Honestly, I think we deserve better villains. I mean, I would prefer not to have more competent villains, but damn, this level of incompetence is just rude.
I’m not kidding when I say I think this is the reason so many people are committed to the idea of Trump and Musk playing 4D chess: people don’t want to admit we’re getting got by absolute ripshit morons
Y’all need to realize that these are conmen and the absurdity is a self selection feature.
The dumber it gets the more bought in the marks must be. The more willing they have to be to suspend disbelief. And, sadly, the harder it gets to admit they were conned by all the previous absurdity.
I’m rewatching The Sopranos…they’re just grifters selling get rich quick, manipulating ideological alignment, preying on vices, etc. “I’m doing them a favor by fucking them over, someone else would have been worse.”
Yeah, some of them would put these guys to shame, some of them were at least smart enough to not forget how to breathe, and some were just generally dumb. But rarely were they the super genius that people think they were.
Yes it's just not in the popular memory as much because they didn't have social media to blast out every drug-fueled thought with zero filters or editing.
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Everything he does and says is like something a spoiled brat 5-year-old would do and say.
Gotta admit this one hurts dot gif
The dumber it gets the more bought in the marks must be. The more willing they have to be to suspend disbelief. And, sadly, the harder it gets to admit they were conned by all the previous absurdity.
The rest of us don't like those people much.