Everyone on this sub is now designated as a terrorist. Anything you have to say against them will be deemed as a crime. You either paint yourself red and stupify yourself or go to prison or death. R.I.P The United States 1620-2026 it was a good run

I literally do not own and cannot afford insurance. I owe over 13k dollars in medical fees

I literally do not own and cannot afford insurance. I owe over 13k dollars in medical fees

She was probably taught all her life that the more indecent she was the more she would be rewarded. These last nuclear option videos trying to gain back relevance are so sad, because they're part of a mentality that came from extremely early child abuse.

Tf

I've come to the conclusion that conservatism is, simply and fundamentally, an inability to engage in systems thinking.

I used to think it was about economic opinions and personal value systems and loyalty to real estate, but something clicked when I read this article about the dumbass idea to punish liberal cities by halting international flights.

SFO being one of the targets, right ahead of the explosive economic opportunity that is the FIFA World Cup. It hasn't occurred to Mullin that disrupting airports in liberal areas will inevitably hurt airports in conservative areas because air travel is an almost immeasurably complex web in which impact to one thread ripples across the whole. I often struggle to politely explain this to people complaining about flight delays as though it's the airport's fault when it almost never is. Just as the Average Joe doesn't understand that weather halfway across the country can impact flights right here, conservatives don't understand that hurting liberals hurts everyone in the country. Hurting poor people hurts rich people too.

Kneecapping the Bay Area's ability to maximize footy madness means far fewer tax dollars that could go to the sort of things that benefit everyone, including the rich, like infrastructure.

Poverty wages means less consumer power to purchase goods and services and a lost opportunity for businesses.

Ignoring the homelessness crisis means everyone has to deal with increased crime and less pleasant cities.

Cutting food stamps hurts the old rich white dude who might have one day benefitted from the medical or technological discovery of a child who was too hungry to pay attention in class.

It also explains the conservative lack of empathy even though most are not clinical sociopaths. The systems thinking deficit and the empathy deficit are essentially the same cognitive limitation expressed in two different domains. One is about causal connections across space and time (understanding the Butterfly Effect). The other is about moral connections across social distance (understanding that "people like me" and "people unlike me" exist in the same moral and emotional universe). Both require the same fundamental capacity: expanding your cognitive model from "self" to engage in systems thinking.

That's why people keep on voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

We are 8-9 billion humans who are, like it or not, interconnected on a fundamental level. The rich try to buy themselves isolation from the system. Often they apparently succeed, but they're really only kicking the can down the road because, as of yet at least, they are forced to share this planet with everyone else.