footnote from Clarence Thomas, quoting Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologica:
“foreigners were not at once admitted to citizenship" because "if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people”
My broke friends are sports gambling degens & every time I break it down to them that theyre better off not betting bc they always end up in the negative, they agree & still end up gambling later anyway. You cant change people, just have to let them be. Like a moth to a flame
Trump is a live player who managed to install himself as leader of the Republican Party. However he has evidently and equally notably totally failed to reform that party, as evidenced by the fact we spent 2026 bombing Iran and will apparently spend 2027 banning the internet.
Everyone tells me that Elon Musk is a fascist because he could "solve world hunger" for a mere 3 billion dollars, but MacKenzie Bezos has burned through 26 billion dollars of her ex husband's money and accomplished absolutely nothing of note.
Humans solve this problem by shutting off their pattern recognition which has the side effect of slowly (or quickly) driving them insane as the epistemological problems cascade outward from their original domain