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LogGrad98 said:
I prefer stupid. Play stupid games...
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fishonjazz said:
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'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians

The woman behind an early Facebook post about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no first-hand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.
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They’re purposely trying to incite a pogrom In Ohio. JD Vance is still tweeting about Haitians eating pets. He’s trying to get (black) people killed in his own state. This is evil. This is what fascism is all about. Trump and Vance have created an out group. And is now encouraging his klan to carry out his bidding. What Trump clearly wants is some cruelty done to those poor Haitians living in Springfield. He’s angry at the debate and now he’s identified a group of people that he’s going to scapegoat. His tribe justifies this cruelty and violence by claiming that the Haitians are savages (they eat pets), carry disease, and cost the public too much. They’re justifying a pogrom by claiming to merely be concerned with immigration.

They’re not.

Apparently this was found in Springfield. Donald’s very fine people!

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If you still support this vile man and his political party, you are a disgusting human being.

This is a great read (before reading, Google the “blood and soil” chant trumpers chant. It has a dark history:
In waging rhetorical war on the Haitian immigrants of Springfield, Ohio, Vance has clarified the meaning of his convention speech. It does not matter, to Vance, that these Haitian newcomers came here legally, under the Temporary Protected Status program. It does not matter that they filled a valuable need. It does not matter that they reversed a slow collapse that has already sapped the life from so many former industrial towns. It does not matter that they work hard and seem eager, by all accounts, to establish themselves as productive members of the community.

What matters to Vance is who they are, where they come from and what they look like. They don’t belong to this soil, he might say, and therefore they don’t belong. Right now, the most Vance can do to wage this war is use his words. I shudder to think what might be possible if he had the authority of the state to wield as well.

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Opinion | Shouldn’t JD Vance Represent All of Ohio?

The senator’s anti-Haitian lies are putting people in danger.
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The Thriller said:
These people are bored. Too much peace and prosperity. It’s why we’re seeing so many people with F-450 trucks and boats, instead of enjoying their lives, are miserable and finding meaning with Trump truck parades, swearing at doctors and teachers, and burning books. They have money, which is the primary measure of success in this country, and instead of using their money and leisure time to become more cultured and educated, they delve deep into nonsensical conspiracies.
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I have to say, I do believe I’m on to something suggesting they we are witnessing an epidemic of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It’s not difficult for someone to believe they know more than they actually know. Add that simple fact, and we can all exhibit Dunning-Kruger at times, with a lack of critical thinking skills, the democratic nature of the internet, encouraging absorbing anything in the world, again, without critical thinking applied. Trump can be seen as the leading example of the rampaging ignorance born of this “epidemic”. Look at all the nutty claims, like Pizzagate, that originated online. Combine this with “Post Truth”, where lies=facts, “alternate facts” that support Dunning-Kruger generated beliefs.

I know you ascribe much of these visible troubles to boredom, but I just started musing on the effects of Dunning-Kruger. I see so much of it in Facebook groups I participate in. People leaving groups to form other groups that support their mistaken beliefs. Reinventing entire scientific disciplines to support their mistaken theories. Etc., etc. Rather than accept that they are mistaken, I see many people, by the thousands mind you, leaving science based groups, creating pseudoscience groups based off the mistaken beliefs they refuse to abandon, all because the Dunning-Kruger Effect does not allow them to realize how wrong they are.

This extends to the Big Lie, an alternate fact that Trump was so successful in turning into an alternate reality for millions of people who prefer what they want to be true, not what the use of the discriminating faculty of their own minds would show them is true.

For what it’s worth, just a thought, we’re in an epidemic of Dunning-Kruger generated misinformation that does seem to have the effect of driving rational based knowledge, rational based science, to the sidelines of society. People often refer to “college professors in ivory towers”. Well, yeah, if this onslaught of fake beliefs continues, those towers will be refuges for knowledge, surrounded by a new Dark Ages. The professors will need to remain in their towers. Evetybody outside will be carrying pitchforks, yelling “they ate my pet!!”.
 
fishonjazz said:
Eh, he hates everything. Other than the leaders of our enemies.

He hates Taylor Swift so much that he used AI to make pictures of her supporting him.
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Yeah, but she can make a difference, and every bit helps. I think the comment reflects his stupidity, more so than his willingness to hate anybody that frowns his way. The comments from panicked Trump supporters in that third tweet are interesting. As well as one comment with the expected “this must be a genius chess move” type comment, lol. Not saying she’s a huge difference, but her initial announcement did send half a million+ to a voter registration site. I don’t know what he gains announcing “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”. She’s rather influential among her fans…
 
The Thriller said:
These people are bored. Too much peace and prosperity. It’s why we’re seeing so many people with F-450 trucks and boats, instead of enjoying their lives, are miserable and finding meaning with Trump truck parades, swearing at doctors and teachers, and burning books. They have money, which is the primary measure of success in this country, and instead of using their money and leisure time to become more cultured and educated, they delve deep into nonsensical conspiracies.



Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History and the Last Man”
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What a colossal heap of **** Fukuyama was wrong 30 years ago and he's still a ****ing idiot now.
 
Rubashov said:
What a colossal heap of **** Fukuyama was wrong 30 years ago and he's still a ****ing idiot now.
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As we're watching Idiocracy unfold before our eyes? Nah, Fukayama might be right.

Trump would have been a fringe write-in candidate 30 years ago. Dude was endorsed by the KKK—repeatedly—and actually had to think about it. He's now the lead dog of one of two major political parties in this country because people find him charming. People are telling others to tone down their words, except towards him because it may trigger the Mango Moron.

Collapse is closer than you think, at least in terms of an educated populace governing themselves. That said, whether unbridled capitalism take hold as the governing principal of our country rather than democracy, or something else? I know not.
 
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Yes, Elon, this needs to be asked. Tweet was deleted.

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‘Appalling And Indefensible’: Elon Musk Incites Rage Online After Claiming No One Is ‘Trying to Assassinate Biden/Kamala’

Billionaire Elon Musk sent out a controversial post on Sunday following the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump.
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A user called Doge Designer asked on X, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” Musk responded to the post by claiming, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.”
 
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