Many don't really get to hear him unfiltered. Around T1 I was watching Fox and they at best had a text snippet of something he said. Never extra text around the snippet and certainly not the audio. Still many do go and see him live.

Many are, but many Trump supporters started out smarter than him but they've dumbed themselves down to his level in order to continue their support, I guess.

When I read the comment sections of my local news most of the comments are incoherent rambling like Trump but with more spelling mistakes. Its sad.

i think his supporters are stupider than he is, he has said how dumb republicans are on many occasion, but this almost never clicks with the voters, because these voters are likely never following up with his policies anyways.

The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.

I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.

These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.

Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…

I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

That's knowing how to use it, not how it works.

This seems to be easily said of anyone trying to popularize science philosophy.

That is sort of how the universe operates though. You can have a greater and greater understanding of the underlying principles of physics but eventually you do get to "that just how it is". Why is there no such thing as a negative photon, apparently we just can't have a negative excitation in the photon field, no one knows why.

I'd expect nothing less from a scientist. Decrying pedantry from a scientist would be like decrying financial accuracy from an accountant.

No he's at stage 0. He has no knowledge but he doesn't investigate he just makes things up and then says that.

We're talking about the person who thought that stealth planes were physically invisible.

you forgot about the parallel imaginary number line (√-1), i think that is where the president lives.

Wish he was at stage 4...

You meant stage 2? "some knowledge and feel like you have understanding."

Another phlogiston denier in an ivory tower. Tell me then, how does fire work?