And because of that we got a better president than the one we have currently. Did you know that historically high voter turnout precedes bad times.

The answer isn’t to increase the democrat voter turnout. It’s to decrease republican voter turnout. The fewer people vote the more the voters are composed only of high information voters and the more politicians have to talk to the public like we are actual fucking adults. That’s good for the public no matter which party wins.

We are basically guaranteed to have about a 50:50 mix of republican and democrat control over time. The question is do you want them to be shit-tier democrats and republicans or high quality democrats and republicans?

It is very entertaining to me how dense this forum is. It’s like interacting with a race of clones, each with the same part of their brain missing. It’s such a novel experience compared to interacting with complete humans, just because of how un-novel each person is.

Every time. It can’t keep happening.

Chase the penguins. Cease the day. That’s what I say, because I’m the coked up personality.

That’s what beginners think is the secret. The real secret is not holding people accountable and shielding them from litigious liability. Companies would regulate themselves if they had to pay for EVERYTHING the second they screw up.

True. But I say at minimum both.

I never claimed otherwise.

Very soon. If we change the absolute clown decision under the Carter administration to not reuse nuclear waste we can just use the nuclear waste we’ve already built up, never burn another hydrocarbon, and never install a single additional solar panel (cause why not), and power the US for 150 years with relatively little mining.

Energy is solved. But neither party wants it to be solved. They want a problem they can have political gainsmanship over. Whether it is the Rs wanting wars to support a petro-dollar as an excuse to give their friends in the defense world money, or the Ds wanting tax funded projects for their donors. An actual solution offers no party any advantage over the current problem.

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What an odd comment.

I think I would crush it in an instant if I did. What’s cool about it is how light it is. I have another two bikes for the jumps. Both cost $100.

Cool. Thanks. I hope to see you guys there.

I’m not making an effort to promote the epoch times. Honestly I almost forgot he’s tied to them till you brought it up. It is good to see the idea wars between different kinds of actors and it is true that pretty much everything the Falun Gong do has to do with their idea wars with the CCP. So that is interesting to note. But I know there are people who have a bad habit of dismissing information because of it’s source, and in general I think that is a bad habit on this site so I push back against the premise more broadly when I can.

This is true. That’s really no reason to discount that video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

No. Not really. I think creating a post-truth world is more harmful. The way you get around the “harm” of true information is by encouraging people to process true information more maturely. Not by hiding it. There is no harm in truth by itself.

So we need to shut people up who’s information we percieve will give us outcomes we don’t like? I guess the nazis gave that ago and if it worked for them I guess we should do the same. But if we have decided to live in a post-truth world of our own creation, how are we going to make an honest assessment of what true information is actually harmful. We could just be lying to ourselves about that too.

Here is a good rule of thumb. Never lie to yourself. Never hide from information. Anything else is just developing anti-intellectual habits.

It kind of reminds me of a quote from And Justice For All from Metallica. “Seeking no truth. Winning is all. Fighting so grim so true so real.”

When both sides frame what is true or false by what will help them win that that’s how you end up with a post truth world. Of course that can be easily corrected by lying to ourselves again and claiming that only one side has blame. There is nothing a lie to ourselves can’t fix.

The media won’t run wild with the idea that none of the parties have public approval when all media outlets work for at least one major political party or the other.

Why would party agents undermine the perceived legitimacy of the party they work for?

The intent of someone’s speech, or even its outcome, does not make it incorrect. A culture of hiding from reality thinking in doing so it will give us certain outcomes is what this practice will create.

Or what he’s really saying is that he never believed what he said before but felt pressured into agreeing with an ideology. And now that he knows the worst that can ever happen to him is death, and that’s alright, he is a lot more candid. That doesn’t agree with progressivisms mentality of agree with the correct thing or be shut up.

My beloved cocaine would never do this! Hmm, no,… you’re right.