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New "as though they're too stupid to have seen it..." Point of Order. They *ARE* that stupid.
Exhibit One.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
New Watch again ... pay particular attention to the last 3 words
--

Drew
New And the question?
"You do realize, don't you, that you are too stupid to comprehend that you are supporting the end of the functionality of the U.S. Constitution?"

Answer: the last three words.

That'd be fine, if and only if she and the rest of the morons in that clip would stay the FUCK home each and every election day. But they don't, do they? They don't care about government. They don't care about the evisceration of the US Education System. They don't care about the millions of Americans who have died because of a lack of access to healthcare. They don't care about corporations being allowed to dump toxins into streams again. They don't care about the top 1% having more than the bottom 90%. They don't care about the climate crisis. They don't care about our recent embracing of murderous dictators around the world and our rejection of some of our oldest allies. They don't care that their president is dumb enough to claim (and apparently believe) that sound from wind turbines causes cancer. They don't care about any of that. They don't care about anything more than answering the only two questions that ever occur to them: (1) When can I eat next? and (2) When can I have sex next?

Again, that'd be fine, if and only if she and the rest of the morons in that clip would stay the FUCK home each and every election day.

But you, here, are putting forth a vapid argument. "They're not stupid, they just don't care." BULLSHIT. You cannot have watched that video in its entirety and come to any other conclusion but that these Trumpsters are stupid, not just ignorant, but stupid beyond measure. That short clip is replete with evidence of that simple fact.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
New alas.. 'Stupid..' IS a grade-school epithet too-oft conflated with ignorance ..as can be addressed.
But peeping the Body-language, the pig-iggerant Non-ripostes cuts it por moi. It's a pandemic of unpaid-extras from Deliverance et alia.

Ignorance compounds, evokes anger, frustration and non-communication everywhen. But
tl;dr The Stupid.. it Burns!! is as brief as I can get.
New Misinformed and incurious
Is that the same as stupid? It works out the same in many circumstances. And certainly some of them are.

But the leaders of that group aren't stupid. They know what's happening and either don't care, or actively want it.
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Drew
New Serendipity Strikes: on SciFri (!) re the core of these communications ... today
Science Friday TGIF!

How Tech Can Make Us More—And Less—Empathetic

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A transfeminine non-binary person and transmasculine gender-nonconforming person looking at a phone with upset expressions
Credit: Zackary Drucker/Gender Spectrum Collection


Much of technology was built on the promise of connecting people across the world, fostering a sense of community. But as much as technology gives us, it also may be taking away one of the things that makes us most human—empathy. When we hunker down in front of screens and behind usernames we reduce our capacity to understand someone else’s perspective.

Journalist Kaitlin Ugolick Phillips, author of the new book The Future of Feeling, joins Ira to talk about whether technology has doomed us to live in a society without empathy, or whether it can actually help fix the problem it creates.

Plus, is it ever really possible to “walk in someone else’s shoes?” Courtney Cogburn, an associate professor of social work at Columbia University, is working to find that out. She joins Ira to talk about a VR experiment designed to help you feel what it’s like to live the life of someone else.

Read an excerpt from Phillips’ new book, The Future Of Feeling.



The Book blurb (and how to order) provides a bit more er, granularity--also too: a word known only-to *cough* the Tech-ept
(is that recursive; get Brownie Points?) NOOO..? [you Meanies!]

Carrion. Methinks that absence-of-Empathy [the very-Core of the *DJT-Menace as it IS who-he-IS] ..just may be on the same Scale/aka, As Dire re Extinction 'prospects' as The Broiling Denouement, since:
it is a higher barrier to Learn! How to communicate-extremely-well than it is--to Use the Techno to start collecting Carbon by all means imaginable: each one of us here could spawn n-cockamamie+brilliant approaches to that, in 5 min.

(Drew might well have the best chances amongst us?) of emulating the style of Interviewer in Mike's link to full-screen Idiocyinaction, I wot. But wtf do I know-ferShure..

* PS: al-punte LeeringRPD chimes in: 'ow do you know 'e's a king? Love. It.
Expand Edited by Ashton Feb. 7, 2020, 04:56:58 PM EST
     What dreams may come - (rcareaga) - (21)
         Seconded verbatim, of course. Incitatus: earns at least the laurel leaves ..great Theater :-þ - (Ashton)
         It could be worse. - (mmoffitt) - (3)
             Rubio's piece is about as good as pure-sophistry+logic can do.. with/to Language - (Ashton)
             OTOH, Britain is still superior to the US. - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                 Quite a lovely Q.E.D., innit? (UK may be hornswoggle-able by Prof-liar Pols), for a time - (Ashton)
         Predictions - (pwhysall) - (12)
             Disagree. - (mmoffitt)
             *Recognition*.. over the next precious months determines everything here.. - (Ashton) - (10)
                 Re: *Recognition*.. over the next precious months determines everything here.. - (dmcarls) - (1)
                     never read a book where they are afraid to put out a synopsis -NT - (boxley)
                 STOP THAT! - (drook) - (7)
                     It's not the same 'THAT'. - (Ashton)
                     "as though they're too stupid to have seen it..." Point of Order. They *ARE* that stupid. - (mmoffitt) - (5)
                         Watch again ... pay particular attention to the last 3 words -NT - (drook) - (4)
                             And the question? - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                                 alas.. 'Stupid..' IS a grade-school epithet too-oft conflated with ignorance ..as can be addressed. - (Ashton)
                                 Misinformed and incurious - (drook)
                             Serendipity Strikes: on SciFri (!) re the core of these communications ... today - (Ashton)
         Next target: Amendment #22 -NT - (scoenye) - (2)
             sad, I had to look it up and you may be correct -NT - (boxley)
             Were 3/4th of States to ratify we'd already be in Hospice, just awaiting the form-of implosion. - (Ashton)

The Tumors at Woode Crossing
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