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u/behindtimes · 7 pointsr/Maher

I suggest checking out A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America.

It actually makes a fairly decent case towards this. A generation born to pretty much every benefit of American Society, and how the generations that followed are the first to say, yeah, we might actually be worse off than our parents. When you look at when this country started to stagnate in terms of skyrocketing health care costs, college tuition, state budgets (and federal budgets) collapsing, and even the pettiness of the bickering between politicians, it pretty much begins when the Boomers took power. And this isn't a Democrat nor Republican issue. Both have been guilty towards the downward spiral of our country, and it shouldn't be about which party is going to destroy us first, rather, how can we start to improve as a society.

u/HopDavid · 1 pointr/Maher

I do have a horse in this race. I'm a Catholic.

Do I come on these forums to assert the existence of God? No. Arguments that can't be demonstrated true or false are fruitless.

But has Christianity been a destructive influence? Has it hindered the progress of science? That is another question. Historical evidence can be provided that the net effect has been beneficial. See How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods, for example.

And of course there's evidence that bad things have been done in the name of Christ. Inevitable given two thousand years and billions of people. But what is the net effect? That's an open question I'm willing to discuss.

But, as mentioned, Tyson's cautionary tales against religion are based on invented history. This is arguing in bad faith and his falsehoods need to be called out.

Also noteworthy is that Tyson's false histories have been widely embraced by the so called skeptic community. Year after year Tyson would deliver these fictions to large skeptic meetings like the JREF TAM conventions or Beyond Belief. Tyson's Bush and Star Names fiction had been a standard part of Tyson's routine for eight years before Sean Davis blew the whistle on him. A steaming pile eagerly devoured by "skeptics", no questions asked. What happened to their sanctimonious advice that we should demand evidence to support claims? Thrown out the window when a story seems to support their personal prejudices.

Pointing out their emperor has no clothes also serves to discredit those who've put Tyson on a pedestal. Krauss, Shermer, Harris, Novella et al are as credulous and dishonest as Trump's birthers. Tyson and his fans preaching skepticism is like adulterous Republicans preaching family values.

u/crappydew · 4 pointsr/Maher

Godddamn, can you not be such a sucker? "A fountain of psychological information regarding this administration." LMAO. trump and his followers are absurdly simple organisms, and trump's mental instability has been examined and explained AT LENGTH by very well-qualified experts.

There is absolutely nothing complicated about the trump phenomenon. Each faction within the republican party is fueled by their primary ideology, be it abortion, racism, xenophobia, corporate greed, preserving power, etc... and trump, a colossally corrupt con man is simply lying about absolutely anything and leveraging their hatred, fear, greed and stupidity to rip the country off, stay out of prison and avoid the repercussions of displeasing Putin, who has a staggering amount of kompromat against him. That's pretty much it, dude. You don't need some slimy Wall St. fuck to tell you what should be painfully obvious.