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when ur higher than sagan (mander.xyz)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah know over the years I have gone from let the idiots be idiots when it comes to folks who believe pseudoscience, but I am now of the general opinion that it should be perfectly acceptable to throw them in front of a train.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah know over the years I have gone from let the idiots be idiots

    The problem is they take over the world, they end up in the positions of power etc. How to contain that, short of derision I'm not sure and even derision often doesnt work, some wear their stupidity as a badge of achievement!

    It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” - Franz Kafka

    The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Absolutely also doesn't help that they can now communicate over the internet, which means every person who has the potential to be the village idiot almost inevitably becomes one.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    To add to your point, it used to be that the village idiot was just that, known for it, and shamed or shunned. Now that they can connect to other village idiots, they can find a community of like minded idiots that reinforces their beliefs.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They should be fine anyhow if homeopathy really works. They just need to take a little train material, serially dilute it to 10⁻²⁰ strength, then take it with sugar pills. Train immunity!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Are you telling me that I should have diluted some bullet material, instead of trying to start by shooting myself with a small caliber and work up my immunity from that? All this work, wasted!

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