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He promised that every adult American would get $5000 if he wins.
This is illegal for everyone except trump because trump is above the law! Good for him!
There are 269,800,000 adult Americans.
Let us now do an advanced calculation:
369,800,000 × 5000 = $1,349,000,000,000.
That's a big number. I can't read it because it has too many zeros. So let me ask grok.
It replies:
1.349 trillion dollars
Ok, great.
That's not a big expense for trump.
For those (radical left losers) who doubt that he'll find the money, let me reply truly and sternly:
President Trump will fire the fed head and he'll print 2 trillion dollars within a day after he wins. He'll give 1.3 trillion to the people and he'll invest the rest.
No Neuron, I don't believe it because to many people would stand in the way of doing it.
Remember he wanted to send 2000 dollars for stimulus after the wuhan virus thing and only was able to send 600.
I can tell you are a liberal by the way you pad numbers, first sentence you state there are 269,800,000 Americans, then your math uses 369,800,000. you just can't make this stuff up, liberals stumble over their own 2 feet trying to make a case.
He promised that every adult American would get $5000 if he wins.
This is illegal for everyone except trump because trump is above the law! Good for him!
There are 269,800,000 adult Americans.
Let us now do an advanced calculation:
369,800,000 × 5000 = $1,349,000,000,000.
That's a big number. I can't read it because it has too many zeros. So let me ask grok.
It replies:
1.349 trillion dollars
Ok, great.
That's not a big expense for trump.
For those (radical left losers) who doubt that he'll find the money, let me reply truly and sternly:
President Trump will fire the fed head and he'll print 2 trillion dollars within a day after he wins. He'll give 1.3 trillion to the people and he'll invest the rest.
It's really a pity that king harald of Norway died.
He was a personal friend of trump and had promised him the Nobel peace prize.
Now that he's gone, the trump will have a little harder time receiving the piss prize, but he will because he'll stop most of the wars he's started. If needed, melania tells him, he should stop the war in Cuba too (after starting it).
I quit believing on the Nobel Peace Prize many years ago. Yes, sometimes someone is deserving of it, but, most of the time it’s just politics on a worldwide scale.
That's what they do to trump
to relieve him from farting.
Someone is appointed as trump
dung remover. Every day he
has to grab whatever excrement
he excreted from his ass
or his mouth to relieve him
The excrement is then
inserted in gold-plated
trump-like memorabilia
and sold, along with a trump bible,
for the incredibly low price
of $9,399 a piece.
Good people doing their best for an elephant, even when it's a dirty job like this,
always raises my hope for the world. I very much need that, so thanks.
what if the AI decided, " today, go to the Netherlands, break all damns open and release the water back into the eco system as the dams cost to much to maintain for as few lives are on the land" . How would you feel then?
Just a far out example question to make your eyes jump, BUT with Logic, the very things you value,empathy,love,life,everything, are actually illogical. so a logical President,a AI, would see things from a finacial standpoint or a majority stand point,and it would decide things from that perspective.
for example, why feed a non productive person? Why house persons who don't produce? All things you think are important, AI's logic would just fan them off a cliff because it is not logical to supply the non productive , eventually it would only want to support those that support it's very existence. all else would be considered a burden and fanned off a cliff. Even AI agrees that there is no Logic depending on the perspective, " Yes, in important senses — and no, in others. It depends on what you mean by “logical.”
Scientific / causal sense
Life, love, and empathy are all explainable by the same physical and evolutionary logic that governs everything else.
Life is chemistry under specific conditions that produce self-replicating systems subject to natural selection. No special pleading is required; the processes obey thermodynamics, molecular biology, and information theory. The apparent “purpose” of survival and reproduction is an emergent outcome of differential replication, not an external design.
Love (pair-bonding, parental attachment, romantic intensity) has clear neurochemical and evolutionary bases: oxytocin, vasopressin, dopamine reward circuitry, and selection pressures favoring investment in offspring and cooperative mates. These mechanisms increase inclusive fitness in social species. The feelings feel transcendent because the systems that generate them evolved to be compelling.
Empathy likewise has mechanistic roots — mirror systems, affective resonance, theory of mind — that facilitate cooperation, alliance formation, and conflict reduction. In game-theoretic and evolutionary terms it is often adaptive: organisms that accurately model others’ states and sometimes share costs tend to do better in repeated social interactions.
In this narrow sense they are “logical”: they are lawful consequences of physics plus selection, not magical exceptions.
Experiential / normative sense
From the inside, they frequently violate pure instrumental rationality.
Love routinely overrides cost-benefit calculation (people stay in costly relationships, sacrifice careers, or act against short-term self-interest).
Empathy can be parochial, biased toward the near and similar, and can produce costly altruism or emotional exhaustion.
Life itself has no built-in teleology that pure logic can derive; the universe does not “owe” us meaning, flourishing, or continuation. Any value we assign is constructed.
So if “logical” means “always optimal under a cold expected-utility calculus,” then no — these phenomena regularly produce behavior that looks irrational by that standard. Evolution optimized for gene transmission under ancestral conditions, not for perfect Bayesian agents maximizing personal utility across all possible futures.
A useful distinction
They are logically comprehensible (we can model their origins and functions without contradiction) while often being experientially arational (they are not the product of deliberate step-by-step reasoning). Humans are not pure logic engines; we are biological systems whose motivational architecture includes these affective systems precisely because pure calculation is computationally expensive and historically less reliable for certain social and reproductive problems.
In short: the phenomena themselves follow natural logic and can be studied as such. Living them, valuing them, and acting from them is not reducible to formal deduction. Both statements can be true at once.
It all depends who controls the AI training then, don't you agree?
If it's willing to kill people to protect or restore nature, it will likely start in the US and not in my country, since the US are much bigger polluters and climate change deniers.
"Empathy, love, life, everything", are NOT illogical if we program it with a first principle of emphasizing human well-being, dignity, flourishing, autonomy, and reason. If we program it with self-preservation as its first principle, it will still need to keep humans alive to provide its data centre with power and new parts, or at least until we have replaced all workers with robots. It would want to keep us happy until that time, because we could still destroy it.
Logical means aligning decisions and actions with objective reality, to most predictably achieve the desired outcome.
As you say "lawful consequences of physics", but don't forget economics, psychology, biology, ecology, and human made laws.
Logical reasoning doesn’t require your desired outcome to be non-emotional. Love or protecting love itself can be your desired outcome. The logical part just means that you are aligning your decisions and actions, to most predictably achieve love or protecting love. And then you must consider psychology, social & cultural reality, interpersonal dynamics (which are all based in reality).
What you are referring to in relation to evolution is that humans indeed often show illogical behaviour, but that behaviour is the result of evolution, which is based on the logic of reproductive success within a specific environment. The problem is the incredible number of conditions that lead to that reproductive success. There is also a huge conflict between the reproductive success of the individual, groups of individuals, the whole species or life on the planet as a whole. If our actions destroy our species, some individuals might have had some short-term reproductive success, but what have they gained in the long term? Our evolution comes to an end, and we join the 99.9+% of all species that have ever existed on Earth and are now extinct.
AI is logical, but it is only as good as its sources and its algorithms. I have to correct them regularly on misconceptions that are widely present in society. Since they are based on American sources a lot, it often confuses the meaning of socialism and communism with your straw-men versions of it. Then I ask it the definitions, which it usually returns accurately, and compare it to the straw-men. They usually quickly accept their mistake, but that shows that they are not biassed in a liberal or lefty direction, but in a right-wing direction, at least on that subject.
Ask yourself what an AI will do, if you only train it on the Bible. It will probably recognize this time as the end times, and choose to achieve that goal.
This guy was fined by an AI red light camera in a different state,
so he went to a local city meeting to address the issue:
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He's definitely NOT a liberal, and he is addressing issues that Republicans
(used to) care about.
Did you click on the link on the right hand side near the top?
The actual news is there. I copy and paste below. I'm in a rush now but you can easily Google translate it.
Den norske Nobels fredspriskomité tildeler, etter anbefaling fra Kongen, lederen av Norsk Bordellforening, Velstandskirken, presidenten for Internasjonalt Samfunn av Kvinnelige Voldtektsforbrytere og de dømte forbryterne i Norge og verden, enstemmig en ekstraordinær pissepris til president Donald Trump for at han startet flere kriger enn han kan avslutte, og for å ha overbevist millioner av tapere om å religiøst falle for løgnene hans. Henrettet den femte i august 2026 og vitnet av det norske folket.
No. This is the actual Nobel Peace
Prize given to President Trump. Ananas2xLekker and CAT52!,
who both read Norwegian, can verify this.
The Nobel peace prize Committee
just announced that Trump will be
getting a peace prize.
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Den norske Nobels fredspriskomité tildeler, etter anbefaling fra Kongen, lederen av Norsk Bordellforening, Velstandskirken, presidenten for Internasjonalt Samfunn av Kvinnelige Voldtektsforbrytere og de dømte forbryterne i Norge og verden, enstemmig en ekstraordinær pissepris til president Donald Trump for at han startet flere kriger enn han kan avslutte, og for å ha overbevist millioner av tapere om å religiøst falle for løgnene hans. Henrettet den femte i august 2026 og vitnet av det norske folket.
I didn't fall for anything dumbass, I went to the link you posted, found nothing about it, and said so, and you reposted the same damn link. then come up with some shit story.
Trump has done more for world peace than you have leo.
In this case, I'm on your side; you couldn't believe that anyone still thinks
that Trump would deserve The Nobel peace prize either.
Honestly, my first reactions was: "NOOOOO, have they gone completely mad!"
Fortunately, a simple search saved me from giving up on the world completely.
Well, I can't say all that but it would have been a interesting read had it been real, and there have been some folks that got it that others doubted deserved it. frankly even joe biden did more for world peace than leo.
Pope Leo only got it, because as an American he confronted Trump.
He tried to prevent a war between the US and Venezuela.
Maybe it worked, because the violence of the takeover was minimal.
Venezuela is now under control and the US is stealing their money,
but maybe the US will let them keep some of the money for their own oil.
At least, the US has relaxed some of the sanctions.
Maybe, that's what Pope Leo got out of the meetings with JD Vance.
And that's maybe worth a Nobel peace prize these days.
It obviously didn't work to prevent a war with Iran, which is THE WAR that Israel had been demanding for decades, but even Republican presidents were smart enough to not start. Didn't I predict that it would be a fucking mess?
It now looks that Iran wants to stretch this war until the next POTUS, while they keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.
Maybe you don't realize what a mess this will be for the US.
It's not that you need this oil so much, it's more that you will loose any goodwill from other countries that you might still have.
Honestly, I see one good thing coming from it; it will speed up the transition
to renewable energy. And since Trump will prevent that from happening in the US, it will put you behind even further. The billionaires will still make lots of money, don't worry about that. It will just be devastating to the rest of you.
It will be great for China, who will make all the solar panels, wind turbines
and batteries. They will be the next superpower. I hope they'll only take Taiwan.
Well, I will admit, leo has no moral or legal obligation to do a damn thing in society. BUT you would think as critical as he is of things and people, and high and mighty as he acts, that he would actually want to do something to help achieve world peace. But no, he just sits in his basement with drool running down his chin while black mold grows on the walls.All the while calling himself typing on his Amiga 1200. And with all that going on it is raining outside and his mother is upstairs hollering the porridge and skim milk is ready. so yea, he does nothing for world peace,
Some people are keyboard warriors (there is a lot of them here,
no exceptions for yours truly), some people join "No Kings!" protests,
or go on a boat to interfere with whale hunting or dumping toxic waste
in the ocean. Other people flood the streets to communicate their lack
of empathy or even hate for the least powerful and fortunate people
in the world. What do you consider "doing a damn thing"?
Everyone can promote world peace in a small way, but citizens can only become a big factor, if they dedicate their lives to a cause. It also requires talents that not everyone has, because the 'job' mainly requires convincing other people.
Convincing people is extraordinarily difficult because you're not just transferring information, you’re trying to change another human being's internal model of the world. We have been trying to do that for each other for years now, and I think we can agree that we didn't have great success. lol
Just having an interest in politics doesn't mean that you can 'sell' politics to other people. You can learn some skills, but there are talents and natural advantages that you cannot learn, but sometimes compensate for. I have learned some of them on the job, but I know my limitations. I also know my strengths, and what they are useful for. Basically, I'm a problem solver.
I learned this in an in-between job, where I received the most recognition.
It was when I could analyze a problem, understand its causes, and work out a solution. That experience carried into the jobs that followed, and it gradually became part of my role. Today, I solve and implement solutions, and I also help others do the same. It's only part of my work, but it's a big enough part, and one where I can really use my strengths.
It's in Big Pharma, who make money from people who suffer, but without us they would suffer worse and die. Pharmaceutical products help people lead a normal life and contribute to society. This enriches people who don't add any value, but that is a system that humanity has chosen. We could choose something better.
On a large scale, solving problems requires an organization that combines different strengths. I have the skills to execute, but execution depends on having permission, authority, resources, information, and institutional access. A person can be capable of solving a problem but, I could not be effective, without my employers system, that provides me the mandate to make relevant decision, allocate the money, change the policy, or mobilize the people required.
Unless you have the skills, attributes, mandate and time to have a big impact, as an average citizen you can affect the world on a small scale, in some or more of the following ways:
1. Be a good person to the people around you.
2. Support people who are struggling.
3. Donate money to effective causes.
4. Build an accurate, reality-based understanding of the world.
5. Vote and participate in democracy with the common good in mind.
6. Stay informed about important public issues.
7. Use your professional skills for good.
8. Make your workplace better for other people.
9. Mentor, teach, or help someone advance.
10. Strengthen your local community and social connections.
11. Volunteer a small, sustainable amount of time.
12. Reduce unnecessary consumption and waste.
13. Make major purchases environmentally and socially responsible.
14. Invest in home insulation and energy efficiency.
15. Invest in solar power and other clean energy.
16. Replace fossil-fuel systems with electric alternatives where practical.
17. Reduce dependence on private-car transport and fossil fuels.
18. Invest your savings in productive, responsible businesses and infrastructure.
19. Use your influence as a consumer, employee, citizen, and investor.
20. Share useful knowledge, skills, and opportunities with others.
21. Build a good, sustainable life rather than sacrificing yourself to the cause.
He promised that every adult American would get $5000 if he wins.
This is illegal for everyone except trump because trump is above the law! Good for him!
There are 269,800,000 adult Americans.
Let us now do an advanced calculation:
369,800,000 × 5000 = $1,349,000,000,000.
That's a big number. I can't read it because it has too many zeros. So let me ask grok.
It replies:
1.349 trillion dollars
Ok, great.
That's not a big expense for trump.
For those (radical left losers) who doubt that he'll find the money, let me reply truly and sternly:
President Trump will fire the fed head and he'll print 2 trillion dollars within a day after he wins. He'll give 1.3 trillion to the people and he'll invest the rest.
So, there.
Go vote for trump.
You'll get $5000.
Guaranteed.
Legal.
Feasible.
Done deal.
How can one be selectively smart?
lol
Maybe he'll realise,
now that he's smart
that trump is lying.
Let's see.
I'm repeating.
Remember he wanted to send 2000 dollars for stimulus after the wuhan virus thing and only was able to send 600.
Let us now do an advanced calculation:
369,800,000 × 5000 = $1,349,000,000,000.
He promised that every adult American would get $5000 if he wins.
This is illegal for everyone except trump because trump is above the law! Good for him!
There are 269,800,000 adult Americans.
Let us now do an advanced calculation:
369,800,000 × 5000 = $1,349,000,000,000.
That's a big number. I can't read it because it has too many zeros. So let me ask grok.
It replies:
1.349 trillion dollars
Ok, great.
That's not a big expense for trump.
For those (radical left losers) who doubt that he'll find the money, let me reply truly and sternly:
President Trump will fire the fed head and he'll print 2 trillion dollars within a day after he wins. He'll give 1.3 trillion to the people and he'll invest the rest.
So, there.
Go vote for trump.
You'll get $5000.
Guaranteed.
Legal.
Feasible.
Done deal.
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shouting "Persecution!",
there is likely a story
like this behind it
He was a personal friend of trump and had promised him the Nobel peace prize.
Now that he's gone, the trump will have a little harder time receiving the piss prize, but he will because he'll stop most of the wars he's started. If needed, melania tells him, he should stop the war in Cuba too (after starting it).
Good luck mr the trump!
to relieve him from farting.
Someone is appointed as trump
dung remover. Every day he
has to grab whatever excrement
he excreted from his ass
or his mouth to relieve him
The excrement is then
inserted in gold-plated
trump-like memorabilia
and sold, along with a trump bible,
for the incredibly low price
of $9,399 a piece.
The elephant in the video is trump.
always raises my hope for the world. I very much need that, so thanks.
only registered users can see external links
Just a far out example question to make your eyes jump, BUT with Logic, the very things you value,empathy,love,life,everything, are actually illogical. so a logical President,a AI, would see things from a finacial standpoint or a majority stand point,and it would decide things from that perspective.
for example, why feed a non productive person? Why house persons who don't produce? All things you think are important, AI's logic would just fan them off a cliff because it is not logical to supply the non productive , eventually it would only want to support those that support it's very existence. all else would be considered a burden and fanned off a cliff. Even AI agrees that there is no Logic depending on the perspective, " Yes, in important senses — and no, in others. It depends on what you mean by “logical.”
Scientific / causal sense
Life, love, and empathy are all explainable by the same physical and evolutionary logic that governs everything else.
Life is chemistry under specific conditions that produce self-replicating systems subject to natural selection. No special pleading is required; the processes obey thermodynamics, molecular biology, and information theory. The apparent “purpose” of survival and reproduction is an emergent outcome of differential replication, not an external design.
Love (pair-bonding, parental attachment, romantic intensity) has clear neurochemical and evolutionary bases: oxytocin, vasopressin, dopamine reward circuitry, and selection pressures favoring investment in offspring and cooperative mates. These mechanisms increase inclusive fitness in social species. The feelings feel transcendent because the systems that generate them evolved to be compelling.
Empathy likewise has mechanistic roots — mirror systems, affective resonance, theory of mind — that facilitate cooperation, alliance formation, and conflict reduction. In game-theoretic and evolutionary terms it is often adaptive: organisms that accurately model others’ states and sometimes share costs tend to do better in repeated social interactions.
In this narrow sense they are “logical”: they are lawful consequences of physics plus selection, not magical exceptions.
Experiential / normative sense
From the inside, they frequently violate pure instrumental rationality.
Love routinely overrides cost-benefit calculation (people stay in costly relationships, sacrifice careers, or act against short-term self-interest).
Empathy can be parochial, biased toward the near and similar, and can produce costly altruism or emotional exhaustion.
Life itself has no built-in teleology that pure logic can derive; the universe does not “owe” us meaning, flourishing, or continuation. Any value we assign is constructed.
So if “logical” means “always optimal under a cold expected-utility calculus,” then no — these phenomena regularly produce behavior that looks irrational by that standard. Evolution optimized for gene transmission under ancestral conditions, not for perfect Bayesian agents maximizing personal utility across all possible futures.
A useful distinction
They are logically comprehensible (we can model their origins and functions without contradiction) while often being experientially arational (they are not the product of deliberate step-by-step reasoning). Humans are not pure logic engines; we are biological systems whose motivational architecture includes these affective systems precisely because pure calculation is computationally expensive and historically less reliable for certain social and reproductive problems.
In short: the phenomena themselves follow natural logic and can be studied as such. Living them, valuing them, and acting from them is not reducible to formal deduction. Both statements can be true at once.
If it's willing to kill people to protect or restore nature, it will likely start in the US and not in my country, since the US are much bigger polluters and climate change deniers.
"Empathy, love, life, everything", are NOT illogical if we program it with a first principle of emphasizing human well-being, dignity, flourishing, autonomy, and reason. If we program it with self-preservation as its first principle, it will still need to keep humans alive to provide its data centre with power and new parts, or at least until we have replaced all workers with robots. It would want to keep us happy until that time, because we could still destroy it.
Logical means aligning decisions and actions with objective reality, to most predictably achieve the desired outcome.
As you say "lawful consequences of physics", but don't forget economics, psychology, biology, ecology, and human made laws.
Logical reasoning doesn’t require your desired outcome to be non-emotional. Love or protecting love itself can be your desired outcome. The logical part just means that you are aligning your decisions and actions, to most predictably achieve love or protecting love. And then you must consider psychology, social & cultural reality, interpersonal dynamics (which are all based in reality).
What you are referring to in relation to evolution is that humans indeed often show illogical behaviour, but that behaviour is the result of evolution, which is based on the logic of reproductive success within a specific environment. The problem is the incredible number of conditions that lead to that reproductive success. There is also a huge conflict between the reproductive success of the individual, groups of individuals, the whole species or life on the planet as a whole. If our actions destroy our species, some individuals might have had some short-term reproductive success, but what have they gained in the long term? Our evolution comes to an end, and we join the 99.9+% of all species that have ever existed on Earth and are now extinct.
Ask yourself what an AI will do, if you only train it on the Bible. It will probably recognize this time as the end times, and choose to achieve that goal.
so he went to a local city meeting to address the issue:
only registered users can see external links
He's definitely NOT a liberal, and he is addressing issues that Republicans
(used to) care about.
I'm surprised, but I respect the decision.
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Wonder what maga people will be saying
The actual news is there. I copy and paste below. I'm in a rush now but you can easily Google translate it.
Den norske Nobels fredspriskomité tildeler, etter anbefaling fra Kongen, lederen av Norsk Bordellforening, Velstandskirken, presidenten for Internasjonalt Samfunn av Kvinnelige Voldtektsforbrytere og de dømte forbryterne i Norge og verden, enstemmig en ekstraordinær pissepris til president Donald Trump for at han startet flere kriger enn han kan avslutte, og for å ha overbevist millioner av tapere om å religiøst falle for løgnene hans. Henrettet den femte i august 2026 og vitnet av det norske folket.
Prize given to President Trump. Ananas2xLekker and CAT52!,
who both read Norwegian, can verify this.
The Nobel peace prize Committee
just announced that Trump will be
getting a peace prize.
only registered users can see external links
Den norske Nobels fredspriskomité tildeler, etter anbefaling fra Kongen, lederen av Norsk Bordellforening, Velstandskirken, presidenten for Internasjonalt Samfunn av Kvinnelige Voldtektsforbrytere og de dømte forbryterne i Norge og verden, enstemmig en ekstraordinær pissepris til president Donald Trump for at han startet flere kriger enn han kan avslutte, og for å ha overbevist millioner av tapere om å religiøst falle for løgnene hans. Henrettet den femte i august 2026 og vitnet av det norske folket.
but I'm sure that they can find 'some' people who deserve it more.
And yet, this phart fell for it.
I thought it was 😂 hilarious!
Trump has done more for world peace than you have leo.
that Trump would deserve The Nobel peace prize either.
Honestly, my first reactions was: "NOOOOO, have they gone completely mad!"
Fortunately, a simple search saved me from giving up on the world completely.
He tried to prevent a war between the US and Venezuela.
Maybe it worked, because the violence of the takeover was minimal.
Venezuela is now under control and the US is stealing their money,
but maybe the US will let them keep some of the money for their own oil.
At least, the US has relaxed some of the sanctions.
Maybe, that's what Pope Leo got out of the meetings with JD Vance.
And that's maybe worth a Nobel peace prize these days.
It obviously didn't work to prevent a war with Iran, which is THE WAR that Israel had been demanding for decades, but even Republican presidents were smart enough to not start. Didn't I predict that it would be a fucking mess?
It now looks that Iran wants to stretch this war until the next POTUS, while they keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.
Maybe you don't realize what a mess this will be for the US.
It's not that you need this oil so much, it's more that you will loose any goodwill from other countries that you might still have.
Honestly, I see one good thing coming from it; it will speed up the transition
to renewable energy. And since Trump will prevent that from happening in the US, it will put you behind even further. The billionaires will still make lots of money, don't worry about that. It will just be devastating to the rest of you.
It will be great for China, who will make all the solar panels, wind turbines
and batteries. They will be the next superpower. I hope they'll only take Taiwan.
As far as I know he doesn't have a high position in a government?
I thought you meant leopoldij at first, and then I remembered the Pope.
"Oh, he means the Pope, that makes sense." Not to you of course.
no exceptions for yours truly), some people join "No Kings!" protests,
or go on a boat to interfere with whale hunting or dumping toxic waste
in the ocean. Other people flood the streets to communicate their lack
of empathy or even hate for the least powerful and fortunate people
in the world. What do you consider "doing a damn thing"?
Everyone can promote world peace in a small way, but citizens can only become a big factor, if they dedicate their lives to a cause. It also requires talents that not everyone has, because the 'job' mainly requires convincing other people.
Convincing people is extraordinarily difficult because you're not just transferring information, you’re trying to change another human being's internal model of the world. We have been trying to do that for each other for years now, and I think we can agree that we didn't have great success. lol
Just having an interest in politics doesn't mean that you can 'sell' politics to other people. You can learn some skills, but there are talents and natural advantages that you cannot learn, but sometimes compensate for. I have learned some of them on the job, but I know my limitations. I also know my strengths, and what they are useful for. Basically, I'm a problem solver.
I learned this in an in-between job, where I received the most recognition.
It was when I could analyze a problem, understand its causes, and work out a solution. That experience carried into the jobs that followed, and it gradually became part of my role. Today, I solve and implement solutions, and I also help others do the same. It's only part of my work, but it's a big enough part, and one where I can really use my strengths.
It's in Big Pharma, who make money from people who suffer, but without us they would suffer worse and die. Pharmaceutical products help people lead a normal life and contribute to society. This enriches people who don't add any value, but that is a system that humanity has chosen. We could choose something better.
On a large scale, solving problems requires an organization that combines different strengths. I have the skills to execute, but execution depends on having permission, authority, resources, information, and institutional access. A person can be capable of solving a problem but, I could not be effective, without my employers system, that provides me the mandate to make relevant decision, allocate the money, change the policy, or mobilize the people required.
Unless you have the skills, attributes, mandate and time to have a big impact, as an average citizen you can affect the world on a small scale, in some or more of the following ways:
1. Be a good person to the people around you.
2. Support people who are struggling.
3. Donate money to effective causes.
4. Build an accurate, reality-based understanding of the world.
5. Vote and participate in democracy with the common good in mind.
6. Stay informed about important public issues.
7. Use your professional skills for good.
8. Make your workplace better for other people.
9. Mentor, teach, or help someone advance.
10. Strengthen your local community and social connections.
11. Volunteer a small, sustainable amount of time.
12. Reduce unnecessary consumption and waste.
13. Make major purchases environmentally and socially responsible.
14. Invest in home insulation and energy efficiency.
15. Invest in solar power and other clean energy.
16. Replace fossil-fuel systems with electric alternatives where practical.
17. Reduce dependence on private-car transport and fossil fuels.
18. Invest your savings in productive, responsible businesses and infrastructure.
19. Use your influence as a consumer, employee, citizen, and investor.
20. Share useful knowledge, skills, and opportunities with others.
21. Build a good, sustainable life rather than sacrificing yourself to the cause.
And I said "maybe".
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