• Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    Progressives need better social media managers and to not be above playing dirty.

    Progressives failing is underestimating the number of stupid people and assuming people are sensible. See 4 below.

    These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

    1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

    5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

    While not all conseatives are stupid, stupid people are nearly always conservative.

    "I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . - John Stuart Mill