Can you imagine how the forefathers of American Democracy, the ancient Greeks, would have responded if someone had suggested that they host wrestling matches at their sacred site of Olympia ?

The actual joke here is not that liberals lack a theory of mind for anyone on the right (they do) while the average person on the right has one for liberals (they do, it's mistaken) It's that lib lack a theory of mind *for themselves* Their views of themselves and why they believe what they believe are entirely incorrect - they view their beliefs as "rational" and "following the evidence" but their actual beliefs are more simply described by "attempts to match the beliefs of the hivemind" and the hivemind changes beliefs based on if those beliefs produce power The simplest example (and there are others) is everything around covid where it went from "it's racist to worry about a disease - hug a Chinese person" to "shut everything down" to "racism is the real public health emergency" all following purely from the logic of power If a liberal had a good theory of mind *for himself* he would see himself as so cynical that he couldn't function as a good liberal - just saying that this is how they form views is enough to disqualify anyone from taking their views seriously Them lacking a theory of mind for anyone on the right is just a natural consequence of this

@HillaryClinton Ma’am, I was the Air Force Lt. Colonel who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that “people’s house” you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years. While Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One, you and your staff treated the military with open disdain, like we were the help, not the men and women sworn to protect this nation. The disrespect for anything non-Clinton was palpable. You lecture about “respect for the institution” while your husband lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off. And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, glue in drawers, obscene messages, stolen property, and filth left behind for the next administration. The GAO confirmed it. Classy exit from the “people’s house.” The White House belongs to the American people, not your grifting dynasty. They just elected a fighter who actually respects the military and the office. Keep ripping off poor kids in Haiti, selling your merch and clutching pearls. Sit down, bitch. The adults are back in charge.

whoever said bread and circuses were bad neglected to consider what if the circuses were really fucking cool

Sorry, no amount of propaganda is gonna convince people that this sucks

This image is like those memes from 2016 of Trump crossing the Delaware with Washington on a tank playing an electric guitar or whatever, except this photo is real.

When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!

In 2007, the standards of living in the United States and Western Europe were similar, and most people don’t realize how much things have diverged since the US boomed after the global financial crisis and Europe didn’t. They don’t fully understand how we’re living and we don’t fully understand how they’re living; even when we visit Europe as tourists, we don’t see their tiny, sad flats and their depressing grocery stores. That is why Europeans visiting for the World Cup are going to, like, a Waffle House or a Taco Bell and losing their minds. Stuff we don’t even like or care about is wildly superior to everything everywhere else. We have no idea how rich we are.

Country Roads is a universal anthem

The academic death spiral is something to behold. Demographics are steadily reducing the size of the student body, squeezing finances and driving bankruptcies. At the same time, standards collapse is destroying the quality of the students the universities admit. We're already at the point where it's common knowledge that a degree signals essentially nothing about intellectual ability. AI is exacerbating this, since cheating is so easy now. Kids are already starting to forgo university, since they don't think the cost of the credential is justified. That cuts even more deeply into the number of students universities can attract. Universities respond by reducing standards even further (thereby accelerating brand destruction), by reducing tuition (which cuts even more deeply into budgets), and by firing professors in low-enrollment majors (reducing program variety, especially in the small seminars that are generally the most rewarding experiences for students).

Hahahahaha No

Closed 93 majors. Holy crap.

Hey @grok Tell me more about these so called Articles of Confederation and if they matter at all when determining how the USPS operates under the Executive Branch.

Can someone please explain it to me like I'm five, why members of Congress are more upset that Elon became a trillionaire than they are that Somalis have defrauded our government out of hundreds of billions of dollars?

Raman gets last place on mail-in votes. Raman gets last place on in-person votes. Then suddenly surges ahead *only* with mail-in ballots submitted AFTER the election. LMAO.

As someone who’s been singing the National Anthem at rodeo events for over 20 years, I’ll just say…. There’s a way it was intended to be sung, without your own spin. This was 💯the way! Bravo!

Fan sneaked tequila into the stadium in a flask disguised as a mobile. Mexicans are light years ahead of us.

We hear it as consumption. But it's almost all for allocation. This is a huge issue we need to get past. Name anyone you would rather see allocate 1T . Well done.

"Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united people -a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by they their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.” -Founding Father John Jay

My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends: Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.