So…

Do you think “intelligence” is real?

And do you understand that it’s not one thing that’s equally distributed, people have strengths in some areas like associative memory, processing speed, critical thinking, or long term memory?

Bruh, IQ isn’t just one number, people are just talking about the average…

And risk assessment isn’t even part of it, but I think it should be personally.

Hell, for the last part I’d point out that most people with a really high IQ are considered not to have firm grasp on reality.

It legitimately doesn’t take that rare of an IQ until you’re at the point where Idiocracy has been happening for decades. It’s my main argument against a governmental system where the smartest lead. There’s a lot of human variation and ignorance is bliss is a saying for a reason.

Really smart people are often incredibly jaded and misanthropic.

From her point of view and the timeline she may be looking at. This could be like putting toilet water on the plants even tho it doesn’t have electrolytes.

Maybe she’s right. I don’t think she is. But I can see the argument

Has accelerationist theory ever worked out?

Depending on your political leaning, the American Revolution comes to mind…

The French Revolution…

Pretty much any revolution makes modern “accelerationists” look like boring moderates on a long enough timescale.

I googled her thinking I’d find she wasn’t a socialist, but she is…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant

She’s got a huge Wikipedia, and I agreed with everything I skimmed till I got here:

Sawant said she rejects working with either the Democratic or the Republican party and advocates abandoning the two-party system.[108] She has called for “a movement to break the undemocratic power of big business and build a society that works for working people, not corporate profits—a democratic socialist society.”[109]

But its of note that she’s a crazy smart immigrant from India, which I’m sure we’re all aware is a hell of a lot worse than it is here.

But she went from computer programmer to economic professor, and if you read all her policies on Wikipedia, there’s not a lot to disagree with.

I think it’s just that she both understands the path we’re on, and knows it can get a hell of a lot worse and become much harder to change. Like when the grizzled survivor in a zombie apocalypse chops someone’s arm off when it might be a bite. When you’ve been thru some shit, your risk assessment changes, you play it safe long term even if it means short term pain. As bad as America is now, it’s not India in the 90s, especially for a woman going to school for computer programming.

She’s an accelerationist, and I dont agree with that. But fuck, if she had just a little more patience and restraint…

With her platform and coming out of Seattle with a progressive backing she’d have probably been an AOC level name in a decade.

She’s burnt any political future she’d ever have now.

Bonus from AOC:

“Let me make this clear,” Ocasio-Cortez declared Wednesday, “since billionaires have been trying to play footsie with the ticket: Anyone goes near Lina Khan and there will be an out and out brawl. And that is a promise. She proves this admin fights for working people. It would be terrible leadership to remove her.”

This is probably going to be the first big canary for Kamala tho. If she listens to the billionaire donors and replaces Khan, the next 4 years are going to suck.

She’s like the one bright spot from Biden’s admin, and it’s distressing that Khan isn’t being highlighted in Kamal’s campaign.

He won’t…

But that’s all the more reason to continually point out that he easily could if he actually wanted to end the genocide.

The Biden administration hoped to rein in the Israeli answer to the strikes. But so far, his diplomatic efforts in the region have been largely thwarted.

You know what would work?

Not giving them a blank check for weapons…

They literally couldn’t carry out these attacks if Biden grew the tiniest set of balls and drew a line and said if they weren’t on the right side of that line they couldn’t get any more weapons.

It’s literally that easy, but Biden refuses to do it

Who cares what Jill Stein says?

Seriously, why let her speak for those groups when they have their own political groups who leaders literally just said this week the most important thing is stopping trump, then focusing on moving Harris away from supporting a genocide?

I legitimately don’t see the point in posting an article that’s only quotes from a known foreign actor trying to throw the election to that country’s preferred candidate…

If “them” was Chevron, BP, Enron, Shell, Sunoco, Texaco, Imperial, Suncor, and other fossil fuel companies instead of governmen

It’s both…

The reason we keep breaking fossil fuel production records is because politicians from both parties want fossil fuel money.

Not just in donations, but to prop up “the economy”.

Biden doesn’t like to talk about the oil boom he’s overseeing; in fact, when he talks about America’s oil industry, it’s typically been negative. He is, after all, relying on a base of Democratic voters who are passionate about climate to win reelection this year. In a December CNN poll, almost two-thirds of US adults said they were worried about the threat of climate change in their communities.

https://www.vox.com/climate/24098983/biden-oil-production-climate-fossil-fuel-renewables

It pisses off lifelong Dem voters…

But apparently he’s more concerned about republican talking points like “gas is expensive” even tho republican talking points are rarely based in reality.

Yeah, it’s not even like it’s just the South anymore, the last hurricane almost made it to Michigan and knocked power out for days in some parts of the Midwest.

Fucking insane that both parties refuse to even admit there’s a problem. Even crazier they’re both pushing for loosening of regulations that will directly make it worse.

On Monday, amid desperate evacuation warnings, Greene unleashed a hot new take. “Climate change is the new Covid,” she wrote. “Ask your government if the weather is manipulated or controlled. Did you ever give permission to them to do it? Are you paying for it? Of course you are.”

We haven’t, but we don’t have a chance to.

Both candidates are pro-fracking, even tho in coal friendly battleground state Pennsylvania 58% support banning it.

trump broke fossil fuel production records when he was in office, and then Biden broke those records. And regardless of who the next president is, were likely going to break them again.

If you give a shit about climate change and humans changing the weather, tough shit.

There’s no viable option that will do anything to fix this issue.

So ironically there’s some truth to this: it’s happening because humans caused it, and the people who caused it (fossil fuel companies and politicians from both parties) aren’t going to do anything to stop it from happening again.

So it will happen again, and again, and again. Until we get enough politicians that won’t take fossil fuel donations in office. And then we can pass climate legislation, and maybe a couple decades after that things will stop getting worse. If we’re lucky in 4-5 generations it might even start improving instead of getting worse slower.

I hope so, shits pretty bad already if you haven’t noticed.

you’re saying if you can’t fulfill a dream in your lifetime,

No. I’m not…

And frankly I’m confused how anyone could possibly interpret my comment that way.

But if the steps are small enough there’s no difference, win or lose it’s not fast enough to avoid the negative situation.

That’s literally my point…

Incremental change works when you never lose sight of the goal and fight at every opportunity to progress towards it, not take one step forward than fall asleep and hope the other guys doesn’t take you ten steps back before you wake up.

And that’s pretty much as simple as I can make it. If Dem baby steps do not even recover from 4 years of a republican then they’re at best stalling the inevitable.

It’s easier to get people to fight if there’s a chance of winning.

Jesus, I wish it was obvious if you meant Dick or Liz…

But Hillary and Biden have drug the Dem party so far right both Cheney’s have endorsed Harris, and I really wouldn’t be surprised

A lot of people planning not to vote aren’t doing it because the Dem party isn’t to the right enough, it’s that they’re too far to the right in the first place.

If that wasn’t true, Republicans would bolster a 3rd party just to the right of the Dems to syphon off votes instead of a “far left” party. Or they’d at least move back to the center to fight for those mythic middle ground “undecideds”.

Instead they’ve never stopped sprinting right and gained votes overall because they’re embracing their actual extremists.

Meanwhile Dems can’t get a candidate that wants M4A or one that’s against Trump’s border wall.

Crossing those lines costs the Dem.party votes. More than we’re gaining.

Harris initially said that “not a thing comes to mind” that she would have done anything differently than Biden. But then she went on to elaborate.

“Listen, I plan on having a Republican in my Cabinet,” Harris elaborated. “You ask me what’s the difference between Joe Biden and me, well that will be one of the differences.”

Then, she appeared to take a jab at Biden, adding, “I don’t feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea.”

I’d heard the “not a thing” but this is the first I’m hearing she’s committing to a Republican in her Cabinent…

That’s just fucking insane

100% in agreement that we need universal healthcare. I’m one of those people that feel like medicare for all is already the compromise.

Medicare sucks tho, doesn’t cover a lot, and requires huge copays.

None of which is necessary, and just adds overhead to the cost requiring higher costs for less care.

I feel like there’s just no reason not to have a national healthcare service that’s worth the tradeoff. People aren’t just going to line up for unnecessary procedures to exploit it, and once we get past the I ritual rush from everyone not being able to afford treatment, people would just act like in every other developed nation and get lifetime checkups so issues are caught and addressed early which both raise chance of survival and lowers cost of treatment.

Why aren’t you for that if every other option results in worse average care for more average costs?

Obviously…

They meant “any progress is better than none”

And I was pointing out that sometimes unless you meet a certain threshold of progress, the effect of doing nothing and doing “baby steps” is essentially the exact same result.

It’s been 112 years since universal healthcare was first part of a presidential platform, this election it’s not an option from either of the only two viable options.

Do you think Teddy Roosevelt supporters are still alive and waiting patiently?

If they were 18 to vote then, they’d be 130 years old now. Did “baby steps” get them universal healthcare?

Or did the hurricane wipe them out while they shuffled away?

Sometimes.

Let’s say you’re in Florida right now. If at this instant you stood up and never stopped taking baby steps, do you think you could escape Milton?

Sometimes baby steps just give the illusion that a situation is being fixed and people calm down and do t take enough action. In this case using virtually any other mode of evacuation besides baby steps.

Bruh…

The first time it was part of a presidential platform was Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.

If all it took was people dying off, we’d have gotten it by now. The problem is we keep trying, getting a tiny crumb, and then get stalled another 20 years by our own party because we just got something.

Affordable care act was 2010, so we might get another crumb when Harris is getting ready to leave her second term. That way the progressive in the primary would get under cut on healthcare against the moderate because they’ll frame asking for more as being against what we just got.

I just legitimately don’t understand why more people don’t see it, it’s blatantly obvious on a long enough timeline.

The only way we get universal healthcare is if we refuse to shut up about it.

I already get it. I’m a disabled vet, but it’s just insane to me hearing what the majority of Americans have to deal with