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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 146 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 273 points 1 day ago (13 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

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 20 hours ago

What the tractor people? Are they particular experts in magnetism?

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 150 points 1 day ago (13 children)

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

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 113 points 1 day 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 day 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.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 3 points 16 hours ago
[–] dudinax@programming.dev 21 points 1 day 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 15 points 1 day 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.

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[–] SW42@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day 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 22 points 1 day 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 20 points 1 day 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 8 points 23 hours 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 22 hours ago
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day 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 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

Not a native English speaker here. Today I learned, too. Thank you.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day 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 23 hours 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 day ago (3 children)

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

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

His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day 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".

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

Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta

[–] assa123@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

or 6 after ads

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

behold, the shining beacon of freedom and democracy

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day 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 day 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 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago

At this point you can't really tell whether something is satire or a quote from the orange president.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is retarded as well. I once repaired an undersea $10,000 cable for like $600.

Like bitch (orange menace), pay people what they're fucking worth, I was worth 3 times that much, if not more..

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I'm just going to call him removed from now.

[–] SatansDaughter@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] qualia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And just in case anyone thinks that's AI, ABC News vetted it as being true here (in the body, not the video).

I know why voting records can't be public, but I simultaneously wish they had to be too. As an appropriately-colored scarlet letter.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

You think they'll put scarlet letters on the bad guys?

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 9 points 1 day 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!

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 day 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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