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How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?
"He's one of us"
Many people are just as stupid as him.
Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education
Many don't really get to hear him unfiltered. Around T1 I was watching Fox and they at best had a text snippet of something he said. Never extra text around the snippet and certainly not the audio. Still many do go and see him live.
Many are, but many Trump supporters started out smarter than him but they've dumbed themselves down to his level in order to continue their support, I guess.
Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don't think it's always even a conscious choice.
pretty much i know someone in my family, started supporting trump, roegan, and YE. and youtubers i used to follow did this too.
When I read the comment sections of my local news most of the comments are incoherent rambling like Trump but with more spelling mistakes. Its sad.
Covfefe
i think his supporters are stupider than he is, he has said how dumb republicans are on many occasion, but this almost never clicks with the voters, because these voters are likely never following up with his policies anyways.
Just look how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are more stupid. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.
I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.
These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.
Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…
I read something from someone on the internet who claimed to work with bear-proof garbage cans and apparently it’s harder than one might expect. There’s some overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.
I’m sure the bears are more motivated, but still…
The quote “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” is usually attributed to a Yosemite National Park Ranger taking about the issue with designing bear proof trash cans.
Thanks!
I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓
Can't speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.
Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you're right.
Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.
What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don't think people in general think 'median' when they hear 'average'
Not a native English speaker here. Today I learned, too. Thank you.
Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.
Considering intelligence/stupidity isn't defined, it's a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.
I don’t totally disagree, I’ve never seen an actual distribution of random iq scores
And there's plenty of criticism of IQ tests as a proxy for intelligence, even if we did have the data.
His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.
when you have a propaganda apparatus on tv, online helping its not hard. plus general mysgoyny and racism goes hand in handle. rather than actual "action plan".
Ignorance is often glorified here.
He’s 80 and spent 6 of then as president. I don’t think you’d fare much better. Why blame a senile man rather than those who put him in place?l
Because even before he was a senile old man, he was already a child raping con artist?
That makes him immoral, not stupid. I swear people on here will call anyone they don’t like stupid.
Are we just glossing over the fact he bankrupted a CASINO? The one business where the business model boils down to people give you money?
There's many more examples of stupidity, but bankrupting a casino is god-teir stupid
He did not bankrupt a casino.
He bankrupted at least three of them.
You are correct, but even one is considered a massive failure on its own.
I can without a shadow of a doubt say I would be a better president.
When he finally does die they're going to Weekend at Bernie's him for as long as they can. But we're all immediately going to be able to tell, because the level of stupid comments will drop significantly.
Porque no los dos?
My grandfather was 104 when he died and until he was about 95 and had a stroke he was still perfectly capable of tinkering around with his car and it still worked at the end of it. "Old" isn't an excuse, anyway we have documented evidence that he has been been a gormless idiot his whole life.