and move on.

2. This place is a reflection of you...in some often unsettling ways. But recognizing that can be useful. Be the change you want to see. Struggle against adversity, and be kind...even when nobody is watching.

3. This place is as "real" as you make it. It's best to enjoy your experience here... Travel widely, love deeply, show others how to discover the beauty of this world. It matters..deeply.

4. Look at it like "playing along" if you like, but don't spoil it for others. It won't help them....or you. Sure it's fun to drop a little hint here and there, but let them connect their own dots. You don't know it all...and neither do I.

5. Enjoy the ride ✌️it's the show of a lifetime.

Your worldview is simply the sum of everything your senses have ever taken in.

For almost all of human history, that view was shaped entirely by direct, physical experience—the places you walked and the people you spoke with face-to-face.

Writing changed the equation by introducing symbols, but reading took effort. For centuries, printed words remained a tiny fraction of total human experience.

Look at where we are now?

What fraction of your "world view" is built not on direct experience, but what a screen showed you?

You "know" politicians, celebrities, and far-off countries without ever having been there or spoken a word to them.

The smartphone doesn't require the slow effort of reading. It floods your primary sensory system with immediate, vivid light and sound.

As AI gets better at knowing your exact psychological triggers, the screen stops being a window to the outside world. It becomes a hyper-personalized mirror... that's ever harder to look away from

It is going to get strange when the physical world becomes the minority of what you experience...the majority of your worldview being curated for you by an AI that knows you better than you know yourself...

Anything that is not a 9 or a 10 is a bad review

CVS says they conduct these surveys so we can see what we’re doing well and "optimize our approach to service." .But forcing us to beg for perfect scores significantly flattens any genuine interaction you have with a patient.

Imagine this scenario: A little old lady comes in for a vaccine. During small talk, she tells me her husband just passed away. I step back from the rush, spend some time comforting her, and on her way out, she gives me a hug.

Now, imagine if I then pulled out a QR code and said, "Please give me all 10s."

It would totally flatten the human-to-human comfort I just gave her. It turns a moment of real empathy into a transactional data point

Has anyone found a way to balance keeping management off your back about scores without selling your soul at the register?

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We share the longest border in the world. We speak the same language and share a deep history. They are a fellow Five Eyes and NATO member. Plus they are flush with resources!

We are culturally so similar that it's often hard to tell a Canadian apart from an American.

Sure, we have our differences, but from a global perspective, there is no doubt they are our civilizational brothers.

So why on earth would we disrespect them, tariff them, and look to embarrass them on the world stage?!

It's like spray-painting "f\*ck you" on your neighbor's house...who also happens to be your cousin...in broad daylight. It doesn't make your neighborhood better; it only weakens you.

Like a canary in the coal mine.... evidence something is deeply wrong/corrupt with our foreign policy... America is clearly not acting in its own interest....even from the most "America first" point of view...this is just foolish. Like the Iran war...it's just not clear to me why on earth we would do this.

What if information builds life 🧬 the same way gravity builds ✨?

We treat biology, human history, and modern technology as completely separate subjects. They aren't. If you zoom out far enough, the boundaries disappear and a clear pattern emerges: the universe is building a recursive loop to process information faster and faster.

Look at the timelines. It took billions of years to go from single-celled organisms to complex multicellular life, but only a fraction of that time to develop brains. Human history mirrors this perfectly: an agonizingly long, slow Stone Age, but once writing was invented, the pace of progress exploded. The curve keeps steepening.

I call this the RICE framework (Recursive Information-driven Complexity Emergence). Instead of viewing history as a series of random evolutionary leaps, everything fits into a single, accelerating 5-layer progression:

• Copy (DNA/RNA): The universe learns to replicate information.
• Coordinate (Multicellular Life): Information learns to network and build cooperative physical structures.
• Compute (Brains/Nervous Systems): Information learns to process its environment in real-time.
• Culture (Language/Writing): Information learns to survive across generations without relying purely on physical genes.
• Code (AI/Digital Computing): Information covers the entire earth connecting us all to some Meta culture that is curated for us by AI

Under this lens, the dizzying, exponential speed of the modern world isn't an anomaly, a crisis, or a breaking point. It is the natural, inevitable result of the universe recursively feeding its outputs back into its inputs. Every layer builds the hardware for the next layer's software.

We aren't just floating in a chaotic universe; we are droplets in a ancient wave of accelerating change driven by information processing

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So I'm a pharmacist...at work..and an intern asks me to tell a funny story from my experience in pharmacy.

I tell her about when I was working in a rural pharmacy...we had a patient who would just spit on the floor. Never got the impression he did it out of hostility...just that he forgot he was inside or something....told her that story and how awkward it was asking him to please not do that.

Then 1 minute later...while we are still laughing at the story...

I'm handed a bottle of pills to RTS....I check the tablets..

And the marking on it reads "SPIT"...the patient's last name...was "Laughter"

It pointed it out to the intern....

she said "woah that's kind of scary"

Strange coincidence...

Thomas massie....the most famous Congress person in Kentucky history...one of the most famous Congress people in the country....who stood against AIPAC ....who pushed for Epstein files to be released...

Literally had the opposition make an AI generated video suggesting he was sleeping with AOC and Omar.

Lost. Lost a contest of a number of votes. Impossible

Haven't heard from anyone that supports his opponent.

This should infuriate every American who wants free, fair elections that actually represent the public will.

That are tired of sending our tax dollars to an already rich nation....that bribes our politicians and has its thumb on the scales of our democracy.

Free America from AIPAC

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I’m not talking about Empire 2.0, but a much tighter alliance than what we currently have. We already have a massive foundation for this if you look at intelligence and military pacts like the Five Eyes and AUKUS

As an American, it's hard to ignore that there are nations out there actively trying to influence us in negative ways...tactics like bribing our politicians to drag us into wars and get us to send billions of dollars every year to a tiny rich country

I was recently watching King Charles’s speech, and it really struck a chord. I believe he was trying to remind us of what made our nations so great in the past, and how we can course-correct to be great again.

It was a strong reminder of our shared history and, in some sense, our shared destiny.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for sending blank checks to fund anyone's wars of expansion, but honestly, I don't think these specific allies would ever even ask that of us

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These are countries where we share a core identity. Thanks to modern technology keeping our shared language and media so unified, our cultures are incredibly synced up. Pushing for a closer union among us would be a very low-friction transition.

Also, can you imagine what we would look like on a map?

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That is a LOT of red, white, and blue spanning the globe.

What do you guys think? Would a tighter political or economic alliance work?

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Nearly every single year for decades, the top recipient of US foreign aid has been the same country. Look it up if you don't believe me.

We send billions of taxpayer dollars to a foreign nation that has:

* Universal healthcare for its citizens.

* Heavily subsidized higher education.

* A space program.

* A much lower debt-to-GDP ratio than we do.

They are not a "developing nation." They are a wealthy, first-world superpower.

The Question No One Is Allowed to Ask:

Wouldn't it be better for America and better for all of mankind if we spread that aid out a bit?

Wouldn't it be better if our tax dollars went to help refugees fleeing a bombed-out city, rather than paying for the bombs that leveled it?

But here is what is so insulting: Noticing this gets you taken down.

If you ask why we are subsidizing a wealthy nation while our own veterans sleep under bridges, you aren't treated like a concerned taxpayer. You are smeared as a bigot.

The "Anti-Anglo" Test

Imagine for a second if the UK demanded American taxpayers fund the Royal Navy.

Imagine if the Governor of Florida signed a bill making it a crime to criticize King Charles.

Imagine if a group called BIPAC (British Public Affairs Committee) spent millions to unseat any US Senator who voted against sending cash to Londom

We would call it a violation of our sovereignty. But when it happens in real life with our "Greatest ally"...your racist if you notice it n

The Mechanism:

How is it that a rich nation gets all this American taxpayer money?

They pay our Congressmen millions of dollars every year via the largest lobby in DC. Miraculously, it is the only one not required to register as a foreign agent.

In return, Congress sends billions of our tax dollars back to them.

It is a great deal for them (The foreign nation and the Politicians).

It is a horrible deal for us (The American Taxpayer)

The obvious truth we need to have the self respect to see.

A country that can’t ask “where is our money going?” without being smeared as a bigot is not sovereign. Noticing this, as more and more of us are, is not hateful.

If any ally wants the American public to see them in a better light, here is the fix:

1)Stand on your own. You are a rich country. You can pay for your own wars.

2)Respect our sovereignty. Register your lobby as a foreign agent and get your thumb off the scales of our democracy.

2. Stop the Gaslighting. Don't call policy criticism “hate speech”. It is manipulative, and it is not how true friends treat each other.

The big picture of all this has been hidden away...but it's simple...and more and more of us are seeing it. Once you see it, it's very hard to unsee it.

Please try to change my view...

If you're like me and you love America, love the west....the answer is pretty clear.

The English speaking countries in the world that we share and create culture with, share intelligence with through 5 eyes are natural partners.

NATO is obviously very good for America, the biggest block of allies in the world...they have fought with us post 911

Israel on the other hand is a small rich country that is somehow the top recipient of US foreign aid...that tries to get us to fight its wars...like Iran. A country that sold out secrets to the Soviets in the cold war

The choice is pretty clear if you do even a little digging...turn off Fox News....and just notice what's going on here.

The title pretty much says it all....that allies that fought with us to stop a genocide in ww2....and had to pay back the American taxpayer, which they recently did.

Now look at the top recipient of US foreign aid...a small rich country with no debt. We GIVE them billions every year....why? Because they have a giant lobby called AIPAC that pressures our politicians in various ways to keep the tap open.

We give all this money to a country committing a genocide. We fight their wars of expansion for them. We do this because most of us don't realize it....once you notice though...

All this recent business by the way...while we support this genocidal rich nation....has made our traditional partners very leery of us, which weakens us.

America needs to remember who its real friends are...and aren't

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