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How many woo-woo-to-fascism pipelines do we have to create before we accept that any system in which we agree to prioritize what makes people feel good and comfortable over objective, observable reality is inherently prone to radicalization. How many times are we going to act shocked that people who refuse to accept scientific evidence in regards to crystal energy and repressed memories then move on to refusing to accept scientific evidence in regards to vaccines and chemotherapy. How many times are we going to hold people's hands and tell them of COURSE it's okay to believe things just because they Feel Right and not because you have even a shred of evidence and then act shocked when they start believing the people who tell them that all their problems are caused by minorities?

"It's 'champing at the bit.'"

"What does that mean?"

"It’s war matériel."

"What does that mean?"

It is difficult for me to imagine there being nothing. I can't imagine what it would even mean for there to be nothing. I can imagine a container with nothing inside it (say, the empty set), but I can only imagine this container within the multiverse that has everything in it (the world we live in, other worlds, counterfactuals, mathematical objects, etc).