The problem, fundamentally, in this country boils down to two main things ( Read more... )

Click to view

One of the tells of a compulsive liar is that they never defend their claims. Rather, when called out on their bullshit, they attack the person who called them out on it instead.

"The president said he is going to send a manned flight to Mars. I believe they are going to discover ... rocks on Mars that are worth more than gold. We will bring them back to the country. And we will be able to pay the national debt off.”

Yes, someone really said that.When dealing with the level of living-in-the-land-of-make-believe that we see ( Read more... )

I've noticed a sad trend these days where people - especially young or immature people - can't seem to differentiate between a person's IQ and the similarity of their opinions. That is to say, they judge a person's intelligence and/or intellectual capacity based on the sole criteria of how much that person's worldview matches their own. Forget ( Read more... )

If one looks at any political map of the USA then one will notice that the denser the population of any area the more blue (Democratic) it reads and the lower the population the more red (Republican) it shows. As stated before, this is the end result of a natural evolutionary process. To recap that: Simply surviving in a high-population density ( Read more... )

"In the paper that we were looking at the discourse that precedes genocide and genocidal states, the enhancement of a sense of victimization on the part of one of the groups, is usually the group that’s going to commit the genocide. First of all, their sense of being victims is much heightened by the demagogues who are trying to stir up this sort ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

So, future historians, right about now there has been a huge populist wave favoring stricter gun control laws in the wake of this week's school shooting (Florida, 17 dead, for the archives). Now this sort of thing has happened before - that is, the backlash over this sort of thing which happens all the damn time. Yet until now it never seemed to ( Read more... )

E: I find it hilarious that so many people on dating sites and apps think that "Hi" is the epitome of conversational opening gambits ( Read more... )

"People will sprout whatever they believe, but without validating their view. It might be true. It might not. Doesn't matter. If someone thinks it helps their argument, they'll say it anyway."