I’d like to shake the hand of the guy who went rogue with the road sign here. But, while his message is funny, it makes an important point.
Americans from the baby-boom and the earlier generations remember a time when our personal politics meant relatively little in the way we regarded one another.
As an example, 50 years ago, few parents were upset if one of their children proposed to marry someone from the other major political party. Yet that’s no longer the case. Today, more than half of Democrats interviewed said they would object if one of their kids wanted to marry a Republican (and vice versa).
What has changed fundamentally? In particular, how did the MAGA movement come to divide us so completely?
In my mind, it’s largely a function of the fact that what we now call “news” is no longer information; it’s content designed to capture our round-the-clock attention and make us loyal to one club or another. News is no longer a service; it’s an extremely lucrative business, and the only way to establish and maintain these megaprofits is to have two halves of America, each of which considers the other half “assholes.”
Doroni Aerospace says:
intelligently navigates every trip as the H1-X reaches speeds up to 120 mph with a 100-mile range.I like this! Untrained pilots flying through the airspaces of the 40K+ airports on Earth! What could go wrong? Where do I sign up?
The point made here is hotly contested.
Fox News will tell you that college professors were indoctrinated into progressivism when they were in college, and they’re simply passing all this down the line. This is why, they’ll go on to explain, that college is an evil force in our society, as it cranks out liberals.
FWIW, I agree with the commenter at the bottom. One finds a few intelligent and well-educated people in the MAGA crowd, very few. And the most obvious reason for this is that bright people can see through the layers upon layers of lies and criminality that emanate from Trump every hour of the day.
Occam’s Razor explains this very nicely to me.
Two things:
1) As far as I’m aware, these “Solar Flowers” exist nowhere on Earth. They’re certainly not in Los Angeles.
2) Engineers (and anyone with IQ of a turnip) are not split as their value; they have none.
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