Let them eat beans on toast

Partly that, and partly the fact that the system rewards psychopathic attitudes and a machiavellian willingness to stomp on whoever you have to in order to get your way. It’s the reason why CEOs and executives exude such a disproportionate level of anti-social behaviour.

I mean in theory there could be (not saying there will be) and let’s not forget that until around WWII the Republican party was considered the “progressive” one. I think it’s more about them perpetuating the idea of having principles as opposed to them actually having the potential for any. They are eternal bullshit artists after all, they can just say they have the page without showing how empty the other side is.

This made sense until the insinuation that intelligence and autism are mutually exclusive

Reading this comment makes me feel like I tuned into inter-dimensional cable

And yet the illegal alcohol market boomed and it gave massive rise to organized crime and government corruption to allow it. It doesn’t “work” in any practical sense, it just concentrates the problem and makes it even harder to control.

They probably think the US prohibition didn’t work because they just didn’t try hard enough

Hi, I’m Trevor Moore. Did you know that it’s illegal to say “I want to kill the President of the United States of America”?

Definitely not when it comes to the root causes. Trump was created by the past ~100 years of US society and government, he didn’t just pop in out of nowhere. He’s very much a “mask off” type of politician, and the rot runs far, far deeper than what he reveals.

https://www.startpage.com/ is based in the Netherlands, works really well too in my opinion. I’ve been using it ever since I started actively avoiding Google.

Edit: One caveat is that it’s majorly owned by an American parent company.