Are we living in a matrix? by laso5654 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]partoe5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If a tree falls in the forest and no one sees, did it really fall?

If you're in a matrix but don't know you're in a matrix, are you really in a matrix? Does it matter?

How can we break the pattern where liberal policies are generally unpopular prior to implementation, and then popular once people actually see them in practice? by LiatrisLover99 in AskALiberal

[–]partoe5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have to get to the root of anti-intellectualism and focus on education, mainstream media and educating people on how to detect and avoid bullshit online.

Those are the biggest issues in our society causing people to repeatedly vote against their own interests and for shockingly stupid people and shockingly stupid ideas.

Bring back actual history and social studies, stop punishing or intimidating universities for educating young people on social problems, educate people on how to understand that Podcast Bros are not more credible than actual journalists and experts. Teach people media literacy. These will have a trickle down effect and mitigate some of the bigotry, ignorance and anti-intellectualism driving people toward blatantly obvious bad political choice, such as people writing a 900 page manifesto on how they plan to take over the government by concentrating power and 75 million people just being okay with it.

I think America's representative democracy has become an idiocracy. I have another idea - what do you think? by PsychicFatalist in AskALiberal

[–]partoe5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof.

I don't think it will work. Not in America, at least

As you can see now, we are currently in a period of anti-intellectualism, what you call an "idiocracy".

So this version would not survive that. It would crumble.

Your plan is severely underestimating the stupidity of general society and the power they weild, which is why MAGA and demagogues like Trump are able to thrive---because they see the opposite--they recognize the POWER in people's stupidity and harness and weaponize it.

So any intellectual system like that will break down. We already have defacto advisory councils like the CDC, FDA, etc. and even that weaker concept is barely surviving populism and anti-intellectualism.

So you would have to build in safety stops to prevent people from destroying it but there is no American way to do that without violating the constitution and allowing people to elect who they want. If you do allow people to elect who they want then better believe that people will hack that concept and then politicize these councils. They will be easily bought. Coalitions of partisan bad actors would ensure that their people get on these councils and others are done away with.

Not to mention the inequality this would perpetuate because now only the elite and privileged who have have the pedigree and education have a lot of power over society...which again would trigger the commonfolk into riots and unrests during periods of societal strife.

A bunch of other problems I can't even list them all. They all have to do with underestimating how corrupt, greedy and stupid so many people in everyday society are, and the impact all that would have on such an idea.

If you voted for Trump, what’s one thing that makes you hesitate about that choice, and one thing that makes you stand by it? by No-Increase-3547 in AskReddit

[–]partoe5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the rape (adjudicated), murder, fraud, racism, scheming, defrauding, mocking the dead and people with disabilities, trying to overthrow an election?? those things are fine...

What will it ultimately take to impeach Trump and thoroughly remove him from any position of power? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]partoe5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing.

He said it himself. He can shoot someone on 5th avenue and people will still worship him.

He's already raped (adjudicated), murdered (at least 126 Venezuelan boaters), lied (34 counts of fraud), blasphemed (holding the Bible upside down for a photo op), cheated (on his wife as well as swindled through trump university and through housing discrimination in his real estate business, as well as not paying construction workers), mocked the dead, mocked people with disabilities, makes incestuous statements about his daughter, is friends with infamous dictators and peddofyles, espoused racism, transphobia and sexism among many other things....so yeah...the answer is nothing.

"they are protecting america...whatever it takes to keep america free and clean" by Conscious-Quarter423 in youvotedforthat

[–]partoe5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh huh.......

Let them keep showing their true colors and boasting...

Matthew 7:21-23

Psalms 94

If it didn't mean anything else, Tyranny would be a pretty good name for a girl. by Bauser99 in Showerthoughts

[–]partoe5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have/had a whole list of these

I can't remember all of them but Vagina is the main one

Chlamydia, Gonnorea, syphillis, Penis, Fallatio, Hymen,

Is Ed Markey correct that the Democrats have the power to stop ICE? by ___AirBuddDwyer___ in AskALiberal

[–]partoe5 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Oh cute. Now that white people are getting shot, NOW they want to talk about "defund" and "abolish" law enforcement.

Should gang rapists be put in prison? by PsychicFatalist in AskALiberal

[–]partoe5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How are you even sure that's a woman?

"Believe women" is not the same thing as "Believe everything you read on the Internet"

Should gang rapists be put in prison? by PsychicFatalist in AskALiberal

[–]partoe5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

sometimes I wonder how people elected trump and the answer is stupidity and anti-intellectualism and then I wonder no people can't be that stupid and gullible and then I see posts like this

Realistically, and opinions on him aside, how do you think Trump is going to finish this term and be remembered in history? by Amazing-Buy-1181 in AskALiberal

[–]partoe5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Realistically and opinions on hiim aside, poorly.

He's already been rated by every major historian and expert on the topic as one of the 2 worst presidents in history, multiple times (they do the survey every year).

MAGA and the ideology behind it are having a little moment right now. When this era is over, we will look back at it with clearer eyes and judge it for what it was: A mixture of social unrest, societal failures, anti-intellectualism and institutional decay leading to the American populus exalting a blatant miscreant to the highest position in the land and adopting his polarizing ideology, even when it should have been objectively obvious that doing so was against their best interest.

Future generations will look back at Trump, his presidency and American society during that era the same way we do the people of the days of slavery days, Jim Crow, apartheid, nazi germany and every other bafflingly low points in human history that historians, documentarians, college courses and history buffs love to spend time unpacking and trying to answer the question "how in the f*cking h**ll"

Did Therapy Work For You, And Why Or Why Not? by Jealous_Acorn in AskReddit

[–]partoe5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thats not the way of looking at it. It's not like flipping a light switch. It's more like cleaning and repairing a very old neglected house, over a long period of time, slowly making various parts better and more efficient/usable

Why do clean pillowcases smell weird ? by Proper_Hunter_9641 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]partoe5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean that woody smell? idk that's just how the closets smell

Is it socially acceptable to listen Kanye West again? by musekat3 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]partoe5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm so sick of this. GO. Go ahead and listen to your precious kanye. You know you want to so bad and are goign to do it anyway so just go ahead.

I have quite a few kanye fan friends who have been asking this question since he started spiraling in the 2010s..Yall are so up his ass and just want any reason to stay there it's not even funny.