Awkwardly_Frank

I swear, every James Woods post I’ve ever read is the text equivalent of watching a seasoned philosopher very carefully, and methodically shit their pants.

Curse you for being in an earlier time zone! I wanted to be the first one to post it this year.

Curse you for being in an earlier time zone! I wanted to be the first one to post it this year.

So clever my first suspicion was that the source had been photoshopped.

You're not wrong, but winning the election isn't the bridge the article is talking about. There's room for both conversations in the world, and talking about the potential shift taking place in The Democratic Party may help them to win more elections.

Yeah, at least the kid didn't shell out hundreds of dollars for gold shoes with the structural integrity of cardboard.

There are certainly problems with the state of journalism, but anyone who tries to "view the news as a person" will be as woefully uninformed as those who try to "run government like a business."

What a terrible thing to say about someone's father on the basis of one offhand remark.

So you're saying my father was wrong; crying will solve something?

They'll pick someone who covers Harris's demographic gaps for VP, like they did Biden for Obama. Probably a moderate from a swing state. Edit: spelling.

You raise a good point. The bias towards action, real or perceived, and the catharsis of self-righteous anger are both strong motivators at work in the political realm. We'd all do well to guard ourselves against those wishing to exploit them.

You'd think so,but education and experience doesn't really get rid of the underlying tendency so much as it inoculates you to it in specific areas of experience/expertise. Plenty of experts in their own field will look at a screw-up in another field they're not familiar with and exclaim "just do/don't do x, y,or z." That's why it's such an insidious tendency, insight really only let's you see how complicated certain things are while leaving the shroud of your own ignorance around everything else.

Think of a clerk having trouble with the register when you're in a hurry to get home. You're likely to think to yourself "come on! It's your one job and it's not that hard. But if you're made to stop and think about it you realize there's a whole litany of functions to remember for the different scenarios that come up, an encyclopedia of produce numbers to remember, company policies to be observed,and all sorts of smaller jobs to be done.

This isn't to say that people willing to hurt others for an easy solution to their problems have an excuse. This is just to say that we would do well to remember that everyone is susceptible to the urge to oversimplify.

Edit: spelling