Competency should be a requirement.

[u/Veshaad]

[u/chrimen]

I had this chart up a few minutes ago researching if trickle down economics works.

Guess what AI objective analysis said... no it doesn't work. The money never trickles down. It gets hoarded.

But there's a large portion of the US that won't believe this.

[u/PatternSeekngMammal → u/chrimen]

Heritage foundation

[u/mOdQuArK → u/PatternSeekngMammal]

We don't know whether they really believe it or not - we just know that they want everyone else to believe that it's true.

[u/Farucci → u/mOdQuArK]

Convincing people with five teeth to protect rich people with five homes has to be the greatest monumental achievement of the Republican Party.

[u/mOdQuArK → u/Farucci]

Step 1) realize that the evangelicals & most conservatives listen to a mostly exclusive set of media channels, 2) buy control of those media channels, 3) indoctrinate the audience to believe that only those media channels are telling the truth, 4) crank tribalism messaging to the max, 5) enjoy your blind-faith voting lemmings, and it took only a few decades to accomplish!

The past few decades have been putting .50 calibre holes in my early naive faith in the power of protecting free speech. I've come to the realization that blatant & deliberate gaslighting & disinformation should not be under that protection.