The electorate not understanding how the world works is actually not a problem on its own. The modern world is very complex and *nobody* understands it in toto! The problem is that the electorate thinks things they don't understand can't, don't, or shouldn't exist.

not that one should ever be in the habit of handing it to Richard Nixon but

The only way we can escape this hellscape is by making the pmc 51 percent of voters rather than the 35-40 percent that it currently constitutes.

The divide of modern politics is between these people and the professional administrative class, who run—and whose livelihoods depend on the operation of—these complex systems of modernity.

the average business traveler has never encountered an ICE agent in the flesh. if anyone in the administration had half the sense god gave a goat, they’d be desperate to keep it that way.

I want to make clear for a second with this comment, it’s not just the green dipshit in this particular thread, it’s the entirety of 21st century fucking politics doing this now. Republicans want manufacturing job where hungover man swings hammer, because of aesthetic.

environmental opinions disregarded with extreme prejudice

One of the major problems we face is that people don't understand the things/processes/structures that allow them to live lives of plenty that would have been unimaginable in the past, and as such think we can just abolish them for basically aesthetic reasons

Let me know when you can replace about 110 million tons of the “toxic” (google the basics of the nitrogen cycle sometime) stuff with whatever you’re selling, meanwhile the rest of us will try to keep the farms working so people don’t starve this year

it's in the same part of the Constitution as letters of marque, though

Colorado was such an backwards podunk state in the 80s and 90s. What exists now is so much better. You don’t miss the country buffet friend, you miss being a child.

Honestly, solidarity with Sky on this one. There are things that carry a non-negligible risk of gruesome death that I would rather do than ask a woman out.

"Slopulism" conveys about one-tenth of the amount of contempt populist politics and politicians have earned, but it'll do until we find a more elegantly insulting term.

wait wait wait, back the fuck up Sanae Takaichi, who is the answer to the question "what if António de Oliveira Salazar were a Japanese woman," interned for, of all fucking people, *Pat Schroeder*?!

You may not see much of a difference between J Street and AIPAC but I can assure you, they don't see it that way.

I want to stress again that I am not categorically opposed to the use of AI in the practice of law. It is already a useful tool for some use cases and I think it will become useful in many more. Thing is: you've got to feed an LLM a useful prompt. And the prompt in the screenshot is dogshit.

Everything is so stupid.

right. israel does not have the right to exist. it has the power to exist. this is because states do not have rights. the question "does the electorate of israel have the right to exclude people under its territorial control from the electorate" is "plainly not."

It is arguably unconstitutional to amend the Constitution to abolish the Senate, but it would be perfectly constitutional to limit its remit to naming post offices.

So often over the last decade, I have found myself obsessing over the eleventh- or twelfth-worst aspect of some stupid thing Donald Trump said or did. Coping mechanism, I guess? Anyway, my kingdom for a White House correspondent who will ask the President *when* he thinks Pearl Harbor happened.

eternal

the foolish American proles rejecting the incisive wisdom of a Northwestern Wildcat, sadly many such cases

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his Clout depends on his not understanding it

Every person who has a held job in an American shopping mall for even a single day between November 15 and January 2 in any of the last 30 years has the same answer to this question.

The "you're welcome" at the very end should have caused plaintiff's counsel to vanish in a puff of smoke. It would have been a mercy.

In my life as a student I took a fair few classes that dealt with some heavy subject matter, but the only one that legitimately kept me up at night was Chemical Engineering Ethics.

I know it's just IASIP merch but the fact that his shirt says "Paddy" is actually perfect

I discovered I have a potential scheduling conflict two Saturdays from now and "should I go to the left-wing political protest or the first-ever home game in the history of Denver's professional women's soccer team" is a dilemma a younger, shittier version of me would have relentlessly made fun of

Edmund Burke is not walking through that door

you can just block that Woke Ginger asshole, it's easy and free and fun

This is why I am anti-Santa Claus.

PUT A BANNER AT COORS FIELD, THIS IS THE ONLY WORLD TITLE THEY’RE GETTING

go 'Cats

I need the non-lawyers in the crowd to understand that, although it goes by a different name, Domino's Pizza Sedevacantist Law School is an actual real place. It is accredited by the ABA. It will give you a diploma that says Juris Doctor on it that will allow you to take the bar exam.

Gonna nitpick the premise on this one and say that one year of living expenses, at the cost of the enormous pain in the ass of moving twice in a year, is not a good tradeoff and I wouldn't want to move at all.

One side effect of the Cult of the Operator But Leftistly is that these people think The Troubles were cool and fun and they're mad they don't get to live through them.

When Irish people are sympathetic to the IRA: fine, understandable, the loyalist paramilitaries were at least as bad and that’s before you get to the crimes of the British army When Americans are sympathetic to the IRA: get to fuck you bloodthirsty plastic paddy LARPers funding terrorism as a hobby

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Man it turns out that baseball is really fun when we take all the dour, joyless, grindset attitude out of it #wbc

My wife and I both have such fond memories of childhood trips to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science that we decided to get married there.

I make a marinara sauce that is roughly 30% of the reason any woman has ever gone on a date with me, and this is its secret.

Yeah, there was no introspection among humans prior to 1920. Just ask Hamlet.

*Social* Science, but David Graeber

apparently, yes, which is pretty blackpilling TBH

Good.

easy bucket

slopulism generator: Eliminate *spins wheel* Sales Tax *throws dart* for Teachers *draws card* on DoorDash

A lot of the replies refer to generative AI as "CSAM generators" and that's how you know they just have a religious belief in the ontological evil of generative AI.

if nothing else i think this administration has made me realize how much i wish my political opponents were annoying libertarians like i probably disagree with the Cato guys on plenty, but at least we won't have to debate over stuff like "the government should follow the law"