• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    And you can reasonably claim that cordyceps is dumb as shit. But you can’t argue it isn’t getting what it wants.

    Totally agree.

    If you want to talk about a politician being a dumb-fuck, you have to wonder at what Barry was thinking when he got in bed with both the Wall Street scorpions (who would immediately stab him in the back in the mid-year cycle) and Silicon Valley (which twisted in the wind for another decade before firmly aligning with MAGA).

    I think he had a very common liberal, capitalism-sized blind spot. I’m willing to admit I had the same one at the time. He also was definitely beholden to interests and was 0% of the communist / socialist that everyone continually pretended (and still pretends) he was.

    Trump found some useful propaganda to circulate in order to get people to break his way.

    One of his team of lackeys presented him the annotated photograph and he confused it with reality. He’s oceans worth of stupid and there are countless examples of this.