Something you need to understand is that a high paying job and a degree do not inherently mean intelligence, especially not in the US and Canada where education is largely for the generationally wealthy and school is designed for memorization and brute-force solutions over learning how to be clever.
Anyone who’s truly intelligent understands that “line goes up” is a ideology what’s dead on arrival. Every single layer of it is a new layer of stupidity, it’s a staggering lack of intelligence.
If you think anything they’re doing is clever and not the incredibly obvious bullshit that it is, I have news for you. We can see everything they’re doing, they only get away with it because we do next to nothing to stop them and because there are a lot of stupid people in the world willing to back them up.
First off, that response looks like you did not read or understand my comment at all.
Secondly, to be charitable and respond anyway, there just aren’t that many intelligent people in the world. They vote and participate in the system because it’s the right thing to do. What the fuck else are they supposed to, bud? They can’t just separate from the system.
If they personally are benefitting, and they don’t care if others do well, then they are achieving exactly what they want. Surely telling them they are stupid will be the solution we need.
Something you need to understand is that a high paying job and a degree do not inherently mean intelligence, especially not in the US and Canada where education is largely for the generationally wealthy and school is designed for memorization and brute-force solutions over learning how to be clever.
Anyone who’s truly intelligent understands that “line goes up” is a ideology what’s dead on arrival. Every single layer of it is a new layer of stupidity, it’s a staggering lack of intelligence.
If you think anything they’re doing is clever and not the incredibly obvious bullshit that it is, I have news for you. We can see everything they’re doing, they only get away with it because we do next to nothing to stop them and because there are a lot of stupid people in the world willing to back them up.
So if all these intelligent people know better, then why do they still participate in the same nonsense system as everyone else?
First off, that response looks like you did not read or understand my comment at all.
Secondly, to be charitable and respond anyway, there just aren’t that many intelligent people in the world. They vote and participate in the system because it’s the right thing to do. What the fuck else are they supposed to, bud? They can’t just separate from the system.
Should we go back and argue on who counts as intelligent? Is that the part I missed?
I said: “A lot of MAGA are intelligent.”
You said: “Nuh-uh.”
Which part did I miss?
Exactly. I said they weren’t intelligent, and then you said “so if there are all these intelligent people…”
Like, which intelligent people? Who are you talking about?
Reading comprehension seems to be a problem for both of you.
I mean, I can understand each of you pretty easily here, but neither one of you seems to be able to do that.
It’s probably just emotions getting in the way, though, I suppose. Sometimes Reddit arguments happen on Lemmy… wel, more often lately
Seriously, you’ve read this exchange and believe Soup has a reading comprehension issue?
Yeah, ok — you’re right that Lemmy definitely has a lot of reddit-brained people.
Honestly I just don’t have much else to say. They can disagree with me if they want.
It does seem reasonable to define an intelligent person as someone who can see that “the line goes up” ideology is bullshit.
If they personally are benefitting, and they don’t care if others do well, then they are achieving exactly what they want. Surely telling them they are stupid will be the solution we need.