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BREAKING: Trump currently in a white Bronco slowly headed south on a Los Angles freeway...
Look at it this way.Awe look. My governor was wrong. But he was deliberately wrong so that makes him smart.
Evil always involves some kind of narcissistic blindness, but it can be surprisingly intelligent, even if something keeps the machine "strategically broken" with regards to ethics.
What most people call "evil" is almost always a mix of fear and incompetenceEvil. He was not wrong he was evil. Evil always involves some kind of narcissistic blindness, but it can be surprisingly intelligent, even if something keeps the machine "strategically broken" with regards to ethics.Awe look. My governor was wrong. But he was deliberately wrong so that makes him smart.
Technically it's not even blind. It's just purely solipsistic, which while less functional than being social, is a mode of thought that cannot be disproved absent the belief that there are other real people in existence, which is something that, while it can be reasonably surmised, is unprovable.
Look at it this way.Awe look. My governor was wrong. But he was deliberately wrong so that makes him smart.
Trump is a moron, or became a moron with age. He had a right-wing populist charisma that many liked. And he was able to energize it. Heck, managed to get them into attempting a minor coup. But it was all disjointed and messy.
Now imagine someone with political savvy, with a similar level of that charisma or alt-right authorita'. A person that could deftly manipulate people. I don't think DeSantis is a genius, but he very clearly is either the luckiest idiot ever, or he knows exactly what he is doing and should not be taken lightly.
It is pleasurable to use intelligence for evil, for some. Some people are willing to make other people pay the consequences for their pleasure, and are willing to knowingly gamble on the odds of getting caught. Or to skill-play it.Evil always involves some kind of narcissistic blindness, but it can be surprisingly intelligent, even if something keeps the machine "strategically broken" with regards to ethics.
Is it intelligent to use your intelligence for evil? Take Mike Tyson for example. He was extremely intelligent at boxing in his prime. If he used his boxing intelligence for evil would that make him intelligent? Sure he has intelligent moves, but would randomly knocking out people on the streets make Mike intelligent?
Do you see the line yet?
It is pleasurable to use intelligence for evil, for some. Some people are willing to make other people pay the consequences for their pleasure, and are willing to knowingly gamble on the odds of getting caught. Or to skill-play it.Evil always involves some kind of narcissistic blindness, but it can be surprisingly intelligent, even if something keeps the machine "strategically broken" with regards to ethics.
Is it intelligent to use your intelligence for evil? Take Mike Tyson for example. He was extremely intelligent at boxing in his prime. If he used his boxing intelligence for evil would that make him intelligent? Sure he has intelligent moves, but would randomly knocking out people on the streets make Mike intelligent?
Do you see the line yet?
This doesn't make them unintelligent. It just makes them evil. It is their decision that their goals are attainable without needing a long future.
Talking heads are saying this is good news for Trump, that he was hoping for this! Campaign donations have been slow; this should perk them up. If the only crime is misplacing documents — comparable perhaps to an overdue library book — DoJ and the Ds will look like vindictive prigs and Trump's re-election chance will soar.
And if there were an incriminating document, might not Trump have been smart enough to burn it or hide it? How much evidence is needed anyway? To me, he's already clearly guilty of treason and other felonies, but QOPAnoners don't care.
At first the search warrant seemed like happy news, but I'm not optimistic. Only a dead teen-age girl could sway the base and I didn't hear that the FBI was digging up the grounds at Mar-a-Lago.
By your definition of what constitutes good judgement and careful thought.It is pleasurable to use intelligence for evil, for some. Some people are willing to make other people pay the consequences for their pleasure, and are willing to knowingly gamble on the odds of getting caught. Or to skill-play it.Evil always involves some kind of narcissistic blindness, but it can be surprisingly intelligent, even if something keeps the machine "strategically broken" with regards to ethics.
Is it intelligent to use your intelligence for evil? Take Mike Tyson for example. He was extremely intelligent at boxing in his prime. If he used his boxing intelligence for evil would that make him intelligent? Sure he has intelligent moves, but would randomly knocking out people on the streets make Mike intelligent?
Do you see the line yet?
This doesn't make them unintelligent. It just makes them evil. It is their decision that their goals are attainable without needing a long future.
Using your ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills for evil because it gets your dick hard is in fact, not showing careful thought or good judgment. These "some" individuals don't cancel out other individuals. When the use of your intelligence affects other people negatively (especially when deliberate) then those people who are negatively impacted by your actions can factually call you stupid.
It's possible, but really, can the FBI really be the bad guy for removing classified documents, with varying levels of secrecy, that Trump wasn't supposed to have?Talking heads are saying this is good news for Trump, that he was hoping for this! Campaign donations have been slow; this should perk them up. If the only crime is misplacing documents — comparable perhaps to an overdue library book — DoJ and the Ds will look like vindictive prigs and Trump's re-election chance will soar.
And if there were an incriminating document, might not Trump have been smart enough to burn it or hide it? How much evidence is needed anyway? To me, he's already clearly guilty of treason and other felonies, but QOPAnoners don't care.
At first the search warrant seemed like happy news, but I'm not optimistic. Only a dead teen-age girl could sway the base and I didn't hear that the FBI was digging up the grounds at Mar-a-Lago.
By your definition of what constitutes good judgement and careful thought.
I do not believe it is wise to consider someone stupid who clearly has a great deal of general intelligence who points it at gratification rather than edification.By your definition of what constitutes good judgement and careful thought.
Intelligent: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
Stupid: Having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense.
Do you believe a person can both be stupid and intelligent?
Examples:
Intelligent DeSantis: Knows the right things to do at the right time to increase his chances of becoming president.
Stupid DeSantis: Uses his position as governor to attack those in opposition to him and his platform.
Both of the above examples makes him stupid from where I sit but you and I are not the same person. What you call skills and knowledge is different from what I call skills and knowledge. So if a person can be both stupid and intelligent it would be simple (and intelligent) for both of us to call it how we see it, both be right & move on.
If not continue:
Knowledge = facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
Hitler's intelligence is dependent on facts, information and his skills acquired from experience or education. I rightfully question that clowns intelligence especially one rocking a neck duster under his nose . I'm certain the facts, information and skills he gathered weren't those at all (you can visit the European theme park at your local library). It's probably why he had to brute force the German people that were capable of actually getting shit done while he only designed a Nazi flag and screamed at people. And his Generals were the strategists not him he was just at the center of a huge snowball while interest groups within Germany used him as the face for their cause.
Meanwhile there have been Empires of NON-Proto-Indo-Europeans long before German was born that were way larger and succeeded in actually taking way more territory. What knowledge was he basing his SRT (supreme race theory) on?
Anyone who believes their intelligence is infallible is stupid. Hitler was clearly one of those people. Again, you and I seem to define intelligence differently.I do not believe it is wise to consider someone stupid who clearly has a great deal of general intelligence who points it at gratification rather than edification.
I think some people, such as Trump, lack general intelligence and nonetheless succeed because of accidentally having found a winning strategy, generally of targeting those too dumb to know they have been had.
It's not stupid, though, in any respect, to burn the world and destroy the universe, if that's what you were born wanting to do and feel good doing, provided you can figure out how to make it happen. It just makes you evil.
Because most of us don't want that to happen to us, we fight against it.
That's ridiculous. They won't do it randomly. Fascists love order.What do they plan to do? Randomly shoot every non white and every white suspected of being a democrat?