The problem starts when you think that other people need your religion so you can be happy.

Because an uneducated bible-thumping yeehawdist’s is given the same (if not more) weight than a well-researched and rational vote.

My unpopular opinion from the last 26 years is that equality in voting means pandering to bottom half of the population. If you want an intelligent and effective government, it needs to be run by intelligent and effective people. Democracy is representative of the people, so if you have everyone voting equally, then at best, you’re going to end up with a 50% intelligent and effective government.

I honestly don’t know how to solve this problem. I can’t see a way that you can weight a vote by intelligence or “connection to reality” without having a system that is very vulnerable to oppression, and still protects the rights of the morons and sheep who want to get rid of social services while they are receving substantial welfare.

I’m not advocating for removing or watering down anyone’s right to vote, I’m just calling attention to a fundamental flaw in the system.

Yeah, my household tax rate last year was ~32% after Federal, State, and Local. That’s not counting the other taxes I paid on gas, or fees for my car, or property taxes. I would not be surprised if 50% of my income was taxes.

Bezos paid like 0.9% I think. Fucking ridiculous.

Sure sure, but he’ll definitely pay me this time because my company is different. All those other guys were just incapable of doing the job right.

Yeah, we’re in a mid-season plot stretch to see if this administration can “weekend at Bernie’s” a vapid blathering demential patient for another year so that JD Vance can get 2.5 terms as president.

It’s all going exactly as everyone with 2+ braincells predicted.

eugenics

Not science.

atom bombs

No argument here. Science was also used to develop airplanes and buildings. You can create with the knowledge earned from science, but religion (can) give the justification to misuse those creations.

It is not about the tool but how we choose to use it.

Well said.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

By your reasoning nobody learns anything before they go to university?

Absolutely not what I said. Please re-read my comment.

Because in what other educational environment you would read multiple books’ worth of information about a single subject…

Yeah… You definitely did not understand what I wrote. Read it again and see if you still feel the same way.

I’ve been playing WarThunder mobile while waiting for my Factor to finish in my Kohler microwave. Can’t wait to bundle up in my limited edition Snuggie and watch some movies on Disney+ until I’m old enough to use that One Secret Trick the Federal government has been hiding from thousands of people like YOU when signing up for benefits…(Link in Description)

Blatant AstroTurf ad campaign to sell cheap electronics. Blocked.

/s

You’d think, with all the fucking data they collect on me, they’d know that I don’t have any money and I don’t buy anything unless I absolutely have to.

It’s the kind of poetry a Vogon would produce after his second Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.

Source : Took journalism in school and it fucked up my ACTs.

Glances nervously at Ford, BMW, VW, Mitsubishi, etc…

Reading can be part of learning, but just reading Wikipedia is not. If you want to learn something, you need to invest the time in it to understand not just the words, but the context of that information, you need to be able to apply what you have read, and make use of it, even if that use is purely academic.

For instance, you can read about the American civil war on Wikipedia, but a history teacher would not say that you learned the history of the American civil war. You would need to read multiple books on the situation before the war, during the war, and after the war, along with exploring the relevant technologies available at the time. You’d also want to look into primary sources like the diaries of some of the major leadership on both sides of the conflict, and review maps of battle sites and troop movements with time and dates, maybe even go visit some of the major battle sites, and at that point, you could say you’ve learned the history of the American civil war.

Same thing for space. You can read the Wikipedia article on space, but you can’t claim that you learned about space from that. You’d need to look at other sources, rely on previous education you’ve had in school, maybe make some observations of space on your own, watch interviews of astronauts and astronomers, and then you can start to say that you’re learning about space.

Learning takes an investment from you. Simply reading the material is not learning, you need to interact with it.

Speaking as someone who writes in cursive, has a couple of nice clocks and watches, and can drive a manual transmission… Yeah, times are a changing. I think it is fun to learn those skills, but not necessary. My school didn’t teach me how to hitch up a team of horses, nor how to sharpen an axe or load a flintlock musket. Digital clocks are cheap enough and common enought that learning analog is not strictly necessary.

Vote early, and vote often.

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This is it 1000%

In the US, probably 75% of the population will irreparably fuck up their entire life from a single missed paycheck, which can happen if you miss a single day of work because you were illegally detained.

Not like “oh, I’ll need to pay a late fee fuck up”, I mean, “you and your kids will die cold and hungry under a bridge” fuck up.

He doesn’t believe in due process for anyone else, why should he get the same benefit? Stephen Miller murdered a child, and should be summarily deported from life. He didn’t use due process to murder the child, so he shouldn’t get due process to avoid the death penalty. No trial, just a hangin’.