“I can’t do smart things, because I am not actually smart. But I ache to be smarter than everyone. So I believe in weird, stupid things, and spin it as being more brave, more smart, more perceptive than the people who don’t believe in weird stupid things.” - ThreadSky

kenwhite.bsky.social • 357 days ago

“I can’t do smart things, because I am not actually smart. But I ache to be smarter than everyone. So I believe in weird, stupid things, and spin it as being more brave, more smart, more perceptive than the people who don’t believe in weird stupid things.”

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kindler.bsky.social•357 days ago

Chemtrails made you say that.

asrivkin.bsky.social•357 days ago

I think there's some Engineer's Disease rolled into that in some cases, too. Certainly Twitter guy. I could believe being (temporarily) good at football also has that effect, along with a dollop of Dunning-Kruger.

icassassin.bsky.social•357 days ago

"Special knowledge" is a helluva drug.

capitalismkills.bsky.social•357 days ago

Evergreen skeet
paging Rob't Kennedy

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•357 days ago

Bingo!

I have never met a self-described "free thinker" who ever actually thought for themself.

gregdoucette.bsky.social•357 days ago

The weird part is that there have been *so many other school shootings* that thinking that particular school shooting was a hoax makes zero sense

hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social•357 days ago

It makes perfect sense because it was 5 and 6 year olds, not a high school. They refuse to accept monsters like that exist.

gregdoucette.bsky.social•357 days ago

::laughs in Uvalde::

hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social•357 days ago

Did you forget when Newtown happen and when Uvalde happened?

hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social•357 days ago

Don’t mean to be snarky. Just that the conspiracy is about Newtown. Which was many years before.

gregdoucette.bsky.social•357 days ago

No, just saying Rodgers's comments about Newtown were made post-Uvalde as well

It's one of those scenarios where the only logical explanation for clinging to the hoax myth is him affirmatively wanting to be evil

3fecta.bsky.social•357 days ago

Agreed. It seemed to momentarily stop the dull helplessness because the victims were so young. There was momentum to do something that of course didn't last.

isaac32767.picknit.com•357 days ago

Wait, I thought all school shootings were hoaxes?

boxdp.bsky.social•357 days ago

This may be the best I've ever seen this summarized.

lazyscience.bsky.social•357 days ago

I think it's also that we teach history in terms of single "great men" and iconoclasts, isolating them from the work they built on and the standards that make their work accepted. So many people don't understand that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence to support them.

wanderthedesert.bsky.social•357 days ago

It’s amazing how these people betray their mediocre intelligence by loudly announcing their belief in stupid shit while expecting to be worshipped for their intelligence. The irony is very satisfying.

r.v.cx•357 days ago

I have shared my theory that software engineers are notoriously awful “intellectuals” because mastery of a small set of fixed rules gives them a false impression of real-world problems.

Quarterbacks are praised as geniuses for their snap judgements of which way people are running.

ecorobbins.bsky.social•357 days ago

Logical thinking.

seentoomuch.bsky.social•357 days ago

Yeah, this.

starlilstella.bsky.social•357 days ago

For The same reason people allow themselves to be manipulated into a cult. They are emotionally incomplete & *refuse* to put the personal work in to heal themselves, preferring to tap into a regimented belief system However illogical and insane it is. Aaron is a lost soul. Hes a scared fragile man.

kaetrin.bsky.social•357 days ago

That fundamentally mischaracterises how/why people join cults. AR is just high on his own bullshit and trying desperately to be edgy.

dman4835.bsky.social•357 days ago

In that way perhaps he's more like the person who *starts* a cult, but lacks the charisma to actually do it.

eean.dev•357 days ago

Having costly beliefs - being edgy - is an aspect of cults. It estranges them from non-members.

Flat earthers show you can have edginess without the cult. I get why it's appealing to random lonely people, you can make friends online. But why do top athletes do this lol.

kaetrin.bsky.social•357 days ago

Well sure. But I don't think it's an accurate statement to say that "people allow themselves to be manipulated into cults". That's what I was responding to.

starlilstella.bsky.social•357 days ago

I think you make a great point, and i could be wrong of course.

wanderthedesert.bsky.social•357 days ago

There many ways to reach the summit.

voteblue4vr.bsky.social•357 days ago

Common thread amongst all our friends: their least intelligent family members are conspiracy believers, whether it's anti-vax, QAnon or UFOs, and sometimes all three.