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#stupidity

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William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Is Trump an economic ignoramus, or just a pathological liar? Both, most likely. It is precisely because his lies promote policies that wreak such havoc that news outlets, Democrats, and anyone who cares about truth must reject the notion that fact-checking no longer matters."</p><p>~ Jennifer Rubin</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LiberationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberationDay</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FactChecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FactChecking</span></a><br>/5</p><p><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/truth-still-matters" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/trut</span><span class="invisible">h-still-matters</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>”I’d like to imagine that Trump will admit that he messed up, cancel the whole thing, and start over. But he won’t, because that would spoil the dominance display. Ignorant irresponsibility is part of the message.”<br>—Paul Krugman, Will Malignant Stupidity Kill the World Economy?<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> ’s <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/dominance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dominance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/irresponsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>irresponsibility</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"To be clear, it's not just journalists asking 'WTF?' Economics professor Justin Wolfers wrote on Bluesky that the 'Incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence.'"</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LiberationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberationDay</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a><br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"But now his nonsensical statements 'are determining policy that will increase the costs of goods for many Americans.'</p><p>So if Trump's policy is built on 'astonishing historical falsehoods' and 'mathematical sleight of hand,' as Zev Shalev wrote in his Narativ newsletter, news outlets need to keep the facts front and center while also covering all of the market fallout."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LiberationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberationDay</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a><br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Daniel Dale's CNN fact-check of the speech found false claims about who pays tariffs; the U.S. trade deficit with Canada; U.S. wealth; Canada's dairy tariffs gas prices; and previous presidents' tariffs on China.</p><p>'The president relied on claims that have been debunked many times before,' the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler wrote overnight."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LiberationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberationDay</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a><br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Business reporters, hedge fund managers, and Wall Street analysts are all looking at President Trump's sweeping tariffs and saying: Make it make sense.</p><p>Trump's tariff chart was 'illogical and absurd,' full of 'factually incorrect' numbers about what other countries charge the U.S., Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities wrote to clients this morning."</p><p>~ Brian Stelter</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LiberationDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiberationDay</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17436850618050849f7bb8bd0/raw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa</span><span class="invisible">ges/17436850618050849f7bb8bd0/raw</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Noting that America created the modern world trading system and this was one of its greatest policy achievements, Paul Krugman says,</p><p>"Yesterday Donald Trump burned it all down."</p><p>Krugman notes the "malignant stupidity" of how it seems the Trump regime arrived at its decision to impose tariffs higher than Smoot-Hawley.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StockMarket</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wil</span><span class="invisible">l-careless-stupidity-kill-the</span></a></p>
Aho<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diaperdon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diaperdon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> had calculated that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> put on extra costs on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> products with 39% of this in average are tariffs 2.59% (while <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> had 2.49% against EU), so what are the 36%, those are VAT which is a tax on all products that are sold in EU, regardless from where the product originally comes from.</p><p>This is another way for the orange thing to make <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americans</span></a> to pay for his scam projects.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/tariffs-trump-news-04-02-25#cm90u58k0000u3b6nptpzli0u" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/business/live-news/tar</span><span class="invisible">iffs-trump-news-04-02-25#cm90u58k0000u3b6nptpzli0u</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tradewar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tradewar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VAT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a></p>
Canvases By Peter<p>Apparently DT has imposed 10% tariffs on the Heard and McDonald Islands and the volcanic territory between Madagascar and Antarctica.. where there are NO human populations.. 😆 🤣 😆 😆 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Idiocy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Idiocy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Merica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Merica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Martinus Hoevenaar<p>A very interesting documentary that shows how austerity fucks up the economy and a country in the end. It's about the UK, but could be about Belgium, too.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/enrichment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enrichment</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWSpdqVaKA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=cOWSpdqVaK</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"[Trump] said he 'couldn’t care less' if automakers raised prices after he announced he would impose 25% tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles. …</p><p>When pressed if he told CEOs not to raise prices, as reported in the The Wall Street Journal, Trump added, 'No, I never said that. I couldn’t care less if they raise prices, because people are going to start buying American-made cars.'”</p><p>~ NBC</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incompetence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cars</span></a><br>/3 </p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr</span><span class="invisible">ump/trump-says-couldnt-care-less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"I don’t want to minimize the cruelty or pain being inflicted by Trump and his cronies, but this week has also revealed a foolishness — a mindless obtuseness — in Trump and this regime that defies belief.</p><p>These people know zilch about governing, which is both laughable and terrifying."</p><p>~ Robert Reich</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incompetence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <br>/2</p><p><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">robertreich.substack.com/p/sun</span><span class="invisible">day-thought</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Stupidity about vaccines is both too damned close and traveling at the speed of light. We're going to have to be faster. ...</p><p>How are we going to escape this stupidity? I don’t know, but you can protect yourself from some of the damage by making sure your vaccinations are up to date. Make sure your friends and family are up to date as well."</p><p>~ Rayne</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/30/reaching-velocity-to-escape-anti-vax-stupidity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">emptywheel.net/2025/03/30/reac</span><span class="invisible">hing-velocity-to-escape-anti-vax-stupidity/</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JFK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a> <br>Heather Cox Richardson Unqualified Activist David Grier to Study Vaccines and Autism<br>3/28/25</p>
CodieneC<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ProPublica</span></a></span> One must wonder how many children &amp; others will have to die before common sense makes a comeback <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diseases</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>When <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DietrichBonhoeffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DietrichBonhoeffer</span></a>, a German Pastor, Theorized How <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stupidity</span></a> Enabled the Rise of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> (1942)</p><p>in History, Politics | March 26th, 2025</p><p>"Two days after Adolf <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by the regime for association with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Even while imprisoned, he kept thinking about the origins of the political mania that had overtaken Germany. The force of central importance to Hitler’s rise was not evil, he concluded, but stupidity.</p><p>"'Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,' Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter to his co-conspirators on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship. 'One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.' When provoked, 'the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.'</p><p>"Fighting stupidity, to Bonhoeffer’s mind, first necessitates understanding it. 'In essence not an intellectual defect but a human one,' stupidity can descend upon practically anyone: 'under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.' And it happens most noticeably when a particular figure or movement seizes the attention of the public. 'Every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity,' he writes. Since such phenomena could hardly arise without blindly obedient masses, it seems that 'the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.'</p><p>"You can see Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity explained in the illustrated Sprouts video above, and you can learn more about the man himself from the documentary Bonhoeffer. Or, better yet, read his collection, Letters and Papers from Prison. Though rooted in his time, culture, and religion, his thought remains relevant wherever humans follow the crowd. 'The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent,' he writes, which held as true in the public squares of wartime Europe as it does on the social-media platforms of today. 'In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him.' Whatever would surprise Bonhoeffer about our time, he would know exactly what we mean when we call stupid people 'tools.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2025/03/when-d</span><span class="invisible">ietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BalladOfTheLittleMan</span></a></p>
Wen<p>An opinion piece. But IMHO (as goodd as this) we all know that Westminster Ministers typically only think of their own advantages - now and in the future. Others who will not benefit them are only of interest if it might effect their votes (and earning potential)</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/28/uk-ministers-need-to-ask-why-they-are-offered-freebies-and-who-loses-out" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/28/uk-ministers-need-to-ask-why-they-are-offered-freebies-and-who-loses-out</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UkPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Westminster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Westminster</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Freebies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freebies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stupidity</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HillaryClinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HillaryClinton</span></a> NYT OpEd<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a> </p><p>It’s not the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrisy</span></a> that bothers me; it’s the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a>. We’re all shocked—shocked!—that Pres Trump &amp; his team don’t actually care about protecting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/classified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classified</span></a> info or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already. What’s much worse is that top <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin ofcls put our troops in jeopardy by sharing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> plans on a commercial messaging app &amp; unwittingly invited a journalist….That’s dangerous. And it’s just dumb.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/trump-hegseth-signal-chat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U4.YDTF.6jDHlFATvf_h&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-hegseth-signal-chat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U4.YDTF.6jDHlFATvf_h&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
AJD<p>When we complain about <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/signalgate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signalgate</span></a> , dream territory annexations, nightmare tariffs, etc.. to the 80 million stupid who elected these clowns, we belong to some alien, unamerican, too intellectual, liberal, woke, culture. The mass of stupid deplorables only laughs and mocks. At the end, our task in life is to figure out what to do with the rabble of 80 million (more or less) who are well willing to quickly turn this place into a rotten sh!thole of a country... <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crisis</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ageofstupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ageofstupidity</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"But scratch the surface of this bluster and it quickly becomes clear that Trump’s ideas about tariffs and their alleged benefits are a combination of confused and baseless."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incompetence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <br>/4</p>
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