Post AtW4FY8m1KdQYlS4sC by BritishKoalaTea@social.coop
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(DIR) Post #AtW0c35rDe2L73YpmK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-27T11:45:53Z
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I hope the US house has been carefully watching the parliament in South Korea and learning things.
(DIR) Post #AtW0lz3h4kK3UjHnvc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-27T11:47:41Z
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I generally have an irrational hope they are learning things... really ANY things ... but this is one in particular that they might be able to apply to their lives.
(DIR) Post #AtW24SmtNlqyrdnqWe by Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-27T12:02:08Z
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@futurebird given how little science, law and history they appear to have learned, I don't hold out much hope...
(DIR) Post #AtW2pCt8JUmpAD0kb2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-27T12:10:41Z
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@Scmbradley but when a person knows so few things, learning even one thing could be a whole new world for them.
(DIR) Post #AtW3wmQEhIyVLqfaUK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-27T12:23:15Z
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What if we had ... a "congressional school" basically 3 days a week for a couple of hours they'd take little mini-courses on various topics. Things like:* The history of roads.* Health and Human aging.* Food Preservation through the Ages* The Geological Wonders of the World* Infant Mortality through History* The history of Plumbing and Water Treatment* Mass Extinctions * The History of Book-Binding and Information Preservation* The Barrel: Trade Technology of the PastANYTHING
(DIR) Post #AtW47WeRfo4BcmRL6G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-27T12:25:12Z
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Part of it would be about learning things they might apply to their work as legislators. But another agenda would be to simple impress on them the vast complexity of human knowledge in a way that I often find lacking in powerful people... who often give the impression of thinking they know plenty enough about everything and thus seem to lack the basic curiosity required to do such a job well at all.
(DIR) Post #AtW4FY8m1KdQYlS4sC by BritishKoalaTea@social.coop
2025-04-27T12:26:34Z
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@futurebird I would also add a mandatory work program cleaning toilets at a fast food restaurant, working customer support phone lines, and waiting tables in a diner. Because a lot of these people don't know what it is like to work these kind of jobs and once you have, it changes your perspective.#IfIRuledTheWorld
(DIR) Post #AtW4glVoPgRvqkCnUu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-27T12:31:33Z
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@BritishKoalaTea Absolutely. Gain some appreciation of all of the basic tasks that make the world function, and what its like to do them. It seems like I'm just being mean, but I really think that ... just not knowing anything is a big problem with this class of people.
(DIR) Post #AtW7YHu8uRU5ZMEdRA by WorkWithKirk@mstdn.social
2025-04-27T13:03:36Z
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@futurebird I'd be happy if they just studied civics.
(DIR) Post #AtW8aWgj10Ndx9af0C by fiend_unpleasant@mastodon.social
2025-04-27T13:15:12Z
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@futurebird a guillotine seems like it would be cheaper and more efficient
(DIR) Post #AtW97V9njE9ClEuk6K by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-04-27T13:21:09Z
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@futurebird The Congressional Research Service is supposed to provide members of Congress and their staff with expert advice and information on all topics.But that does not help when members of Congress are willing to disregard all facts.
(DIR) Post #AtWALAyLfgtIARdqfA by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-04-27T13:34:47Z
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@futurebird Such a thing exists already in as much as the newly elected get training about how the legislative process works, what parts of legislation are called, and how you write laws in the sense of formatting requirements and metadata and using the machinery that will eventually produce a printed (and thus operant) law.A substantial proportion of new legislators get offended that they're expected to know the sort of details the help exist to handle and they won't follow any rules.
(DIR) Post #AtWAhYzP3cSZ1eoI0e by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-04-27T13:38:56Z
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@futurebird 15 years ago, I would have agreed very strongly with all this.but here's the thing: the availability of good explainations peaked in about 2016, and while it has declined, it hasn't declined that much.I no longer think ignorance is the primary problem. I've become convinced that the reason fascists support deadly policies is that killing people is their goal. That's the mental model that explains every thing the republicans do.
(DIR) Post #AtWL8fGynp7ZsFapSS by mathaetaes@infosec.exchange
2025-04-27T15:35:51Z
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@futurebird this would require our elected officials to have some sense of their own limitations and the ability to self-reflect… and be willing to admit in public that they could benefit from such things.Maybe I’m just cynical, but i don’t see any of those traits in our representatives, and the political landscape is such that I don’t see us electing anyone with those traits any time soon.