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sabrams

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11. Did something similar last summer

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Wed Jul 26, 2023, 09:50 PM

Jul 2023

In an effort to understand how people could be so extreme and accept as truth things so easily proved wrong, I also watch the trump news sources and commentators.
I learned that my feeling about most of the trump supporters was wrong. I thought they were just stupid beyond belief. It turns out they are profoundly ignorant.
Being ignorant isn't anything to be ashamed of. That can be fixed with new information, but being willfully ignorant is a mental condition that most of them share.

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I read this letter to the editor in the SF Chronicle today and I can't stop thinking how correct and [View all] kimbutgar Jul 2023 OP

Not buying it. I'll paraphrase MLK Jr.s' famous statement. brush Jul 2023 #1

Large numbers of people who vote don't have the skills or the basic decency... Silent3 Jul 2023 #4

We outnumber those "large number of people." See the 2020 results. brush Jul 2023 #5

By a troubling small margin given how plainly awful Trump is Silent3 Jul 2023 #6

trump will be indicted 4 times and most likely convicted at least once... brush Jul 2023 #7

The OP isn't just about the next election Silent3 Jul 2023 #8

I share your optimism. rubbersole Jul 2023 #9

In a speech years ago, the writer/historian Morris Berman said something which has remained... keep_left Jul 2023 #12

Nah, we just defeated what you call the disinformation matrix in 2020... brush Jul 2023 #13

We definitely defeated the Matrix this time, but it was close (something like 80,000 votes... keep_left Jul 2023 #14

Being indicted four times and possibly convicted, women still angry over dobbs... brush Jul 2023 #15

In the wayback MOMFUDSKI Jul 2023 #2

I also remember reading Alex Jones in the early 2000's and it didn't take me long to think he was kimbutgar Jul 2023 #3

my smart Phd cousin has become a maggot loon, but he is his father's son. ditto head + angry alex pansypoo53219 Jul 2023 #10

Did something similar last summer sabrams Jul 2023 #11