The people have spoken!

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Sporkotron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Welcome to the Gold Plated United Trumps of Trumpmerica. Feel free to be disrespectful to women and drop N bombs like its the 50s, because apparently everyone is cool with that shit now.

I'm just glad I don't have kids. "Who's that daddy?" "That's the president, honey. He grabs strange women by the pussy and then brags about it. But don't worry, apparently all men talk like that."

To be fair I never seen Trump drop the N bomb or say it's cool.

Hey, maybe, just maybe... The supporters of Trump will be disappointed, and the non-supporters will be pleasantly surprised? Who knows?

[azeth]

If you've ever said or typed "libtard" to insult someone, be assured you have a significantly lower iq than whomever you're referring to

[maskedmelon]

Political discourse of the average mangy ape:

Balding Ape 1, "The ideology I've ceded my intellectual sovereignty to is obviously infallible and I have chosen to forego independent thought in favor of this consummate framework. I am therefore, in addition to being morally superior as virtue of this choice, intellectually superior."

Balding Ape 2, "Nay! Your embrace of false truths is blinding. It is most evident to those who have correctly embraced the opposing ideology as I have done. Your virtue is vice and your intelligence is lunacy! You are at odds with reality on all grounds."

[Sporkotron]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Political discourse of the average mangy ape:

Balding Ape 1, "The ideology I've ceded my intellectual sovereignty to is obviously infallible and I have chosen to forego independent thought in favor of this consummate framework. I am therefore, in addition to being morally superior as virtue of this choice, intellectually superior."

Balding Ape 2, "Nay! Your embrace of false truths is blinding. It is most evident to those who have correctly embraced the opposing ideology as I have done. Your virtue is vice and your intelligence is lunacy! You are at odds with reality on all grounds."

Jeesus, I wish this was reddit so I could downvote the piss out of this.

Mmm... Yes, I do find politics shallow and pedantic.

/r/iamverysmart

[Sporkotron]

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To be fair I never seen Trump drop the N bomb or say it's cool.

Hey, maybe, just maybe... The supporters of Trump will be disappointed, and the non-supporters will be pleasantly surprised? Who knows?

Trump? No.

Trump supporters? All day long baby, that shit is normalized thanks to the cheeto bandito.

Hey maybe, just maaaaaaaybe you can take your brain dead optimism and cram it up your ass? Cool.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Sporkotron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Trump? No.

Trump supporters? All day long baby, that shit is normalized thanks to the cheeto bandito.

Hey maybe, just maaaaaaaybe you can take your brain dead optimism and cram it up your ass? Cool.

You obviously have some kind of anger issues, I can't help you with that. I can however, enlighten you on my stance when it comes to life.

It has nothing to do with pessimism or optimism.

Without going into theories and my opinion on why the world is awful/beautiful, let me share with you my favorite quote of all time.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates

[Sorn]

Originally Posted by Lhancelot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To be fair I never seen Trump drop the N bomb or say it's cool.

Nah, but he does get a lot of support from the white supremacists/neo-nazis/KKK groups. Those groups and anyone who shares their ideology will consider Trump's presence in the White House as implicit validation. They're gonna come out of the woodwork IRL (and evidently RnF trolls now feel safe in airing their trolliness outside RnF and Off Topic - really, guys?), especially once the electoral college has cast their votes officially.

People who voted for Trump might try to justify it by talking about jobs and economy, but that's like the Southerners who play off the slavery bit of the Civil War by saying it was about the ~economy~ and they are only celebrating their heritage when they wave the Confederate flag, ignoring the fact that slavery WAS the economy back then. These issues are intertwined.

In the end, the US is still struggling with a problem it's always struggled with: taking care of the lower and working class population, regardless of race or legal status. (Note: race has been used historically to divide the working class so they can't unite against the upper class. The fact that they just got a billionaire born with a silver spoon in his mouth elected means they are VERY confused at the moment...not that they had much of a choice because of the party system.)

[Raev]

Originally Posted by Azeth

If you've ever said or typed "libtard" to insult someone, be assured you have a significantly lower iq than whomever you're referring to

So? High IQ liberals have been wrong on literally everything that matters: Keynesianism, fatphobia, regime change in the Middle East, the list goes on and on. Meanwhile people living traditionally have been right despite their inability to get a 1600 on the SAT.

[maskedmelon]

There is a fundamental misconception that intelligence and knowledge are the same thing. They're not. Intelligence is innate, it cannot be acquired. Knowledge is free to all who seek it.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is a fundamental misconception that intelligence and knowledge are the same thing. They're not. Intelligence is innate, it cannot be acquired. Knowledge is free to all who seek it.

Too bad they don't make brain pumps to inflate the size of our intelligence.