I sometimes hope that politics may improve, but I'm really pained by how things are going. "Some of the people who are on Mueller's team donated to Hillary Clinton! That means they could be biased!" merits the reporter saying "yes, and they could also be hyperintelligent shades of the color blue, disguised as the third smartest beings on the planet. Your point?"
(Um. In The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe, people are the third smartest race. Dolphins are second - humans thinks they're smarter than dolphins, because they've invented the wheel, New York, and wars, and stuff, while dolphins just mucked around in the water and had a good time; dolphins think they're smarter - for the exact same reasons. But the smartest are the hyperintelligent shades of the color blue, disguised as mice. But I see no reason they couldn't "dress down" and be a person)
But instead, it ends up on the news, where people might think it's a reasonable thing to say. Even people who can think and say "wait, if a prosecutor voted for someone else in an election, and even donated money to that person why does that mean they can't investigate a case impartially?" will assume that there must be more that's not being mentioned, because everyone knows it already. After all, the news says it could be bias... they wouldn't say it was possible bias over something stone-cold stupidly meaningless, would they?
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(Um. In The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe, people are the third smartest race. Dolphins are second - humans thinks they're smarter than dolphins, because they've invented the wheel, New York, and wars, and stuff, while dolphins just mucked around in the water and had a good time; dolphins think they're smarter - for the exact same reasons. But the smartest are the hyperintelligent shades of the color blue, disguised as mice. But I see no reason they couldn't "dress down" and be a person)
But instead, it ends up on the news, where people might think it's a reasonable thing to say. Even people who can think and say "wait, if a prosecutor voted for someone else in an election, and even donated money to that person why does that mean they can't investigate a case impartially?" will assume that there must be more that's not being mentioned, because everyone knows it already. After all, the news says it could be bias... they wouldn't say it was possible bias over something stone-cold stupidly meaningless, would they?