Ben Royce 🇺🇦

There are competent, accomplished professionals who nevertheless continually doubt their acumen. It's called imposter syndrome

Here we have an example of the exact opposite phenomenon

#JDVance:

"I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the #MiddleEast. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents"

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/jd-vance-drops-message-seeking-to-assuage-war-weary-americans-our-past-presidents-were-dumb/

#USA #War #Iran

Jun 23 at 10:51amWeb
Show threadCat WestJun 23
@benroyce OFFS. I don’t know where to begin on this bastard.
Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦Jun 23

@Catawu

i should have content warned the video

exposure to it creates brain bleeds

Show threadCat WestJun 23
@benroyce I keep the sound off. Unfortunately, I can read lips.
Show threadSuperstar831Jun 23
@benroyce yes we in USA have a BIG Dumb Inept President. His vocab is very good, very nice
Show threadSteve HoldenJun 23
@benroyce that’s the Dunning Kruger effect: in brief, people are too stupid to realise how stupid they are.
Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦Jun 23

@holdenweb

we have the complete dum dums overbrimming with confidence in their "genius"

and we have the malicious con men who lead them around because they know how the dum dums work

what i'm waiting for are the malicious con men who *also* have dunning kruger false confidence in their demagogue abilities, so much so that the complete dum dums go "wait a second, i see what they're doing"

we might be getting there

Show threadBenAvelingJun 23
@holdenweb @benroyce they are not stupid. They are lying.
Show threadTockJun 23

@benroyce Doesn't matter, facts won't shake his fascist ass. Use, abuse, and collecting power is all they see now.

He may as well as said the American people for 25 years have been stupid for all he cares.

Show threadDon RayJun 23

@benroyce

Because Vance actually knows that tRump is an idiot, what he actually shows by making such statements is that there is no limit to his groveling and bootlicking.

Show threadAnnavirrpannaJun 23

@benroyce

The alt text 🤣

Maybe he wakes up someday, and realise all the dumb shit he says is still out there, forever (and promptly dies of shame)

Show threadKatJun 23
@benroyce Are you sure he's not deliberately pushing the "ignore what you see and hear" cognitive-dissonance thing?
Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀Jun 23
@benroyce so they finally admit George Bush #2 was an Iggit
Show threadyossarianukJun 23
@benroyce And how they have a completed demented, sex offending president
Show threadatlovatoJun 23
@benroyce - Yup Vancer the Prancer a 100% imposter syndrome.
Show threadJackPearseJun 23

@benroyce

WTF? So now also officially Dunning Kruger Syndrome.

Poor America. Your Reputation as a great country is finally gone.

Show threadLeaJun 23

@benroyce
"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points."

-- Bertrand Russell in his essay "The Triumph of Stupidity"

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Going slightly off-topic, this also reminds me of W.B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" which includes:

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

But the entire poem should be considered required reading:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are…

The Poetry Foundation
Show threadbogosityJun 23
@benroyce
The opposite of imposter syndrome is ... poster syndrome?
Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦Jun 23

@bogosity

poser syndrome

Show threadIanto JonesJun 23
@benroyce all I know right now is that I'm calling this shit-for-brains, boot-licking, mascara-loving asshole Blackie Lawless from now on.
Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦Jun 25

@benroyce Any rando can suck a poor man's dick for preferential treatment.

But it takes a special man, a man like JD Vance, to suck a rich man's dick - Peter Thiel's dick, specifically - to get himself a installed as vice president in an administration remarkable for the number of unqualified randos.