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  • ikidd@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    That’s the part that still amazes me, a decade after he was first elected. If you asked someone 15 years ago “Who in popular culture should not be in charge of the most powerful country in the western world?” the answer would have had a high probability of being this piece of shit. What is inherently wrong with a culture that elects this fucking trainwreck TWICE?

            • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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              2 months ago

              And they had the richest tech billionaire, and our most hostile enemy, partner up with the most prolific traitor in American history to rig the election.

        • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          It means they cannot understand ideas, concepts and vocabulary that a 6th grader should according to academic standards. Newspapers are normally written at the 6th grade level (historically anyway) because that was the average reading comprehension 30 years ago. Now it’s of course much worse.

          You might have read huge books in 4th grade, that’s one data point–you-- against huge national data sets and trends. Your lone data point of what you read is called an anecdote. Anecdotes are generally ignored in debate as they are seen as unhelpful distractions at best and deliberately attempts to distract the discussion at worst.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Honest stupidity bordering on developmental issues plus a complete lack of morals and fixed ideology which means anything goes as long as it seems popular (sheep stay with the herd).

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        2 months ago

        This is something important that a lot of people don’t understand. Trump genuinely represents roughly 50% of the US public; they all want to be him.

        • Proud Cascadian@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          I was simply born in Cascadia and I just want Oregon to secede. I know that it seems unlikely but everything that’s happened is unlikely.