There are some Middle Eastern countries that would be ecstatic to host him for a short time.

The one thing that gives hope about this graph is that people have so little trust in Congress. Democracy doesn’t work unless you mistrust elected officials.

This is a lot of effort simply to avoid comment downvotes, and I did in fact hedge my comment in the first four words.

This is going to sound tautological, but comment downvotes against my comments only express the opinions of the type of person who would downvote my comments. It’s like that quote about not playing chess against a pigeon. If anything, I want them to respond to my comment so that I know who they are. I’d argue that if the platform allows comment downvotes, and this goes only for comment downvotes, not for upvotes, or post votes, but if the platform allows comment downvotes, then it should also allow any user to see who downvoted the comment. If my hedge in the first four words of my comment isn’t enough to convince people to have enough curiosity to read past the first sentence, then the truth is that I don’t think they’re worth my time. If they’re the type of people who downvote my comment, then I don’t really want anything to do with them. It’s simply evidence of bad behavior.

Also, government creation contracts are called constitutions. Lots of countries have them.

I also enjoy pedantic arguments, but I try to remember to avoid them when I think the topic is important. I had to stop myself from arguing against this point, because even if I won the argument, it wouldn’t mean anything.

I understand, but if I wrote comments with those types of people in mind, I’d never be able to say anything worthwhile.

The problem is the platform. There should be no option to downvote comments. It should just be upvote, reply, and report. Allowing people to downvote comments only leads to this sort of antisocial anti-intellectual behavior.

HOAs seem like they should be illegal. Having a contract in perpetuity that is attached to the purchase of property seems like it shouldn’t be allowed. So it is not only bound to the person who originally signed, but to whoever purchases the relevant property afterwards, and that gives other people rights over you that can be changed afterwards and are only limited by their conscience.

I basically don’t think you should be able to create a government by using a contract.

If you want to make informed decisions, you have to start with the truth. Imagine if people listened to that guy and someday took a lie detector test, only to realize too late that people do get nervous specifically when they lie, and that the test is designed to enhance that.

My comment was mostly about the stuff I mentioned in the second and third paragraphs.

I don’t think you can explain this behavior as simply stupid and ignorant. There are plenty of stupid and ignorant people who didn’t make the massive mistake of voting for Trump.

I think the most necessary thing needed to vote for Trump is a glaring personality defect. Bigotry is probably the most common. That’s why the Republicans made such a big deal of trans people.

Other personality defects would be having an authoritarian personality, meaning you simply mindlessly obey whoever you see as an authority, like your church leaders. And complete lack of empathy, and extreme selfishness, and narcissism.

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While that is true, they have several techniques to make people nervous specifically about their lies.

They ask them baseline questions such as their name to establish general nervousness. They can give the list of questions beforehand so that your expectation of the question you plan to lie about will make you more nervous.

And then there are ways to avoid lies causing nervousness. The best one is that some people can convince themselves that the lie is the truth. Other methods include certain drugs or distracting yourself in certain ways.

That’ll save me the trouble of using my own brain, so the hard part will be using my brain to remember your suggestion.

With the testimony against Trump from people who claim he raped them when they were children… Let’s just say that if Trump was a Catholic priest, they’d have already moved him to a different country.

Maybe they can recycle me into a plastic spoon then.

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There is exactly one person’s life that Trump cares about, and that says everything that needs to be said about this topic.

Not that I think this lady is capable of thinking this deeply, but I wonder whether if people switch from cars to bikes if they’ll go to the salon less frequently. Since your hair isn’t going to be as perfect anyways, if you’re wearing helmets all the time. She could have an ulterior motive.

I’m not saying whether he did or not. I’m saying that if he was a good guy, he definitely wouldn’t, and all of his “chivalrous” friends would be dying to get to the bottom of it.

Yes, at first it’s weird to think that people join an authoritarian organization like the Catholic Church, ostensibly believe that if they don’t follow its teachings that they will suffer an eternity of punishment, and then switch to follow a billionaire grifter.

But if you consider that churches teach you to obey without thinking for yourself, it makes a lot more sense that people get confused and start obeying the louder person, instead.

Classic propaganda tactic. Speculating about alternative answers after you already know the answer or when everyone knows where the answer is.

He speculates why did all these rich and powerful people not abandon him? Because he was secretly a good guy? No, you liar, it’s because they were his clients so he could blackmail them if he wanted to.

He speculates why did he get favorable terms from previous trials? Because he was secretly a good guy? No, you propagandist liar, it’s because he was ultra wealthy and well connected.

If he was secretly a good guy, he wouldn’t have offed himself in prison, so there’d be a giant investigation over that.