As Louie CK used to say (before/during his, uh, indiscretions): “I don’t make fun of gay people because they’re gay; I make fun of them because they’re silly.”
Inception-level OK Boomer
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Lol I see enraging a boomer bad enough to say some shit like this as a huge victory.
That university’s fight song and motto are literally “Boomer Sooner”.
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This is good. I was thinking we should get him to say
“Unstuck has the best political discussions, PERIOD.”
But that’s a quick way for everyone to say oh well obviously that’s not true, I’ll stay away from there.
Plus we are actually a checks notes philosophy forum?
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There’s a guy in my building who goes outside to smoke. I was riding the elevator back up with him and some woman said “It smells like Vegas in here.”
I can’t imagine if he’s in the desk next to you. It’s amazing how much even the faintest whiff of smoke is noticeable now.
The 70s must have smelled like a dirty ashtray. Has any time travel show ever done a joke on that?
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For sure smoking is the nut low grossest habit.
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Got to thinking today. Is there any other democracy that fetishizes it’s constitution like America?
This bizarre idea that a 200+ year old document should be expected to say much of anything about how a modern society should operate seems quintessentially American. It’s basically religious.
“literal white knighting” ITT. God this place has been toxic lately.
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Are you implying that a bunch of 20-something aristocrats who died 200 years ago were not the wisest human beings ever to live?!?! This means war, sir.
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The point of a constitution is not to tell you how to run your society, it’s to establish rules for the orderly resolution of political disputes. Those can and should be updated, of course, but it should be obvious why it’s desirable to have everyone be openly committed to the same process for peaceful resolution of their disagreements.
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“In fact, I think somebody should be chosen and a smoker should be given the highest medal that this country gives out. Whatever it is. The Medal of Honor?” Limbaugh continued. “If not that, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Smokers are being told horrible things about themselves. They are being told they are rotten to the core, they are despicable. And yet they alone, practically, are funding children’s health care programs.”
People attack lawyers for lying and abusing language, but advertisers are just as bad if not worse, imo.
They collaborated to give us the immortal “acceptable marketing puffery” legal defence of straight-up lying.
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How’s that working out 
I don’t think other democracies make it so unalterable.
The US constitution has been amended many times.
But don’t get me wrong, I think the Constitution is flawed and needs to be fixed by importing successful ideas from other countries, but it’s kind of a paradox. The constitution was written at a time when the only available model for fully representative government was pre-imperial Rome, but then the founders did such a great job that their second draft somehow endured for almost 250 years without completely breaking down from all of its awful kludges and inconsistencies.
The larger point though is that however much you want to bemoan the fact that the U.S. is stuck with a legislature that has a countermajoritarian Senate, it’s actually naive to ascribe it to pseudo-religious love of the constitution. The compromises we’re stuck with arise from the fact that they benefit interests that have the power to block changes to them. You can be as cynical or as gauzy-eyed as you want, but you’ll never convince small states to give up equal representation in the Senate. It’s an undesirable equilibrium in the system that can’t be changed within the confines of democratic politics.
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I could dig into my background and culture of origin to explain why I instinctively find many things to be funny.
I can also look beyond that to identify things that I find instinctively funny but that cause a kind of harm I consider unacceptable.
My response to laugh can be genuine without me embracing it.
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