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Everyone is focusing on the sex-act, but what about the Putin /photos part? This suggests strongly that Putin does have Kompromat on Trump, which is long suspected.
What about the real coverup? The fact that all these leading nations are corrupted? And humanity basically handed off the human species to world conquering psychopaths. Earth isn't even "gods" earth anymore.
Genuine honest human life was traded to psychopaths out of insecurity and fear.
People need to focus on genuine humanity and rebuilding honest community while detoxing and NOT participating in this fucked up world that "they" created. And that also means sacrificing the privileges and comfort of the "modern" life we all escape reality with. Otherwise nothing is actually going to change.
There's a huge "spiritual" or "zightgeist" side of what's going on right now. And things can't be fixed with the simple traditional politics, which have been learned to be manipulated for whatever people with power want.
People need to change the way they perceive reality and that can only start when they detox from the unatural reality that's constantly marketed to them.
I agree with much of what you say, but the idea that this isn’t “gods” earth any more I find risible. Much of this was done in via religion which is a man-made system to capitalize on insecurity and fear.
I’m curious what you mean about “not participating in this fucked up world” and “sacrificing the privileges and comfort of the modern life”. For me, these are highly ambiguous phrases.
The problem is not a modern/permissive/whatever society but the inability of those on the right wing to tolerate anyone who is different and, as we are now finding out, to attempt to erase them. Love is the answer, and I tend to agree this is not compatible with current politics.
When I say God I don't mean God as in mainstream pop religion... I just mean natural I guess. Most people, maybe even especially actual "religious" people, are connected to what "God" is... If that makes sense.
No, it doesn't make sense. It sounds like magical thinking from someone untethered from reality.
I'm basically talking about nature/the universe.