Respectfully, I think it’s a fair point that civic ignorance does leads to our current state in the US. If a large portion of the population wasn’t so ignorant on civic matters, political, policy, & legal outcomes would likely be better. There is a relation to what’s permissible and what happens.

a lot of bad faith in this comment section :/

But here's the mind-bender: Broccoli isn't quite 3D! 🤯 It has a "fractional" dimension – somewhere between 2D and 3D. This means it’s more complex than a flat surface, but doesn’t completely fill up space like a solid object.

There’s definitely something to that logic. Americans have become desensitised to politics, outrage, news, etc,. Might as well save appeals to their attention, for a time when they’re less desensitised.

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This is hilarious

If you don’t feel up to something, consider what the lowest possible threshold is for a dry run.

Don’t feel like going to the gym? Maybe just drive to the gym, or prep your exercise gear. Etc,.

Soft disagree. Being right is easy, but expressing intellect with honesty and nuance is a higher skill.

In some instances, shutting down the unreflective might actually be the move— but not always, and certainly not as a rule of thumb.

Sounds cool

Ha!

I would argue those actors are A) conservative media players, and B) those who’ve popularised populist sentiment into the larger culture.

Hard to imagine a pathway out, less there’s a bottom up shift in paradigms.

The idea is that the open source software and decentralised protocol of Bsky returns a transparency & autonomy
not offered by other social media platforms.

Authorities on information such as organisations, institutions, agencies, public figures, some media, all of which traditionally viewed as trust worthy and apolitical. Recent years have lead to conservative consumers in particular trusting less and less authorities outside their approved apparatus.