• Zink@programming.dev
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    22 hours ago

    My eyes almost rolled all the way out of my head reading this article. The dude is from IRAN, and this blindsided them.

    To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community, and he did not deserve this. And even if he was a scumbag, we don’t use secret police to deal with scumbags.

    But sometimes it hurts to have the depth of some people’s oblivious ignorance revealed so starkly. Some other comments have already pointed out the stupid “golly I think there might be bad people on the left AND the right!” conclusion at the end of the article. But here’s another gem from in the middle:

    “My husband himself, even being from Iran, supported Trump, his immigration policies, and understood he was trying to protect the American people and was praying he helped free the Iranian people,” Gardner told Newsweek.

    These people look at an elderly hateful narcissist of a grifter and parasite, and hear his messages of hate and division and exclusion, and apparently the image formed in their dusty brains is Captain Fucking Planet!

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      18 hours ago

      To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community,

      That is how the other narcissistic morons always describes one of their own. During covid there were so many obituaries about these “loving family people” who had died from being unvaccinated, and when you checked their social media history it consisted of nothing but heinous hateful memes.

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      20 hours ago

      I’m so extremely puzzled by it. I cannot fathom what it is that’s so alluring about Donald Trump. The guy is a total asswipe.

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        11 hours ago

        He uses hypnosis techniques while projecting vague enough ideas to people who need to hear that it’s all going to be okay. I am one that falls for it, that’s how I researched it to figure it out. That’s why I tell people to speed up his videos to 1.5 for family that have gone maga, it breaks the spell.

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        19 hours ago

        I am convinced I will go to my grave with this being the most frustrating piece of knowledge missing from my life. It defies logic to the point that I’ve had to adjust my perspective on humanity to account for it.

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          15 hours ago

          Cippola explains it

          These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

          1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

          2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

          3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

          4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

          5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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            I have come to understand that this is the explanation but it still doesn’t make sense in a way that I can internalize. I don’t get the mechanics of stupidity because having what I would have called average intelligence seems like such an easy bar to clear. A+B=C comes so naturally to me that I literally can’t force my brain to do anything different and yet I know people personally who obviously don’t do that at all on their own and it amazes me. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to figure out what they’re actually doing with their thoughts. All I know for sure is that logic doesn’t exist until someone else starts the process and that is baffling.

            The way a stupid persons brain works is a mystery. Understanding that is my struggle even though I know that it is the answer to the original question.

      • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        It’s the “I don’t give a fuck” attitude he has. His fan base thinks that leader material. They think compromise and humility are weak. They like that he doesn’t care for people. They believe he cares for them and all his hate spew is towards everyone else but them.

      • Kickforce@lemmy.wtf
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        19 hours ago

        The guy talks like he feels strongly about issues but remains absolutely vague, which allows people to subconsciously fill in the blanks, so they hear whatever they want to hear.

        That thing that I’m afraid of, he is going to solve that once and for all, without fussing about saying things are complicated like the democrats would.

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          The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

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        20 hours ago

        Does your life suck? Well, it’s somebody’s fault. And Trump is going to make them pay.