The right wing is always stupid. Everyone else is sometimes stupid. But the right? Always completely pants on head stupid, if not cartoonishly evil.
Do not attribute malice to that which can be explained by stupidity… But never fully discount it.
Everytime I see this sentence my brain just refuses to understand it. What does this mean?
It gets clearer if you flip it around to sound less poetic:
Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
That which can be explained by stupidity, do not attribute to malice.
Or perhaps in more direct words someone might actually say:
If you can explain it with stupidity, it’s probably not malice.
You are walking on the street and a big fat guy bumps into you. Assume they are just clumsy don’t assume they were trying to run you down.
This doesn’t mean be unaware, this doesn’t mean ignore red flags, this doesn’t mean to not have a healthy level of caution. It means assume good faith from deeply imperfect people until evidence no longer supports it.
It means if you don’t know if someone did something because they had evil plans or were fking stulud, its safe to assume they were fking stupid at the point of the incident.
Especially if the evil plan would have been convoluted and required things to align just perfect for the plan to be successful.
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Both far left and far right are always stupid. At least here in my country Far left: Burns and destroy local business and destroy public transport used by all citizens just to protest and then for some reason blame the police for that. Far right: Constantly having hallucinations about the United Nations being controlled by far left and vaccines = poison.
Both are in a competence to show who has less neurons.
Far left: Burns and destroy local business and destroy public transport used by all citizens just to protest and then for some reason blame the police for that.
Go and protest by the sidewalks on Sundays, they are not gonna give a shit, if they even notice, break a few windows(from banks if possible) disrupt traffic and you are gonna be on the news, they will call you a terrorist but they at least will know you are there and ready to do shit.
The french know what’s up.
What I mention is what happened in October of 2019 in Chile.
Yeah, I know that they need to attract attention to a protest to be listened. BUT by no means it justifies destroying and robbing small businesses, burning churches and destroy schools (while asking for better education)
They literally went and made a mess of things. They could have just made a crowd, block the road, go to the government institutions but they choosed violence to other citizens. After that they left things even worse than they were, that’s a sign of lack of common sense and responsibility.
Many people lost their jobs, schools ended with heavy damag, the Metro stations where I live ended up in a mess, and for some reason they burned churches. Yeah.
And so begins the parade of Argentinians having their faces eaten off by leopards after voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.
They’ve been getting their faces eaten off, so they voted for the other party that will eat their face hoping it will change this up.
It doesn’t matter what politicians you vote for or your politics in question most pretty much all politicians are generally universally all have the same interests at heart and that is money doesn’t matter if your left right tankie librultarian centralist I think that this is something we can all universally agree on
How to loudly announce you’re part of the fasc in-group.
He’s not facist. He’s libertarian two completely different modes of goverment one wants to disband the state the other wants complete and utter control and so wants to make the state into a one party state
lol
There’s this great thread in the Disco Elysium reddit from years ago. This guy posted and complained that all the family first nation first choices that were part of his morals were making him align with the fasc. Having to do the thumb up the ass salute. All that stuff.
You played disco? Try it out. See if you give it a thumbs up.
They really watched Brazil get fucked by rightwing policies for 6 years and thought “I want that”.
I just don’t get it. Every time a right wing government people get fucked and more fucked. Arguably even with left governments, but brexit / trump / bosonaro level fucked it’s is hard to achieve…
And people still vote for these train wrecks…
What am I missing? What do I need to do get it? Lower my iq seems to be a possible answer, but I’m really struggling to see it
Most of the people making up their voter base are quite literally brainwashed. I’ve seen it happen with my parents – years of subtle manipulation by the media eventually turned their brains to mush. They quite literally can’t form their own opinions anymore and need guidance from the rightwing cult.
My solution is to block all that content on routers and using a Raspberry Pi. I will even offer my services to hospitals and nursing homes.
Way easier to be “against X, Y and Z” than to actually build/fix something. They’ll just find other bogeymen and the worse the things get, the more tempting being against these bogeymen will look like to the voters.
This. It’s like people who play victim. Playing the victim is easy. Nothing is ever asked of victims, nothing is expected or demanded of them, they bear no responsibility to fix the problem or problems, they are never at fault. But, the flaw of victimhood politics is this:
Stan Lee once said,
With great power, comes great responsibility.
Let us consider, that perhaps the statement also makes sense inverted. So, read it like this.
With great responsibility, comes great power.
Now, remember how I said victims bear no responsibility? That means they bear no power. No power but the power they are given.
I have theory might be crazy but what the hell. Think about some phrasing. We tell people when they do something good they do the RIGHT thing. Majority of humans are RIGHT handed.
Everything good is gear towards the going RIGHT. We even record advanments like time, and progress as moving to the RIGHT.
Here in America our calendar move to the RIGHT.
So maybe that might be why we keep moving RIGHT politically even though that is a horrible thing.
Because anything to the LEFT is seen as bad.
Make the public dumber, less healthy, less connected, and less informed about the world so they can’t stage a revolution and kill you. Perfect plan really.
It’s just telling the people what they want to hear. Just saying you’ll end corruption once and for all will give you lots of followers. What happens after you win, who cares.
The previous president, Alberto, was (afaik) equally loved by the public, made promises about improvement, corruption, blah blah. Made things worse, now it’s turn for the next guy.
People in South America are already stupid, disconnected & uninformed. No need to make things worse, just maintain the status quo.
Outside of economics, his proposed social politics are so crowd-pleasing, it makes me wonder if he just promised to make abortion illegal just because he wanted votes. Like, why would he care?