Totally inaccurate, that guy is wearing a uniform.

Yes, that was intentional to further color the sentiment.

Eh, I try to use Hanlon’s Razor whenever prudent.

Not everyone thinks good.

I’ve never actually seen it, but I assumed that was the plot.

Not saying there aren’t a lot of racists, but there are also many very dumb people. I’ve met enough of the general population to feel fairly certain that there are a non-zero number of Trump supporters who are otherwise tolerant people. They simply don’t think about it.

You’d be surprised by the proportion of the population which spends virtually no time on self-reflection. They just kinda bumble forward through life. Most of these people inherit their political affiliation like a sports team, from their environment. They’re not bad people, they just don’t think too hard.

Not necessarily, some of them could be not racist but too dumb to see the conflict.

I want to make a joke paralleling “Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles”, but my biblical scholarship is insufficient for the task.

Bipedal locomotion is tricky. Unless you have those big instep “toes” like you see on old windup toys, you can’t center weight over both feet, which means you have to shift weight between each step. Humans walk dynamically, once we start moving we’re basically in a controlled fall from one step to the next, constantly catching ourselves. This is only possible because we’re constantly monitoring our balance. This is a mental coordination we’ve developed, as a species, over thousands of generations and, as individuals, over years of practice. The downside is that if something happens mid-walk to interrupt that coordination, we’re almost guaranteed to fall.

Robots are expensive, falls damage that expensive equipment. And rather than countless generations of refinement, they have to develop their coordination from deliberate programming. The “where’s the bathroom” walk is much slower than human walking, but it’s fairly stable and predictable; balance is fully shifted to the planted foot before the other lifts from the ground. A lapse in coordination won’t send the walker face first into the dirt.

Eventually, robots will have sufficiently sophisticated autonomy and “reflexes” to be able to throw themselves into a controlled fall. But for now, the bathroom walk is fast enough for most applications, while being safe enough to avoid fall damage.

Are you suggesting that someone whose favorite book is a collection of Hitler’s speeches is going to follow Hitler’s methodology? I dunno, kind of a stretch.

There’s a sticking point that no one’s been able to explain to me:

If you’re in the minority, revolution is against the democratic will of the people.

If you’re in the majority, you have the votes to actually accomplish something with reform. It’s not like we live in a monarchy, reform is possible under our system.

If reform isn’t working to bring about your goals, either your goals aren’t popular enough, or they are popular but the people lack the will and organization to vote for them.

If the people lack the will and organization to vote effectively, they certainly lack the will and organization to topple the government.

My area of expertise is managing complex systems and change implementation. I sincerely don’t understand how revolution is supposed to work where reform doesn’t. No one has been able to give me an answer that doesn’t bill down to idealistic hope. How is this revolution supposed to be implemented, and why can’t we build the foundation for revolution while simultaneously using the tools we have for reform? Wouldn’t widespread support for reform be the best possible proof of consensus?

And presumptuously colors uninhabited areas.

Just replaced my phone so I know exactly where one is. I’m on eSIM tho, so doesn’t really matter.

This isn’t partisan, you’re fighting human nature here. Most people aren’t that politically engaged. How many people were surprised Biden wasn’t on the ballot?

Most people aren’t following politics, they follow a vibe that they think about every few years and then go on not worrying about. Things have to get really bad before the average person thinks critically about their political representation beyond sports tribalism.

Every convert is +2, don’t disincentivize that.