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  • actually doing things to get people to vote for them*, which leads me to assume they have very concrete plans to get around that “problem”.

    Not at all, why do you think people voted for them the first time; anti-gay, racism, xenophobia, anti-trans, anti china, anti abortion etal … none of that had anything to do with helping people, it was to hurt other people.

    As John Stuart Mills points out stupid people are inherinetly.conservative, not the only criteria to be conservative but if you’re stupid (using Cipolla’s definition, 3) they’re probably conservative and we’re back to 1

    You’re doing 1 and 4 and they’re 3 and 5 and will keep doibg that… why ? because they’re stupid.


    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.