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“The first thing for me was he didn’t release the Epstein files. They’re even acting like they didn’t exist,” he said, before moving on to his other grievances. “And, of course, they’re sending Israel and Ukraine all of our tax dollars just like the numb-nuts before him did. Putting America last, and now he’s blaming the beef farmers for the price of beef.”

Mitchell added, “Hey, I’m not biased, man. He talked a good game; he tricked me. I was fooled. I admit it.”

"Yeah, I do think that Donald Trump is that beast of Revelation 13:3."

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[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If you haven't learned critical thinking, that is the same thing as being dumb.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd argue that's more ignorance, than stupidity; you can't help what you aren't aware of or weren't taught.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That excuse works for children, not grown adults.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, I think it's complicated; there is something to be said about the intentional suppression of education that the right has studiously (ironically) worked on precisely because a less informed population is easier to manipulate, etc.

I don't think it absolves them of fault (I insatiably read every Leopards Ate My Face story as much as the next person; no lie).

I'd, also, contemplate that it's maybe not sufficiently explained by just lack of critical thinking if they're on their third round of voting for him.

I just meant that – if your argument is that they weren't taught critical thinking – it, definitionally, can't be stupidity but ignorance because stupidity is when you knew full-well and better while ignorance is when you don't know something.

(I also think there's an unintentional leaning, on Lemmy, towards a eugenics-sympathetic "well, these people are just constitutionally stupid and that's just the way they are" relatively often (though the current state of the world makes it a bit understandable). I'm not saying OP thinks that but I could see those who're sympathetic to that worldview easily working with the original statement, as worded; and I think we easily don't walk into those sort of pitfalls when we're particular and accurate about our words and definitions (hence, also, why I was pointing out that it can't be stupidity, definitionally))

I'd always thought I was missing something about critical thought because people talk about it like it's anything more than not trusting literally everything you hear and trying to be rational about your responses.

Is that not what everyone does all the time? To various states of success, obviously.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

the entire US public education system was designed around not teaching critical thinking skills, specifically to make compliant factory workers...