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So far I can tell it’s incredibly well made and written. Shame it got cancelled for poor ratings. Some of the best early HBO shows had the same treatment (Rome and Deadwood)

I’m just sad that it got cancelled cause of bad ratings after only two seasons

I remember my parents watching this when I was a kid. Seen two episodes cause of Leo’s post, it’s very intriguing and mysterious but the story hasn’t gripped me yet.

Do you have any tips on how to become less logical? I’m increasingly realising being logical is the main impediment to charisma and game

Here’s a great article I ready today actually, that focuses on the need for technology. https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/climate-change-isnt-that-hard

Arguably saying that it was a “criminal” physician who performed surgery on Elliott Page and then compared the medical procedure to Nazi medical experiments in the video, is an implicit call to violence

This clip made me lose any remaining respect I had for him, just unhinged. Comparing voluntary trans affirming surgery to the nazis…

This is a fantastic stage yellow conversation on politics. They touch of the decline of Jordan Peterson etc at one point.

Exactly. If the Senate was abolished, a very real secessionist movement and maybe civil wars would begin.

Unlikely given the filibuster in the Senate.

Perhaps the US founding was kinda fucked and the idea of uniting so many states with such different interests is proving to be a mistake, with the insane polarisation now. California still has a bigger say over the country obviously. There’s 53 vs 1 house seats in that case. The idea is to provide some balance to represent each states interest. Like it or not it’s not gonna change in the short or medium term.

Another thing to note is the system you support completely comes down to which party you support. If it happened to be that the Senate and Electoral College favoured Democrats, there’s 0 chance liberals would be arguing against it using the same principled arguments.

If you wanna abolish states all together an become more like the UK, that’s a seperate argument. But given the very founding of the US is a union of states with seperate interests, that idea would be completely unrealistic

I do, which is why I don’t think a President should get elected without the majority vote. But it’s the United *States*. Small states will basically have no say if the Senate is gone. Australia also has a Senate is 12 Senators from each state regardless of size. Works fairly well

I think getting rid of the electoral college but keeping the Senate is a good middle ground. I think some state representation makes sense so that the minority states don’t get fucked over, but the electoral college is overkill.

The Republican Party has gotten completely wacko. Most of the party believe the election was stolen and a concerning amount believe in Qanon and Anti Vax stuff. Makes the Bush era neocons seem reasonable….

Good result. Hopefully Labor forms an outright majority. I’d rather them not have to negotiate with the Greens. The new Teal independents seem quite interesting. Affluent people who’ve had it with the conservatives?

Do you think most straight guys have at least 1% gay in them that they deny?

As much of a pain in the ass Manchin is, he’s still preferable to having a Republican from West Virginia, which would almost certainly be the case otherwise. So his voting base isn’t even natural Democrats, but Republicans. Also note, Manchin’s popularity has increased more than any other Senator over the past year. Progressives need to understand that not all voters agree with them. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3462266-poll-manchins-popularity-skyrocketed-over-past-year/amp/

This was a flagrant assasination. As usual Israel deflects blame instantly. The world needs to wake up.

Hopefully this puts a nail in the coffin of the Bernie or bust ideology.

Traditionally conservatives measure as happier than liberals on studies that have been carried out. Here’s an interesting article on it https://www.science.org/content/article/new-study-questions-trope-conservatives-are-happier-liberals Here it’s argued to not really be a real gap, but at best it seems leftists aren’t any happier but about the same.

I find Julien much more chill and charismatic these days. Tyler needs to learn how to relax lol

Maybe I'm naive but I think Shapiro is a true believer in his orthodox worldview. He would always brag about waiting till marriage to have sex

It’s extremely practical, that’s why people become trans women. If it didn’t matter at all, people would feel no need to transition on the first place.