A self-confessed ’MAGA junkie’ from a red-voting city devastated by Department of Government Efficiency firings has said she regrets voting for Donald Trump.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

    1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    1. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    1. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

    5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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      4 days ago

      “They would never, it would be such a bad idea!” - a phrase that I keep hearing but keeps being wrong. If people were vaguely smart they’d be out voting, and they surely wouldn’t be voting for the far right. Instead they’re just repeating that phrase like it’ll be different this time because they refuse to acknowledge that people are dumb and/or struggle greatly with basic moral principles. To that end, I’d also argue that calling people who underestimate stupid people non-stupid are themselves part of that group, just a different flavour of moron.