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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Will Uvalde Spur Gun Legislation? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

California voting information materials fail the cognitive empathy test ... Will the latest mass shooting spur effective federal gun legislation? ... Mickey: Schumer will learn from Obama’s post-Sandy Hook political mistakes ... Are elites and geniuses more juvenile than the rest of us? ... Bob asks: Why is Western media so slow to report bad news from Ukraine? ... Do we really know “what the Ukrainian people want”? ... The status of the US’s “strategic ambiguity” toward Taiwan becomes more ambiguous ... Mickey: Americans’ enthusiasm for funding Ukraine is cooling ... Trump’s Republican bêtes noires win in Georgia ... Parrot Room preview: Franklin Foer’s role in the Sussman case, Severance, Kellyanne Conway’s book, Elon Musk’s tweets, Peter Thiel the kingmaker, the Bush dynasty vs. the Clinton dynasty, Luke Russert reopens the national service debate, monkeypox, the Institute for the Study of War’s role in the Ukraine bad news lag, the Iran nuclear deal, the Dead End podcast, and Station Eleven ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.

0:07.7

Hi, Mickey.

0:09.9

Hey, Bob.

0:12.0

So I keep getting these, these one after another, these incomprehensible instructions for how to vote. This one says options for

0:23.4

returning your vote by mail. It has three options, but it's completely unclear whether I have to

0:28.9

vote by mail or not. Is there a regular election coming or not? There's a little thing about

0:34.1

safe and accessible in-person voting options in the left on the right-hand side,

0:39.3

but it clearly don't really emphasize it. Then I got another one saying, all registered voters

0:47.2

have been mailed a vote-by-mail ballot, vote-by-mail ballot, vote safely at home, make your voice heard,

0:52.6

has no mention of in-person voting at all.

0:55.7

And they're all sort of done in this sort of Gen Z sort of new format where things are sort of

1:02.7

floating on white space and it's not clear where you should go. And then, funny, I get something

1:09.7

that says, wait, there's more.

1:12.4

At the in-person vote center, press the button to review all choices.

1:16.9

So it turns out there is an in-person vote center.

1:20.1

Who knew?

1:22.2

Anyway, go ahead.

1:24.3

You know what, the people who designed that lack?

1:27.3

Two words, one of my favorite terms.

1:29.5

Cognitive empathy?

1:30.6

You got it.

1:31.6

They failed to put themselves in the shoes of the average person who would open that

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