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average physics student vs POTUS 47 (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 154 points 4 months ago (63 children)

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

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  • [–] 289 points 4 months ago (52 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

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  • [–] 162 points 4 months ago (37 children)

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

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  • [–] 119 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Many people are just as stupid as him.

    Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (14 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.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (3 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…

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (2 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…

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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”.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months 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. :)

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months 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!

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months 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.

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