3w ago

Values.

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and people eat it up
I'm continuously baffled and horrified by how low average intelligence actually is. And I discover new depths in different ways every day. I used to consider myself below average to average intelligence, depending on what's being measured. Or I suppose I still could be below average, I just had no idea how absolutely stupid people can be. I've had conversations with children that have more critical thinking skills than the political talk I witness.
- I don't think it is even an intelligence issue. I think you hit the nail on the head with the last sentence: Americans are not taught to think critically. That is a skill you have to be taught and once taught, you have to exercise it. And the latter isn't happening because most schools don't do the former.
  You can be very smart, but without that skill in your tool belt, it doesn't matter in many situations. Especially not with politics.
  And I think it explains why there are so many evangelicals in the engineering field. They aren't stupid people, they just don't know how to think critically and they are in a field where they don't necessarily have to but can still use their intelligence.
  
  My fine aviatorial cephalopoda, they have to put warning signs to not drink battery acid from your car and that hot coffee will scald you. There are people out there that intelligence is indeed the issue.
- Most of the people in my immediate family hate trump and voted for him anyways because he was still the best option. Plenty of people know what a terrible person/hypocrite he is. It's not about misinformation or intelligence, most people in the country agreed with him more than Kamala. I'm just glad we won't have to see him again in 4 years other than a lone speech here and there.

Yes, but they are rich.
Rich people don't have to do anything according to any rules.
- Anything that would be seen as a negative in a poor person is twisted in to being a positive quality if you're rich. Rich assholes are assertive leaders. Rapists are ladies men. Alcoholics just like to drink. Doesn't matter what it is.
  
  I remember a post raving about the ability of some rich toddler (I think British royal) being able to speak 2 languages .... bitch please,... my wife had to translate official documents for her parents as soon as she could read and was born literally in the dirt of crumbled Soviet Russia....
  The media is complicit...

All depends which traditions you favor.
- Only the ones told to us by the media in this household! /s
  
  "I stand for the flag. I kneel for the cross."
  Only uttered by people who have never once knelt in front of a cross.

I'm more worried about how many children they had with children while visiting their buddy Epstein
- Probably none, remember they are in favor of abortion when it's convenient for them.

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