This is not about “society as we know it”, this is about a particular way of designing your political system. The American way of doing things in this regard is not terribly widespread.
So no, this is not about lofty and universal concepts like “social contract” or anything like that, it is about specific constitutional designs, which are not the same everywhere. Especially the “checks and balances” system.
Caring about corruption impartially. They may care about it if it is the opposing team doing it, but are perfectly willing to ignore it if it is their own team. And with “they” I mean the Republicans.
Yeah, more like infamous. Basically all other Western democracies have looked at the US system and thought “yeah, we are going to do something else”, except for the ones who were militarily pressed into adopting something akin to the US constitution.
There are no “independent branches of government”. They are all governed by people of the same party. Your assumption copies the beliefs of the original founders that some imaginary “civic duty” would overrule all partisanship, when all recorded political history going back to the earliest civilisations show us that partisanship is an inevitable phenomenon in human societies.
Racism. You know the thing that the US was founded on.
Don’t give them any more ideas. They will seriously do this.
Perhaps it was poor judgement of him to try and convey that in a single sentence twitter post, in fact even using twitter at all.
No, they were created to facilitate pyramid schemes and scams.
But cooking your own food is pretty damn near to being that.
No, you didn’t stutter, your argument was just nonsensical.
Making your own food is a very basic and fundamental skill, which is also much cheaper than any other option, and it has nothing in common with your disingenous examples.
But I guess that is also a very American thing, that homecooked food is seen some sort of exotic fantasy, instead of the default solution.
We have shawarma.
No, Trump supporters showed they don’t care about that at all when they kept supporting him after the “grab them by the pussy” tapes back in 2016. Every single one of them.
So no, any outrage by Trump supporters about that is purely performative. They want the Epstein list because they think they can own the liberals with it.
They were developing health practices based on the best knowledge they had at the time
The key part of the phrase. They didn’t have a lot of knowledge, and couldn’t have until fundamental medical principles were discovered in the 20th century. The fact that they used things similar to modern day pseudoscientific “alternative” medicine, like detox, with little effect is not really surprising, that is where this kind of thing will always lead you.
The surprising thing is a historian of medicine treating it as some kind of mindblowing revelation.
Stop traveling to that shithole.
Yeah, there were flash floods in New York last year as well.
US justice system working as designed.
Sure, up until humans begin to run out of food in the near future.
Grifting and sheer spite.
They don’t care about Epstein for the crimes, they care about him because they think they can find dirt on Democrats. They would happily be Epstein if they could.
Indeed. With our current system it was only a matter of time. As soon as the internet became a default thing which everyone needed to access just to function in their daily lives, it would of course be subjected to the exact same exploitative mechanisms that the non-internet part of our lives have suffered from since the dawn of history.