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Dealing With Mass Stupidity
RoberRinger.com ^ | April 8, 2023 | Robert Ringer

Posted on 04/08/2023 8:52:51 AM PDT by Ben Dover

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To: Ben Dover

More dissection of stupidity here:

https://fitzinfo.net/2021/10/18/the-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/


21 posted on 04/08/2023 1:24:28 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Ben Dover

Best post I’ve seen on FR in at least a year! I say that because I quite often allude to the lamentable fact that there are tens of millions of eligible voters in this country who’s stupidity will very likely be the cause of their own destruction!


22 posted on 04/08/2023 3:56:12 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: bk1000

The problem with stupid people is they are not aware that they are stupid.
Called the Dunning-Krueger effect, it is a real thing. Perhaps stupid people could wear a sign or something.
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Anyone who wants to see people who very accurately exemplify the Dunning-Kruger effect can watch the elected politicians who are the current leaders of our Kakistocracy! PATHETIC! I’ll be surprised if these people don’t bring about our destruction before Trump gets the chance to win his third consecutive Presidential election!


23 posted on 04/08/2023 4:25:58 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Ben Dover

stupidity is successful when it is coupled with violence. The left and their control over the education system has achieved their goal. Inject mental illness and the transgender religion and you have an army to back it all up. We are at war and we are still in denial


24 posted on 04/08/2023 4:30:06 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: griswold3

There is no excuse for evil. No law passed will curtail it.
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Have to disagree with that one. History is crammed full of examples of how evil has been curtailed. And it could be curtailed here if voters elected only politicians who would demand the return of law and order, the expeditious sentencing of capital punishment, the elimination of country-club prisons, and long prison sentences with no parole possibility.


25 posted on 04/08/2023 4:44:28 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Avalon Memories

Underneath it all, most people are passive. They want to be led and they usually don’t really care by whom.
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I would refer to it as the prevalence of the peasant mindset whereby the unwashed masses care about nothing beyond their basic day-to-day well being. So as long as they have enough to eat, some form of entertainment, and no one is beating them physically, they couldn’t care less about what is going on beyond their immediate environment. I live in fairly close proximity to many such people, and so I know this to be their way of life.


26 posted on 04/08/2023 4:59:41 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: frank ballenger

I saw a third one: Antifa!


27 posted on 04/08/2023 5:00:57 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Chgogal

“Against stupidity we are defenseless.”
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I would qualify that by saying we’re defenseless unless and until people are elected to positions of political power who have the courage and the will to do whatever it takes to take down the stupid and the evil. And history confirms that there are ways that can be accomplished.


28 posted on 04/08/2023 5:08:59 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Good one.

On the subject of signs we missed or saw....

Anthem
by Leonard Cohen

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in

We asked for signs
The signs were sent

The birth betrayed
The marriage spent

Yeah, and the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see

I can’t run no more
With that lawless crowd

While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud

But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
A thundercloud
They’re going to hear from me


29 posted on 04/08/2023 5:38:21 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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