I find the liberal need to flatten all morality into "dumb" or "smart" really disgusting.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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I mostly agree with you, but any time I have to interact with right-wingers I get reminded that they are indeed unfathomably stupid people. Just no thoughts, head empty and running on vibes and racism.
Stupidity is mostly a social condition, not an inherent trait.
oh definitely. I'm not claiming that these people are stupid through inheritance, but instead because they are marinated in the most despicable propaganda
Especially when you let them go on long enough, they let it slip that being "dumb" or "smart" is more of a genetic trait to them than anything else.
It is and white peoples have the worst of it
So true, poor white people have it so hard. 
Notice how liberals never explain WHY he's stupid, just that he is because.....vibes???
Of course the reason they self censor is because half of their elite liberal cohort actually agree with half or more of Trump's fascist policies
He just says it mask off and they don't like that.
Notice how liberals never explain WHY he's stupid, just that he is because.....vibes???
Not real sure why anyone would think they had to? I haven't listened to RFK but even if Trump was smart at one point (and I guess he might've been, but just always brash & vulgar?) he is obviously senile, impulsive and emotionally driven to the point of childishness. Elon is undistilled internet talking out of his ass, believes his own hype and has an even chance of being stoned out of his mind.
Liberals don't actually care about senility, impulsiveness or emotionally driven childishness
Otherwise they wouldn't have supported Biden or a dozen other high ranking democrats who fit that description
No, what liberals care about is signaling compliance with the cultural and political bipartisan elite of the United States; policies don't matter to them, fascism is simply an abstract word and their revulsion to Trump's crassness is only born about because he wields it against other elites as supposed to simply targeting the poors
I don't disagree, but I don't see that it addresses why they don't talk about what makes him stupid.
Because if they ever bring up concrete policies they oppose, they violate the principle of compliance, the American liberal meta is still primarily geared toward bipartisanship and left-punching
Any liberal who articulates a coherent critique is immediately placed under the "troublemaker" and "woke" category, which is a non-starter for mainstream liberalism, in their eyes all critique of Trump has to be unbounded, vague, and preapproved by the institutions these people worship and cannot clash with the military industrial complex in any way
Trump's domestic expression of Nazism gives way to "Russiagate", his racist rants are somehow converted into a generalized "decorum" debate and his foreign Policy is either ignored, praised, or condemned for "not going far enough".....these de-fanged translations are what liberals are referring to when they call him stupid
But even that tepid reformulated nonsense is still too far for many liberals, the short answer is they don't talk about what makes him stupid for the simple reason that it makes politics "real" and brings it outside the cultural mindspace these people inhabit, astonishingly to countless liberals "real politics" reads as "try hard"
Thank you, this is well thought out and worded
Im here to help comrade 
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
I saw that on Bluesky a couple hours ago. "He" nearly always means Trump for libs unless some other rotatable right-wing asshole is a hot topic in the news.
I noticed some of my lib friends refuse to call him Trump and refer to him as "tfg" now as if he is Sauron or something
tfg
It will always be funny to me how lib-brained because it's short for "The Former Guy" and not "That Fucking Guy".
He is Sauron or something.
Trump is their bear.
Emphasis mine.
Etymology
The English word "bear" comes from Old English bera and belongs to a family of names for the bear in Germanic languages, such as Swedish björn, also used as a first name. This form is conventionally said to be related to a Proto-Indo-European word for "brown", so that "bear" would mean "the brown one". However, Ringe notes that while this etymology is semantically plausible, a word meaning "brown" of this form cannot be found in Proto-Indo-European. He suggests instead that "bear" is from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵʰwḗr- ~ *ǵʰwér "wild animal".
This terminology for the animal originated as a taboo avoidance term: proto-Germanic tribes replaced their original word for bear—arkto—with this euphemistic expression out of fear that speaking the animal's true name might cause it to appear. According to author Ralph Keyes, this is the oldest known euphemism.
In Slavic languages the situation is similar, except bear is named "honey-knowing one".
Oh man that is what it stands for? I never bothered to check because fuck that.
Terminal Harry Potter brain.
He's TCG rn
Bit idea: someone who's been in a coma for a decade and thinks they are all referring to Joe Lieberman
Also this is like 6 years old so there are only so many “hes” who this could still be applied to without it being called out faster than I did here.
Also this is like 6 years old
I swear the same guy posted a "He's so stupid" thing today on Bluesky.
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Edit
I checked. I stand corrected. I confused my libs.
It happens
The boy reading this?
it could also be the GIRL with she/him pronouns reading this
No it couldn't because I would never think that girl is stupid
i feel so included rn
If he was aiming this at Elon, it'd be pretty wild to me. I remember watching with confusion and embarassment while he plugged Tesla on Silicon Valley.
He who must not be referred to explicitly.