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Getting the masses to believe this has been the central project of Russia and China and a handful of others for many years now. Their investments are apparently seeing returns. The idea that democracy doesn’t work is finding traction

They’re also seizing more power for themselves and away from agencies by reversing chevron deference.

They always could, but chose not to for fear of consequences and breaking of historical norms. They still can, but now with a reasonable expectation that there won’t be any consequences. Any hit team who refuses on principle or bc it breaks some law will be pushed aside until a different team is found and agrees to proceed as ordered by the supreme ayatollah commander, his excellency the exhalted king in chief of the USA that the SCOTUS has just created.

Not really, no. Mayflies only live 24 hours and then die, yet reproduce before they do.

A significant portion of the Democratic base comes from African American voters. Dropping Harris would not be well received by that critical voting group

The Misanthropocene could work

I suppose it’s easy to “forget” that given how Biden actually ran for president in 1988, again in 2008, wanted to in 2016, ran again in 2020, and now is running yet again here in 2024. Except for those five (5) distinct times, yeah. He “didn’t want to be president.” 😂 I mostly agree with most of the rest of your post, though.

Survival isn’t what matters in evolution. Reproduction and creation of offspring is.

Nobody has suggested it doesn’t

no

Plasmodium, snakes (lost all limbs), Axolotl... the ostrich, emu, dodo and kiwi bird have lost the ability to fly... yeast, horses lost their thumbs and all but their middle fingers... the examples of evolution favoring simpler over more complex are literally endless. The core point is you're representing a false version of how it works. There is no direction in evolution, and definitely not toward more complex (even though that is one possible outcome). You can dig your heels in all you want, but you're wrong and I'd advise you adapt your understanding to a more accurate one. Perhaps it is, but it's not one necessarily favored by evolution

I'll defer to the active discussion taking place within thread as the current relevant context

no again, not always. sometimes it "engenders" more simplicity no, it's not... but then again this is borderline "not even wrong"

Perhaps, but right now is not that time, IMO. Right now, we must not be passive in the face of the approaching storm. We need to stop whistling passed the threat of fascism and authoritarianism, stand up, and support what we believe in... en masse, with intensity, and without pause. When the hurricane approaches, you work together to stack sand bags, install plywood on the windows, ensure availability of food and water, and move to higher ground where possible. You don't just sit there defeated and reliant on the power of prayer and positive vibes. Inaction favors those who are actively doing evil things.

So absurd it’s now probable and likely

Agreed. I was reaching more for poetry than precision when using the posters own words to demonstrate the paucity of their point, and acknowledge this welcome correction from you

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. That which gets selected for is contingent upon the local environment and circumstances. That’s not a direction.

If time passed, yet absolutely nothing moved, there’d be no change. Ergo, you’re wrong and it is motion that is the essence of change Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

According to this SCOTUS, the president can use their office to overturn an election as long as they do so officially, and they can use their power over the military (which they assert is basically absolute) to order assassination of rivals, even though they may be doing so for personal gain and personal vengeance. Also apparently this same king-like entity according to this court in parallel cannot cancel student loan debt, nor adopt clean energy requirements, nor mandate vaccination during a pandemic as those would be a bridge too far.

It’s hard using logic and reason to change the mind of a person who arrives at their position using neither If facts mattered, we’d have begun addressing this when it was first brought to congress in the 1980s as a real risk

You implied that evolution leads to more complexity. That is not true. It just represents change. There is no direction

The whole world, really

That’s not how evolution works. More complexity isn’t de facto better. In many environments it reduces probability of reproducing and this would get selected against. There is no direction to evolution.

Biden should use old age to his advantage, leverage his newly confirmed immunity re: exec actions as per SCOTUS decision today, and send Seal Team 6 to turn DJT into a wet spot. By the time they rethink their ruling and sort out whether or not it’s really truly okay for our prez to do this, Biden will be long deceased. Win/win