• UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last couple decades, it’s that about 1/4 of people are thoughtless fools, easily caught up in whatever bullshit is shoved in their face the loudest.

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      that about 1/4 of people are thoughtless fools, easily caught up in whatever bullshit is shoved in their face

      The US confederacy has spent decades ensuring their entire political process heavily favors that very very dumb 1/4 of the people.

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        6 hours ago

        It’s closer to a third. In the last ten years trumps idiots have had like a +- 33 percent locked in like a bunch of child molesting Mot worshipers.

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          Genuinely I believe we should treat them like the USSR treated the Kulaks and relocate them to a desolate area of the the northwest territories

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            3 hours ago

            That’s an example of immediate casus belli.

            Quiet imprisonment of their leaders for non-political reasons (I am sure the CRA can find dirt on them) works much better. Even better if they get in unfortunate accidents.

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      8 hours ago

      If you’re on socials, bullshit is being shoved in your face. Is your palate so refined that you avoid it entirely? Or, like violence, is the seed of foolishness in all of us?

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        Is your palate so refined that you avoid it entirely?

        Anything with an algorithm, yeah. Lemmy is all that I am on.

        And it’s not so much “refinement of palate” as it is simply making room in my head for my own thoughts, and ensuring nothing gets into my head without me having had the opportunity to think about it and fact check if need be.

        And yeah, I do a LOT of fact checking. Staying off social media keeps it at a manageable level for me.