• paranoid@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The intelligence here is the ability for this person to change their core beliefs after seeing, and accepting, facts.

    It matters less how long it took for them to get here, and more that they are here now

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      3 hours ago

      If it takes a decade to see and accept facts it’s no so much intelligence as an accidental brain neuron firing.

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      5 hours ago

      I don’t think people are so much doubting his intelligence as doubting the sincerity of his about-face?

      Is he against Trump because he’s become enlightened, and wishes to renounce all the bigoted ideals Trump championed?

      Or has Trump’s deranged rampage personally hurt him more than he could tolerate? And now he wants a more placid ride?

      It’s hard to say. And I’m not very willing to let a fascist get away scot-free, even if a few reformed racists have to suffer the social consequences of their actions in the meanwhile. It’s not charitable, sure. But fascism is a disease and you don’t eradicate a disease by being charitable when quarantining.

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      8 hours ago

      I’d say it matters quite a lot that it took them this long to get there. Quite a lot indeed.

      These people should be banned from polite society and be glad that’s all.

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        2 hours ago

        Surely there’s nothing in your life that took you a while to understand? Statements like yours always come off as elitist, and its hard to imagine you’d hold yourself to the same standard.

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          35 minutes ago

          It’s ridiculous to me that you think I wouldn’t hold myself to the standards that I already have. Which is to vote for that piece of shit 0 times. I don’t need some sort of secret playbook or cheat codes to understand that a conman is a conman and will always be a conman. Drain the swamp? Dude is the swamp thing.

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            31 minutes ago

            Well I hope you intend to ban yourself from polite society when you break your own rule then.

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              14 minutes ago

              You sound like somebody who should already be banned from polite society based on the previously described rules. Why should I give a shit what you think? Get the fuck out of here. Destroy your computers, your fridge, your toilet and live in the woods like the animal you are.

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        3 hours ago

        To readers passing by: the opposing views articulated above illustrate two archetypal notions of justice that are both truly ancient and worthy of your consideration.