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You keep thinking we’re “MAGA extremists,” but we’re just old school liberal Democrats who never went along with the far left trans extremism movement.

I have a child at Michigan. She saw the video and immediately was like they won’t do anything. Only way they do anything is if donors tell them they will stop donating.

I don't know exactly who invented the term "crashout", or when. But we all know what it means. It's a particular social media phenomenon where someone says something egregiously wrong or unpopular, then keeps doubling down in the face of almost universal opposition. This is the result of a particular human quirk that researchers have known about for many years. Strong social pressure against a deeply held belief strengthens that belief. @ZacksJerryRig does not just happen to disagree with everything @elonmusk says. He disagrees with it specifically because Musk says it. And the more the rest of us point out that he's being kinda retarded, the more he disagrees. Why? Because he has invested so much of his reputation and identity in Musk being wrong about everything that at this point, he actually needs Musk to be wrong about everything, or his world collapses. You see, humans are evolved to live in packs of about 150 people, give or take. Dunbar's number. And this means that all of our social instincts are calibrated to the assumption that we will be dealing with the same 150ish people throughout our lives, and our survival will depend on them. This is why most humans fear social embarrassment more than death, and are very reluctant to take social risks. If you are stuck with the same small tribe all your life, and you need them to help you survive, loss of reputation pretty much is death. So Jerry, or Zack, or whatever his real name is, feels like he needs to prove Musk wrong. No matter how many times Musk is proven right, at least directionally right, he will never stop trying to make him wrong, because his midbrain thinks that is the only way to salvage his status in the tribe. But we don't actually live in a small homonid group. We live in a digitally connected world, and so long as a few million out of eight billion humans are willing to watch Jerry review iphones or whatever, he's going to be fine. If he just shut up about Musk tomorrow, and never mentioned him in any way ever again, he would still have an audience and suffer no significant negative effects whatsoever. He's just making himself miserable. A great deal of human misery results from the distance between the environment we evolved for, and the environment we live in. The only solution to this that I know of, and it requires both a high IQ and good emotional maturity, is to understand that distance, what effects it has, and try to deliberately and consciously compensate for it. For example, I deliberately try not to have an opinion about Elon Musk in the same way that I would have an opinion about someone I actually know personally. Obviously, I make judgements about his capabilities, plans, and predictions. They're important. I think he's almost always directionally correct, but underestimates time and difficulty by an order of magnitude. This is probably a sort of congenital optimism that allows him to swing for the fences in the first place. But, importantly, I try to never fit those kinds of judgement into the hardwired psychological machinery that governs my real, bidirectional social relationships in my own life. Instead, I force them to remain as a sort of scientific speculation about someone I cannot actually observe directly. You have to rule your instinctive brain, or it will rule you.

What about Xenu? What are your thoughts on thetons?