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The framers made the electoral college system to reduce the impact of populous states and raise the impact of less populous states so everyone gets an equal voice. Without it, you …

You are really grasping at straws here. This is an instance where applying Occam’s Razor applies. At any rate, whatever the causes it is still the case that there are regional diff…

I acknowledged that it was by design. Obviously I’m aware of this fact. The design isn’t working anymore. What worked back then doesn’t now. There are major power imbalances in the…

The U.S. Constitution is a document that forms the basis of governance and at its heart is an anti-democratic sentiment. The writers of Constitution did not want a monarch or a dem…

How do you know this? It sounds plausible and may seem intuitively obvious but many intuitively obvious 'facts' have turned out to be wrong. It is good to be skeptical of an indivi…

Ending your post with “church of science” makes you appear to be extreme. It appears to me that you are an extremist and are lashing out because you feel this research is an attack…

If we produced exactly what we consume then there would still be massive amounts of waste. There would still be pollution on a global scale and still be toxic chemicals pumped into…

There is a negative impact to eating beef in the form of negative externalities. Humans are excessive in just about everything. We consume excessive amounts of materials and this c…

We exports huge amounts of grain. The groundwater we're depleting isn't for our own use, it's to feed other countries. Which is why it is a federal issue since the federal governme…

It’s odd to me that you don’t like the phrasing “America is using…” and want it to read “The Southwest portion of America…”. Millions of people live in the Southwest and it is part…

No. What you wrote is completely wrong. Besides, it would be better for the environment and humanity if we did not progress so fast in the area of releasing massive amounts of toxi…

I think they should be banned because it makes no sense to me to extensively use chemicals that have not been shown to have a reasonable chance of being safe. Why extensively use s…

This is how progress is made. It starts out with observations and looking for clues and links. What the study shows is that these chemicals have decidedly not shown to be safe and …

Musk is one of the only individuals in the world that actively tries to solve real problems. And people hate him for it. This is a delusional belief. Virtually no one hates him for…

What makes it trash journalism? Is it false? Is Musk beyond criticism in this area?

Mine was the second comment and you had not responded to the first comment when I made my post. As Crzy demonstrates it was not an obvious error. Anti-intellectualism is quite comm…

In this age of anti-intellectualism amongst certain political groups in the U.S. it wasn’t too foolish to think “educated” was the intended word.

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That isn’t quite what Dunning-Kruger is about. People with less competence tend to overestimate their abilities more than people with higher competence. For example, a person with …

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It's primarily the educated who fall for nonsense arguments and don't see how they are being misled and used. Are you able to justify this belief with anything more concrete than s…

The people most in favor of school vouchers in the U.S. are mostly conservatives who oppose programs for poor people in almost all other contexts. When it comes to school vouchers …

Mississippi is not richer than Germany in the ways that truly matter. It is hard for Americans to comprehend but money is not the end all be all of being human. Life expectancy is …

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgc/private-schoo... Most private k-12 schools are religiously affiliated. Do you have this much concern for the poor when it comes to fu…

I wish people would think as much about the poor when it came time to fund job programs, healthcare, childcare, food stamps, universal pre-school, raising the minimum wage, increas…