Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Exactly. Trump doesn’t have any policy goals, he couldn’t care about any of that.
Trump’s only wants are his base emotional needs: eat a hamburder, grope an unwilling child, be complimented, see others suffer. Anything more sophisticated than that is being done for someone who’s giving him burders, babes or bribes.
There are many contributing factors. Part of it is russian and american oligarchs spending heaps of cash to amplify any and every message that could help trump win.
The fact that power results in antisocial behavior has been understood for millenia.
Lots of societies have had cultural infrastructure of equality that attempts to mitigate this weakness in our biology and prevent harmful levels of power accumulation. The basque village layouts that Davids Graeber & Wengrove talk about, or the practise of ‘insulting the meat’ of successful hunters.
My parents have always referred to each other as their partner, so that’s what I’ve always done. It’s just normal.
Since moving to the US people get so weird about it. I had a boss’s boss ask me why I call my wife my partner in a skip-level. I was so confused I just stared at her and said “What?” It was like being ask why I think oranges are citrus fruit.
Neuroscience shows that rulers will always become evil.
Getting more power actually changes your brain, suppressing your ability to use empathy. The very powerful will always struggle to remember that others are human and don’t want to be hurt.
Humane behavior and hierarchy are mutually exclusive. Heirarchical organization encourages humans to hurt each other.
… They can sing! Oo, help me Dr. Zaius.
You’re not familiar with the people involved, you don’t know the details of how much they’re taking and it sounds like you’re unfamiliar with the psychedelic experience. You just do not have the information to make an accurate assessment of the decisions these strangers made.
Parents assess risks on behalf of their children all the time, that’s like the main thing about being a parent.
Because you can judge the risk for yourself and decide that at home with the kids asleep and someone on standby is within your risk tolerance. But it’s not ethical to make that decision for other people.
And it’s not just about others’ kids vs your own - there are many factors that make them different situations.
Of course not but at work as a primary carer for other people’s kids is a very different scenario that at home with your own kids who are asleep while you have trusted sober adults on standby.
It’s just a lie. I don’t think it’s meant to hold up to scrutiny, it’s just meant to be repeated.
We trip regularly and I use to work in childcare. This does not sound negligent to me at all.
Mushrooms just aren’t very disabling once you’re familiar with them and measure doses. I’ve ran into and chatted with professional acquaintances while on mushrooms. It’s fine.
It’s done wonders for our relationship and mental health. I don’t think it’s for everyone, but it’s been a huge boon to us.
It really shows that netanyahu’s genocidal attempt to cling to power are not just brutal, inhumane and a risk to the whole region, but also strongly against israel’s own interests.
Wait you want to hear the FBI’s version of why people who film factory farms should be charged with attempted use of WMDs?
Probably the FBI is not willing to explain why they want to pretend that exposing illegal animal cruelty is the same thing as planning a mustard gas attack.
It’s a jeebus said so thing. Babies need to be baptized and sinners need to be sent to hell.
The rights that US citizens enjoy are standard across the overwhelming majority of our global peers, for any sensible definition of peer.
we haven’t followed the rules the constitution imposed
A good constitution would be less ignorable. We ignore the words ‘well regulated militia’, for example.
Part of the reason Russia succeeded in getting trump elected is because our system, as laid out in the constitution, allows the person who got less votes to win sometimes. That’s bad design.
doesn’t mean you get to starve and decimate an entire country just because you don’t like their politics
I think the history of the US and every other imperial power ever would disagree.
It created the flimsy disfunctional bribe machine that brought us to where we are today - it was toilet paper from the beginning.
I bet it’ll end up as a “gift” to a supreme court judge from a rich fascist with business before the court.
It’s not a question of “look[ing] like distancing or lack of empathy”, or just “bitching about people in power”.
Scientific studies that look at your brain itself - not your behavior - show that as people get more power the brain’s empathy centers become suppressed and you are chemically less capable of being a good person.