Great change is upon us, there is hope yet.

Trump is this fucking place. The embodiment of everything I’ve despised about this fucking cesspool since before he was fake firing people on fake reality TV.

I remember seeing Trump on the Apprentice and thinking ‘What does he even do?’ . I asked my mom, she said he was a piece of shit. I then researched him and learned that the show was bullshit.

So my lived experience tells me that your assertion is fundamentally wrong. No, Trump is not this place - and you are the perfect tool of your enemy.

If there have been decades long mis/dis-information campaigns having been waged by the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Russian and Chinese online actors, Saudi Royalty doing things like 9/11 or buying Twitter for Elon Musk, and all these things have resulted in the creation and further radicalization of MAGA - what are you?

What I see is a disillusioned individual that doesn’t recognize the justified hatred they feel for their fellow man is the exact thing these entities have been working towards. When you hear about the 40 or 60 year old plan to destroy the United States, what part to play do you think you have in it?

I’ll give you a hint, the French Revolution was very bloody. When the nobles had been dealt with, who do you think the people with the guillotines turned on? Each other.

This summed up my point perfectly, thank you.

I wish you luck on finding your path :). Don’t ever let anyone tell you that it should be easy - it isn’t. That doesn’t mean life isn’t worth it, that your life isn’t worth it. Even if it might be hard to see, sometimes.

That’s cool, I’m glad for you. Genuinely, I’m hoping someday that I can maneuver myself into a position like yours.

Well, speaking as someone who has processed their own ‘void’ - I came to the conclusion that not referring to it as some spectral thing really helped.

It’s not a void, my Dad was a drunk and I needed him to be my Dad. He wasn’t, and I have to fill in the gaps.

When I started addressing these things as they were, rather than as the unknowable void within my dark soul, they stopped being unknowable voids. Arguably my soul stopped being so dark, as well. Food for thought, YMMV.

What do you do, if you don’t mind my asking?

There are many flavors of stupid, many of them are just plain evil.

Member all those shows where polygraphs, or really any kind of tech that’s advanced enough to be hard to figure out, are just called lie-detectors and treated as if they really do detect lies? Shows where the main character will poke themselves with a pin to ‘trick’ the polygraph, or some other kind of bullshit.

This is what your average lead brained alcoholic boomer accepts as true, because dey seen it on da teevee. A failed polygraph test is absolutely the kind of bullshit that his supporters would eat up as evidence.

Or drones, specifically outfitted with guns and explosives

What’s interesting is 5000$ today is about 129$ in 1860.

Slaves were, on average, worth about 800 bucks in those times. I’m not sure how much a baby would be worth, but even if it comes to a quarter of what a full grown slave is worth… that means that they literally think we are worth less than slaves…

You act like that’s different than a democracy, please define why.

From a logical perspective, if you’re trying to discover the truth of something you’re inevitably going to start weighing and eliminating variables. It makes sense to start from the absolute bottom, prove or disprove that, then move on.

I guess I shouldn’t have been so black and white. It depends on your definition of stupidity, and I suppose your understanding of evil - to an extent.

Ignorance is not stupidity, for one thing. A lack of knowledge is, in no way, indicative of an inability to gain it. Nor is it indicative of an individual’s desire to gain knowledge.

If I were to define a stupid decision, it would be a decision made without any thought for the consequences. Littering, for example, is stupid. Depending on what you’re littering, it is also evil. Littering paper? Yeah ok, as long as it isn’t heavily laminated it’s just going to decompose. Littering plastic? Metal cans (lined with plastic, but the metal itself is also bad)? It’s a decision made where the benefit is so small compared to the negatives that you might as well shoot yourself in the foot.

The stupid person doesn’t consider this, though. They don’t care that their roads are littered with trash, plastic strewn amongst fields - poisoning the earth and waterways with chemicals possessing adjectives like forever. They don’t care that they live in an ever deepening landfill. They just throw it out the window and forget about it. They look at the next species to go extinct and push the thought out of their mind.

This, to me, is evil. This is probably the least evil example of stupidity that I can think of. There are more but, truth be told, I don’t really like thinking about stupid people. They tend to make me angry.

Edit: I did not downvote you, by the way.

No they worded the amendment very specifically, it’s two consecutive terms is the cutoff for whether you get a third term.

Since we’re going back to the caveman days all I need to do is kill her husbands and she becomes my wife.

That’s what she wants, right? For women to become property again?

I joke with my girlfriend all the time about how ‘I’M A MAN!’

Like yes, we get it - you are very insecure about the little guy in between your legs. Let’s get those trans kids some rights so you can get some testosterone replacement. It’s very easy, step one step two.

People often forget with Hanlon’s Razor that stupidity is evil, and that evil is not always malicious.

Let me know when you’re 20 years old and growing up with social media and society the way it is, we’ll see if your logic still applies.

I disagree, because that kind of magical thinking almost inevitably leads to some variation of ‘Turtle is angry! SACRIFICE!’

Believe what you want, I’m not here to police anyone. I do reserve the right to judge someone for their beliefs.