yeahiknow3 @ yeahiknow3 @lemmy.world

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That’s one of the main reasons that the US is classified as a flawed democracy. A vote in California has something like 1/200th the influence on federal policy as a vote in Wyoming or Alaska.

“The Senate was designed, as part of the separation of powers, to check the impulses of the House and the popular will.”(1)

“Could be?” Like the way falling on your head from 5 stories up “could be” unhealthy?

They convicted the guy for wearing black, because apparently that meant that he was part of a larger “conspiracy” for violence in which he didn’t even participate. US courts continue to be an embarrassment to jurisprudence.

Reddit would ban you for that comment, despite the fact that it’s literally true.

“Silent”

Voluntary Human Extinction is the best hope yadi yada

The only thing that would happen if Europeans and other progressive people around the world stopped having children as this article suggests is that their cultures would disappear and the world would enter a new Dark Age. That’s it. Ridiculous proposal.

I think the point is that here we have an actual journalist doing actual journalism… and the DOJ is suing him, specifically for doing nothing wrong.

Yes, the founding fathers were deeply worried about peasants voting to redistribute wealth or give themselves civil liberties. These were the impulses that needed checking and balancing. Hence the existence of a Senate and a Supreme Court. Democratic scholars know this, yet schoolchildren continue to be taught incorrect information.

“Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. […] Democracy, will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes, and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues, and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."

• John Adams (1807)

"Too many... love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.”

• First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay

"If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy."

• Hamilton (1787)

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

• James Madison (1787)

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Nobody is denying that cats are wild animals. The point is that they are uniquely capable hunters that can unilaterally exterminate the small fauna in a region.

I mean maybe your cat in particular is lazy and doesn’t hunt, but most cats do. For instance, house-cats kill 3.7 billion birds annually.

The US Supreme Court is an illegitimate, unelected governing body wielding about as much power as all of our elected congresspeople combined. It is one of the reasons that the United States is not considered a full democracy.

Cats absolutely decimate populations of small fauna. They’re an ecological disaster. Either keep your cat indoors or don’t get one. You are not entitled to own a living creature; it’s a privilege that must be exercised with consideration.

I love cats. I wish I could have more of them, but I can’t for all these reasons.

Good. The stock market is a scam and we should get rid of it, mandating that all profit dividends be evenly distributed among the workers instead.

Or killed anyone. More’s the pity.

Yeah no hard feelings. It was funny. Or it would have been on a better day.

The irony of this comment is just incredible. These are Trump-supporter levels of cope.

For anyone not brain-dead: the scientific evidence that excessive exposure to social media garbage and “doom scrolling” is bad for you and especially bad for children is completely overwhelming. It’s something we’ve known for years. Jonathan Haidt is a douchebag who picks low hanging fruit.

Damn, I wonder how that happened in these intervening years to radicalize young men.

Facebook gets politically involved, and in just 8 short years:

Does this mean we can’t have social media? No, it just means the way we are living, the hellscape of online abuse and concrete jungle we’ve created for the next generation is making us vulnerable to manipulation and misery. This isn’t about social media. It’s about the fact that most of you fuckers haven’t touched grass in years. That’s why our democracy is dying.

I accused you of being unable to identify aspects of human flourishing, and you’ve now replied to confirm that for me.

If you can’t disambiguate between culture-war Christofascist fear-mongering and the actual prerequisites for human flourishing, you are as fucked in the head as any lead-addled boomer.

Ah yes, we need special scientific evidence to figure out if playing outside with friends, fresh air and sunshine is better or worse than watching TikTok 5 hours a day.

Please, let’s do a study on this mystery.

Jonathan Haidt is an idiot so I assume the book is bad, but this Nature article you linked is quite possibly even worse.

The amount of misinformation around this serious topic is a reflection of people’s emotional attachment to their silly tech.