One possible cure for this, for those who know little about a lot, is for them to just pick an issue. Education, the environment, farming, energy, whatever, and do a deep dive into that bc they will see how the issue is structured and thereby learn a bit on how to interpret other issues info.
They will then find out how it’s all interconnected. That intersectional thing. Also, we all need to learn and get better at saying “I don’t know so I’m gonna find out using reliable resources.”
lol. I’ll admit I had a few stupid minutes, or maybe part of a day. I don’t think I’ve gone a whole day tho.
A friend knew I was upset that there were live lobsters at a restaurant. He informed me they squeal when they are dropped in the hot water. Thought I was gonna cry till he started laughing.
I’d say it very definitely did both. It made D-K stupidity a matter of un self aware pride for some folks. Then there are the Pollyanna’s, aka sheeple-bots.
I have never in my whole life seen so much stupidity. You can’t make this shit up. Start with the leopards are my face crowd and Trump and Co. They are stupid as a sack of hammers.
when some account with five followers posts an opinion so stupid it feels designed in a lab to drive me insane, specifically, I try my best to remember that there are a lot of people in this world who it turns out don’t know anything and don’t know that they don’t know anything
there was a line in that natalie dorner penny dreadful show that came out during covid, "he is american, he knows nothing and he is curious about nothing," and i think about that a lot
and hell, some people are only that stupid for like 5 minutes a week, and they've gone and blasted out that 5 minutes stupidity for the world to see (for much longer than 5 minutes)
Someone made the most stupidest comment on a Star Wars Andor character comment because they was too bourgeois but working for the rebellion anyway. Didn't take five minutes of every posts being of things I don't like is Nazi for me to decide to pass the account by.
Even better, some people are smart in other ways and incredibly stupid on certain points. Be right about alot of things but sometimes just have the most dogshit view on a topic
there are also just bots, the "fully automated luxury reply guys" that intentionally try to start arguments with some of the most non-human like interactions ever created.
THAT would, sadly, often be my MO ... it's time I (and all others) wake up and be unafraid to stand up to these infants and toddlers of total destruction ... pretty soon, there will be nothing left to fight for ... those vile brats want it all ...
some are just stupid but i found some bots and scammers as well. i think i've only seen one which was genuinely really fucking stupid, like i would like to see their brain scan level stupid. the rest seemed to have some motive behind it or was just a little bit stupid (which we all are sometimes).
Sometimes it’s not a conspiracy.
It’s not propaganda.
It’s just plain, unfiltered, confidently broadcast stupidity.
And the algorithm gives it a microphone.
I'm about 85% block and move on. But today I encountered a post so profoundly stupid I suggested the guy take it down before someone quoted it, and he responded by calling me a fascist, so ... He can't say he wasn't warned.
I used to let posters get me worked up until I realized most of them are literal children and now they are like bouncing baby boys fresh from mothers milk and my mental state is soothed
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Trust me...that's something I've never forgotten....
A friend knew I was upset that there were live lobsters at a restaurant. He informed me they squeal when they are dropped in the hot water. Thought I was gonna cry till he started laughing.
Thought it was that last asshole taking a selfie, one with the telescoping stick no less, that I had to push out of my way.
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It makes me sad but not too sad...cuz yannow...weed.
Silence is not an option.
Stupid is just inevitable.
It’s the CONSEQUENCES of that stupidity that are the problem.
thats the quote, right?
Seems easier than assuming people know what they're talking about.
Counting my fingers, I don't have more since Im not living in Alabama.
No hate! I only have 10 fingers, JFC..
It’s not propaganda.
It’s just plain, unfiltered, confidently broadcast stupidity.
And the algorithm gives it a microphone.