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Dump Term 2 Part 5: He Didn't Specify Which Civilization Would Die...

Me too. I'll believe it when I see it.

First impeachment - skated.
Second impeachment - skated.
January 6th - skated.
Massive corruption in first term - skated.
Stolen Top Secret Documents in bathroom. - skated.
Jan 6th court case. - skated.

He's untouchable. He truly is the King.
 
Me too. I'll believe it when I see it.

First impeachment - skated.
Second impeachment - skated.
January 6th - skated.
Massive corruption in first term - skated.
Stolen Top Secret Documents in bathroom. - skated.
Jan 6th court case. - skated.

He's untouchable. He truly is the King.
Russia!
 
Bulwark is missing the point. Humans do not act on reason. We act on emotion. We don't get angry about THE TERRIBLE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. We get angry when we lose our job.

This is what intellectuals have always hitherto gotten wrong. Nobody acts on a theoretical abstraction -- that's a mental model they find useful for analysis but it does not touch people. Dostoevsky has a great passage about it in Karamazov. Even the people who open their mind to science and ignore the comforting Mommy of religion immediately fall back into the warm embrace of the comforting Mommy of the Moral Arc of the Universe that Bends towards Justice.

The limbic system is our engine. The frontal lobe is at most taking notes and making up reasons after the fact.
 
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Bulwark is missing the point. Humans do not act on reason. We act on emotion. We don't get angry about THE TERRIBLE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. We get angry when we lose our job.

This is what intellectuals have always hitherto gotten wrong. Nobody acts in an abstraction -- that's a mental model after the fact. Dostoevsky has a great passage about it in Karamazov.
I act in abstraction all the time. Just because the southern morons can't doesn't mean it isn't possible.
 
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