They know what they’re doing. Their constituents may be stupid enough to believe it, but all those people at the top are completely aware of the grift they’re running.
Carvex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
These people have law degrees, and some of them are partially educated. It’s amazing to me someone could type this up and send it to other people without the embarrassment of looking like a fucking moron stopping them.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I waffle back and forth with that thought. Every time I think they’re aware, I see another thing that makes me wonder.
Either way, I’m old enough to remember that saying stupid shit, even once, would kill your campaign. FFS, Howard Dean lost for yelling boisterously, once.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
howard dean was already losing when he BYAAAH’d. dan quayle was famous for the idiotic things he’d say, and he became vice president under HW bush - a strategy that bush’s son mimicked to his advantage a decade later.
gaffes didn’t end political careers, negative media coverage did. and they decide before the story happens how they’re going to spin it, no matter the actual content of the interview or speech.
Booboofinget@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That has changed with the systematic dismantling of our education system and the push against critical thinking that started in the Reagan Era. Nowadays people are for the most part, too darn stupid to hold these people accountable.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
A lot of them aren’t aware. They belong to a certain peer group that believes different things and any great that contradict this is an attack on their identity.
There by is a simple experiment about this. Ask a very simple math problem about shampoo and everybody gets the answer right. Ask the same math problem but say it’s about gun control and see basic logic twisted into pretzels.
snekerpimp@lemmy.snekerpimp.space 1 day ago
Money and blackmail can make people do stupid shit
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I followed the #2 link he linked about cloud seeding. From the article:
Veteran Houston meteorologist Travis Herzog weighed in this week, calling the theory scientifically unfounded.
“Cloud seeding cannot create a storm of this magnitude or size. In fact, cloud seeding cannot even create a single cloud,” Herzog said. “All it can do is take an existing cloud and enhance the rainfall by up to 20% — and even that is on the high end.”
He compared the theory to blowing out a candle and assuming one could extinguish a wildfire. “It is a matter of scale,” he said.
It’s pretty ballsy to provide a link with someone calling out your bullshit while acting as if that link proves your point.
Donjamos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The people who check sources are not the same people who believe this crap
punkwalrus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Specialization can breed a narrow limit of scope when it come to general knowledge. Sometimes the best lawyers and surgeons are complete idiots when it comes to falling for things like, say, internet scams. I am not sure if that’s what’s happening here, but I have known enough assistants of big skilled people that they always say "This guy is a brilliant surgeon, but doesn’t know how to cook or even how to shop for groceries.
SippyCup@feddit.nl 1 day ago
My sister is highly educated, and started her career doing medical research and got in to crime scene investigation. She ultimately left when she discovered the job she wanted working for the FBI was not nearly scientifically rigorous enough and didn’t really hold water scientifically.
She now sees a psychic, is entirely convinced it’s real, and eats up and parrots every single Republican talking point. Biden too old and dimented, Trump is literally the greatest man alive with decades to live. She even accused our mother of cognitive decline when she didn’t buy the bullshit my sister was spewing. My mother is sharp as a tack and there’s no family history of dementia.
On top of this, my sister’s idiot husband
iswas an executive in charge of international sales and literally lost his job because of the orange man. Still, God’s gift to the US in their eyes.We don’t talk anymore but I’m curious how they feel now, they also suckled on Musk’s taint.
Their ideology started with money. They only cared about taxes. Now they agree with anything anyone says as long as they start with lowering their, already generously low, tax rate.