seeing many people online "revoking his folk hero status" because he tweeted weird shit and had wacky opinions. idc. he did what none of us have and likely will never do.

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    2 days ago

    I see that most on this site have never had the displeasure of meeting a stem lord in the flesh and that is certainly for the best. Often times, they’re very ideologically confused and reactionary.

    But think about the age in which we are living- information is coming at you in all different directions as at different speeds, so how are we expecting everyone to have the right take on everything 100% of the time? Idk something I think about often

    • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      This is just most Americans. At least 70% of them are politically incoherent. I feel like many people here don’t talk to others in real life about politics at all.

      I am a foreigner who no longer lives in America and even I have somehow racked up more political conversations with your average Americans and understand them better than many from the terminally online left.

      • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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        2 days ago

        That’s by design. Politics are automatically considered “off limits” at work or in most social settings

        America really sucks

    • elpaso [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      I work for an FFRDC (think los alamos). When we talk about science and engineering it is great. When it's other topics. Oof.

      I was in a room full of them and they didn't know the author of the communist manifesto. They went from early gen X to gen Z.

      • propter_hog [any, any]
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        2 days ago

        Yo, same, federal research lab, full of idiots who can't read but somehow also got their masters or phd.

        • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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          2 days ago

          There are reasons why games split Intelligence and Wisdom stats