“The first thing for me was he didn’t release the Epstein files. They’re even acting like they didn’t exist,” he said, before moving on to his other grievances. “And, of course, they’re sending Israel and Ukraine all of our tax dollars just like the numb-nuts before him did. Putting America last, and now he’s blaming the beef farmers for the price of beef.”
Mitchell added, “Hey, I’m not biased, man. He talked a good game; he tricked me. I was fooled. I admit it.”
“Yeah, I do think that Donald Trump is that beast of Revelation 13:3.”
He talked a good game
No he didn’t, at all. You’re just really stupid so you think he did.
At least he’s admitting he’s wrong. I’m willing to let him save face a bit even if it’s completely fucking obvious to anyone that paid attention to his first term that he’s completely full of shit.
Agreed. People can’t help being stupid. People can only fix ignorance, and he’s done what he can (so far).
He “talked a good game” if you are a moronic bigot. This guy is still a moronic bigot despite his “revelations”.
It’s really obvious if you’ve learned to think critically. If you haven’t, then it’s easy to fall for the lies. There is a reason why he’s the central public figure of the GOP. The man provably knows how to rile up crowds.
If you haven’t learned critical thinking, that is the same thing as being dumb.
the entire US public education system was designed around not teaching critical thinking skills, specifically to make compliant factory workers…
I’d argue that’s more ignorance, than stupidity; you can’t help what you aren’t aware of or weren’t taught.
That excuse works for children, not grown adults.
I mean, I think it’s complicated; there is something to be said about the intentional suppression of education that the right has studiously (ironically) worked on precisely because a less informed population is easier to manipulate, etc.
I don’t think it absolves them of fault (I insatiably read every Leopards Ate My Face story as much as the next person; no lie).
I’d, also, contemplate that it’s maybe not sufficiently explained by just lack of critical thinking if they’re on their third round of voting for him.
I just meant that – if your argument is that they weren’t taught critical thinking – it, definitionally, can’t be stupidity but ignorance because stupidity is when you knew full-well and better while ignorance is when you don’t know something.
(I also think there’s an unintentional leaning, on Lemmy, towards a eugenics-sympathetic “well, these people are just constitutionally stupid and that’s just the way they are” relatively often (though the current state of the world makes it a bit understandable). I’m not saying OP thinks that but I could see those who’re sympathetic to that worldview easily working with the original statement, as worded; and I think we easily don’t walk into those sort of pitfalls when we’re particular and accurate about our words and definitions (hence, also, why I was pointing out that it can’t be stupidity, definitionally))
To assume all these people are stupid is in itself stupid.
People have been gaslight for decades now and most people are not critically online like us so it can be hard to know you’re being lied to.
Edit: Before saying the same thing to me again and again, please read my other replies before coming at me. The replies below show me that you people don’t care about changing minds and just care about being right in a place where most of are left leaning, yet all you do is talk with other left leaning people with no ability to change minds, which I’ve done several times. I would argue I am doing more for the cause than you lot.
Pandering to the hopelessly stupid got us in this mess.
