Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives

• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Think of how stupid the average person is

  Half of em are dumber than that

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  • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    RIP St George

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    • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We need him now more than ever. He’d happily carry our disdain.

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  • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If stupidity has a symmetric distribution.

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• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s been the calculated plan for far longer than I can remember.

  Conservative politics relies on stupid uneducated voters incapable of critical thinking.

  The voters that, with a lack of actual knowledge of their own through either experience, formal education or even just good old fashioned intellectual curiosity about the world around them, will happily cede their opinion to the first authority figure who tells them what they are already presdisposed to believe and confirm their biases.

  It’s the entire reason there has been a coordinated attack on the liberal arts and college education under the guise of “financial constraints” and the push in the last few decades towards trade schools.

  Conservative politics requires stupid who are content to learn how to be a tradesman, without any of that inconventient history or critical thinking getting in the way.

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  • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get that’s been the game plan, and to be honest it’s worked perfectly, but poor people actually gloating about “owning the libs” while shooting themselves in the foot, the face and all else beggars belief!

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    • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The truest line ever uttered in film…

      “A person can be smart. But people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it.” – Kay from MiB

      We’ve all been hardwired with groupthink. We had to be. When a member of your tribe comes running by in a panic, you don’t have time to stop and think what the hell is he running from?, you just start running along with him. It’s the difference between living to hunt another day or getting killed by a bigger predator than you are.

      The more people that are running. The more important it is (to our brain) to just start legging it. No one wants to be the straggler at the back that gets picked off. For that reason, group-think and herd-mentality skews incredibly towards the simplistic. In terms of evolution, there’s no time to worry about the why…you just trust that if everyone else is running, you probably should be too.

      A single person…and individual that has critical thinking skills and the ability to look at the wider context, can overcome that instint. They can stop and say “hmmm…maybe I should look and see if this really is something that is going to harm me.” They can reason themselves out of group-think.

      But without that context. Without that critical thinking, you have almost no choice but to rely on the fact that if someone is telling you to run, they must know more than you…so get it in gear.

      Whether that person is telling you to run from a predator, or to hate immigrants, it’s all due to the same inherent mentality in humans.

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      • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Spot on regarding the person vs group. Being a fan of history I’m amazed at how far we’ve come technologically, but how our base instincts haven’t changed. Even in the face of all the evidence about our behaviour historically, we repeat our mistakes time and again.

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