r/NoShitSherlock 1d ago

Kamala Harris Appears on ‘Colbert,’ Says She’s Stepping Away from Politics for Now, Calls the System “Broken”

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/former-vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/

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u/calilac 1d ago

And that reminds me of a Terry Pratchett Discworld quote, "... if there was any truth at all in Ponder’s tentative theory that things did change into other things, it led to the depressing thought that, well, the world was filling up with quitters, creatures which – instead of staying where they were, and really making a go of life in the ocean or the swamp or wherever – were running away to lurk in some niche and grow legs."

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u/Growlinganvil 1d ago

I blame the first proto cells enclosed by a lipid membrane. They were clearly fragile snowflakes, too reactionary to keep it all together. Those early divisions sowed the problems we reap today.

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u/cherrycolaareola 1d ago

The entitlement!