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not_IO lemmy.blahaj.zone not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Lodespawn aussie.zone Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn't going to help them change. Baby's don't learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.

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Grail multiverse.soulism.net Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Joined: 2026-01-14
#3 · Quote Reply

Ditto to Stein's Greens and and else who thought that helping Trump would help Palestine.

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xxce2AAb feddit.dk xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
Joined: 2025-07-11
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

Worse: I distinctly recall the countless people who - in response to being called stupid and told they were about to do a stupid thing - voted for Trump in a fit of contrarian infantilism.

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red_tomato lemmy.world red_tomato@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-30
#5 · Quote Reply

I didn’t believe he would actually release the files. I can give him that.

Unfortunately the release of the files doesn’t matter. No one will face justice.

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-04
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

Ditto to Stein's Greens and and else who thought that helping Trump would help Palestine.

And the Hillbots and Khive Kritters who keep insisting that "not as bad as the fascist criminal but to the right of Reagan" is a good enough campaign strategy in a country with extreme voter suppression and right wing media gaslighting being many times more common than truthful political reporting 🙄

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Grail multiverse.soulism.net Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Joined: 2026-01-14
#7 · Quote Reply

And the Hillbots and Khive Kritters who keep insisting that "not as bad as the fascist criminal but to the right of Reagan" is a good enough campaign strategy in a country with extreme voter suppression and right wing media gaslighting being many times more common than truthful political reporting 🙄

Yeah, you said it, both sides are bad. The Democrats are bad for supporting Israel even if it causes the nation to fall into fascism, and the neutral voters are bad for opposing the Democrats even if it causes the nation to fall into fascism. I hate both sides, they're both enabling fascism.

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jupyter_rain discuss.tchncs.de jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-09-28
#8 · Quote Reply

Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn't going to help them change. Baby's don't learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.

Noooo not my screen time :( Gonna miss pig-family!

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Mulligrubs lemmy.world Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
#9 · (edited) Quote Reply

I've heard that he will soon release his taxes! It's under audit, you see. Give it two weeks

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mycodesucks lemmy.world mycodesucks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-08
#10 · Quote Reply

I didn’t believe he would actually release the files. I can give him that. Unfortunately the release of the files doesn’t matter. No one will face justice.

The files aren't released. There are thousands of pages held back.

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mycodesucks lemmy.world mycodesucks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-08
#11 · Quote Reply

If those people could read they'd be very upset.

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mycodesucks lemmy.world mycodesucks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-08
#12 · Quote Reply

Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn't going to help them change. Baby's don't learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.

Or, maybe Kristi Noem had a point...

These old dogs are too hard to train and need to be put down.

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Pyro programming.dev Pyro@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-26
#13 · Quote Reply

Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn't going to help them change. Baby's don't learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.

Yes, but I'm tired of babysitting.

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Foni piefed.zip Foni@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-12-04
#14 · (edited) Quote Reply

Of all the bad things that social media has brought us, the worst is making stupid people feel intelligent because other stupid people agree with them.

EDIT: I have seen your positive votes, thank you, I feel validated and it is clear that I am very intelligent

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red_tomato lemmy.world red_tomato@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-30
#15 · Quote Reply

The files aren't released. There are thousands of pages held back.

Maybe not in full, but he released more than I anticipated. I believed he wouldn’t release anything at all.

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Lodespawn aussie.zone Lodespawn@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-10-18
#16 · Quote Reply

Yes, but I'm tired of babysitting.

Yeah but the baby's don't go away because the adults CBF, kinda how we got into this mess ..

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Lodespawn aussie.zone Lodespawn@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-10-18
#17 · Quote Reply

Noooo not my screen time :( Gonna miss pig-family!

Look, you can watch tv when you get your toddler brain .. and then only 30 mins a day, also I don't think it's nice to call the Trumps that ..

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Lodespawn aussie.zone Lodespawn@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-10-18
#18 · Quote Reply

Or, maybe Kristi Noem had a point... These old dogs are too hard to train and need to be put down.

I don't know if we should trust the opinion of someone who hasn't advanced past playing dress ups ..

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GreenShimada lemmy.world GreenShimada@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-12-22
#19 · Quote Reply

Of all the bad things that social media has brought us, the worst is making stupid people feel intelligent because other stupid people agree with them. EDIT: I have seen your positive votes, thank you, I feel validated and it is clear that I am very intelligent

Hey now, Boomers didn't invent anti-intellectualism, they just think they did. Because they're stupid. Then social media put those views out there for other idiots with baby brains to see and identify with.

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Diplomjodler lemmy.world Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-08
#20 · Quote Reply

They're not just stupid but also evil. They knew perfectly well that Trump was going to cause suffering to a lot of people and they voted for him because that is exactly what they wanted.

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deadbeef79000 lemmy.nz deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-17
#21 · Quote Reply

They're not just stupid but also evil. They knew perfectly well that Trump was going to cause suffering to a lot of people and they voted for him because that is exactly what they wanted.

"he's not hurting the right people"

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[object Object] lemmy.world SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-11-03
#22 · Quote Reply

Ditto to Stein's Greens and and else who thought that helping Trump would help Palestine.

Cubans for Trump

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#23 · Quote Reply

Worse: I distinctly recall the countless people who - in response to being called stupid and told they were about to do a stupid thing - voted for Trump in a fit of contrarian infantilism.

Sounds quite deplorable

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Thorry feddit.org Thorry@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-08-30
#24 · Quote Reply

I've heard that he will soon release his taxes! It's under audit, you see. Give it two weeks

They've just been busy working on that healthcare plan, it's coming any day now, two weeks at the most.

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HugeNerd lemmy.ca HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-06
#25 · Quote Reply

Sounds quite deplorable

More than the system that created the conditions? So it's the victim's fault. I see.

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#26 · Quote Reply

Yeah, you said it, both sides are bad. The Democrats are bad for supporting Israel even if it causes the nation to fall into fascism, and the neutral voters are bad for opposing the Democrats even if it causes the nation to fall into fascism. I hate both sides, they're both enabling fascism.

One side ARE THE FASCISTS.

Could you hate them a tiny bit more, please?

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definitely_AI feddit.online definitely_AI@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-02-28
#27 · Quote Reply

"Surely that can't be it."

Narrator: It was, in fact, "it".

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#28 · Quote Reply

I've heard that he will soon release his taxes! It's under audit, you see. Give it two weeks

But that's when they will release the beautiful health plan!

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#29 · Quote Reply

The files aren't released. There are thousands of pages held back.

Millions.

And videos.

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definitely_AI feddit.online definitely_AI@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-02-28
#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

Maybe not in full, but he released more than I anticipated. I believed he wouldn’t release anything at all.

"I thought he would pay back that billion dollar loan. He did give me three fiddy tho. Which is nice, ngl."

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definitely_AI feddit.online definitely_AI@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-02-28
#31 · Quote Reply

Or, maybe Kristi Noem had a point... These old dogs are too hard to train and need to be put down.

Correct strategy. Wrong animals.

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Tja programming.dev Tja@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-12-18
#32 · Quote Reply

More than the system that created the conditions? So it's the victim's fault. I see.

Hating brown people is not the fault of the system.

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Rekorse sh.itjust.works Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-08-30
#33 · Quote Reply

There are plenty of smart MAGA. Many have high paying jobs and degrees.

This is because america overwhelmingly places money over anything else. Most of them just call it the economy but America has spent a lot of time teaching its citizens that if the number goes up then whatever is happening is good and moral.

Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and regulations, line goes up. Violently deport neighbors, line goes up.

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Proprietary_Blend lemmy.world Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-12-25
#34 · Quote Reply

Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn't going to help them change. Baby's don't learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.

*Babies. So stupid

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#35 · Quote Reply

There are plenty of smart MAGA. Many have high paying jobs and degrees. This is because america overwhelmingly places money over anything else. Most of them just call it the economy but America has spent a lot of time teaching its citizens that if the number goes up then whatever is happening is good and moral. Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and reg...

Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and regulations, line goes up. Violently deport neighbors, line goes up.

Dow Jones : 47,954.74USD -784.67(1.61%)

Line ain't goin' up

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Rekorse sh.itjust.works Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-08-30
#36 · Quote Reply

Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and regulations, line goes up. Violently deport neighbors, line goes up. Dow Jones : 47,954.74USD -784.67(1.61%) Line ain't goin' up

You aren't looking at the right lines.

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bcgm3 lemmy.world bcgm3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-06
#37 · Quote Reply

Oh, it's that stand-up comic I like, Mike Birbig-- Oh. Uhh...

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Lodespawn aussie.zone Lodespawn@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-10-18
#38 · Quote Reply

*Babies. So stupid

I prefer the term baby brained thank you very much.

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BilSabab lemmy.world BilSabab@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-19
#39 · Quote Reply

Somebody quote Theodor Adorno ASAP

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Soup lemmy.world Soup@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#40 · Quote Reply

There are plenty of smart MAGA. Many have high paying jobs and degrees. This is because america overwhelmingly places money over anything else. Most of them just call it the economy but America has spent a lot of time teaching its citizens that if the number goes up then whatever is happening is good and moral. Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and reg...

Something you need to understand is that a high paying job and a degree do not inherently mean intelligence, especially not in the US and Canada where education is largely for the generationally wealthy and school is designed for memorization and brute-force solutions over learning how to be clever.

Anyone who’s truly intelligent understands that “line goes up” is a ideology what’s dead on arrival. Every single layer of it is a new layer of stupidity, it’s a staggering lack of intelligence.

If you think anything they’re doing is clever and not the incredibly obvious bullshit that it is, I have news for you. We can see everything they’re doing, they only get away with it because we do next to nothing to stop them and because there are a lot of stupid people in the world willing to back them up.

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Yerbouti sh.itjust.works Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-06-26
#41 · Quote Reply

If undereducation was a natural resource the usa would be the world's top provider.

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Grail multiverse.soulism.net Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Joined: 2026-01-14
#42 · Quote Reply

One side ARE THE FASCISTS. Could you hate them a tiny bit more, please?

They're both fascists. Democrats and neutral voters are both letting the Republican Neo-nazi party win with their stupid game of fascism chicken. They're both plunging us into fascism. I hate Republicans most of all, but I hate Democrats and neutral voters equally.

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Rekorse sh.itjust.works Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-08-30
#43 · Quote Reply

Something you need to understand is that a high paying job and a degree do not inherently mean intelligence, especially not in the US and Canada where education is largely for the generationally wealthy and school is designed for memorization and brute-force solutions over learning how to be clever. Anyone who’s truly intelligent understands that “line goes up” is a ideology what’s dead on arri...

So if all these intelligent people know better, then why do they still participate in the same nonsense system as everyone else?

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Soup lemmy.world Soup@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#44 · Quote Reply

So if all these intelligent people know better, then why do they still participate in the same nonsense system as everyone else?

First off, that response looks like you did not read or understand my comment at all.

Secondly, to be charitable and respond anyway, there just aren’t that many intelligent people in the world. They vote and participate in the system because it’s the right thing to do. What the fuck else are they supposed to, bud? They can’t just separate from the system.

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jack_of_sandwich lemmy.sdf.org jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-12
#45 · Quote Reply

There are plenty of smart MAGA. Many have high paying jobs and degrees. This is because america overwhelmingly places money over anything else. Most of them just call it the economy but America has spent a lot of time teaching its citizens that if the number goes up then whatever is happening is good and moral. Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and reg...

Most people with high paying jobs and degrees didn't vote for Trump if they were smart. Nobody smart thought Trump would be good for the economy.

He was good for the extremely wealthy, but not everyone else's pockets.

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jack_of_sandwich lemmy.sdf.org jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-12
#46 · Quote Reply

Bombing kids, line goes up. Fuck over your friends, line goes up. Break laws and regulations, line goes up. Violently deport neighbors, line goes up. Dow Jones : 47,954.74USD -784.67(1.61%) Line ain't goin' up

Even the 50000 that the Trump administration was trying to praise is underwhelming. The DOW hits record highs under every president, it's the nature of the stock market that in the medium term it goes up.

But it hasn't gone up as fast as we'd expect under a booming economy.

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Rekorse sh.itjust.works Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-08-30
#47 · Quote Reply

First off, that response looks like you did not read or understand my comment at all. Secondly, to be charitable and respond anyway, there just aren’t that many intelligent people in the world. They vote and participate in the system because it’s the right thing to do. What the fuck else are they supposed to, bud? They can’t just separate from the system.

Should we go back and argue on who counts as intelligent? Is that the part I missed?

I said: "A lot of MAGA are intelligent."

You said: "Nuh-uh."

Which part did I miss?

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Rekorse sh.itjust.works Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-08-30
#48 · Quote Reply

Most people with high paying jobs and degrees didn't vote for Trump if they were smart. Nobody smart thought Trump would be good for the economy. He was good for the extremely wealthy, but not everyone else's pockets.

It really depends how much your wealth is tied into the "economy". Like I said, even average Americans will make excuses for immoral actions as long as they personally benefit in some way.

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Soup lemmy.world Soup@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#49 · Quote Reply

Should we go back and argue on who counts as intelligent? Is that the part I missed? I said: "A lot of MAGA are intelligent." You said: "Nuh-uh." Which part did I miss?

Exactly. I said they weren’t intelligent, and then you said “so if there are all these intelligent people…”

Like, which intelligent people? Who are you talking about?

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#50 · Quote Reply

More than the system that created the conditions? So it's the victim's fault. I see.

So the victims, in this case, are the people who voted for Trump?

Yeah, nah.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#51 · Quote Reply

Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn't going to help them change. Baby's don't learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.

These people are incapable of making that leap, that's why they're still baby brain idiots

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