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When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

We still have time to mess this up!

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

This fight is for everything.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

“But what about the lurkers?”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

I really should read my own blog.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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  2. 2.

    DBrown

    I don’t know – many MD’s are pretty stupid despite their education; stupidity is more someone who refuses to learn or accept facts because it will challenge their innate beliefs.

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    aimai

    Yes, but stupid MD’s often treat their undereducated patients ast though their lack of education means that *they* are stupid. I think the quote is pretty good.

    aimai

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    ExtremismInTheDefenseOfLiberty

    A stupid person is a person who treats a smart person as though they’re stupid.

    Ergo, Republicans.

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    fucen tarmal

    meh, if you treat a smart person as though they are stupid, couldn’t you be broadening their perspective? as in, this is me, acting towards you, the way you act towards others…

    no one knows everything, so everyone has a boss intellectually, and everyone gets to be the boss sometimes(i learned this from network tv when i was a kid, which means it fits the quote perfectly)

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    fuyura

    I’m going along with DBrown here.

    I think the meaning of ‘stupid’ has changed since the second grade. When you say “I did something stupid today: I locked myself out of the house”, you’re not saying “I didn’t understand that I need my keys to get back through a locked door”, you’re saying “I let inattention/distraction/rushing or some other factors overwhelm my knowledge of what would happen”.

    As people actually use it it refers more to doing something in spite of your knowledge and/or the data, rather than a lack of mental capacity.

    Still a pretty good capsule description of both Tea Partiers and the RICO party.

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    Kirk Spencer

    Disagree with the definition, but that’s because I have a favorite of my own.

    A stupid person is someone who will not or can not cure his own ignorance.

    Shorter version: Stupidity is the province of the willfully ignorant.

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    fucen tarmal

    @fuyura:

    i think you have to make the leap to equate stupid=arrogant, smart=humble, in order to see this perspective.

    the problem is, there are people who accurately assess their own abilities too.

    if you take the contrarian approach,that someone who is humble might have some sort of intelligence that you simply aren’t seeing, you will meet a lot of people who have a lot to be humble about. likewise, if you dismiss arrogance, or discount it, then people who have the benefit of experience, and earned confidence are likely to miss you as well.

    i’m not saying there isn’t a lot of truth in it, just that it can’t be trusted in all cases.

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    Death Panel Truck

    A stupid person is someone who will not or can not cure his own ignorance. Shorter version: Stupidity is the province of the willfully ignorant.

    Stupidity and ignorance are not synonymous. Ignorance can be cured with a dose of knowledge. Stupidity is incurable.

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    r€nato

    Classic example of, “stupid people who treat smart people as if they are stupid”:

    “It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations — by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth.” – George W. Bush

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    Quaker in a Basement

    So what do you call a stupid guy who talks to an entire country as if it’s stupid?

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    Frank West

    Didn’t Frank Zappa say something like: “Stupid is going away. You have to make it work for you”? Stupid people clearly do not regard themselves as stupid. They cling arrogantly to their belief system (misinformed as it is by the usual culprits, such as Limbaugh and Fox Noise) and regard the rest of us as idiots.

    So other than using the blathering stupidity of others (a stupidity which is truly dangerous and destructive) as a source for humor and discussion forum hand-wringing, what can be done? How do we make stupid work for us?

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    Frank West

    Hey, I woke up in the wee hours with a semi-lucid thought. As this is an open thread, I thought I’d share: I re-imagined Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech as it might have sounded coming from other presidents. Allow me to pick the low-hanging fruit here. If George Bush (Jr.) had made that speech, it might have sounded like this: “Hey, Gorbo, you need to removealize this wall!”

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    r€nato

    @Frank West:

    How do we make stupid work for us?

    Unfortunately, Fox News, Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are already working those angles pretty hard.

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    momus

    Heinlein’s Razor — “Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.” misattributed to Hanlon by some stupid idiot.

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