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Alternatively, we could recognize the importance of electing officials who are serious and competent - a strategy that proved reasonably effective for over 200

by dpe82 2y ago

Alternatively, we could recognize the importance of electing officials who are serious and competent - a strategy that proved reasonably effective for over 200 years.

eggnet 2y ago
That will require inoculating the population against propaganda.
- jachee 2y ago
  How does one synthesize a mind vaccine?
  - lazide 2y ago
    When people reflexively associate the techniques used with so much pain and suffering that they lash out and destroy anyone using those techniques. Come to think of it, similar to normal vaccinations I guess. None of what is going on is really a vaccination though, it’s a real infection.
- jaydeegee 2y ago
  In Finland schools teach media literacy maybe that's a start.
  - blooalien 2y ago
    > "In Finland schools teach media literacy maybe that's a start." When I was a school-goer in the 70's, 80's, and 90's they used to teach that and basic critical thinking and research skills in "Current Events", "Civics", and "History" classes here in the U.S. too, but it seems to have gone away in more recent decades. Pretty sure that "social media" destroyed a lot of that in the adult population, too (for those who even had those skills to lose in the first place). :(
  - drawkward 2y ago
    In America, we fund religious and separatist schools! Yippee!
Dylan16807 2y ago
Not alternatively. They're both important and competent officials do not stop database abuse, they only lessen it.
throwawaymaths 2y ago
> a strategy that proved reasonably effective for over 200 years. not a student of US history, I see.
- dpe82 2y ago
  I used the "reasonably" qualifier purposefully.
timewizard 2y ago
I think everyone recognizes the importance of that. I think a large part of the country would disagree with your assessment of the current administration and might take issue with your total lack of similar assessment for the previous administration. I also think anyone with a passing understanding of history would doubt your claim that this has been "reasonably" effective for 200 years. As if no prior generation had to deal with an administration they felt was incompetent or as if there aren't prior presidents that are demonstrably worse than any Trump administration. Finally, again, if you're going to rely on an "electorate that recognizes social issues identically to me" to protect federal data, I think you've actually made the problem worse. Perhaps your social moors shouldn't be nation wide existential issues?

by dpe82 2y ago

Alternatively, we could recognize the importance of electing officials who are serious and competent - a strategy that proved reasonably effective for over 200 years.

eggnet 2y ago

That will require inoculating the population against propaganda.

jachee 2y ago
How does one synthesize a mind vaccine?
- lazide 2y ago
  When people reflexively associate the techniques used with so much pain and suffering that they lash out and destroy anyone using those techniques. Come to think of it, similar to normal vaccinations I guess. None of what is going on is really a vaccination though, it’s a real infection.
jaydeegee 2y ago
In Finland schools teach media literacy maybe that's a start.
- blooalien 2y ago
  > "In Finland schools teach media literacy maybe that's a start." When I was a school-goer in the 70's, 80's, and 90's they used to teach that and basic critical thinking and research skills in "Current Events", "Civics", and "History" classes here in the U.S. too, but it seems to have gone away in more recent decades. Pretty sure that "social media" destroyed a lot of that in the adult population, too (for those who even had those skills to lose in the first place). :(
- drawkward 2y ago
  In America, we fund religious and separatist schools! Yippee!

Dylan16807 2y ago

Not alternatively. They're both important and competent officials do not stop database abuse, they only lessen it.

throwawaymaths 2y ago

> a strategy that proved reasonably effective for over 200 years. not a student of US history, I see.

dpe82 2y ago
I used the "reasonably" qualifier purposefully.

timewizard 2y ago

I think everyone recognizes the importance of that. I think a large part of the country would disagree with your assessment of the current administration and might take issue with your total lack of similar assessment for the previous administration. I also think anyone with a passing understanding of history would doubt your claim that this has been "reasonably" effective for 200 years. As if no prior generation had to deal with an administration they felt was incompetent or as if there aren't prior presidents that are demonstrably worse than any Trump administration. Finally, again, if you're going to rely on an "electorate that recognizes social issues identically to me" to protect federal data, I think you've actually made the problem worse. Perhaps your social moors shouldn't be nation wide existential issues?