smart people can admit mistakes and apologize

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Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn’t going to help them change. Baby’s don’t learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to do learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.
Noooo not my screen time :( Gonna miss pig-family!
Look, you can watch tv when you get your toddler brain … and then only 30 mins a day, also I don’t think it’s nice to call the Trumps that …

Or, maybe Kristi Noem had a point…

These old dogs are too hard to train and need to be put down.

I don’t know if we should trust the opinion of someone who hasn’t advanced past playing dress ups …
Correct strategy. Wrong animals.
Yes, but I’m tired of babysitting.
Yeah but the baby’s don’t go away because the adults CBF, kinda how we got into this mess …
*Babies. So stupid
I prefer the term baby brained thank you very much.
These people are incapable of making that leap, that’s why they’re still baby brain idiots
What they need is to feel the pain of their Dear Leader’s choices. And, they are. That’s why the administration is trying to take over the mid-term elections. They know they’ll lose anything that looks like a fair election, small tweaks won’t cut it.

Don’t worry, many of them will just be dieing sooner than expected, as a result of the policies they voted for resulting in cuts to social security, increases in property taxes and home insurance, skyrocketing healthcare costs, and thier 401ks and pensions poofing out of existence, again due to the people they keep voting for.

Whole lotta farmers are already pre-empting that!

What, am I supposed to have sympathy for these genocidal apocalyptic death cultists?

Fuck em.

Hope they die horribly, soon, quickly, alone, miserable, and confused.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Ditto to Stein’s Greens and and else who thought that helping Trump would help Palestine.
And the Hillbots and Khive Kritters who keep insisting that “not as bad as the fascist criminal” is a good enough campaign strategy in a country with extreme voter suppression and right wing media gaslighting being many times more common than truthful political reporting 🙄
Yeah, you said it, both sides are bad. The Democrats are bad for supporting Israel even if it causes the nation to fall into fascism, and the neutral voters are bad for opposing the Democrats even if it causes the nation to fall into fascism. I hate both sides, they’re both enabling fascism.

One side ARE THE FASCISTS.

Could you hate them a tiny bit more, please?

They’re both fascists. Democrats and neutral voters are both letting the Republican Neo-nazi party win with their stupid game of fascism chicken. They’re both plunging us into fascism. I hate Republicans most of all, but I hate Democrats and neutral voters equally.

And the Hillbots and Khive Kritters

Bro, touch grass

Aren’t the ‘cubans’ a special case, seeing as they’re the people who fled because they couldn’t practice modern day slavery with money, have been living in america for more than a generation, and hate cuba?
Worse: I distinctly recall the countless people who - in response to being called stupid and were told they were about to do a stupid thing - voted for Trump in a fit of contrarian infantilism.
Sounds quite deplorable
More than the system that created the conditions? So it’s the victim’s fault. I see.
Hating brown people is not the fault of the system.

It… Kinda is though? Obviously xenophobia is baked into human biology, true, but why people are not xenophobic is because they’ve been exposed to lots of different things/people by their parents/society. The reason you’re not and I’m not is because we came in contact with lots of foreign things/people, so “our system” (meaning the immediate people around us that had the most impact on us) contributed to removing our natural xenophobia.

So essentially, other people, who did not learn to reduce their xenophobia, were “failed by the system”. Because the system allowed their parents, neighbors, friends to not reduce their xenophobia, like it should have happened.

That doesn’t absolve them of responsibility and make them a victim though
It can be the fault of the system and people can be individually responsible as well. They’re not mutually exclusive.

So the victims, in this case, are the people who voted for Trump?

Yeah, nah.

Well, the leopards ate their faces too!

I didn’t believe he would actually release the files. I can give him that.

Unfortunately the release of the files doesn’t matter. No one will face justice.

The files aren’t released. There are thousands of pages held back.
Maybe not in full, but he released more than I anticipated. I believed he wouldn’t release anything at all.
“I thought he would pay back the loan. He did give me three fiddy tho. Which is nice, ngl.”
A murderer will still give you his fingerprints, but he won’t show you where the body is buried. The “release” is purely a distraction tactic, he’s already claiming he’s “fully exonerated” even though nobody has said that and the files aren’t fully released. He’s covering his ass and he knows it.
He didn’t release anything

Millions.

And videos.

I’ve heard that he will soon release his taxes! It’s under audit, you see. Give it two weeks
They’ve just been busy working on that healthcare plan, it’s coming any day now, two weeks at the most.
But that’s when they will release the beautiful health plan!
Ooh so that means forty more years of “two weeks” and then we get to bomb the taxes! Awesome!
If those people could read they’d be very upset.
Of all the bad things that social media has brought us, the worst is making stupid people feel intelligent because other stupid people agree with them.
Hey now, Boomers didn’t invent anti-intellectualism, they just think they did. Because they’re stupid. Then social media put those views out there for other idiots with baby brains to see and identify with.
Behold, the smartest person on the internet.

Of all the bad things that social media has brought us, the worst is making stupid people feel intelligent because other stupid people agree with them.

-Abraham Lincoln

They’re not just stupid but also evil. They knew perfectly well that Trump was going to cause suffering to a lot of people and they voted for him because that is exactly what they wanted.
“he’s not hurting the right people”

“Surely that can’t be it.”

Narrator: It was, in fact, “it”.

There are plenty of smart MAGA. Many have high paying jobs and degrees.

This is because america overwhelmingly places money over anything else. Most of them just call it the economy but America has spent a lot of time teaching its citizens that if the number goes up then whatever is happening is good and moral.

Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and regulations, line goes up. Violently deport neighbors, line goes up.

Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and regulations, line goes up. Violently deport neighbors, line goes up.

Dow Jones : 47,954.74USD -784.67(1.61%)

Line ain’t goin’ up

You aren’t looking at the right lines.

Even the 50000 that the Trump administration was trying to praise is underwhelming. The DOW hits record highs under every president, it’s the nature of the stock market that in the medium term it goes up.

But it hasn’t gone up as fast as we’d expect under a booming economy.

Lines don’t always go up, but a “good” executive can always make it look like it’s going up.

Something you need to understand is that a high paying job and a degree do not inherently mean intelligence, especially not in the US and Canada where education is largely for the generationally wealthy and school is designed for memorization and brute-force solutions over learning how to be clever.

Anyone who’s truly intelligent understands that “line goes up” is a ideology what’s dead on arrival. Every single layer of it is a new layer of stupidity, it’s a staggering lack of intelligence.

If you think anything they’re doing is clever and not the incredibly obvious bullshit that it is, I have news for you. We can see everything they’re doing, they only get away with it because we do next to nothing to stop them and because there are a lot of stupid people in the world willing to back them up.

So if all these intelligent people know better, then why do they still participate in the same nonsense system as everyone else?

First off, that response looks like you did not read or understand my comment at all.

Secondly, to be charitable and respond anyway, there just aren’t that many intelligent people in the world. They vote and participate in the system because it’s the right thing to do. What the fuck else are they supposed to, bud? They can’t just separate from the system.

Should we go back and argue on who counts as intelligent? Is that the part I missed?

I said: “A lot of MAGA are intelligent.”

You said: “Nuh-uh.”

Which part did I miss?

Exactly. I said they weren’t intelligent, and then you said “so if there are all these intelligent people…”

Like, which intelligent people? Who are you talking about?