How about an algorithm that gathers your policy preferences with a simple quiz that then casts your vote for you. You’d be free to retake the quiz anytime to update your thinking but wouldn’t have to bother every election. People are stupid and lazy, set it and forget it.
I’d love to see it tried at a local level. Especially because it’s hard to find good local journalism these days. Voter turnout is so low results are skewed away from what the majority of citizens actually want. My town lives and dies by its reputation for good schools. We had a referendum a few years back to take out a new loan to update/expand some schools. We’d paid off the last one so it was a choice between lowering taxes $50/yr or $30/yr or something similarly inconsequential. Updating the schools passed by 7 votes, no way that vote should have been close, but old people without kids vote.
No we hear about conservatives denying the science. Which, if the level of religion that pervades their politics is any indication, is totally par for the course, I guess.
ing win. Period.
No we hear about conservatives denying the science. Which, if the level of religion that pervades their politics is any indication, is totally par for the course, I guess.
Liberals and science-minded conservatives who want to do something about climate change before it's too late aren't fear mongering - they're trusting the scientists and trying to save our planet for future generations because that's not only the righteous thing to do, but the only sane decision to make. Pushing through and ignoring our species potential extinction or destruction of our coastlines at the very least, is against our very nature, meaning our deeply ingrained sense of self-preservation. Fight or flight.
Climate change is a danger we can't run from unfortunately, we've got to fight it with every tool in our technological arsenal - fighting in this case could also have fantastic economic expectations too. Going green will revitalize our infrastructure and provide new jobs and wealth for decades to come AND help revitalize our environment. Win
This shouldn't be a conservative or liberal issue, or an American issue - it is a human issue, a wildlife issue, a planetary issue.
If any political party is so anti-regulation that they can't see this, I really don't even know what to say. The fact that conservatives have let this become, or always considered this a political issue, is a testament to their stupidity - they are letting their selfish desires for preserving their wealth or their fossil fuel industry job color this, and that's about as vile as you can possibly be. Not to mention shortsighted, and unimaginative. Wealth and jobs will not be a problem when we're overhauling our entire energy system and infrastructure. It will be the single greatest windfall this country has had since the industrial revolution. But unlike the industrial revolution, it will start us on the road to environmental repair and revitalization, as opposed to the road to environmental catastrophe.
Recognize.
I've noticed as much.
my other waste of time does. So I'll just keep it real, genuinely post what I think, and respond even to idiocy, with logic and honest opinions based in fact and gained knowledge. here is frowned upon, unfortunately for me, because it's one of my best talents. But it does feel like shooting fish is a barrel here anyway, so I'll go for my sport elsewhere, and post sincerely here for the most part.. It's just deeper on a board full of half literate truckers, but at least we've got a career in common, which means I respect most of the people here despite whatever, to put it kind of nicely.
Oh. You're one of those guys.
and propaganda. Don't let the propaganda corrupt your trust and ruin your search for knowledge. If you can't trust anything you read or anything you watch, it's gonna be a hard road to learn much of anything - we can't witness everything firsthand, and we can't test out every single hypothesis that's presented by someone, or be everywhere. Sometimes you've got to take someone else's word for it, on a whole host of things, brah.ing stops progress and literally takes you/us backwards in most instances.
Oh. You're one of those guys.
You should get with a poster who goes by @rickyb, you'll get along famously with him. You two can both shine each other's tin foil hats and brush up on old conspiracies, and no doubt with the amazing level of your combined brainpower and mistrust of all things, you'll definitely come up with some fantastic new ones to pollute the world with.
I'm all for conspiracy theories, at least the ones that are plausible, and have some potential merit to them. I find them extremely entertaining, and truly believe some. But to mistrust every institution in the world, or think the actions of a few bad apples are indicative of the whole, is seriously flawed and kind of weird, and a sort of mental illness.
Seek out the correct information and ignore the fake
Just make sure their intentions aren't nefarious, and then learn from them, and broaden your own knowledge base. Question the knowledge, sure. But don't mistrust every single thing we've actually come to know - that only
Sure, science and data ARE able to be corrupted, for a little while, that is. Then others test the science or the data, and it is either confirmed or debunked, and we move on to solving the next problem or fixing the corrupted science. Do you even know how science works?
