deaf_fish

Everything is political. Likewise Everything is a political stunt.

Political stunts that remove the right to have an abortion are bad stunts. Political stunts that give the right to have an abortion are good stunts.

The Republicans should never have gone down this road in the first place.

I think this is the crutch of our disagreement. My question to you is why? The Republicans want power. They want to turn the US into a Free Market Theocracy. Why shouldn’t they do what they are doing? I personally think what they are doing is bad, but why should they care?

Getting mad at the Democrats for not being good enough to stop that is akin to victim blaming.

I am more interested in your response to my first point, but I couldn’t let this stand. It’s such a bad comparison. Both the Dems and Republicans are fighting for power, they are not a victim and an aggressor, they are both aggressors.

Do you blame the thief, or do you blame the homeowner for not having better locks?

I blame the police for not arresting the thief when they revealed their plans to rob my house before they robbed it.

I don’t think you understand. No reasonable person thinks that republicans are good or not to blame. Blaming the republicans won’t stop them from taking power. They have done and continue to do what they have said they will do and the Democratic party has done nothing to stop them.

It’s like your sky diving, and your parachute fails to open. Do you get upset at gravity or the guy who packed your parachute? Yeah, gravity is what is going to kill you, but it doesn’t care, that was the plan. The guy who packed the parachute is your only real way of controlling the situation.

The Democratic Party packed the parachute and it isn’t opening. Hopefully it does soon.

I don’t get the “take off your shoes” part. Is this a meme I have missed?

This! You can never “win” or get the last word, but you can get the other person to show how bad their arguments are. You just have to trust that others will decide on what is right correctly.

Maybe try a more formal debate setting? I know there are some places like “the crucible” that facilitate that.

I doubt you will find anything on Lemmy unless you start up a highly moderated community. Even then, people can bring questions against the moderators.

Discussion and debate are pretty lawless in nature.

T Swift: 1.1 billion

Elon: 197.3 billion

I wonder which one of these people more powerful and has more influence?

That’s by design. They weren’t interested in writing a good game or getting honest feedback. They wanted everyone to buy it and get money for it.

He won’t even get to it. The moment he’s elected he’ll probably die or something. Fascist would take power. Then everyone who’s not straight white and only does missionary sex will be sent off to the camps.

The big funny would be if they decided that Trump was legal before Biden left office. The lights would go out when they came back on a lot of people would be disappeared.

How do we know Trump wouldn’t have handled that just like Biden or worse?

I don’t think the students though that divesting would save all the Palestinians. I mean, I am sure one person did, but that is what happens when you have a large group of people. I think they just wanted to apply pressure against Israel where they could.

I think it is based and probably the most effective thing they could do to stop the genocide.

Well, has anyone done a brain scan on him lately? I hear brain worms sometimes take a physical form these days…

Israel has always wanted to do a genocide. They funded Hamas so when they started the genocide they would have some kind of excuse.

I agree with that. How is that relevant to the root of this conversation?

Just because the Republicans are shit doesn’t mean that the Democrats are not also shit.

Seems like you want to say something there little buddy. Be brave, say what you want to say instead of asking questions.

Which time period Are we talking about? In the modern day way, way more discoveries are made by professionals than hobbyists. Not all of them get big flashy news stories. Some people work all of their lives to discover something that increases solar efficiency by 2%. The days of Newton and Einstein are gone and done with. We have thousands of researchers at the same or more intelligent as those guys. The problem is that we’ve discovered all the easy answers already. All that’s left is the super hard ones. Again, it’s not impossible that some random person stumbles upon it. But it is highly unlikely.

Your feelings are valid. It sucks to be in a world where you’re probably not going to be a Newton or Einstein and modern academics and research is not without its problems.

You’re correct. Anyone can find out something new. But it’s kind of like winning the lottery. You have to spot something that all the many professional researchers missed. Researchers who spent their entire life studying the subject. Also, you have to beat any of the 6 billion people on the planet from figuring it out.

So yes I agree it’s possible, but it would be like winning the most challenging lottery ever. It’s a very unlikely thing to occur.

A lot of people think they’ve done it too. So many experts have to debunk so many things. And it’s really frustrating because some people who think they’ve discovered something lack the capability to understand why they actually haven’t. How their Discovery is actually already been taken in to account in some other model. Or how their Discovery is just their brain being biased.

That’s why this meme is really on point in my opinion. It’s not that no Non-Expert can make a discovery. It’s just the probability that they can is so infinitesimally small, and we’ve had so many false positives, that it’s worth making a meme about.

I’m not saying non-experts should stop trying. Before you can become an expert researcher, you need to be a novice researcher. And while the chance is small, I still think it’s worth trying to discover something anyway. If you’re a novice, just keep in mind it may not be as straightforward as you think it is. Every failure is a growth opportunity.

I sway back and forth. I’ll get into a heavy debate about something. It just burns me right up. I need to chill afterwards for a week or so.

I wonder what the odds are? I think would be interesting given all the stochastic terrorism that’s been bandied about.