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[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 275 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (7 children)

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

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 113 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

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

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

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering intelligence/stupidity isn't defined, it's a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t totally disagree, I’ve never seen an actual distribution of random iq scores

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

And there's plenty of criticism of IQ tests as a proxy for intelligence, even if we did have the data.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

Ignorance is often glorified here.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

behold, the shining beacon of freedom and democracy

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

Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta

[–] assa123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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. :)