once you realize many electeds come into office with a) the genuine desire to do good but b) not a ton of policy experience across the breadth of their portfolio and c) a degraded institutional structure, it becomes clear how this creates an opening for the advocate with a white paper and a smile

/2 And people in authority who openly defy the rule of law and encourage contempt of it, who openly use it to help their friends and hinder their enemies, are not morally entitled to its protection, in any way.

The end of society will be a dating app that has prediction markets fused in.

like, humans literally started wandering *as a species* in search of a better meal -- and, it worked! We eat good now!!

One curse of modernity is achieving levels of comfort and wealth never before known to humans such that our minds are free to imagine an earlier time when all our food was local and things were better, when "local food" was either onions and potatoes, or onions and mutton, or potatoes and mustard

People are like "oh so you're saying you want there to be no food huh" like my brother in Christ they're draining the Colorado River to grow alfalfa to feed to racehorses in Saudi Arabia youtu.be/owieQnPYfT8?...

GOP-led healthcare reform will make penises cheaper than ever by putting the power back in the hands of consumers

I did too, but they cheated me out of some foreskin