If a RHT^1 is causing if I find that not only the FYGAT^2 doesn’t always suffice, but the intuitive technique of TOSE^3 tends to be counterproductive. What I do to stop RHTs is instead broadening my field of vision to look at everything at once and simultaneously trying to listen to every sound I can hear at once. Any given thought or information can be somehow integrated into a RHT and feed it, but many informations at once can’t.
If there was a game show like are you smarter than a fifth grader, but instead it is are you smarter than previous President George Bush Jr. and twice impeached previous President Trump is the first contestant would Trump win? So basically who is smarter the 43rd or 45th?
With people in power it’s always hard to say whether a bad thing they do is due to stupidity or ill-intent, tho I tend to favor the second hypothesis.
All of their actions did benefit a group. For Trump, most obviously, himself; but he also advanced the power of the American far-right and probably some companies thanks to lose regulations. For Bush, he clearly aimed to give more power to companies over things formerly done by the state, like hurricane relief or even the military. His vice president Dick Cheney famously profited from the Iraq war through the company Halliburton.
Many of Bush’s policies had a disastrous human cost, but they were very efficient at filling the pockets of a few shareholders. So was he an incompetent buffoon playing into the hands of the capitalists, or was he himself an evil schemer who willingly enriched those he deemed worthy allies at the expense of the rest of the world?
Same question applies to Trump. A narrative people like is that of the out of control puppet. An idiot that the Republican Party tried to use because he was attractive to their target demographic, but who ended up turning against his puppeteers and giving full reign to his folly.
But it’s also possible that he is a smart and evil man who’s particularly talented at playing the role of a madman and who saw it was working.
So basically, I have no definite knowledge of the intelligence of either man.
I don’t find that this adage applies that well in politics. Yeah, I’ll assume whoever almost hit me with his car the other day was stupid/irresponsible/distracted rather than that they were attempting to murder me. Or that someone who gave me wrong directions to somewhere was mistaken rather than deceitful. That is because stupidity can explain these things, but stupidity on its own doesn’t explain becoming president.
Beside, if you assume he was being used by dickcheneys, you’re still assuming malice, just not from the same person.
As for which case his behavior would make most sense in, I won’t try to contradict you since I’m not good at analysing people and don’t enjoy trying.
I just tend to think of Trump+close collaborators as a system and assume the purpose of a system is what it does, and I don’t make too many assumptions of Trump’s exact place in this.
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If her research had applications, it would’ve turned her pure math into applied math, which sounds less cool. But an application in string theory isn’t always considered a “serious” application. String theory was popular in the 80s, as a model to unify quantum physics and relativity, but experiments since then haven’t really confirmed supersymmetry, which is one of it’s key hypothesis. Some still think string theory can be saved and make new versions of it to account for modern discoveries, but they’re very marginal.
Excuse me, real cultured people only play games where the bosse’s hp just stops going down at one point if you’re supposed to lose, and just for spite you keep playing and hitting them as long as you can fully knowing losing is inevitable (See the first fight against Maja’s Dark Spectrobes in “Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals” and the first fight against Nero and Blank in “SolaToRobo”).
When I first started using Facebook, a relative shared something from a conspiracy theory page, and I started reading all of the stuff from the page and it blew my mind (I was around 11 or 12 I think). But then a few conspiracy theories were too obviously wrong even for the child I was. One was a video of the moon being passed over by a cloud. Because the cloud was very thin and the moon was bright, the light shone through nearly unaltered. And the text was claiming that the cloud was passing behind the moon and that this was the evidence that the real moon had been destroyed and a fake one had been built which was much closer to earth (beneath the clouds).
RIP. Il y a eu tellement de fausses annonces de sa mort que j’avais encore un peu d’espoir jusqu’à voir le nom de la source, mais on dirait que c’est pour de vrai cette foi. Mais bon, ce chien aura quand même eu une longue et belle vie !
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If there was a game show like are you smarter than a fifth grader, but instead it is are you smarter than previous President George Bush Jr. and twice impeached previous President Trump is the first contestant would Trump win? So basically who is smarter the 43rd or 45th?
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Given the resources to accomplish it, what wildly impractical project would you finally pursue?
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