President Trump

If allowed he will piss this election . Crazy situation that he is actually in the race but the problem is Joe Biden is so indecisive and is losing his marbles that the democrats are looking like a joke .
 
Paul1970 said:
If allowed he will piss this election . Crazy situation that he is actually in the race but the problem is Joe Biden is so indecisive and is losing his marbles that the democrats are looking like a joke .
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Bonkers.
 
Delboy352 said:
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It has to be a symptom of lead poisoning or something. This isn’t standard human behaviour. These people are not normal.

I believe we should show this to kids in schools as a cautionary lesson on the dangers of not thinking critically. Critical thinking is probably the most important skill one can learn and so many never have any formal education in it because those skills aren’t generally taught until you get to university level. Which is why some conservatives associate universities with brainwashing - because ironically, that’s usually people’s first engagement with challenging ideas until the best ones win. The conservative position doesn’t always correlate well with the best ideas.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
It has to be a symptom of lead poisoning or something. This isn’t standard human behaviour. These people are not normal.

I believe we should show this to kids in schools as a cautionary lesson on the dangers of not thinking critically. Critical thinking is probably the most important skill one can learn and so many never have any formal education in it because those skills aren’t generally taught until you get to university level. Which is why some conservatives associate universities with brainwashing - because ironically, that’s usually people’s first engagement with challenging ideas until the best ones win. The conservative position doesn’t always correlate well with the best ideas.
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But they do have critical thinking. They had reasonable counterarguments to defend Trump (flat foot, my father had affairs), they are just choosing to be hypocrites because Trump upholds their obnoxious world views and is their "team". Same as the agenda-ists or almost all blues complaining about reasonable decisions made in favour of the rags.

I'd be interested in the outtakes from the people who rumbled them. But generally with these vox pop type questionnaires, the people that are most interesting are those who say outlandish and even outrageous things.

It's probably not normal to speak to journalists and say something that might land you in hot water or attract extra attention for no obvious benefit.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
But they do have critical thinking. They had reasonable counterarguments to defend Trump (flat foot, my father had affairs), they are just choosing to be hypocrites because Trump upholds their obnoxious world views and is their "team".
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I think ‘reasonable’ is stretching it. ‘Barely arguable’ might (very generously) just about cover it.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I think ‘reasonable’ is stretching it. ‘Barely arguable’ might (very generously) just about cover it.
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In the context of if you ignore what they'd previously said about Biden without hesitation or consideration. Obviously it's not reasonable to hold two opposing views for the same situation because it's "your team".

The flatfooted soldiers are burden to other soldiers is a reasonable lay person view.

The detail of the (alleged) fabrication of Trump's medical issues wasn't delved into so it wouldn't be unreasonable to take the claims of an ailment at face value.

These people do possess critical thinking, they just choose not to exercise it.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
In the context of if you ignore what they'd previously said about Biden without hesitation or consideration. Obviously it's not reasonable to hold two opposing views for the same situation because it's "your team".

The flatfooted soldiers are burden to other soldiers is a reasonable lay person view.

The detail of the (alleged) fabrication of Trump's medical issues wasn't delved into so it wouldn't be unreasonable to take the claims of an ailment at face value.

These people do possess critical thinking, they just choose not to exercise it.
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The first two paragraphs are fair comment, but I fail to see the practical distinction between possessing critical thinking skills and not exercising them and not possessing them at all, unless you are willing to do something about the former - and the continued rise of social media means the former is increasingly prevalent.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
But they do have critical thinking. They had reasonable counterarguments to defend Trump (flat foot, my father had affairs), they are just choosing to be hypocrites because Trump upholds their obnoxious world views and is their "team". Same as the agenda-ists or almost all blues complaining about reasonable decisions made in favour of the rags.

I'd be interested in the outtakes from the people who rumbled them. But generally with these vox pop type questionnaires, the people that are most interesting are those who say outlandish and even outrageous things.

It's probably not normal to speak to journalists and say something that might land you in hot water or attract extra attention for no obvious benefit.
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Agree on the selective vox pops, it’s usually 2-3 people from an entire day’s filming. Plus you’re probably right insofar as saying they possess the ability to think critically but choose not to exercise it in specific ways.

That said, I think that if you were to teach critical thinking at an earlier age then it might reduce (but not completely eliminate, as history shows) the number of people who fall into these patterns of cult-like behaviour in the first place.

At some point in the past these people made a decision in their brain to ignore the cognitive dissonance and obvious hypocrisy, I can imagine that with the right mental equipment they could have had a chance to avert solidifying that process.
 
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