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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 146 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

is that... did he... did he really say that?

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 275 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Per Newsweek article

"Think of it, magnets," Trump said. "Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets. Why didn't they use John Deere? Why didn't they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere."

Incoherent rambling like usual

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 159 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 113 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Many people are just as stupid as him.

Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago

Many don't really get to hear him unfiltered. Around T1 I was watching Fox and they at best had a text snippet of something he said. Never extra text around the snippet and certainly not the audio. Still many do go and see him live.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Many are, but many Trump supporters started out smarter than him but they've dumbed themselves down to his level in order to continue their support, I guess.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 2 weeks ago

Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don't think it's always even a conscious choice.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

pretty much i know someone in my family, started supporting trump, roegan, and YE. and youtubers i used to follow did this too.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

When I read the comment sections of my local news most of the comments are incoherent rambling like Trump but with more spelling mistakes. Its sad.

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

i think his supporters are stupider than he is, he has said how dumb republicans are on many occasion, but this almost never clicks with the voters, because these voters are likely never following up with his policies anyways.

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just look how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are more stupid. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.

I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.

These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.

Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…

[–] Ack@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read something from someone on the internet who claimed to work with bear-proof garbage cans and apparently it’s harder than one might expect. There’s some overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

I’m sure the bears are more motivated, but still…

[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The quote “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” is usually attributed to a Yosemite National Park Ranger taking about the issue with designing bear proof trash cans.

[–] Ack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you're right.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don't think people in general think 'median' when they hear 'average'

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago

"He's one of us"

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

when you have a propaganda apparatus on tv, online helping its not hard. plus general mysgoyny and racism goes hand in handle. rather than actual "action plan".

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ignorance is often glorified here.

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

behold, the shining beacon of freedom and democracy

[–] marius@feddit.org 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta

[–] assa123@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

or 6 after ads

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago

What the tractor people? Are they particular experts in magnetism?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Incoherent rambling to us fucking poetry to the demented lead paint chip eating maga crowd

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i wonder if his dimwitted supporters actually understand or trying to decipher what hes saying or they just like hearing him talk as background noise to affirm thier beliefs.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it's to do with what a literal dogwhistle is. I can't really make heads or tails of this, but that's maybe just because my brain is on a completely different wavelength. Like dogs can hear specific frequencies humans can't. Maybe trumpists hear certain things in between this word soup that actually makes sense on some level.

Or maybe he's just a senile old man and his followers are incapable of critical thought when it comes to him.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you actually look at the pattern, you will see it used everywhere. He is using the same words all the time.

It's a kind of rambling that people recognize now, and you could have a stranger guess that it was Donald Trump who said this just from the semantics of the words.

At this point I know (roughly) what he is going to say before he says it. :)

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He was talking about electromagnets at sea ships... Because the sea-water would short them.

But then, it's almost as stupid as the short version.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

This is retarded as well. I once repaired an undersea $10,000 cable for like $600.

Like bitch (orange menace), pay people what they're fucking worth, I was worth 3 times that much, if not more..

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago

At this point you can't really tell whether something is satire or a quote from the orange president.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

When ever you think something sounds too stupid even for trump. No you didn't.

His stupidity is his defining characteristic among his voters. For the wealthy and powerful, he's an easily manipulable rube. For the poor saps he says the same stupid things they think and say. He's just like them, so relatable!

[–] SatansDaughter@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] qualia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And just in case anyone thinks that's AI, ABC News vetted it as being true here (in the body, not the video).

I know why voting records can't be public, but I simultaneously wish they had to be too. As an appropriately-colored scarlet letter.

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 weeks ago

It sounds shocking until you remember Americans are dumb as shit. I have to keep reminding myself of this to make any sense of the absolute dystopian nightmare that somehow they support.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

had to look it up. aparently yes, 2 years ago