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"Every nation gets the government it deserves." It's a depressing way to look at it, but it's probably half true. You should look at the fact that our representative democracy doesn't always reflect the will of the people, if you want to be less bummed out. There is a severe lack of real...

That's just a fantasy, there is no "growing up" for a species, it's just change forever. Working together is how humanity develops and when you do that in a large scale they call it a government, which does not mean "to control minds" lol. Who gets elected clearly and objectively makes a huge...

So this topic now has one person saying there is photographic evidence that ice caps are melting, and one saying there is photographic evidence that they are expanding. This really sums up the central problem with our society right now. People can't agree on even baseline facts, they just...

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I just never pass up an opportunity to say no to anecdotes. It's a compulsion from growing up in a tiny rural area where everything is based on anecdotes. It's not a good method.

Anything that is not "oh I agree" could be considered denial tho, it's about that happy balance, which in this case I would call just looking at his voting record.

I don't know how much you should let an anecdote reinforce any particular view.

Depending on oil revenue is a bad plan.

You need to hit up a dictionary and Snopes or something, man. That's a lot of just straight up bad information.

Kind of ignores that every single industrialized nation on the planet has socialized things. Large part of Venezuela's woes are from oil too. More complicated than a news snippet.

If he had gotten a fair shake in 2016 I think we might have a different president now. Lot of news outlets went out of their way to ignore him in favor of Clinton, to the point where lots of people did the same as me and just didn't vote. I mean what was I going to do, vote for the candidate who...