You’re asking me if it’s better that there are ~14 million less Nazis in the US than you thought?

That is also an oversimplification, because you’re assuming that all 36% of the people who didn’t vote had the option to vote. We are the most imprisoned population on earth, with some states (including one of the 2024 swing states) removing voting rights from people convicted of felonies.

That’s not even going into things like people working in jobs that have no problem violating the law and refusing to let them take time off to vote, people being illegitimately denied the vote at the polls over ID issues, long poll lines that mean some people wind up unable to vote for unavoidable reasons (childcare, disability, etc), 14 states don’t allow no-excuse voting by mail, I can keep going on with all the problems people run into while voting in the US if you want.

Obviously that’s not all of that 36%, but you are living in a dream world if you think every American citizen that wanted to vote got to.

Let’s not rewrite history, this is Trump’s first win through the popular vote. The American people chose Clinton the first time around, the electoral system set up to appease slavers 200+ years ago is what put him in power in 2016.

It’s illegal in Georgia for anyone other than poll workers to give people water while they stand in line to vote. Also, it’s not mandated that poll workers do so.

Seems relevant when it comes to paying voters.

FCC investigating Disney, ABC

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for DEI initiatives

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And now you’ve moved your goalposts; first it was ‘convince me philosophy deserves government funding,’ now it’s ’philosophy isn’t a hard science and can’t show me on a graph why abortion is wrong’.

If you just don’t like the humanities receiving government funds, just say so instead of doing this song and dance about how it’s really about science and equality.

You’re pretty sure based on what? Even self-proclaimed pro-life philosophers admit their position is rare. Ethics itself easily argues in favor of abortion but not against it, which is one reason it’s available in virtually every secular state.

You are starting from your conclusion (philosophy isn’t worth funding) and working backwards to make that fit any new evidence presented to you.

Applied ethics is not ‘what feels like it would be the most correct thing to do?’, it’s writing professional codes of conduct, establishing criteria for who should be allowed to get an organ transplant, who should be considered for parole, what scientific experiments should be allowed to happen, if I listed everything affected by the study of ethics I’d be here all day.

I don’t want a random schmuck who’s never thought about any of this for more than 5 minutes writing any of that, and I sure as shit don’t want people voting on it. That’s how you end up with abortion bans.

Do you want anyone other than priests advising government officials on ethics? Then you want philosophy majors.

What do you believe is being contributed to the discussion by being so negative about citizen political engagement? Don’t punish behavior you want to see more of. And if you think you can do better, get out there.

Yeah, it’s petty but I don’t really care about it. These people couldn’t even save us the first time around.

Oh, we’re not resistant, we’re just crazy enough to like the pain. Birds are resistant and don’t feel it at all, they can eat chilis like fruits.