Andy Luiten

Thank you for what you’re doing

It takes a lot of energy to suppress the cognitive dissonance between believing yourself a “good Christian man” and committing despicable actions. I would genuinely consider that as a reason for his fatigue.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

Question I would ask:
“Isn’t it true that the tiredness you mentioned on your face is because of the energy it takes to suppress the cognitive dissonance between wanting to see yourself as a “good Christian man” and your actions?

Not to deny that it is dark, but just in case you’re still looking for good news, @fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy is a great source!

Fun concept! And I love the groove!

I find his arguments based on the way people behave in predictable patterns when half of their brain is damaged to be pretty convincing. People who have lost access to one hemisphere do seem to have different motives than people who have lost access to the opposite hemisphere

I can understand your perspective. It seems that we do it anyway when we ascribe the evolutionary motive of self preservation though. I don’t see it as much different than that. The two hemispheres are inclined toward organizing the world in different ways, which taken together lead to survival

I’d say it’s similar to that but some nuances would be that the RH is inherently cooperative, but the LH is inherently competitive, and so has failed to adequately cooperate with the RH on a societal scale since the enlightenment when the LH was able to start molding the world to its desires

Interesting! So it could be conceptualized that flexible predictive processing is a collaborative effort between right and left hemispheres. Which seems to suit both theories. Mcg making a distinction between the two while LFB rightly says the whole brain is doing it.

Thanks for this! I’m curious, do you feel like LFB’s predictive processing framework can fit within McG’s hemisphere hypothesis? Potentially as a way that the left hemisphere operates?

I greatly appreciate your integrity, Brandon.

Do you think maybe a way to integrate these ideas might be that LFB is doing a great job of describing what the LH does specifically?

Autism treatment. I’ve heard that LFB could be critiqued as exemplifying LH dominant thinking. Trying to put all these pieces together in a way that fits… 😅

Unaware or unconsidering of recent research on autism from autistic people. Yet I find his overall work extremely compelling and useful. And then I’m trying to incorporate Sarah Bergenfield’s work on understanding autism through the predictive processing framework and how that can be beneficial in

I really want to know more about how these two theories might overlap. I’ve been reading McG’s 2 books and have been greatly benefited by them. I’m also an autism therapist and think that he doesn’t address autism well. Using a phrase “schizo-autistic spectrum” was pretty tone-deaf and either

Looking forward to it! Is there any chance there’s room for another music artist?

That sounds amazing!

In a disgusting display of authoritarian abuse, ICE violently detains an Iranian-born American doctor, even breaking his car window, as he dropped his child off at daycare.

Shameful.

If there is such a thing as a judgment day where we have to face the truths we’ve denied about our actions, I would like to reserve a seat at his.

Use some common sense.

YouTube video by Josh Johnson Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.

I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.

Give it a watch and share it.

All of us - not just those on Medicaid or food stamps - will be directly paying for the costs of the billionaire tax breaks in the Trump budget package. Here's how.

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Wowser ... what a (long),extraordinary read!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

Agreed!

White privilege is getting to be president, twice, before your base realizes that the pictures you have with Epstein, the fact that you and Epstein praised each other and the fact that you and Epstein were accused of raping a child together, in court, might just mean you're on the Epstein List.

Doesn’t get any clearer than this… so Trump sued CBS for selective editing but Kamala didn’t sue Fox for this?