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No, you didn't. You provided that a large chunk of the population would be better off learning via another method, but that doesn't support your claim that learning simple tasks via non-optimal means is excessively difficult. Ok, so define what you consider a "high quality meal" that is...

You're the one who started this off with "but following written directions is so hard, most people are kinesthetic learners, etc etc", these "other constraints" of yours only came up after defending that point proved untenable. The majority of the obstacles you've presented are not present for...

I think you're missing the point a bit. The point of the hamburger helper think is not "this is a great meal that anyone can cook", the point is "look how easy it is too cook this, are you seriously saying it's beyond people's ability to do this?" Which you are conceding they can do. If they can...

Also, relevant to the thread here: Fisking the “Stop Telling Poor People to Cook” Doofus, with Special Guest, My Mom

You're source there talking about preferences, that doesn't actually prove your case. It's certainly the case that for some people, learning by watching rather than reading is more helpful, but that does not mean that they are incapable of using other methods. I'm very much a person that works...

Offhand, I'd point to Pre-Roe abortion regulation, pre-NFA weapons regulation, pre-Nixon policy on China.

And the US right is pushing to change somethings things, not just always maintain the status quo, and other right wing elements in the world are doing differant things as well. The parties aren't monoliths with only one mode of behavior and action.

As I said, I don't think that's the case. To my knowledge, the left's activity on abortion consists almost entirely of fighting any legislation that impedes it's function or access, or trying to take areas where it is impeded and expand abortion access there to match the rest of the country...

I don't buy that. There are very clearly policy positions the right is pushing toward and trying to enact. Abortion being the most obvious example...for both sides, actually, since for the most part the left's goal is to maintain the status quo, not to expand it farther.

A little while after the election, I saw something posted one of the staffers on...I dunno, I think it was SV, said about the increasingly bitter, hostile atmosphere on the forum, and it's always stuck with me. They admitted that things had gotten worse...and then said most of that was Trump's...

I think @Harlock and @LordsFire had the right of it, more or less. Right now, the problems and flaws of our current demographic society and the post-enlightenment liberal order that underlies it have grown to the point that it's almost impossible to overlook them, and there's no easy fix. It...