Random Politics Thread

[Doctor Cringelord]

On Parler, The Right-Wing Social Media Site, Free Speech Isn’t Free | HuffPost

Apparently users can be financially liable if Parler is sued because of their posts.

That could be interesting.

If true, sounds like a clever way of the owners being able to maintain some plausible deniability

 

[The Cat]

 

[Maou]

 

[Magic Poriferan]

Every day, the Trump administration and the conservative media tell me the baseless lie that Joe Biden is way cooler than he really is.

I wish I elected the Joe Biden of their narrative.

 

[Merced]

Every day, the Trump administration and the conservative media tell me the baseless lie that Joe Biden is way cooler than he really is.

I wish I elected the Joe Biden of their narrative.

^THIS.

IF ONLY HE WAS A COMMIE!!!!

 

[Jaguar]

Objecting to every single vote being recounted in Milwaukee. What kind of scammers are these people?

 

[The Cat]

Objecting to every single vote being recounted in Milwaukee. What kind of scammers are these people?

 

[anticlimatic]

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

hmmmm
Since I like to chew on other people's hair, drink out of juice boxes, and I lurve fucking science, I must be a science worshipper. I actually did fck a scientist once upon a time.

 

[anticlimatic]

hmmmm
Since I like to chew on other people's hair, drink out of juice boxes, and I lurve fucking science, I must be a science worshipper. I actually did fck a scientist once upon a time.

We're all scientists, homie. Unless we're living wrong.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

We're all scientists, homie. Unless we're living wrong.

That's a pleasant thought, but I'm not certain what you mean by it. I did appreciate the clarity of thought possessed by the scientist I married. He was unusually brilliant and an INTP, so strong in logic. I score very high myself on analytical reasoning tests (92% on the GRE). There is a systematic, consistent, responsible way defining assumptions and facts and then building theories from these. Most people are far afield from this sort of reasoning.

This recent time has made me deeply concerned about science education in America. I teach in the arts, but there is something woefully wrong when basic, elementary level reasoning for science is missing in the adult population. Behaviors about precautions during a global respiratory pandemic have shown that the majority humans do not come anywhere near to being a scientist at heart.

Maybe some worship science, and it would be better if they were critical thinkers, but worshipping science is a helluva lot better than what I've witnessed.

 

[Lark]

I am watching the fifth season of parks and rec, Lesley goes to washington, think its episode one, there are all these super tall women, I think I feel in love with one of them and truthfully I'm sure its someone who was a kind of cameo actress or something.

Tall women used to scare me. Now they are awesome. I wonder how that happened.

 

[anticlimatic]

That's a pleasant thought, but I'm not certain what you mean by it. I did appreciate the clarity of thought possessed by the scientist I married. He was unusually brilliant and an INTP, so strong in logic. I score very high myself on analytical reasoning tests (92% on the GRE). There is a systematic, consistent, responsible way defining assumptions and facts and then building theories from these. Most people are far afield from this sort of reasoning.

This recent time has made me deeply concerned about science education in America. I teach in the arts, but there is something woefully wrong when basic, elementary level reasoning for science is missing in the adult population. Behaviors about precautions during a global respiratory pandemic have shown that the majority humans do not come anywhere near to being a scientist at heart.

Maybe some worship science, and it would be better if they were critical thinkers, but worshipping science is a helluva lot better than what I've witnessed.

Most people are scientists with their own lives and the empirical data they gather, myself included. For instance, I've asked whether jam would be good on pancakes, tried both jam and pancakes to research, constructed a hypothesis that jam would be quite good on pancakes, tested it with an experiment, found the procedure was not working- corrected, and cooked the pancakes better this time- found the procedure was working, finished, ate the jam covered pancakes and analyzed the data- found my hypothesis was incorrect, didn't particularly care for it, so then created a new hypothesis that peanut butter would be good on pancakes, and so on.

Data you can gather yourself like that with your senses is data you can trust. There's no middle man, no ravine of ignorance with which to bridge, so it doesn't usually boil down to the primary issue with "science" and the pandemic- trust/faith. Which authority figures are you going to choose to follow for the sake of your own ignorance...Governor Cuomo? Rush Limbaugh? The WHO? Your opinionated neighbor Chuck that you've always thought was smart and reasonable? The doctors and researches who said Hydroxychloroquine was helpful? The doctors and researches who said Hydroxychloroquine would kill you? Your own experiences?

Everybody is just floundering about arbitrarily in the face of this thing, with no consistent approach, and no real monopoly on reason anywhere. Not because people are unscientific, but because they just don't know who to trust, and anybody on their sanctimonious high horse blaming people for that is pretty ignorant, IMO, at least regarding the true nature of the situation.

 

[Mad Hatter]

We're all scientists, homie. Unless we're living wrong.

 

[Lark]

I've been thinking about the whole terror of some global racist conspiracy to kill everyone off which most anti-semites believe, the thing is that while they believe this is going on and everything they do is resisting this or retaliation against it, this idea, this plan, the conspiracy itself, is actually what they want to do themselves.

So the whole thing isnt something they consider to be wrong per se so much as it is a case of "Why didnt we think of that?!".

Which is just utterly shite, your grievance cant be "I want a piece of that action" or "cant I be a part of this?".

This is why Leninism and its cousins was so fucked because it was the protest of people who didnt really want to change things so much as "place" among the top dogs themselves.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Virtual ghost]

Just a food for though.

Where every state is in play.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I've been thinking about the whole terror of some global racist conspiracy to kill everyone off which most anti-semites believe, the thing is that while they believe this is going on and everything they do is resisting this or retaliation against it, this idea, this plan, the conspiracy itself, is actually what they want to do themselves.

So the whole thing isnt something they consider to be wrong per se so much as it is a case of "Why didnt we think of that?!".

Which is just utterly shite, your grievance cant be "I want a piece of that action" or "cant I be a part of this?". .

I have to think a death drive is a thing that is real.

 

[Jaguar]

Diaper Don.