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Recent events have updated me towards thinking that a decent fraction of Americans (10-40%?) will rationalize and go along with ~anything the current admin does
I feel like unfortunately I am maybe one of these people, but it sort of depends on the definition of "going along with". I can't imagine myself ever feeling generally good about any of the recent administrations, but I also can't imagine myself trying to do much of anything about any of the things the administrations do, except for direct impacts on people I'm really close to. I'd guess that for that definition, the proportion may be significantly above 40%, like 80%-90%, but I've got no particular reason for those numbers.
i'm not certain you've yet earned the right to conclude that trying to do it makes you worse! :P Considering the set of all things that might someday go well, I don't think all such things will necessarily go well in the beginning, nor do i think they'll necessarily go well after a Significant Deliberate Attempt to Make Them Go Well. (I could ofc be totally wrong here—for instance maybe you've had many experiences that lead you to believe 'trying do this makes you worse', but you focused on the meetup in your post for narrative purposes.)
I've only attended one philosophy meetup, but most people seemed to be attending recreationally, not with... (read more)
Oh wait dang it's me, I'm ~the park friend!
I was born in 2006. The first phone I acquired was a flip phone; I bought in late 2023 because a friend wanted my number and I was running out of plausible excuses. I know what the blogosphere is but don't care too much about it. I feel like I could convince the raspberry pi in the kitchen to become a server, but I feel like that would take more googling than I'd like and why would I want a webcomic anyways? I can make a real comic and give it to people. I saw some open flames around Christmas-time and so did my... (read 428 more words →)