Donald Trump

[Vic]

Mixing up the names of Lincoln's sons (Willie and Tad) is not the worst thing he's done. He probably thinks grief is a weakness.

 

[SWP's back]

We're a strange species really. If I go in the Haaland thread and spout bollocks saying he's a one footed tap in merchant etc I'd quite rightly just be laughed at or just ignored. On the other hand, if someone dares to deviate from the hive or spouts bollocks in a politics thread everyone behaves like idiots.

He’s not sprouting bollocks. As usual that thundercunt is simply spouting bollocks.

 

[Elbow beards]

A polecat would be a better option than Trump.

A cat on a pole would be a better opinion.

 

[pudge]

and others making accusations of being a nonce

I'm famous

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

having just watched the Joe Rogan interview, trump is what he is. You may not like him and most don’t, but He has an opinion and can answer a question.

He is literally incapable of answering a fucking question.

 

[threespires]

The Trump campaign says that Harris has no policies and people would rather believe them than check for themselves.


Meanwhile Trump often gets a free pass from the same people because "Trump is what he is". I would say Trump being what he is makes it more important he doesnt win.



Again Harris being held to a different standard here. Trump - immigrants, tariffs, stolen election. Rinse. Repeat.

That previous post just shows how powerful 'cognitive fluency' is. It's easier and more cognitively comforting to swallow a series of well laid out untruths than engage with a more complicated or nuanced truth. It's always been thus but two things have changed in recent years:

- bad actors understand the underlying psychology and even some of the biology behind it much better than before

- technology amplifies the ability to put those messages out a thousand fold whilst whilst at the same time favouring short forms that value simplication and cognitive fluency over truth and obscure the nuance required for meaningful debate.

I work with quite a few people in HE and some of the conversations about the overall cognitive abilities of the current generation of students and more disturbingly the demands for accomodating those limitations are terrifying.

Unless we start arming our kids with better knowledge and skills around the psychology of thinking we're sending them out as babes into a forest full of wolves.

 

[pudge]

Trump is gonna win now.
When it comes down to it he will win because the democrats have a candidate who has no policies, no charisma, nothing at all
Relying completely on the usual celebrities, media friends and Obama

having just watched the Joe Rogan interview, trump is what he is. You may not like him and most don’t, but He has an opinion and can answer a question.

Kamala is just a robot who repeats the same stuff without saying anything.
Whoever has come up with her strategy should be sacked.

Do you wear a helmet every day by any chance?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

That previous post just shows how powerful 'cognitive fluency' is. It's easier and more cognitively comforting to swallow a series of well laid out untruths than engage with a more complicated or nuanced truth. It's always been thus but two things have changed in recent years:

- bad actors understand the underlying psychology and even some of the biology behind it much better than before

- technology amplifies the ability to put those messages out a thousand fold whilst whilst at the same time favouring short forms that value simplication and cognitive fluency over truth and obscure the nuance required for meaningful debate.

I work with quite a few people in HE and some of the conversations about the overall cognitive abilities of the current generation of students and more disturbingly the demands for accomodating those limitations are terrifying.

Unless we start arming our kids with better knowledge and skills around the psychology of thinking we're sending them out as babes into a forest full of wolves.

Absolutely. It's all about education and equipping voters to think for themselves. At present we seem happy to keep the electorate uneducated/uninformed and try to fight the impossible battle of winning popularity contests against populism. We can't censor, legislate or de-platform our way out of educating the masses adequately.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Absolutely. It's all about education and equipping voters to think for themselves. At present we seem happy to keep the electorate uneducated/uninformed and try to fight the impossible battle of winning popularity contests against populism. We can't censor, legislate or de-platform our way out of educating the masses adequately.

14 years of Tory have done that for us over here, unsure of how the US has got to that point.

 

[Phil1]

Anyone who puts personality before policy is a simpleton.
If the personality is Trump you’re a simpleton and a wrong’un.