• blarth@thelemmy.club
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    11 hours ago

    I’m so extremely puzzled by it. I cannot fathom what it is that’s so alluring about Donald Trump. The guy is a total asswipe.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      He uses hypnosis techniques while projecting vague enough ideas to people who need to hear that it’s all going to be okay. I am one that falls for it, that’s how I researched it to figure it out. That’s why I tell people to speed up his videos to 1.5 for family that have gone maga, it breaks the spell.

    • Kickforce@lemmy.wtf
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      10 hours ago

      The guy talks like he feels strongly about issues but remains absolutely vague, which allows people to subconsciously fill in the blanks, so they hear whatever they want to hear.

      That thing that I’m afraid of, he is going to solve that once and for all, without fussing about saying things are complicated like the democrats would.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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        6 hours ago

        The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

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      10 hours ago

      I am convinced I will go to my grave with this being the most frustrating piece of knowledge missing from my life. It defies logic to the point that I’ve had to adjust my perspective on humanity to account for it.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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        6 hours ago

        Cippola explains it

        These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

        1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

        2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

        3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

        4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

        5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

    • Sundray@lemmus.org
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      11 hours ago

      Does your life suck? Well, it’s somebody’s fault. And Trump is going to make them pay.

    • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      It’s the “I don’t give a fuck” attitude he has. His fan base thinks that leader material. They think compromise and humility are weak. They like that he doesn’t care for people. They believe he cares for them and all his hate spew is towards everyone else but them.