i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
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There's actually a Republican on FB arguing with a friend of mine that there is a place for slavery. We are so f*cked.
aug 21, 2025, 6:24 pm • 6 0 • view
Thank you! Succinct and to the point.
aug 21, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
An economic system driven by personal profit and federalist government (or not, depending on the that first thing) was always going to get us here.
aug 22, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
aug 21, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Thats why paying interest on money in the bank is asinine when the country is going in to debt so those same people dont have to pay taxes.
aug 22, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
Would it be too far to say that these people are the main reasons why I lost the will to live?
aug 22, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
💯
aug 21, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you think it might be reversed with dumbest writing the columns?
aug 21, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The third dumbest people are still telling me to stop overreacting
aug 21, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Well there you go The goon network Or others say I see nothing & just play along Welcome to SD the salt water taffy tax state who voted for Nixon, Reagan, DT, Name your well kept indoctrinated state w/a lack of liberals not willing to move to rural states to unstick blatantly fresh ignorance
aug 22, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
We are living through the unenlightenment.
aug 22, 2025, 4:35 am • 0 0 • view
Actually all of us are pretty dumb who thought that our nation being immersed in lies was not a problem--who thought that it wouldn't result in dumb con artists controlling the nation. Most media are Right Wing now. More voters get lies for news than truth. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...
aug 22, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks for crystallizing my thoughts so perfectly!
aug 21, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 12:18 am • 5 0 • view
And the third dumbest people alive leading cable news shows where they host roundtables to pretend to hold these people accountable for the shit they say but in reality it's just handing them a mic to reiterate propaganda.
aug 21, 2025, 5:14 pm • 30 1 • view
And the fourth dumbest people alive leading Dipshit Dude Podcasts where they spend half their time talking about fun ways to jerk it and the other half talking about how bad Democrats are for the stability of the global economy.
aug 21, 2025, 5:36 pm • 19 0 • view
Ironically, it’s often the dumbest people who want to be in the position of determining how other people should live their lives. They think, like Trump, that coercion is the same as actually changing minds.
aug 23, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
Take the next step press how out of it they're and call it.
aug 22, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m curious who some of those columnists are. Does that include ones who should know better or just the dumb ones?
aug 22, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm also sick or waiting 4/8 years for the third dumbest people to get their chance to make things 2% better, only to have that all torn down again 4/8 years later.
aug 21, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop Letting Assholes Run Shit. Pass it on.
aug 22, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
And the third dumbest voting for them…
aug 22, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
🎯
aug 22, 2025, 4:25 am • 0 0 • view
The lines The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Have never felt more relevant.
aug 21, 2025, 6:18 pm • 3 1 • view
there are plenty of people with strong morals and stronger convictions, but they arent allowed within 100 miles of wielding any kind of power.
aug 21, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
frankly the big issue is that most people w strong morals in our society have been lulled into a false of security that makes them believe violence & militance is incompatible with an ethical worldview, so they have absolutely no answer to the violence deployed to suppress them
aug 21, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
*false sense
aug 21, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I used to think not being dumb was a blessing; now, I'm not so sure.
aug 22, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
CAN. FCKING. CONFIRM.
aug 21, 2025, 5:11 pm • 5 0 • view
Conservatives collectively decided knowing things makes you dumb and knowing nothing makes you smart
aug 22, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 0 • view
Cf. "The Marching Morons" by Cyril M. Kornbluth www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/...
aug 21, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 0 • view
I am sick of Putin and Trump having a pissing competition while Mothers and babies die all around them and the media just keeps pumping out the same supporting narrative. By the time both of them have been for a piss 6 people will die in Palestine, Ukraine and USA
aug 22, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
Remember, most journalists are unbelievably lazy, semi-educated privileged people who will let nothing stand between them and Happy Hour — not investigative research nor vetting nor looming deadlines.
aug 22, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Well put.
aug 21, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 8:50 pm • 5 0 • view
cant decide if it's the dumbest people in the world deciding everything, & the 2nd dumbest people in the world agreeing w/ them, or if its the 2nd dumbest people deciding, & the 2nd dumbest agreeing
aug 21, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah, if you’re a writer and you’re using your writing platform to defend fascism, i think you know what i’m gonna tell you to do that’s right: venmo me that paycheck, u charlatan
aug 21, 2025, 4:57 pm • 9 1 • view
And the 3rd dumbest group of people alive are the opposition party.
aug 21, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s kind of how a lot of women who work for men feel.
aug 21, 2025, 7:56 pm • 4 0 • view
All intelligent people are currently sidelined in America or being attacked
aug 21, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I keep asking myself "are they really that dumb or are they ALL being blackmailed by someone malevolent?" Odds of that much blackmail seem really low.
aug 22, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Spot-on summary of this moment in history.
aug 21, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you.
aug 21, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
The old tech industry was made up of smart but socially awkward nerds who enjoyed the thrill of solving logical problems, but now it's being driven by megalomaniacal "vibe" brogrammers who attended a boot camp after getting their mail order MBA, and who are only in it for the gold rush.
aug 21, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
ok i guess this resonated with folks. replies too annoying, this thread is getting muted. sorry 2 my mutuals and/or Union Reply Guys if i missed your good bit but i'll see you on another thread
aug 21, 2025, 10:05 pm • 34 0 • view
jokes on you i have no good bits!
aug 21, 2025, 10:24 pm • 7 0 • view
you're (slightly) smarter than this, NYT and WaPo editorial boards!!
aug 21, 2025, 4:31 pm • 83 0 • view
None of them are any smarter than their billionaire owners allow them to be. Some of them actually believe the odious crap they crank out.
aug 22, 2025, 12:54 am • 2 0 • view
NYT politics reporters whose only experience was Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller for a year (questionable hiring even to them!) bsky.app/profile/orig... "Ross Douthat approves of" ex-gay Michael Barbaro bsky.app/profile/orig... Crypto-conservative "centrist" editors grooming their great replacement:
aug 21, 2025, 5:31 pm • 27 2 • view
2006 report & nothing ever done about it, the stage is being set, the propaganda people are moving into position en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_S...
aug 21, 2025, 11:03 pm • 13 0 • view
Not about being smart but about having bad motives IMHO. They want to protect their own privileges
aug 21, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
theyre not unfortunately. a couple years after signing up for twitter it had slowly dawned on me that im smarter than the "serious people" in politics, media, entertainment. harvard graduates, lawyers, people paid to write their opinions: dumb, incurious, reflexively reactionary, even the liberals
aug 21, 2025, 6:51 pm • 8 0 • view
Amen
aug 21, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
The third dumbest people alive emailing the second dumbest people alive and asking "do you have representation"?
aug 21, 2025, 11:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Can be really depressing
aug 22, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
And just like that I wondered if having the dumbest people alive destroying our country was better or worse than the smartest doing the same... idk
aug 22, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
Yep, rich people and their minions suck a lot
aug 22, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Kakistocracy
aug 21, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok, so they do love their MAGA hats right--and yesterday I stumbled across the following. These two things are completely UnReLaTeD.
aug 21, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Praise invisible sky 💩! Remove the Tax Exempt Status of American Churches and fund public education! End the cults of proud ignorance, gullibility, violence, hate, greed, and tRump! BOOM! FIXED.
aug 21, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
DITTO!
aug 22, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
Third dumbest are here misunderstanding our skeets.
aug 22, 2025, 6:05 am • 0 0 • view
I'm pretty sure you have the 2 groups reversed.
aug 21, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Smart people need to get meaner.
aug 21, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Well put!!! 👍👍
aug 22, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
and rewriting history to make it so. slavery was good.
aug 21, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
This should be embroidered on pillows.
aug 21, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Me too. Me too....
aug 21, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
get their asses alexis
aug 22, 2025, 2:42 am • 12 0 • view
Get Their Asses, Alexis was filmed in front of a live studio audience
aug 22, 2025, 2:46 am • 12 0 • view
[APPLAUSE]
aug 22, 2025, 2:48 am • 5 0 • view
and the third dumbest people continuing to support both of those groups financially and otherwise
aug 21, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
is there still room for me to be one of the third dumbest people alive on merit? i promised my family i was gonna be on tv
aug 21, 2025, 4:58 pm • 13 0 • view
there is ALWAYS room for you, Gwen. but maybe we can get you on tv for better reasons (eg, high quality shitposts)
aug 21, 2025, 10:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Most sane Americans are too!
aug 21, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Where's the opposition in this? Third dumbest?
aug 22, 2025, 4:19 am • 0 0 • view
this question pre-assumes that an opposition exists
aug 22, 2025, 5:25 am • 0 0 • view
Same here.
aug 21, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
If you support free speech then you have to read or hear dumb stuff. I don’t feel threatened by them as much as they feel threatened by the likes of others. The amount of hypocrisy and lies are astounding. Both papers employ very good journalists. I started listening to Rush during Clinton. I can’t
aug 22, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
Counter them or defeat them if I don’t know what they are saying. The editorial page and opinion page are just that. I’ve read articles that credible people have called biased. When I read it everything written was factually correct. They reported the news factually, without bias or opinion
aug 22, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
German saying: „Dreistigkeit siegt“ (Brazenness wins) There is nothing to „understand“. You can‘t argue against, the only way to stop it, is to STOP it. „Dummdreist“ Trump (our word that combines both) is worshiped by the only-dumps for having brazenness like he worships Putin for not being dump.
aug 22, 2025, 4:42 am • 0 0 • view
Or, worse yet, how you don’t understand why it’s not bad.
aug 21, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It's why we are here. To call out the bs. Shine light on evil. Light doesn't need a hammer to expose truth.
aug 21, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 12:04 am • 2 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok then did you vote? only 77 k voted for trump. I am just asking DID YOU VOTE?
aug 21, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I think i was 9 the last time it wasn't like that? I turn 37 in a few months. I was also 9 so I'm sure it was probably still like that then too.
aug 22, 2025, 11:13 am • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 9:12 pm • 3 0 • view
And the third dumbest people - most US journalists at legacy papers - whitewashing it all.
aug 22, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 0 • view
I think we need to acknowledge how they've gone beyond ignorance into deliberate harm
aug 21, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Exhausted by arguing with people who insist that white is black and sunshine is darkness. That Dictatorship is FREEDOM.
aug 22, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
…third dumbest’re subscriber base to some of these “outlets”.
aug 21, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
More than half the population has an IQ of only 100 or lower.
aug 21, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
America got duped by the dumbest president ever not once but twice. Make it make sense.
aug 21, 2025, 6:21 pm • 8 0 • view
💯.
aug 21, 2025, 6:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Also a bummer: the people that have been right the entire time still not being interviewed on national platforms.
aug 21, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
and the third dumbest people - who keep losing elections because they keep trying to make concessions to a voter base that'd never vote for them - keep blaming everyone else but themselves for being the toothless compromise party which results in the dumbest people alive winning elections by default
aug 22, 2025, 3:36 am • 2 0 • view
Me and you both.
aug 21, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Hello my beautiful friend Alexis.🫂❤️🩹 Please don’t forget us. Your kindness is our only hope right now. Please quote my pinned post
aug 21, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Gurl! This is my life now and it SUCKS
aug 22, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
But they are the only ones who put themselves forward for election, the smart ones get qualified and get good jobs. So we inevitably end up with utter shitheads in positions of power.
aug 22, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
That also happens in Spain.
aug 22, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Then there are the dumb people who believe there is going to be fair elections or elections at all.
aug 22, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 12:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Release the #TrumpsteinFiles
aug 21, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Having been raised on the myth of "meritocracy," and the belief that being smart and capable would count for something -- meaning a good job with good pay, at least -- watching Trump and Musk at work is like having God punch me in the dick. Intelligence counts for nothing.
aug 21, 2025, 6:10 pm • 8 1 • view
Was just thinking same. 10 years in college, for what?
aug 22, 2025, 2:47 pm • 2 0 • view
When you find yourself subjected to the rants of Trump, Musk and FOX 'news' remind yourself from time to time that before the internet all of this would have been merely the scrawlings on toilet walls in unkept public bathrooms or the floors of padded cells. "They fucking sound insane." Yes.
aug 21, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Somewhere in there are the worst and most evil people live.
aug 22, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
Fuck an A Skippy
aug 21, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree
aug 21, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Meanwhile the richest people alive continue to profit off us all
aug 21, 2025, 6:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Or how our problems are the fault of solely the intelligent ones
aug 22, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 21, 2025, 6:51 pm • 4 0 • view
☝️☝️☝️ This!!
aug 26, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view