[drivingmenuts]

Yeah, what this administration calls common sense is more like dumbass sense than anything else. On almost every level.

[thephyber]

To zoom out, there’s a HUGE percentage of the US who uses “common sense” as a catch-all excuse to end all discussion.

In the debates I watch, they typically don’t have the mental capacity to steel man the opposition’s position so they can’t comprehend that someone else has a different intuition / “common sense” than them.

Beyond that, “common sense” has become a dog whistle to both virtual signal / vice signal to like-minded in groups and to deride outgroups. In a way, using that phrase is a way to dehumanize the person they are talking to.

[lokar]

IME “common sense” is code for “we don’t need to listen to experts about this”

[deepsun]

Well, that is literally it's definition: sense of the commons. In other words -- what masses feel.

I know it changed its meaning over time, but that was the original meaning.

[andrekandre]

to paraphrase a common meme: physics and chemicals don't care about your common sense

[0xy]

The Biden era EPA covered up the East Palestine disaster by backdating policy changes to make the spill look less bad for the administration, didn't they? That's what an EPA whistleblower alleged.

[dboreham]

It's common sense if you're trying to make more money and are a psychopath.