Maybe start by actually giving a damn what people think. Is that even possible for a conservative?
How about you stop playing the victim all the time (while abusing yourself and pretending that it's the guy you oppose) and actually stand for something (other than your own mindless survival)?
because it's bullshit lol. either that, or it's a terrible news outlet. all too often journalists think they can get away with bullshitting by simply failing to link to any source. people should just auto-reject any news posts that lack sources tbh.
Child labour is a crime against humanity. To get to the root of a crime, ask yourself 'Cui bono?' (who benefits?) and you'll know who the criminals are.
not an american, so i have no real… uh… i was gonna say skin in the game but tbh the whole western world has skin in the game… regardless:
if that were to happen i’d say it’d get to a point where the number of justices deadlocks the court, and either makes it entirely symbolic or there’s a bipartisan agreement that something needs to be fixed and that’s how you get systemic change
I actually think expanding the Supreme Court should be a long-term project: one new seat per presidential term, until the court has a total of 15 seats in 2044 (15 being a number I pulled out of my ass, just seems like a good size to me). That's a slow enough rollout that it can't be accused of one party stuffing the court, and it's fair because it gives several future presidents a say. Is that sufficiently 'non-politicized'?
Not that this kind of compromise would be acceptable to the other side anyway, they'll call foul no matter what because they're winning right now and won't accept anything that could potentially challenge that.
Yup. The only limit is the American population of judges, that is until they figure out how to outsource it. As American democracy deteriorates further, people want to break down institutions and the separation of powers in order to give more power to the executive. Because currently, that benefits them. At every step of the way both Rs and Ds will justify their powergrabs by saying the other would've done it. What could possibly go wrong?
I think this is the one anyway. Seems like it points to "cognitive inflexibility" rather than the interpreted version of "performs poorly," so I'm not sure if this is just the journalist stirring up shit with an inflammatory headline (oh my word how unheard of) or there's another study I couldn't find.
I agree the journalist and arguably the researchers themselves are representing these results poorly.
Participants across the studies were evaluated on their likely hood to die for the in-group or kill the outgroup. The groups in question appear to be nationality. So "Extreme ideology" is better read as "extreme nationalism" imho.
The finding is, as you said, more rigid cognition. Less lateral thinking. Not "extremists are dumb", which is a feel good line that undermines the threat of certain extremists.
I really want to give the benefit of the doubt and assume there was a followup study with the things the article brings into the discussion: liberal vs conservative thought patterns, or cognitive inflexibility correlating to poor analytical ability.
But I have no idea and wasn't invested enough to do more than google "zmigrod extremism study" honestly.
I dont get why articles would cite a study and not even put it there. I mean i get it bc i guess some ppl who do that they might be trying to lie about the study and hope no one looks but it isnt nice
Maybe have the new justices vote on some sort of involuntary, non dis-chargeable, clear language, ethical code that everyone who joins signs? Maybe mandatory minimum sentences if they break it?
I’d bet $1 on Trump winning the next election and then expanding the court. Just think about whatever the worst likely scenario is; that’s also the most probable. The Republicants have spent 30 years de-educating and numbing America.
Well, given the amount of infidelity amongst conservatives, I suspect that they get around not coveting their neighbor's wife by showing her some lovin', if you know what I mean.
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