Dan Carlin

"My wish is for an America that matches the marketing material"

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@ChadAtkins2341 Good.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

So the President of the United States is talking about World Cup games being rigged,demanding reviews...slandering officials-this is insane stuff. And we've just become inured to it.
A whole generation is growing up thinking this is normal.That will be hardest to reverse later.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

This planet is run by crazy people. ... Think what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so... brief. A few years. In the best of them, a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.

— Carl Sagan, Contact

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

— Cicero

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

From a historical perspective, the United States would have to fight the Vietnam War roughly eight times to match Russia’s battlefield death tally in Ukraine.
https://t.co/LV3PNuvv65

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@idiotboy1999 How old are you? You make this sound like some timeless, intractable problem, whereas in the 1970s and 1980s it was a fragment of what it is now.
We had rules. They kept the corruption from getting crazy. Now we have abandoned them and things have become insane.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

Ive always had a problem with the idea that "money=free speech" when given to candidates/parties.Because to me that would mean the very rich have much more free speech than poorer Americans. Why should a billionaire have as much "free speech" as hundreds/thousands of poorer folk?

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It is possible - given absolute control over the media and the police - to rewrite the memories of hundreds of millions of people… It works to erase public memory of profound political mistakes, and thus to guarantee their eventual repetition.”

— Carl Sagan

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@idiotboy1999 Id be totally fine saying you can give as much as you want if we said the receiver couldn't take it. Is it a free speech violation then? We have a COMPLETELY corrupt system (that SCOTUS claims is functioning "as intended") and its money that's done that. What's your solution?

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@theSaintedBull If SCOTUS didnt make "quid pro quo" rules have to be so blatant for "corruption" to be charged we could attack this at the "receiver" level (as opposed to the giver one).Nowadays you need to have cash in your freezer+a signed contract promising how you'll vote to get convicted.

[Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) @paris_critical]

"It's dishonest to simplify anything that isn't simple." - Florence R. Sabin 🎈

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@Sampleminded66 Having two guns doesnt give you more of a second amendment right than having one.
And if you say it does, you're acting as though those with more money SHOULD have more rights than you.
So a trust fund baby should have more rights than you? How did they earn more rights than you?

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@Kosmo_Ken @JuddBaroff And the results have been obvious. We can see it in action. It is not theoretical. Since 1976 it's gone completely crazy. And U.S. society has reflected that.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@Sampleminded66 So you feel that those with more
Money SHOULD have more rights than you? Or am I misunderstanding?

There's a reason money controls our system. And there's a reason those without tons of it so often find their concerns uninteresting to those who are supposed to represent them.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@WoodsWoods47835 Legislation.

You buy people who owe you and they pay you back with doing what you want on issues you care about.
Why should Zuckerberg have more rights than you?

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@LProof777 Then it should. And then be rebuilt to correct what's been done incorrectly.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@BearandRoo2 No,that doesn't track.Once the 4th (for example) is breached, they can search all your stuff. Having more guns isn't using "more" of the 2d amendment. The Constitution doesn't address this rights-wealth disparity at all. Had the founders seen it that way, one thinks it would've.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@LProof777 And they should not.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

The Supreme Court ruled today that obtaining phone location data using a 'geofence' is a Fourth Amendment search. Citing Cato's brief in his concurring opinion, Justice Gorsuch argued such data are the user's personal property. Constitutional protections don't disappear as technology advances, writes Cato’s Laura Bondank-Harmon.