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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Should've been an ultramarathon

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  • [–] 187 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    The always bragging about having to go take cognitive tests is so fucking funny.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Yes, exactly this. AOC hasn't taken a cognitive test because she doesn't need to. He doesn't realize that every time he brags about passing the cognitive test he reminds us all that he's super fucking old.

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

    I've aced cognitive tests, the ones to see if you're a genius, not to test for dementia. But I don't go around talking about it because I'm not a loser. Bragging about taking dementia tests is wild.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They also probably didn't make you keep taking them as an adult. I got a few of the "hey you're probably neurodivergent let's see how smart you are to better classify you" tests as a kid, but at 30 I haven't had one in a long time because I'm 30 and that would be unnecessary.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Here are some sample questions

    • Recall five unrelated words, such as: "rose, chair, hand, blue, spoon." (You will be asked to repeat them immediately after the test-taker gives them to you, and then again later, toward the end of the test.)
    • Count backwards from 100 by seven. You also may be asked to calculate using currency, such as determining what change you might expect from your $20 bill if you were charged $13.55.
    • How many words can you name in one minute that start with F? (Or you might be asked to name words that fit a category, like fruits.)
    • Identify animals from pictures (such as a zebra or tiger).
    • To test your visual perception, you may be asked to identify objects drawn within a jumble of other objects. Or, you may be asked to draw a picture (such as a cube) based on a drawing shown on the test form.
    • The "clock test"—common in many dementia exams—is part of the MoCA dementia test. The test administrator will ask you to draw the face of a traditional (non-digital) clock, as well as to illustrate a specific time.
    • Your ability to think abstractly may be tested by asking you to determine the relationships between objects—for instance, how trains and boats are similar to each other

    So yeah... we have a president who is bragging about being able to draw a clock and tell you that trains and boats are both methods of transporting people. JFC we are so fucked.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    3-7 seem like anyone can do it, the first depends on the amount of time it takes. I might forget them after a few minutes of thinking of other questions. 100 counting down by 7's should be easy, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't do something like 100, 93, 86, 79, 72, 65, 58, 51... And while feeling anxious question myself if I just said 51 or 61 or something stupid. But that's just test taking nervousness.

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

    It has nothing to do with the answer being wrong, it's how you get there. If you fail to subtract seven, realize your mistake, and correct it you have already passed the test. People with dementia will either start to count down by the wrong amount, start counting up, stuff like that. You are testing whether they can abstract verbal instructions and maintain a consistent train of thought while performing trivial calculations.

    Counting down on your fingers one by one and only saying every seventh number would be considered a perfect score once you make it to about 63 if you don't lose track of what you are doing or start forgetting numbers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Okay so I wanted to try the fruits to see. It says 8-12 fruits gets you 1 point, 13+ gets you an extra point, less than 8, 0 points. (1 minute to name them)

    So I started pretty easy and then started questioning myself:

    Let's say watermelon, orange, tangerine, peach, strawberry, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, blackberry, blueberry, apple, jackfruit, mango, lime, lemon... But I didn't think of lemon/lime immediately, my brain started saying use Tomato and Cucumber as they both hold their seeds internally so they are "fruits".

    I get that they would likely count but when the pressures on, I imagine I could still fuck up something like that haha

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  • [–] 83 points 1 year ago* (27 children)

    When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office

    I’ve got $1,000 on AOC’s test scores over trump’s; especially since he doesn’t know how to capitalize words properly and since she didn’t have a rich father that made huge donations to her college to get her in.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This guy has been calling out everyone else's grades and test scores since at least Obama, while consistently threatening institutions with lawsuits if they release his records. Such stereotypically weak-ass bully behavior.

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

    From the guy that a Wharton professor said was the dumbest motherfucker he ever taught.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    I don't think there's a person on the planet who would take that bet in good faith, except maybe Trump himself.

    He truly believes he's a genius. Everyone else on the planet, including his supporters, knows deep down that he's by far the dumbest person to hold the office.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Smart people know their shortcomings.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    And rich people think they are smart, because of money, instead of luck of the draw with parents giving them money.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Many are smart because they can afford better education.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Being better educated doesn't make them smart. I know some geniuses who had to drop out of high school to work and some real dumbasses with doctorates.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (10 children)

    If you take two equally capable people and give one a better education the better educated one will be generally smarter.

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

    They'll be more knowledgeable and better educated. They won't be smarter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    What do you think smarter means if not more knowledgable and better educated?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Smarts/intelligence is the capacity to learn. An educated person has been taught. A knowledgeable person has learned.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    So you think you are born with a specific capacity for intelligence that cannot be changed to make people have a greater capacity to learn? (Obviously blunt force trauma can make someone less capable).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    There's definitely variance in human intelligence, yes.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    That’s not what I am asking.

    Do you think you are born with a specific capacity for intelligence that cannot he altered in a positive fashion?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes. People have different natural abilities.

    I played the bassoon for over a decade. I had access to truly excellent instructors and a great music program and worked hard at it. And after years of training and work, I was decent. I saw other people with no prior music background pick it up and get better than me in 2-3 months.

    People's brains are wired differently.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    So do you think intelligence is like a stat in an RPG?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm saying that people are varied and that individuals have a maximum potential. Not everybody can lift weights to the point they become the strongest person on the planet, and not everyone can study until they're the most-knowledgeable person on the planet.

    We're not clones. Everyone is born different with different brains and bodies, and it's important to recognize that so we can cater to people's individual needs, learning styles, abilities, and passions.

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  • That’s not the question I asked. It seems like you think you are born with a set unchanging amount of intelligence and my understanding is that simply is not true and that through education you can increase that capacity for knowledge.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My brother and I noted the propensity for some people born into wealth to be attractive as well. Braces when you're 10 and a dermatologist when you're 13 can have massive, lasting impacts decades later. Just a bit more invisible privilege those born to money get.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Historically, rich people have been able to alter what people consider attractive too. There were multiple cultures across the globe that painted their teeth black because being able to eat a lot of imported sugar made your teeth rot.

    Straight up health problems being romanticized just because it was a problem only affecting the rich.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago

    Someone told him that she's also polling better than he is, lol:

    Ocasio-Cortez submitted on Saturday that Trump’s decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites was ground for impeachment, arguing that his “disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.”

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Lol i love aoc, makes the alt right cry like the babies they are

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

    You gotta love the fragility of these people who claim they are emotionally stable, unshakable, epic masculine geniuses.

    Like shit dude if you're so tuff maybe stop melting down over the most tempered criticisms of your policies.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's always been projection with Republicans and the cons. They claim liberals are emotional, and then have fits over things like gay marriage, someone kneeling while a song plays, someone not giving proper deference to "the troops" (meaning, the latest elective war of aggression on a foreign nation), Obama Presidenting while Blah, and so on.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    He really thinks this cognitive test he took is an IQ test or in any way measures intelligence doesn't he? It checks for signs of dementia. It doesn't have anything on it that is complicated, measures knowledge or critical thinking skills. It's basic association, memory, and recognition testing. A neurotypical 6 year old can do it.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    His style of communication makes a lot more sense when you realize he doesn’t give a shit about convincing other people about things. He says it out loud to convince himself.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Unfortunately, he's a clinical narcissist, so he really does genuinely have the ability to completely delude himself over his own superiority regardless of all evidence to the contrary. He genuinely believes he's a genius, an intimidating presence, a great deal maker, a popular person with the general public, that he won all 3 elections, and even that he's seen as a sex symbol. He does not live in objective reality in regards to his own attributes, or much else for that matter. It's all delusion. And that's before the dementia started setting in.

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  • [–] 137 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    Dropping F-bombs to the press, calling AOC stupid, and Schumer a Palestinian this morning. Dude’s gonna be shitposting the whole way to The Hague. Can’t wait for the next two days of NATO summit highlights from this very stable genius.

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    I can't believe that at this point anyone actually believes that the Orange Jackass will ever suffer any actual punishment.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is legit why people started to believe in Hell- to think there is some kind of justice in the world even if there doesn't seem to be any. Before the late BCs, most people in the Mediterranean didn't believe in Hell, at least as a place of eternal torment for the wicked. They believed in an afterlife that was pretty bleak, but everyone went there. The ancient Greeks and certain Jewish sects began to imagine separate portions of the shared afterlife for particularly evil of righteous people to be punished or rewarded in after death. For the Greeks, these were Tartarus and Elysium, and for the Jewish sects these were Gehenna and Paradise. These concepts arose, particularly within Judaism, as a way to answer the question "why do good things happen to bad people, and why do bad things happen to good people?" And the answer was that the good would be rewarded and the evil tormented in the end, even if things look bad in this life. These ideas were floating around in the time and place Christianity arose, and became incorporated into it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is legit why people started to believe in Hell

    This, and monotheism. You can't have an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent deity if there's observable evil in the world unless "it's all part of God's plan," and/or "people reap what they sow"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Does Zoroastrianism not figure into this somewhere? It's generally considered an influence on Judaism that is older than Judaism & ancient Greek tradition. They also have an idea of divine justice in the afterlife with concepts roughly corresponding to heaven, purgatory, hell.

    Neither Zoroastrianism nor Judaism consider "hell" a place of eternal torment, more a place where spirits confront their actions to cleanse & purify themselves before reuniting with the divine.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

    My comment about The Hague is referring to the NATO summit in The Netherlands happening today and tomorrow.

    Otherwise, I expect he’ll fuck off to a non-extradition Middle Eastern country after his presidency. He’s building enough resorts to have several options.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah the Trump family has made a billion dollars every month that he’s been president.

    Maybe he’ll just live on this billion dollar private island his family bought

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/trump-family-kushner-undeveloped-island-mediterranean-sazan-albania

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

    He's an 80 year old man in increasingly poor health. Wherever he goes after his presidency, if he even makes it that long, he won't be able to enjoy his life the way he wants to. I find some small measure of comfort in that thought.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    He is minting his own currency, which he is using as a vehicle to personally raise billions of dollars, while holding an office in the public trust. His life after the Presidency (assuming he relinquishes it on time in the first place) will be far better than the lives of the people his goons have kidnapped.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    That doesn't mean he'll get to do what he wants. He loves playing golf and sexually assaulting women. Soon enough he won't be able to force his body to do either of those things. Of course he'll live better than most but he still can't bully old age and that's a fact that I look forward to watching him confront.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He’s always been able to afford good enough lawyers to delay any proceedings for years, and he can’t have very many left. Given his open grift and straightforward bribes, monetizing the office, I image he’s finally the billionaire he always claimed to be, so he can afford it

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Truth social going public through that shell company made him a billionaire on paper. If he gets to the point where he's allowed to sell, he could become a legit actual billionaire.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Only really stupid people or money launderers would buy that stock because the moment that fat cunt dies (soon, and painful, hopefully) that app will be a ghost town.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    But he also has a personal 747, all that meme coin, huge profit on sneakers, etc

    And don’t forget the superPAC money covering legal and other personal expenses

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  • I mean, that 747 has to have more in maintenance paid than it's worth, legal expenses covered don't increase wealth, and did he really sell that many of those sneakers?

    I think he has been lying about being a billionaire forever, but what I've seen from the (over)valuation of his truth shares it definitely gets him there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    it’s useful to constantly say it… if everyone just shrugs and says “exactly what we thought”, it’s inevitable. stay angry, keep everyone else angry, keep reality that there will be consequences because otherwise the only sure thing is there will be no consequences

    the only people that gain by repeating that it’s unlikely that there will be consequences is the people doing horrible things

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What a disaster it was! AOC should be forced to take the Cognitive Test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center, as part of my Physical,” continued the commander-in-chief. “As the Doctor in charge said, ‘President Trump ACED it,’ meaning, I got every answer right.

    So does acing a cognitive test means you have cognitive decline or not?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As someone who works in psychiatry and frequently administers cognitive tests, his comments are hilarious.

    The hardest question on the ACE-III is getting someone to remember a name and address for about 15-20 minutes whilst you get them to do the other tasks - mostly repeating sentences after you, naming objects, following simple two-step commands and other things which anyone without dementia should be able to do just fine.

    "Aceing" the test is just doing things that pretty much anyone without cognitive impairment should already be able to do.

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

    My favourite part was when he was bragging about remembering ‘person, man, woman, camera, tv’ when those would absolutely not have been the words in the test. The word list will always be unrelated things (like daisy, piano, horse, book, etc), since related words would defeat the purpose.

    He was obviously just naming things in his field of vision at the time. It’s such a weird thing to repeatedly boast and lie about.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a MoCA. Face, velvet, church, daisy, red are the usual 5.

    I wonder if whoever administered the test was overly generous in the marking of it 😂

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Nah, he’s just a liar. He said that at a press conference where literally everything in his view was either a person, man, woman, camera, or tv (well, plus the podium, but that’s a big boy word).

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How many times has he "completely lost it" recently? He's always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.

    Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he "completely loses it".

    If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    It's hyperbolic, as headlines always are.

    Trump "completely loses it" all the time because he seems to have complete undying loyalty from everyone around him. There are no negative consequences for these outbursts.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    That really irks me is we basically have two styles of headlines right now.

    The newer sites like Rawstory, Mediaite, New Republic, Daily Beast, and Meidas Touch all use this bullshit style of headline writing.

    Meanwhile the traditional media sane washes the man and is equally disconnected from reality, but in the other direction.

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