Wikipedia defines common sense as “knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument”

Try to avoid using this topic to express niche or unpopular opinions (they’re a dime a dozen) but instead consider provable intuitive facts.

    • callouscomic@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Hurr durr but the national debt is like a credit card and all debt is bad. China can just say pay up and we’re fucked.

      And other stupid shit my parents used to say.

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        10 months ago

        China can just say pay up and we’re fucked.

        Yeah, them and what army? (Well, the PLA, but going into MAD and great power military strategy would be too much of a digression)

        A classical example of Westerners thinking human laws are laws of physics somehow. I assume Westerners, anyway. It’d be weird to hear this from anyone recently imported.