I once got my very pro-Trump very Christian aunt to agree that Trump wasn't Christian and that many of the things he's done go against Christian teachings.
By the next day, she was already posting tons of pro-Trump garbage on social media again. Because that's what compartmentalization and cognitive dissonance mean.
And she had built so much of her identity around this billionaire grifter that she was unable to change.
I don't know what the best way is to deal with these types of people, but in my case, I just completely cut her out of my life. There doesn't seem to be any purpose to communicating with a person who is incapable of learning.
The review said it had seen no evidence "to support the suggestion that the narrator's father or family influenced the content of the programme in any way".
Due to sacrificing the development of its ear to permit it to dig more efficiently, the Mexican mole lizard has evolved to have its skin transmit vibrations to the cochlea.
A normal ear also works by having skin transmit vibrations to the cochlea.
The Chinese government is more hands on with businesses than the US. Like, they even put members of the government onto the company's board.
That's the sort of behavior that makes me suspect that a lot of Chinese businesses are intentionally operating at a loss at the direction of the CCP to undercut international business.
American politicians do similar things, but it's more about corruption rewarding companies who support politicians. China is doing it much more pointedly and deliberately. That's why they're seeing such good results lately.
Yes, but imagine if Elon Musk had access to it and Jeff Bezos didn't. Those guys aren't purely about money. They're about winning against all of the other ultra wealthy.
I wouldn't be surprised if the oligarchs are doing this so that they can continue the research, but not release it to the public. Just like how it's not enough for them to be rich; they need everyone else to be poor, they might want to live long healthy lives while everyone else is sickly and dies young.
The one thing that gives hope about this graph is that people have so little trust in Congress. Democracy doesn't work unless you mistrust elected officials.
Also, government creation contracts are called constitutions. Lots of countries have them.
I also enjoy pedantic arguments, but I try to remember to avoid them when I think the topic is important. I had to stop myself from arguing against this point, because even if I won the argument, it wouldn't mean anything.
HOAs seem like they should be illegal. Having a contract in perpetuity that is attached to the purchase of property seems like it shouldn't be allowed. So it is not only bound to the person who originally signed, but to whoever purchases the relevant property afterwards, and that gives other people rights over you that can be changed afterwards and are only limited by their conscience.
I basically don't think you should be able to create a government by using a contract.
I don't think you can explain this behavior as simply stupid and ignorant. There are plenty of stupid and ignorant people who didn't make the massive mistake of voting for Trump.
I think the most necessary thing needed to vote for Trump is a glaring personality defect. Bigotry is probably the most common. That's why the Republicans made such a big deal of trans people.
Other personality defects would be having an authoritarian personality, meaning you simply mindlessly obey whoever you see as an authority, like your church leaders. And complete lack of empathy, and extreme selfishness, and narcissism.
With the testimony against Trump from people who claim he raped them when they were children... Let's just say that if Trump was a Catholic priest, they'd have already moved him to a different country.
It looks like it is humping that guy's head, but they would never hump somebody's head, would they?