Why would they?
The most valued companies and richest billionaires made bank in 2020 at the expense of the regular citizens. They've got an awesome racket going here, and the people seem to cowed enough to let them continue.
The point was that it isn't about elegance and "facts" is the wrong word to use because a fact is a thing you know to be true and not necessarily a thing that is true.
You have observable reality (within the confines of our ability to observe) and you have a model that can describe the subset of observations. And you can always check the validity of the model (at least theoretically) because a valid and accurate model will always predict the outcome based on a given set of inputs. None of that is really facts because a model necessarily works on a limited scale or level of resolution. Meaning it is valid for a given scope and not as a thing in itself. A model that describes everything is reality itself, and that's not something we can understand or cope with.
What people tend to ignore is that a model that failed to predict a single instance of an outcome is 100% false* and should be thrown in the garbage like the hot trash it is. That doesn't stop people in the soft sciences from attempting to use the same models over and over again even though we know they are trash.
- Assuming the axiom that the reality is contiguous
No, science is the result and the application of a specific methodology for gaining knowledge.
This is the best methodology we currently have, because the models built on scientific knowledge tend to be more correct.
That said, it is important to understand that a lot of things called "science" have nothing to do with it. Gender "science", for example, goes out of its way to never apply the actual core scientific methodology, opting instead to use the name and external attributes of the thing. Like a cargo-cult or child's plaything.
Trump would have won had his supporters been more together and organized and had their own people in key places. And it's kind of on him and his people that this didn't happen, but I don't think he knew about the depths of betrayal
The point is that fraud is hard and expensive even if you control the local level, but really really hard if you don't.
If the people organizing at the polling place are all Trump supporters, you're not going to get 4 trucks of magic ballots at 3am
It is mean, like a very bitter medicine is mean. If you have control over your life and your life is full of shit, that means you're the one who crashed it into the cesspool and it's up to you to climb out.
That much truth would be enough to destroy an unprepared person outright, meaning it is exactly a poison, no like about it. Chemotherapy is also a poison.
I guess the point is that no person should be afraid of being mean when being mean is a virtue. Being nice can be pathological and evil, being mean at the right time and place can be a good. Even love can fester into a pathological evil.
We really shouldn't be treating these nuanced and multifaceted concepts as if we were anthropomorphic animals in a Saturday morning cartoon for slow children -- "Mean bad, nice good, you love me, I love you, consume toy product"
It makes sense when you realize that they dislike, disrespect or outright hate themselves, but no one ever gave them a mechanism for self-improvement to make this better.
Basically, in order to improve, you need to realize that your life sucks because you suck, and this situation is entirely your own fault and responsibility. This is a heavy thing to realize, but if it's your own fault, it also means it is in your power to fix it.
If your life sucks because of patriarchy, you're fucked, because no one is fixing that ever, because it doesn't really exist.
People believe the media even though it lies.
Even you and me -- like what do you really know about things that you haven't researched. Who is Assad, for example? What happened in Ukraine? What is happening in Myanmar?
Unless you looked it up and spent the effort to figure it out (which is often almost impossible due to the language barriers) you don't know anything except what the media told you, but what the media told you is 100% a lie designed to sell a narrative by whatever sponsor wanted a spin on the topic.
They probably don't know the risk. And by that I mean that the risk is the same regardless of mask shit.
If you aren't wearing a fitted respirator, it's all a bunch of stupid bullshit theater when it comes to the likelihood of getting sick
That said, the actual studies about lockdown tell us that they don't fucking work.
It's all bullshit made up by China (literally no one used general lockdowns to fight disease and this was never in any recommendation until China did it in 2020) that was sold to the public.
It has nothing to do with intelligence. And even if a correlation between being wilfully blind and intelligence exists, it's not an inverse one because an intelligent person is much better at rationalizing any amount of stupid bullshit.
The people driving cancel culture and potentially getting you expelled aren't doing it because they're stupid. They're doing it out of malice and hate and they're succeeding because they're smart and well organized. The ones cheering it on are cowards or wilfully blind hoping to ride it out without being noticed.
Instead of jerking yourself to the idea of being burdened with such a great intellect, maybe spend more of that intellect understanding what the hell is actually going on. Read good books that explain it.
It's not just that.
The founding fathers were the radical progressives of their age who wanted to get rid of all traditions and build a nation based of off a radically different paradigm of enlightenment and rationality.
Despite espousing the same sentiments as the founding fathers, the conservatives today are of course the opposite of radical paradigm-shifting revolutionaries.
Wanting to keep things as they were is just not -- and never will be -- something that ignites the same passion and impetus as the ideas of radical improvement. Especially when the old system is so obviously broken in so many ways.
The problem, of course, is that the founding fathers were learned men who knew all there was to know about the science of politics and governance in the 18th century. The radical progressives of today never once about a book about it and can't even govern their own genitals. Their idea of improvement is a chimp with a hammer trying to make a car go faster by whacking the engine.
So basically the right-thinking rational people have to propose their own positive solutions to the very real problems the progressives are taking advantage of. Something that you can get excited over, something to fight for.
Or you have to learn to defend yourself.
You joke, but state legislature elections aren't as fraudulent because it is harder to organize and a lot of states aren't completely taken over yet.
Like you probably won't get California to ratify, but you don't need to.
Also, this thing is completely bipartisan. Cucks, degenerates, asexual trans polykin furries are also not represented in the House. No, scratch that, cucks and degenerates are totally represented, but you get the point.
Actual representation in the house will mean actual representation for everyone. Like actual diversity that corresponds to the populace.
Yeah, well, what are you going to do? Quit? In this market and with Mr. China as president?