People only care about narratives, and a side effect of having a scientific/naturalistic worldview is that things like disease become narratively inert.

People used to care a lot more about diseases when they could be given narrative causes like witchcraft or demons.

Yes, but so far the Washington Post (unlike the Times article Trump shared) isn’t openly advocating for purging gays from the military.

It was the right-wing Washington Times, not the Washington Post.

I don’t agree that they should be eliminated. They’re there for a reason.

Prohibition was there for a reason. Witches were tried for a reason. Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia for a reason.

Having a reason doesn’t make you right.

“It’s what anyone else would do.”

It just depends on which type of serifs he puts on the X.

• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History by Josephine Quinn
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber

The winner in the general election will almost certainly be a Democrat, but California has an open, top-two primary. If left-leaning voters can unite behind a second Democratic candidate, and Republican voters split their votes between two or more candidates, it’s plausible that the general election could come down to Harris and a second Democrat to her left.

Republicans who have already demonized Harris after the 2024 campaign might then vote for the other Democrat, just on the basis of their negative view of Harris—so Harris being in the race could swing the election further to the left.

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