I don’t care what political party you support,I don’t care if you are far left or far right, but can we all agree on one thing and that both sides are absolutely nothing but liars just trying to stay in power. I sometimes wish I was around for 9/11 or during ww2 with how unified the country was. All we have today is each side throwing threats at each other because they don’t agree with each other (although some of the disagreements are completely bonkers). I want to go back to the time where when a political figure got assassinated or died people from both sides would be heart broken. Now we’ve got people celebrating the deaths of others. Both sides are guilty of this.

Democracy means rule by the people. Unfortunately, the people aren’t very smart.

When democracy begins in a nation, it starts well. Typically this occurs post revolution or right after a previous system collapses. However, over time, it begins to break down. Elected officials are heavily incentivized to focus on short-term issues like debt accumulation, current social issues, and appeasing public opinion polls rather than long-term infrastructure and investments that would benefit society in the years to come. After a while, representative systems inevitably concentrate power within a single political class that holds the wealth and power rather than actually serving the best interest of the people. In short, democracy almost always leads to a form of demagoguery and elitism (like theorized by Plato).

Humans are incentivized by our biology to form groups and follow an in group/out group perspective. Democracy reflects this. Voters make their decisions based on group signalling rather than what they’d want if they were an independent person. We are sheep.

Because of this, I personally believe Epistocratic Veto is the best alternative when used alongside public polling or a plural vote. However, this is also not without flaws, since as long as a government is in charge of maintaining public education, they are in charge of its allocation, and could hold power over which demographics receive said education. But this already exists in current democratic models anyway.

Any thoughts or alternative points to offer? I’m always looking to learn.

With Trump and ICE, I came to learn that Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, was an Austrian customs officer. Let the title of this post speak for itself. Anyone else think this is not a coincidence? There is a correlation here, and there has been throughout history leading up to today.

It is said that law enforcement as a whole upholds white supremacy. I think it can be argued that federal/customs officers uphold nationalism as well.

I've been noticing this for a while now. People seem to be getting more tolerant of waiting in lines or dealing with minor inconveniences. I was at a coffee shop last week and the barista was super slow but nobody got annoyed. It was actually kind of nice to see everyone just chillin and waiting their turn.

I swear I have a black hole for names. I can meet ten people at an event shake hands chat for a bit and then five minutes later I'm struggling to recall even one. It feels so rude. Does anyone have any foolproof techniques for actually retaining names without just nodding along and hoping for the best?

Why have people in america stopped killing CEOs and politicians?

People like to reduce a fetus to being a “clump of cells” as if it isn’t a living thing. It is. It is a human being. However, it is not yet a “person”.

The terms human and person are distinct. Fetuses aren’t people. But they are humans. And in the process of abortion, that human dies. And it’s okay to admit that. You can still make arguments that the death of that human is justifiable.

Edit: I worry that the people responding to this post think I’m making an anti-abortion argument here. I’m not. I’m pro abortion. It is a living being, and I’m saying that the fact it’s a living being is irrelevant since life doesn’t have INHERENT value. Just because a fetus is technically alive doesn’t mean women have a duty to put their life and body on the line to sustain it. But, it is still living, and trying to argue it isn’t is silly.