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blackhawks

08/24/25 11:40 PM

#541007 RE: Lime Time #540991

On his WORST day the 'decline' is all yours 'squeeze of 2'.

You must know by now that the claims of common sense come from those who have shit educations and who don't understand that common sense is insufficient in a complex world.

Why is common sense insufficient?
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Good question. "Common sense" feels like it should be enough, but it often isn’t, for several reasons:

1. It’s limited by experience.
What feels like “obvious truth” usually comes from personal habits, culture, and upbringing. Someone raised in another environment might have very different “common sense.”

2. It relies on intuition, not evidence.
Common sense is quick and intuitive, but it often misleads us when problems are complex. For example, common sense once suggested the sun goes around the Earth, heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, or disease was caused by “bad air.” Careful science overturned all of these.

3. It struggles with scale and abstraction.
Our intuitions evolved for everyday life—throwing stones, avoiding predators, navigating social groups—not for reasoning about probability, statistics, quantum physics, or economics. That’s why “common sense” fails with things like compounding interest, climate change, or randomness.

4. It’s prone to bias.
We confuse familiar with true. “Common sense” often reinforces stereotypes, traditions, and social norms rather than objective truth.

5. It can conflict.
What is “common sense” to one group may be nonsense to another. For example: “Spare the rod, spoil the child” was once common sense parenting, while today many see it as harmful.

👉 In short: common sense is a good starting point for everyday living, but it’s insufficient for complex, unfamiliar, or high-stakes problems. That’s why we need systematic reasoning, evidence, and critical thinking.


Regarding those 3 traits you are as Commodus....

The famous line from Gladiator where the son says he had none of his father's virtues is spoken by Commodus to his father, Marcus Aurelius.

In the scene, Commodus tells his father that he once wrote to him listing the four chief virtues: wisdom, justice, fortitude, and temperance. Commodus says that upon reading the list, he knew he had none of them.


Would you like me to give you a few real-world examples where common sense failed badly (medicine, economics, technology, etc.)?

Well, WOULD you like to see that. If so apply some lubricant back there.
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janice shell

08/24/25 11:44 PM

#541009 RE: Lime Time #540991

Ahhh, the old "common sense" excuse. What you need is an adequate education, though it may be too late.

So tell me: why do you think it's common, or any other kind of sense to cheer on an authoritarian regime that wants to fill the streets of our cities with military? Why do you adore a leader who himself LOVES violence?

Looking forward to Kent State on a much larger scale? That's your idea of "common sense"?
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Zorax

08/24/25 11:51 PM

#541012 RE: Lime Time #540991

Who will come to your aid when ice takes you away?

Not your fake president or any of your maga rejects.
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fuagf

08/25/25 4:40 PM

#541092 RE: Lime Time #540991

Lime Time, One, i said you wrote fiction:

"Too bad the overwhelmingly population votes Republican common sense policies. Once. The elderly nonsense
passes, MAGA will continue. I love it. Those covid clot shots will take out a lot of non free thinkers."
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You didn't care. Trump did not get a majority of the vote:

In fact, this year's popular-vote margin is the second-closest since 1968 and still tightening. It shows just how closely divided the country is politically, and that any shift to the right is marginal.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5213810/2024-presidential-election-popular-vote-trump-kamala-harris

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10 facts about Republicans in the U.S.

July 12, 2024 ByJ. Baxter Oliphant


Delegates from Ohio stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee.
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

As Republicans prepare to open their national convention in Milwaukee and renominate Donald Trump for president, here are some key facts about the roughly half of registered voters who identify with or lean toward the party, according to Pew Research Center data.

How we did this...

All links, charts, graphs

1.Republican voters are overwhelmingly White, though less so than in the past. About eight-in-ten Republican voters (79%) are non-Hispanic White, down from 93% nearly two decades ago. Still, Hispanic, Black and Asian voters together make up a much smaller share of Republican voters than Democratic voters (15% vs. 39%).

About two-thirds of Republican voters (64%) do not have a four-year college degree – modestly higher than the share among all U.S. voters (60%).

Overall, about half of Republican voters (51%) are White adults without a college degree, making them the single largest bloc within the party when looking at race, ethnicity and education together. By comparison, White adults without a college degree account for 38% of U.S. voters overall.

2. Republican voters are older than voters overall. About two-thirds of Republican voters (65%) are ages 50 and older, compared with 59% among all voters.

Just 8% of Republican voters are under 30. Among Democratic voters, those under 30 account for twice that share (16%).

Related: 10 facts about Democrats in the U.S.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/08/16/10-facts-about-democrats-in-the-us/


3. Around eight-in-ten Republican voters (81%) identify with a Christian denomination, compared with 67% of all registered voters. The largest religious group among Republicans is White evangelical Protestants, who make up 30% of GOP registered voters. White evangelicals make up a far smaller share of U.S. voters overall (17%).

Just 15% of Republican voters are religiously unaffiliated, compared with about a quarter of all voters (26%).

4. The vast majority of Republican voters plan to vote for Donald Trump. More than eight-in-ten GOP voters (84%) say they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, while 13% favor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Just 3% would support Joe Biden.

In the last two presidential elections, about nine-in-ten Republican voters cast their ballot for Trump (92% in 2020 and 89% in 2016). Read more about views of Trump ahead of the 2024 election in our latest report.

5. Large majorities of Republican voters are confident that Trump can make good decisions on key policies, but many have reservations about his personal conduct. At least eight-in-ten Republican voters say they are very or somewhat confident that Trump can make good decisions about economic policy (91%), immigration policy (89%), foreign policy (86%) and abortion policy (80%).

However, only about a quarter (26%) like the way he conducts himself personally, while 52% have mixed feelings and 21% don’t like his conduct.

6. Most Republicans say the stakes of the 2024 presidential election are high. About three-quarters of Republican voters (73%) say it really matters who wins. Just 5% say it doesn’t really matter who wins.

7. Republicans overwhelmingly see illegal immigration as one of the top problems facing the country. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents overall (not just GOP registered voters), 78% say illegal immigration is a very big problem in the country today, our May 2024 survey found. This is far higher than the share of all U.S. adults who say the same (51%).

About six-in-ten Republicans (61%) say undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should not be allowed to stay legally, according to an April 2024 survey. The share of Republicans who say this has increased by 19 percentage points since 2020.

8. Republicans are very negative about the state of the U.S. economy. In particular, Republicans are far more concerned than Democrats about inflation. Eight-in-ten Republicans say inflation is a very big problem in the country today, according to the May 2024 survey. By comparison, 46% of Democrats say this.

The public’s views of the economy are highly partisan, and throughout Biden’s presidency, Republicans have been more negative about the state of the U.S. economy than Democrats. Just 10% of Republicans rated economic conditions excellent or good. During Trump’s administration, Democrats were more negative than Republicans about the economy.

9. Republicans are more divided over abortion than Democrats are. About six-in-ten Republicans (57%) say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, while 41% say it should be legal in all or most cases, according to the April 2024 survey. Among Democrats, 85% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and just 14% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.

10. Republican hostility toward Democrats has increased significantly in recent decades. Over the past several decades, there has been a sizable increase in the shares of both Republicans and Democrats who view the opposing party very unfavorably. Today, 53% of Republicans have a very unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party, up from 21% three decades ago.

Republicans also nearly unanimously dislike Biden. More than nine-in-ten (93%) say they have an unfavorable opinion of the president, according to the May 2024 survey. Meanwhile, almost a quarter of Republicans (22%) have unfavorable opinions of both Biden and Trump.

J. Baxter Oliphant is a senior researcher focusing on politics at Pew Research Center.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/12/10-facts-about-republicans-in-the-us/

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I believe most American voters still favor democracy. Trump is striving to deny you that freedom.

Trump Might Govern as an Authoritarian. Is That What His Voters Want?

[...]Longman: What we are seeing right now is not creeping authoritarianism but a full-frontal assault on liberal democracy. Trump has made clear that he will target the vulnerable and will use the tools of government to take revenge on his perceived enemies. Yet many ways for people to resist remain. Even highly authoritarian regimes must worry about maintaining popular support. Without checks on his power, Trump may overreach in ways that turn off even some of his supporters. Voter turnout was down by five million people this year compared to 2020, suggesting that many people simply disengaged. Policies like massive deportations, high tariffs that raise the price of goods, and excessive attacks on political opponents could turn off many people and get others involved in politics again.

Authoritarian regimes are often much weaker and more fragile than they appear on the surface. I don’t have a lot of faith in the ability of government to limit Trump, but I have a lot of faith in the American people.

I don’t have a lot of faith in the ability of government to limit Trump,
but I have a lot of faith in the American people.

Timothy Longman
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