I mean, the fascist wing of the conservatives like that rhe bar is so low.

Hell, for decades, both parties loved the fact that the average voter is ill informed and treats it more like team sports… Remember how pompous and prideful the Hillary crowd was in 2016? Yea… the core parties are both slimeballs when it comes to beating the team sports drum.

Though to be fair, only one party is so utterly stupid and bereft of actual morals that they now have an openly fascist wing to deal with, sooooo…

Dunno’. I hope so, but Asmond has proven to be a bit … uh… dense. Hopefully he at least learns not to use such negative language when he supposedly doesn’t mean the entire meaning.

People are basically good, but criminally ignorant on average.

Just look at Asmond Gold’s recent ban. I doubt the dude would ever even think about shooting a Palestinian himself, but boy will he happily dehumanize an entire culture as easy as taking a sip of water!

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There are many flavors of murdering psychopaths. A few mass murderers from history would’ve been called cliche portrayals today.

The banality of evil is what needs to be learned. Much like fascist rhetoric sounds stupid and is obvious in a vaccuum, when people are drenched in it, A LOT of people slowly succumb to the horrible attitude even if they never start explicitly supporting fascistic positions.

It is poison much like mental illness becomes a poison, slowly enabling mostly normal people to do terrible things, like Todd. Todd was only a psychopath in that he exhibited no sympathy, which a lot of “normal” psychopaths have. It took an enabling environment to turn Todd in to a dengerous captor and murderer.

I mean, our good ol’ VP Dick Cheney took a shotgun to a huntsman… Not the spider sort, though.

Well, they are clowns, you can’t knock them too hard for trying to juggle so much. Now if only they could learn people don’t want to watch clowns any more…

Did Trump put another DeJoy in charge of it? I know Repugs want to destroy the EPA. Wouldn’t surprise me if they have troublemakers on staff…

I dunno’, this one’s quite a bit worse. 100 situps, pushups, and squats aren’t exactly easy like doing the alphabet. At least if someone did Saitama’s exercise, they would be in decent shape, just not a well balanced in shape.

I have bad news for you: The Confederates did survive the war, and the north made the mistake of pardoning and accepting LITERAL TRAITORS back in to Congress et. al.

I thought it’d be a synagogue for Galactus.

Many people are giving wrong answers. Cognitive dissonance is NOT simply holding two opposing ideas in your head. Cognitive DISSONANCE is the uneasy feeling people are supposed to get when holding discongruent ideas at the same time.

Some people do not feel cognitive dissonance at all even while openly voicing the opinions. Great examples are all over politics. If one is for women having the freedom to make their own medical decisions, but oppose abortion bejng legal, those are two opposing views that SHOULD trigger unease and make them reconsider one position or the other.

A better example is people that believe laws should apply equally to everyone, but then go on to say Trump should totally be immune. That SHOULD cause dissonance, but it doesn’t for far too many.

I definitely remember some people screeing about Bush and Cheney wanting it, but IIRC, everyone was treating it like suspicion at most.

The Epstein conspiracy theory was accepted FAR more readily, but then that’s basically guaranteed to be true to some degree, even if it was truly just the jailors being incompetent fuckwits that wanted to take justice in to their own hands.

The only thing I remember people being remotely close to believing was that Bush was so incompetent that he allowed a terrorist attack to happen.

It’s not really a theory that Bush was an incompetent fuckwit, but it’s highly debatable if they knew enough to stop it.

You assume they’re working off of a more sound principle than literally, “rules for thee, not for me”. They’re coddled little snowflakes who think the world works for them, hypocrisy or no.

Yea, I’ve definitely seen “normal” rings that this one looks better than.

It’s capitalism in the education sector.

Dude talking like he’s never even heard of Schadenfreude… Not only is it cathartic, but it’s educational if you pay attention to what people are making fun of.

What to learn from the cybertruck? That billionares are fucking morons and that the meritocracy is a lie. They, in fact, do not deserve their wealth. Any of them, but especially not Elongated Muskrat.

If they’ve lived SEVENTY YEARS and haven’t come to realize that black people and lgbtq+ people are JUST normal people trying to live a moderately different life…

Then yes, yes they are maliciously stupid. Ignorance eventually becomes a choice after so many oportunities have been passed up.