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When conservatives say that folks can teach themselves they’re hoping for the exact opposite.

Because not everyone can “teach themselves.” In fact, almost nobody can, otherwise we’d all be geniuses and not a bunch of dumb apes.

There is no “fantasy,” just indifference. I have no clue what everyone else is doing, but I didn’t fight my way from homelessness and into college “to get a job.”

For your own sake, I hope you don’t actually believe this.

EDIT: other people and cultures can’t dictate your purpose for doing anything.

Completely lost sight of the purpose of education, which has nothing to do with being an effective corporate drone… unless you get a business degree, in which case 4 weeks is too long.

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That’s such a good point.

Sometimes I do wish that my world were small enough to exclude knowledge about Hasan, or about the worms that burrow into children’s eyeballs, or the genocides of history, or any other kinds of evil.

No idea. I could write a lot about Hassan, but it’s not worth my time and it’s faster to relegate his fans to Trump supporter status.

I’m not denying that he sometimes utters the correct sentiments, but he has no principles. I’d consider him basically soulless.

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I watched Hassan become famous and his dishonest narcissistic imbecility is about the only consistent feature of his character. The cult of celebrity has its hooks in you.

Performative politics is all the rage.

Hasan is a socialist at random. He’s utterly philosophically illiterate, so his positions are a flip of the coin. You might say, “fine, let’s use that,” and I agree - as long as you don’t lose sight of the fact that he’s a narcissistic grifter.

In all seriousness, you can’t entrust political significance to character-deficient, uneducated dingdongs with no commitment to reality.

Anyone know the source of this quote?

Why not just make it so nobody under 18 can own a smartphone. Why these fucking useless age checks.

The big problem has always been the kangaroo courts. Anything Congress does, they’ll strike down in court, paralyzing the country.

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I love animals. That is what we are. However, the transcendental values that separate people from the other animals are not universally instantiated. Some humans are cruel. They do not care about what is true or moral. They are not subhuman. In many ways, they’re only human, their potential personhood vitiated by a lack moral and intellectual agency.

To be clear, anyone who endorses this view is not a person. At best, they’re a human animal, and at worst they’re rabid.

Average reactions to Beto were closer to mine. He lost fairly badly. Like I said, his anti-gun stance was too strong. Analogously, veganism is morally superior to carnivory, but a vegan isn’t going to win Texas.

The world is on fire. Human civilization is ending. I could not care less about culture war crap.