sin is religious bullshit anyway
Yep, that's why I used the word.
Suggesting that "people are idiots" actually explains behavior is just like believing in sin - it's just giving up on understanding reality. It makes as much sense as a right wing christian trying explain away their opponents as sinners.
Be too useless to merit a doppelganger. To paraphrase zhuangzi, few know the usefulness of uselessness.
Australia has compulsory voting, parties with only minority support can't win by suppressing turnout.
Sin is never a sufficient explanation for human behavior. Meaning anytime we think "it's because they are bad", we're missing something big.
All behavior is an attempt to meet needs. Any correct explanation of behavior identifies the need and how the behavior is believed to meet it.
They may not be smart, on average as a group. But that's not why they keep doing this.
Identities with more rigorous behavior requirements often persist longer. It seems counter-intuitive but the greater the buy-in required, the more appealing the identity seems to be.
In some weird and deeply human way, displaying your devotion to these doomed and unreasonable defenses probably increases the individual's status among their sovereign peers. That's the payoff that we don't see when we only look at the financial and legal costs.
"Proto" usually implies that it's a stage that may develop into the thing, not yet the thing. Whereas "early" implies it's recently become the thing. Or at least that's how I usually hear them used, and what I meant.
Republicans have ruled for half of the current century, but only legitimately won the election after 9/11. I don't think it's fair to describe US elections as functional, even arguably.
This is what fascist states look like at this stage of their life cycle. I think the most generous description of the US is an early fascist state. If we really want to argue about whether a spade is a shovel.
When I look at the quality of prominent Americans who went to ivy league schools, I don't think cheating your way through college will make much difference.
Pete hegseth graduated from princeton without the use of AI and he is one dumb fucking cunt, for example
"That's when I was happy" is the only correct answer.
Allowing the rich to control the world has proved pretty suicidal.
Every day we find out how much better the world could be if we'd already killed the rich.
This is factually incorrect though. All human language is natural language. We're an orgasm that has human style language as one of it's traits.
It doesn't really make sense to say that birds don't naturally sing because they teach their children, or that ape gestures and calls are just made up. Incidentally we share a lot of those gestures, showing that human communication systems emerge from the natural processes of evolution.