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I know someone who is a former state senator, and just recently retired from his regular job and now works as a lobbyist. Sounds like an interesting gig, and they can play a role in educating congress on things the legislators just don't know much about. But you are right, it is a system rife...

To play Devil's advocate, what about the notion that it takes several years to figure out how to DO the job? Part of the argument for career politicians is that they have the experience necessary to understand policy and get things done. That is a self-serving argument, but there has to be...

I like it, but I'd be okay with upping the salary. Even at the current salary levels, that is not enough money to attract greedy sorts. The attraction is the fame, power, and the "set for life" accoutrments that go along with the position. So, I think your ideas about term-limits and the...

The Arnold has spoken: https://x.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1851627802027758005

I think the media has done a terrible job covering Trump. As our news model has changed to more click-based, all outlets saw him as a goldmine. Anything Trump-related, especially something designed to stoke outrage, is automatic huge engagement. So, everyday they took the most innocuous things...

I often wonder what it would take to fix things. I have heard defenses of the 2-party system, but it feels like our current system is akin to trotting out Deacon Hill at QB over and over. There is no guarantee that going a different direction is going to be better, but it CANNOT be any worse. I...

Being really good at one thing (and he is a really good engineer and entrepreneur) does NOT make you really good at everything. He has absolutely murdered the value of twitter, and for all of his talent, he is erratic and either gullible or not especially concerned with the truth...

Twitter has lost 80% of its value since he purchased.

Not at all. I don't think those are bad goals to have, but nothing leads me to believe those are the guys to take on those tasks. Let Elon build cars and rockets, let RFK, Jr. saw off whale heads, and leave those other tasks to experts.

Our country (and the world) is run by rich people, it always has been. And that isn't necessarily terrible, our country has done pretty well for itself. I think the combination of capitalism and personal liberty have played massive roles in our overall success over the last few centuries. But...

These purges to remove non-citizen voters often end up purging legal voters whose information might be wonky due to errors by the DMV, or in some cases non-citizens who obtained driver's license and later became citizens. Everyone agrees that voter rolls need to be maintained, but someone being...

The big AI minds in Silicon Valley are predicting a seismic advancement (artificial general intelligence) within 2 to 10 years. They are ever optimists, but looking at the rate of change over the last couple years, nothing about that timeline seems unrealistic. There are a bunch of people who...

If your position is that all the bad things and criminality that seems to surround Trump is do to a vast conspiracy, that is an unfalsifiable position, and no amount of evidence will ever persuade you otherwise.

I would say oligarchy...it probably always has been.

Have you tried Google's Notebook LM, yet? You should check it out if you haven't. It is basically your own personal language model, it can search and reference any document you upload to it. So, you upload a bunch of documents (or multimedia files, or URLs), and then you can have your notebook...

I just want to be able to get back to hating each other for good old fashioned policy disagreements, as opposed to hating each other over the ranting and ravings of a self-serving narcissist who happens to be really good as self-promotion and has no fidelity to the truth.

And most of us love our neighbors! Politics has forced division for a long time, but it has been a minor part of most of our lives. Cable news and social media has made it a much more in our face, and some have taken advantage of that to fear-monger and widen the division to their own purposes...

It is good to be loved! Seems sincere...

And like voter suppression might be turning around to harm GOP, immigrants are definitely not uniformly supporting Democrats.

It could be, and I am sure it is for many. I also think it could be a situation where making it harder to vote has been advantageous for the GOP for decades, and this change has been very rapid (within the last couple of years); it is hard to turn a political party on a dime.