NeilBrü

Potentially, to both of us. But given Trump’s and his ardent supporters speech patterns and behavior, the odds are that they’re in the category of “too stupid to know they’re stupid”.

Smart people seem stupid to many stupid people because many stupid people are too stupid know they’re stupid.

Is anyone else a firm believer that Event Horizon is canonically “in-universe” with Warhammer 40K?

“Hail corporate!”

“Dumb” is the new “smart”.

UnDeshittification

Makes more sense to me if the prefix “en” is used in “enshittification”.

Why do the richest have to be the craziest?!?

Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats, says that the present trend towards plutocracy occurs because the rich feel that their interests are shared by society:

You don’t do this in a kind of chortling, smoking your cigar, conspiratorial thinking way. You do it by persuading yourself that what is in your own personal self-interest is in the interests of everybody else. So you persuade yourself that, actually, government services, things like spending on education, which is what created that social mobility in the first place, need to be cut so that the deficit will shrink, so that your tax bill doesn’t go up. And what I really worry about is, there is so much money and so much power at the very top, and the gap between those people at the very top and everybody else is so great, that we are going to see social mobility choked off and society transformed.

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STATIC TYPING FTW. FIGHT ME, YOU BITCH-MADE INVERTEBRATES.

apothrical apocryphal

Or… was that on purpose? Am I not getting the joke?

To all the infallible unblemished champions of the proletarian revolution who are shitting on “libs”:

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future, this is the definition of liberalism:

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

In your own words, what do you think “lib” means? And if you’re going with my cited textbook definition, what’s so offensive to you about the tenets that are listed?

Either words’ definitions matter or they don’t, and if they don’t, then none of what you say matters.