For reasons that escape reason, young people began eating Tide detergent pods and posting videos online of them eating the pods. It became a thing. Eating Tide won’t kill you outright, but it was a lot like watching the two cute chicks eating Carolina Reapers.
People do stupid things because they believe that the stupidity somehow lends them an aura of bravery or indifference to consequences.
The two women in the Carolina Reaper video suggests that this is not only untrue, but catastrophically false.
One of the first terrible things I saw online was the video of a young man on top of a three story building with a skateboard. His plan was to jump off the building, land with the skateboard on a rail below, then slide down the rail while the video was being made.
He jumped. He landed perfectly. But instead of going down the rail he went face down into the concrete. His friend behind the camera laughed then stopped. The would be skateboarder was not moving at all.
“Dude?” is the last word you hear from the cameraman before the video ends.
I think he was dead when he hit the concrete.
It’s difficult to believe people do things that are either embarrassing or painful or lethal, and have someone making a public record of it. Yet the internet has tens of thousands of videos like these. Those clips of people using a chainsaw to cut down trees that then fall on houses or cars are legion. Anyone can walk into a hardware store and buy a chainsaw, and they kill and maim more people every year than do rattlesnakes. Most people who drown can swim but they put themselves in positions where their skill comes up lacking.
The video of a man talking his girlfriend into shooting him with a .357 at short range is stunning in its idiocy. He tested a bullet proof vest at one hundred feet and it withstood the bullet. At twenty-five feet it killed him.
All of these example of otherwise functional human beings hurting themselves, maiming themselves, or others, and all of it live and on camera, is a stunning testament to the power of evolution fueled by downright stupidity. The young man launching himself off a three story building to concrete below displays an extraordinary ignorance of basic physics. His friend behind the camera laughs at the sight of a friend lying still after impact. He simply does not comprehend the danger, either. He will go to his grave replaying that day in his mind, over and over.
None of this, not one example I’ve given to you today comes anywhere close to the sheer magnitude of stupidity, or lack of understanding, or outright indifference to the lethality of what has happened when people voted for Trump.
Take Care,
Mike
Trump was elected by people who believed that he was only going to hurt those “other people”. And that was quite alright with them.
Which is the point of the poem, “First They Came.” by Martin Niemöller.
I think Trump voters are the same type of people who believed Hitler was a good idea at the time.
pretty sure they still believe Hitler was a good idea – like… now… they are quite literally trying to create a ‘4th reich’ in the US.
Your TDS is monumental.
The cult is strong in this one.
https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-derangement-syndrome-kamala-maga?hide_intro_popup=true
Stupid Is as Stupid Does…
There will always be stupid people, but as the world population increases there are MORE of them!
Pete, it kinda makes you wonder if it’s smart to have kids.
We are literally in a war with a country that has done us no harm, who poses no threat to us, and we’ve attacked twice now.
We’re burning through our munitions, gas is four bucks a gallon, farmers can’t plant die to fuel costs, our allies are backing away from us, Russia and China are both helping the Iranians, we’re a trillion dollars deeper in debt, and we lifted sanctions on Russia for no good reason at all.
Have you lost your damn mind?
can you even spell what TDS represents?
These fools will forgive him literally anything. He told them who he was from the beginning. Walking into locker rooms at the Teen Miss USA pageant, saying he can grab women where he likes, making fun of people, disabled, people, veterans, calling for people to be thrown out of his rallies and beat up. Jan 6, being friends with a known sex trafficker. All these things and more. They still worship him as some sort of golden calf and yet speak about what good little Christians they are. It has come to the point for me that if I find out some one is a trump supporter, I have no reason to carry on a conversation with them any longer. We have a difference in morality. I would NEVER be ok with someone who rapes children. They are not only ok with it, but still worship him. He has violated the constitution in similar ways. I know Karma is coming, it always does. Tick tock. I hope it shows up before he destroys the entire world.
Chick, Karma comes running. Trump has united the world against us.
Because we have a festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: a sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of the white pointy hooded ones, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar stool drunk, and the greed of hedge-fund ghoul —all spray painted orange and paraded like an prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but always has been—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, ignorance passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it spits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
The information was out there, that there is this someone who is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, known to have a solid friendship with a sex trafficker, says he would’ve dated his daughter, lost multiple businesses via bankruptcies and in the process stiffed hundreds of contractors, driving some of them into bankruptcy via stiffing them or suing them when they try to collect, in the process made out like a bandit in doing so by also stiffing the investors, avoided paying banks millions of dollars in loans and then a voter somehow ignores all this publicly available information, and still say “That’s what I want in a leader. That’s the kind of person I think will represent America the best.”
Or is it more likely the thinking was more on the lines like: “This guy hates minorities like I do. He’s just like me, so he’s got my vote.”
So essentially, your crazy Uncle who barely passed his GED, if at all, put in someone who is just like him rather than selecting someone who is better than him. So the goal was not for a better America, but to have more of a path to be allowed to hate.
CAI that last paragraph nails it.