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The Jedi order is 15% vague Eastern Philosophy that George Lucas half-remembered. 75% of cannon events trying to ret-con this philosophy into the media. And 10% of fan wishful thinking.

They barely do anything in the prequels to give motive to Anikin's rebellion. The only times it's seriously covered in the Disney cannon is a few episodes of Clone Wars where the council abandons Asoka, and some plot-lines that were teased in a canceled show.

Negative Income tax could operate like UBI. The hero of neoliberalism Milton Freedman supported a scheme to transfer wealth like this.

The argument Harris lost because of Gaza doesn't hold water. This would require more Americans than can locate Asia on a map to boycott an election on behalf of Arabs.

If Harris lost because of MI, this would be plausible, but if you think she lost GA and NC because of Gaza? Be serious.

Ted always sucked. The whole production is designed for self-promoters to flatter rich liberals and reassure them that they're good people. Besides, a playlist of just Ted presenters who turned out to be a fraud would be hours of content probably.

City folks think the whole world is a petting zoo. I've seen a grown man, built like a bouncer, running in panic trying to escape a tiny banty rooster. This particular rooster was known to have killed two snakes and a hawk and nothing on that farm fucked with this little two pound sack of feathers more than once.

I was being sarcastic. My opinion is that it is impossible for a journalist to be unbiased. And it' ridiculous to expect them to pretend anyway. I think news media would benefit from prioritizing honesty over "objectivity", because when journalists pretend to be objective, the lie is transparent and undermines their credibility.

"The Callisto protocol" went from release @$60 to free on Epic, in less than two years. That's the fastest I've ever seen a game depreciate.

creating the circumstances in which an active citizenry meaningfully and knowledgeably participates in the civic life of their polity

Why stop there? If your project requires an improved humanity to work, why not just improve us until we don't need governance?

because they have received their content from decades of already biased human knowledge, and because achieving unblemished neutrality is in many cases probably unattainable.

We could train the AI to pretend to be unbiased. That's how the news media already works.

Diagnoses cost money, all I can afford are symptoms.

This criticism of democracy is way older than Kennedy. Socrates thought democracy impossible due to the ignorance of the common person.

And that's what this is, an argument against democracy. A vote cast by a shut-in illiterate who chooses candidates based on their astrology sign is just as valid as the chair of the political science department. Anything less than that is an argument for weighted or exclusive suffrage. You can believe in democracy or the "low information" voter, but not both.

Of all the narratives around Harris' loss, misogyny and racism are the factors that fit the data.