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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • AOC told a story about how a pro Israel person offered her a huge campaign donation, which she declined. One of the reasons she could easily decline it was that she already had enough money. By that time, her seat wasn’t in that much danger.

    I’m not saying that AOC would have taken the money if she had a smaller campaign fund. There’s no way to know that.

    But you can be sure that if we did proper campaign finance reform, and stopped every instance where a single source of money can create undue influence, then a lot more politicians would be able to afford to be honest.

    Our current system nearly guarantees that honest politicians will be forced out by corrupt politicians who can easily accept huge donations.


  • What’s really weird is that sometimes when you don’t do this, logically choosing the appropriate emotion, you’re actually sort of doing the opposite, illogically choosing an inappropriate emotion.

    For example, let’s say that you’re angry at somebody for something they did. If you pay attention, you’ll notice that you actually don’t stay angry the whole time. What happens is that you start to feel less angry, like you are just about over it, and then you think about that thing they did, and you get angry again. It’s not completely conscious, but you’re choosing to remain angry, usually for no reason. If you just didn’t think about that thing, you’d stop being angry.

    For me, I’ve noticed that when I do this sort of illogical thing, I can’t seem to get past it until I go to sleep that night. Sleep seems to break the pattern. But most of the time, I can control it nowadays.