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> He's wrecking your countries' institutions left, right and center and those institutions are the glue that kept the country alive and together. What keeps Am

> He's wrecking your countries' institutions left, right and center and those institutions are the glue that kept the country alive and together. What keeps America alive and together is the virtue of the average American, not counter-democratic "institutions." America was a stable democracy from the beginning long before we had any of these institutions. I'd trade every Ivy-league grad in the world in all the most august institutions for a million ordinary Iowans. >> > But why bring my skin color into it? > Because unless you are living under a rock it should be painfully clear by now that you've voted massively against your own interests. But that wasn't relevant to our discussion. Why are you so fixated on the racial angle that you brought it up in unrelated conversation? Why does it feature so prominently in your mental model of Trump?

cowboylowrez 1y ago
>What keeps America alive and together is the virtue of the average American if we take the results of 2016 and 2024, then our "virtue" is on life support lol, still this is an inspiring speech and I'm honored to quote it and I thank you for writing it, hacker news thrives on good content like this. >counter-democratic "institutions." the US is very big, and a government is going to have a civil service, hopefully that span administrations as is often the norm, institutional knowledge is a thing. Obviously yes, some folks hate that shit. >America was a stable democracy from the beginning long before we had any of these institutions. history has entered the chat > I'd trade every Ivy-league grad in the world in all the most august institutions for a million ordinary Iowans. oh man, reminds me of my IT days, like database consistency was always some "ivory tower thinking", I hated 3 am troubleshooting sessions, especially since I was locked out of the bugfest that caused them. gives me flashbacks! you could literally be my boss lol >Why does it feature so prominently in your mental model of Trump? yeah, racism features prominently in my mental model of trump too. I think its part of the "reputation" part of reputation, resume and rapsheet.
pstuart 1y ago
Race is part of the what's going on -- there's an effort to purify the United States so only God's Chosen White Man (and his family) may live here. As you are proudly a Fed Soc member, are you also a follower of Jesus? From the makeup of your compatriots in SCOTUS, I'm guessing you're a devout Catholic. Does your faith inform you in your voting?

cowboylowrez 1y ago

>What keeps America alive and together is the virtue of the average American if we take the results of 2016 and 2024, then our "virtue" is on life support lol, still this is an inspiring speech and I'm honored to quote it and I thank you for writing it, hacker news thrives on good content like this. >counter-democratic "institutions." the US is very big, and a government is going to have a civil service, hopefully that span administrations as is often the norm, institutional knowledge is a thing. Obviously yes, some folks hate that shit. >America was a stable democracy from the beginning long before we had any of these institutions. history has entered the chat > I'd trade every Ivy-league grad in the world in all the most august institutions for a million ordinary Iowans. oh man, reminds me of my IT days, like database consistency was always some "ivory tower thinking", I hated 3 am troubleshooting sessions, especially since I was locked out of the bugfest that caused them. gives me flashbacks! you could literally be my boss lol >Why does it feature so prominently in your mental model of Trump? yeah, racism features prominently in my mental model of trump too. I think its part of the "reputation" part of reputation, resume and rapsheet.

pstuart 1y ago

Race is part of the what's going on -- there's an effort to purify the United States so only God's Chosen White Man (and his family) may live here. As you are proudly a Fed Soc member, are you also a follower of Jesus? From the makeup of your compatriots in SCOTUS, I'm guessing you're a devout Catholic. Does your faith inform you in your voting?