Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Yeah, that makes it very hard to vote for them, I feel that. But that’s a problem that gets worse by not voting for a democrat.
Republicans have promised to genocide harder and trump has already been coordinating with netanyahu to counter anything that might reduce palestinans deaths.
I don’t like it either but it’s time to be an adult, do the unpleasant thing, and vote for a democrat.
Don’t vote “for/against whoever”. Vote against trump like an adult - that means voting democrat.
Sure, picking between two options that you don’t want is legitimately hard for human brains to do. But republicans have promised and begun to brutalize minorities at ever larger scales, and are objectively worse than democrats on everything that matters.
Handing the reins of state power to fascists has never improved life for leftists or humanity.
It’s one soap dispenser michael. What could it cost, $80,000?
No, go buy it from the store like a normal person.
In all seriousness though, this is the emerging consensus of scientific experts. The fact that we’re conscious of our actions doesn’t mean our consciousness is in control. Free will is like god - it’s just incompatible with our observations of the world.
Maggie’s driving is the perfect metaphor for how the body creates the illusion of free will.
It feels like we’re maggie, making choices that our body then does. But looking at the full picture shows that the nerve signals that initiate action happen before the conscious choice. Marge - our brain - determines what we do without any input from Maggie, and this also signals Maggie to feel that she’s made a choice.
We’re all just Maggie, trapped in a vehicle we have no control over, pretending otherwise.
The musician I saw last week mentioned that he’ll get more money if you buy a CD from him now than if you stream his catalog on spotify for the rest of your life.
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.
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.
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.
I agree with the sentiment here, but doesn’t birthrate decline correlate with increased income? National birthrates always fall as a country’s per capita income rises.
It’s just a lie. I don’t think it’s meant to hold up to scrutiny, it’s just meant to be repeated.
What’s going on with the top of the map?
Admitting is the first step to accepting.
Every time I see something like this I’m reminded of Plato recording Socrates’ whinging that books are destroying society and no one can remember anything anymore.
Domestic abuse, child abuse and DUI
Aren’t these the crimes police are most likely to commit?
Buying a 10 year old civic will always be more environmentally responsible than buying a brand new EV
I hear so few people talking about this fact. The middle and upper class don’t want to hear about any solution unless it involves buying status symbols.
Proving you’re morally superior to the poors is definitely the most important part of combating climate change.
This is the most appropriate response possible. The non-sequitor in the middle makes exactly as much sense as everything that happens in a church.
If you honestly believed that democracts and republicans are identical on israel and you care about human suffering you’d look at all the other ways that trump and his fascists have promised to brutalize everyone who’s not them and minimize human suffering by voting for a democrat.
Trump killing trans people, immigrants and palestinans is not a moral victory for opponents of our genocide in gaza.