Donald Trump and US politics
That meme truly says it all.
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"So what you're saying then is that Trump is a former man of intelligence. At some point in the past he gathered and applied knowledge (that is, was intelligent per your definition of it) to get on top of the business world, but you claim he has since stopped gathering knowledge out of... what, hubris? ... and is now merely applying previously gathered, outdated knowledge. In what way is this unlike saying Yagami Light is dumb and Francis Urquhart is a moron? That's the exact same problem they had. I don't think Obama was unintelligent. Not Bush, who I hated. Nor Clinton, nor Nixon, who both got caught in their own scandals. These were smart but fallible men who were sometimes appallingly wrong on key issues. But you fail to appreciate the gravity of the task of opposing the President of the United States if you are foolish enough to consider any of them to be idiots. The Left underestimates Trump at its own peril. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB on Oct 9, 2017, 2:14:51 AM
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I did not say that Trump is a former intelligent person.
I did not pay attention to him at all and frankly, didn't even know he existed until he started the birther movement against Obama (or at the very least, he was extremely vocal within the movement). He might have been intelligent and lost it with age but quite frankly, I doubt it. His various nonsensical claims he made through the years (such as claiming that the body has a finite amount of energy and exercising will just make you burn it faster) show that the person is, at the very least, shackled to his own beliefs rather than accept evidences that go against his own beliefs. As for his gathering of intelligence, it's hard to say as he was born with a silver spoon and it's hard to tell if he was managed by others or if it was his own doing. That said, with the way he acts, I'd be tempted to say that it was mostly the doing of others as he's someone that seems to be extremely easy to influence if you know how to press the right buttons. That said, this is just speculation on my part and I could be wrong. What I will give him is that he is very ruthless and willing to do anything to achieve his own definition of winning. As for Yagami Light and Francis Urquhart, I can't say anything as I don't know who they are, sorry. Build of the week #9 - Breaking your face with style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EcQDOUN9Y
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I don't think the problem of the left was how the underestimated Trump. It's actually pretty easy to see exactly where he stands. What they DID underestimate is the amount of hatred that's brewing in the US, especially with all the middle east wars and terrorism acts and how it made a great portion of the US grow racist (racist is a word I despise because it's used broadly about almost everything that's actually tied to country of origin/ethnicity). Ironically enough, a lot of that hate was grown by the medias that supported them because everything that related to hating on brown people was getting a lot of attention. Talk about digging your own grave! I'll give it to you anytime that the democrats were extremely disorganized and focused so much on making Trump look like a buffoon (a task he was able and willing to do himself) that they forgot about themselves. Build of the week #9 - Breaking your face with style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EcQDOUN9Y IGN: Poltun Last edited by faerwin on Oct 9, 2017, 2:33:38 AM
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"Both fictional antiheroes and excellent analogies. In the Netflix remake Urquhart becomes Underwood. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB on Oct 9, 2017, 2:58:47 AM
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" I'll disagree with you on the "lying" part. I would agree that his methods, approach and attitude are unorthodox and probably scary to people who mistrust his motives. We will certainly see whether his tactics prove effective. " The "inability to fake those things" almost certainly rules out being a psychopath. They are typically extremely good at that. PoE Origins - Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910
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If only Trump were also a fictional antihero.
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" He's an exception to that rule. |
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" It has nothing to do with gathering knowledge. Perhaps you mean the ability to learn new knowledge, such as someone picking up a new language. The ability to learn is certainly an aspect of it. Learning what isn't important to learn is also an aspect of intelligence, and one of the key stumbling blocks facing AI right now. As an example, if I asked you to walk in a room you had never been in and turn on a light switch, you would probably ignore looking at the objects on the floor to see if they were a light switch. The light switch might be hidden in the carpet, but how often is that going to be the case? Some people hear the changes in pitch and rhythm. Some see the bright lights. Some measure the changes in velocity. Some feel their increasing heart rate. Intelligence is experiencing them all together as a dance. PoE Origins - Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910
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"What's funny about this is that Hillary Clinton is the prototypical psychopath. "We came, we saw, he died, lol." An inability to accept responsibility for negative consequences. And, of course, a politician's suave duplicity. Of course, "psychopath" is one of those frequently abused words these days, like "autistic" and "liberal," such that I interpreted "psychopathic narcissist" as "narcissistic asshole." I didn't expect anyone to discuss it in earnest. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB on Oct 9, 2017, 4:44:02 AM
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