Arguably the greatest horror movie of all time. Certainly in the top five. One reason is the heroine (Alice) just looks like the girl next door. I could really relate to the film for that reason; she reminded me of the young adults on my street that I was always tagging along with. I saw the film in the 4th grade. It was on TV at around 1 am and I waited for my parents to go to sleep and snuck downstairs to watch.
Sadly, one of the fans of the film became obsessed with the actress who played Alice and started stalking her just as Jason stalked her at the start of the sequel. She was so wierded out by the experience that she didn’t act in another movie for 29 years by which point I doubt anyone would have wanted her because she was no longer young and relevant. Can you imagine, being the heroine of the most influential horror film of the last half-century and then throwing your whole career away and all because some demented fan?
Imagine the career she might have had if that stalker hadn’t ruined it. And it probably wasn’t just her career that it ruined but her relationship with men. Hopefully he went to jail for a long time.
But at least her youth and beauty will forever be preserved in perhaps the greatest horror movie of all time.
And yet she always thanks us fans for getting her through the trauma by showering her with love and support.
Pumpkin Person 
I knew someone whose last name was Voorhees. You can imagine how sick he was of the inevitable jokes.
Have you seen the original F13 Ganzir?
No; is it on Netflix or somewhere I can watch it for free?
It’s usually on TV every F13 on AMC but don’t watch that version because they edit out the gore
Netflix has the 2009 remake. Should I watch that?
very important to watch the original before the remake
You can watch it and almost any other movie on one of the many 123movies sites. Just make sure you have a good af/pop-up blocker
I wonder if that name comes from Borgias.
Surprised you rate this above Black Christmas (1974) or Halloween (1978). Although F13 does have its charms
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Pepe have you read the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto? He blathers about I.Q. for pages
Koreans and Serbs are the only ethnicities not afraid of Blacks
Who read the shooter manifesto? Thoughts on the fact that Rushton and Lynn papers were cited? (The melanocortin Rushton and Templer paper and the racial/ethnic differences in psychopathic personality paper.) He also cites GWAS studies like Lee et al 2018. Quite obviously we need better science communication and these “FAQs” that come with these publications don’t really do anything. We need something better.
Here’s his “conclusion” from the studies he cited. He says that he didn’t get into this “the white race is dying out and we need to do something about it” stuff until he discovered 4chan and Daily Stormer—two trash bins.
“In conclusion from all of this, blacks are pre dispositioned to have weaker brain ability due to genetics. This is important because it leads to the question if blacks should live in a western world built by Whites. The answer to this question is no, they simply are not built to live in the White world. This advanced human civilization that we have today can only be built by Whites, blacks simply hold us down.”
“There is no non-white living on White lands that is innocent.”
“all black people are replacers just by existing in White countries.”
Now, this guy would have done anything to “rationalize” what he did. But the fact of the matter is, he used many studies for his (pre-formed) conclusions from racist propaganda. Hopefully now GWAS practitioners really think about the kind of “value” their low correlation studies give to the world.
The scientific methodologies he cited aren’t directly responsible for the ideological context into which he interpolated them. You might as well argue that the theory of gravity is responsible for militant atheism.
How does that follow? I stated in my first comment that he’d be looking for anything to justify his beliefs, HOWEVER, he used these studies as “JUSTIFICATION” for what he did. The methodologies aren’t directly responsible, sure, but white nationalists latch on to that kind of “scientific” work. As I’ve stated previously, this speaks to how we need to have better science communication and that these “FAQs” don’t really help; we need something more.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.24150
If he’s looking for anything to justify his racist beliefs, no amount of disclaimers will stop him from using studies to that end
My point is that GWAS practitioners should—especially after Saturday’s events—think about what like of “value” such low r2 correlational studies truly bring to the world. And what’s funny is that one of his citations was to the Rushton/Templer melanocortin paper which says RETRACTED on top and he still cited it. Did you read the relevant parts of the manifesto?
did he say anything about breivik? it’s the same thing. terrorism = violence directed at non-state actors by non-state actors for the promotion publicity of political causes. it’s horrible but it works. as alan dershowitz told some tibetans, “if you guys really want the rest of the world to care and support tibet’s independence…blow up a few airliners.”
Yea he did.
“Did/do you have ties to any other partisans/freedom fighters/ethno soldiers?
I support many of those that take a stand against ethnic and cultural genocide. Brenton Tarrant, Patrick Crusius, John Earnest, Robert Bowers,Phillip Manshaus, Luca Traini, Anders Breivik, Dylann Roof, Anton Lundin Pettersson, Darren Osbourne etc. I have never had any connections with other confirmed partisans though.”
He cited Brenton Tarrant as his main inspiration:
” Is there a particular person that radicalized you the most?
Yes and his name is Brenton Harrison Tarrant. Brenton’s livestream started everything you see here. Brenton started my real research into the problems with immigration and foreigners in our White lands, without his livestream I would likely have no idea about the real problems the West is facing.”
“But then after browsing /pol/ one day I saw a short gif of a man walking into a building
and shooting a shotgun through a dark hallway. I didn’t think anything of it, but then I saw it again, and I looked up who this person was. I thought to myself, “Why did this person do it?”
That person was Brenton Tarrant, and after some searches I found the 17 minute
livestream of him attacking the Al-Noor mosque. I eventually found his manifesto and read it, and I found that I mostly agreed with him. Finally I thought to myself, perhaps there is a chance that we can combat this. Maybe there is a chance that we can take control and prevent our genocide. Maybe we can combat the hedonistic, nihilistic, and individualist insanity that has taken control western thought. I then found other fighters, like Patrick Crucius, Anders Breivek, Dylann Roof, and John Earnest. These men fought for me and had the same goals I did. It was there I asked myself:
Why don’t I do something?”
It’s clear that if he never discovered pol 4chan and if he never saw the Tarrant video, per his own words, he never would have been radicalized. Thus, due to what he saw on pol and Daily Stormer (race and IQ “studies”, GWAS, “great replacement “narratives”) then he never would have been radicalized therefore pop 4chan and Daily Stormer are lately responsible. His “reasoning” is right there!
Guilt by (however loose, tenuous) assocation. A favorite tool of tyrants. Get real man.
Did you read the beginning of the manifesto and see how he “reasoned” for his “conclusion”? Lynn is even on record talking about the “replacement” in an AmRen article, too.
“RL: I am very pessimistic about the future of the West. I think there are four problems. First, our populations are declining because we have below replacement fertility in all Western nations. Second, we have dysgenic fertility, i.e. high-IQ women are having fewer children than low-IQ women, with the result that the genetic IQ of our populations is declining.
Third, most Western countries have been experiencing massive immigration of non-Western peoples who will eventually become majorities. In the United States, the European peoples will become a minority around the year 2042 and a declining minority thereafter.”
https://www.amren.com/features/2016/02/interview-with-a-pioneer/
If you read the manifesto, you’d see that he claims that at age 12 he was a communist, and then in 2020 he found pol and saw their race/IQ memes and talking about “the great replacement” of whites by other ethnies/races and that seeing a video of the Christ Church shooter he asked why did he do what he did, read his manifesto and he largely agreed with him. Then he said that he also found Daily Stormer around that same time period. So 4chan and Daily Stormer are partly responsible for this and it then follows that the “information” that was dispensed is also partly responsible for this tragedy.
If you read the manifesto, you’d see that he claims that at age 12 he was a communist
Weren’t we all
lee’s papers have value in that they disprove hereditists.
but a lot of people are too dumb to see this. including steve shoe. and peepee.
2m people and 7% of the variance in IQ explained.
whoop-dee-fucking-doo!
now maybe rr can prove he’s honest by also denying the genetic basis of homosexuality.
Take the square root of the variance explained to get the r.
Then add at least 0.1 because range restriction (mostly elites in the sample).
Then divide by 0.55 because education only correlates 0.55 with IQ.
Then add more because only additive genetic variants and no machine learning used.
They’re going to claim that they need to sequence more and more people for the magic “rare variants” to explain the “missing heritability”—but it was never there! Pretty sure Hsu upped it to 10 million, too. How pathetic.
PP what’s the argument that variants are additive? See eg Belsky and Israel (2014):
“We know this assumption of additive contribution is probably wrong. Epistasis interaction between genetic loci—is important and pervasive. Unfortunately, we know very little about epistatic interactions. Given the specifics of the interactions are unknown, additivity provides a workable default.”
That the heritability is additive is an assumption of GWAS and this has not been demonstrated, and it is outright wrong.
If heritability is mostly NOT additive, that’s good for HBD because it provides an excuse for why more variants have not been found yet.
Of course we can’t be sure that ALL variance is additive. However, even if only a small part of overall variance is additive, optimizing a genotype for all known additive loci effects (which may not be all additive loci effects) would still almost certainly result in an individual of unprecedentedly high I.Q. Why? Because genes shuffle themselves randomly, and the configuration space is super-astronomically large, and chance is unlikely to ever churn out anything like an optimal configuration.
Here’s an analogy you might find to be of practical and mathematical interest. If you flip 10,000 fair coins a trillion times, you’re unlikely to ever get as many as 5,500 heads. Suppose that additive variance explained only 20% of the variance in I.Q., and that we optimized a genotype based on knowing half of those loci (10%), and that half of those loci (5%) were already the optimal variant. That would be the equivalent of 5500 heads. It’s a severely simplified model, but you should see my point.
Imagine how intelligent someone with the optimized genotype – ten thousand heads – would be!
Still, that’s only optimal working from the human gene pool. By granting nature geologic time to reshuffle the deck, or through speculative technologies like modifying embryos with computer-generated DNA sequences, we could go much further. To illustrate my point: Imagine the height difference between an average person and Robert Wadlow. Now imagine the height difference between Robert Wadlow and a hypothetical person with the optimal height genotype. Now think of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). See my point yet?
PP, if h2 isn’t additive, how do those “estimates” not fall apart? Who said it’s mostly not additive and that it’s not additive AT ALL? The point is, GxE interactions, GxG interactions, and all other types of developmental interactions confound the additive effect model.
Ganzir, everything you wrote is based on the assumption that (1) psychological traits are heritable (i don’t see any reason to believe this); (2) that genes cause/influence psychological traits (i don’t see any argument for mental-to-physical reduction); and (3) that genes add up like positive and negative changes (the additivity assumption). That assumption hasn’t been defended, to the best of my knowledge, so the arguments toy made are empty.
h2 by definition is additive. H2 (capital H) includes non-additive variance.
Some estimates of heritability may fall apart if additive effects are not assumed. Others are less sensitive to that assumption
The correlation between identical twins raised apart for example is an estimate of heritability not sensitive to the additive assumption because it includes GxG because MZ twins not only share the same genetic variants, but the same COMBINATION of genetic variants so a strong resemblance between them can record non-additive genetic effects.
GxE can confound both h^2 and H^2
Yea I know that’s it’s “additive” by definition, but I’m talking in biological context, not statistical analyses. And MZs aren’t truly identical. Furthermore, what’s the argument that differences in any trait T can be attributed to variation in G or E which can be added together like “charges” (which is basically what the estimates claim to do)? Genes don’t “act” as independent effects. It’s been noted by Peter Schonemann that heritability of “IQ” at 60 percent far surpasses anything in the animal kingdom. Why is that? The answer is that the vehicle/model used to get the “estimate” is seriously wrong.
At the end of the day, the additivity assumption is false and h2 estimates are highly inflated and since we cannot control environments for humans like we do for cattle, h2 estimates serve no purpose for humans.
And MZs aren’t truly identical.
Close enough. And the less identical they are, the more heritability is UNDERestimated.
Furthermore, what’s the argument that differences in any trait T can be attributed to variation in G or E which can be added together like “charges” (which is basically what the estimates claim to do)? Genes don’t “act” as independent effects.
Of course they do. As I’ve reminded you many times, the Y chromosome increases height, strength, speed, and facial hair in every known environment. Many genetic variants are so independent they have similar effects in people and in mice despite wildly different genetic architecture and environment (FOXP2 gene).
Indeed the whole field of discovering what different genes do is based on the assumption they have independent genetic effects.
Is it always the case? No.
https://pumpkinperson.com/2019/10/20/are-the-tarahumara-an-example-of-reaction-norms/
But it’s the case enough of the time that scientists use mice to figure out how genes function in humans.
It’s been noted by Peter Schonemann that heritability of “IQ” at 60 percent far surpasses anything in the animal kingdom.
False.
The g factor in chimps has a heritability around 0.55
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108509/
Body weight has a heritability of 0.72 in African green monkeys
https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo2017301
“Close enough”
Epigenetic supersimilarity could contribute to MZs phenotypes, see Van Baak et al (2018).
“Y chromosome”
It is a truism that at around 6 weeks after conception the SRY gene is transcribed into the SRY protein, and this transcription up- or down-regulates certain genes. SOX9 is particularly important, since after the SRY protein is transcribed, it up-regulates SOX9 proteins, which then alter the expression of other genes which make up what then become the testes, and this also down-regulates cells that would form ovaries. What I have just described ARE NOT independent genetic effects, and it DOES NOT speak to the additivity assumption.
Also be aware that the claim that G and E and be separated is laughable, there is no privileged level of causation and strong causal parity is true.
Can you elaborate on your comment on the FOXP2 gene?
“But it’s the case enough of the time that scientists use mice to figure out how genes function in humans.”
Are animal models predictive for humans?
Point taken about those “heritabilities”, though I didn’t fully quote Schonemann. Here it is (1997):
“To illustrate this concretely, consider some heritabilities of various measures of farm animals listed in Falconer (1960, p. 167f). For body-weight, they cluster around 30%, as do those for egg and milk production. The estimates for body fat of pigs and length of wool of sheep are somewhat higher, near 50%. However, none of the heritabilities of these variables with tangible economic consequences come close to those routinely reported for mental tests. For example, the heritability of ‘IQ’ (without further specification) stood solidly at 80% for more than a century, until it was recently reduced to 60% (+20%). This still surpasses almost anything found in the animal kingdom.”
On a related heritability note, have you seen Joseph’s most recent paper on the MISTRA showing that the actual, not reported, heritability of WAIS IQ is 0?
https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/521922
Bullshit. If you don’t believe (1) and (2), then you’re ignorant of science, not to mention devoid of common sense. If you’re that deficient in perspicacity, I can’t take point (3) seriously either.
So what’s the argument for each of those claims? Do note that the truth of (1) depends on the truth of (2).
EA4: 3m people and r = 0.4 (out of r = 0.55) explained. Stop lying by omission.
Yes of course. The studies showing average difference in IQ are the problem and caused the violence. It’s not that we are simply intelligent apes living a real world with scarcity and some of us are prone to violence.
Assuming everyone is equal has not created an immense welfare state, intense hatred of groups like whites or jews or Chinese where they are minorities and sometimes even majorities.
Denying differences in human ability which leads to a logical assumption of greed, parasitism, and the creation of an uneven playing field of those who then rise to the top by the others jealous of them never leads to violence.
We have to pick our poison it seems, or just close our ears forever.
so because tarded rr wants to label flushton “hate speech”.
why doesn’t he stop being gay and ax hisself one question: is the one-way immigration to europe and its diaspora’s territories something to be concerned about?
the answer is yes.
but what the concerned should do is still a question.
what this guy did was tarded and evil.
but so was al quaeda’s bullshit.
at least the IRA targeted state actors or auxiliaries = were not technically terrorists.
i was thinking about rr’s satanic gayness…
or maybe he’s brainwashed and doesn’t know it.
whites killed by blacks vs blacks killed by whites?
what’re the numbers?
people vs peoples
individuals people vs people (a society)
there’s a golden mean or an aufhebung.
what’re you talking about mugabe?
an individual human being is nothing without other human beings. even though we’d all like to have “fuck you money”, such money is useless to robinson crusoe. its use is in the labor of other humans, millions of other humans all across the world…
many people are required to make all the cool shit. never one person. large organizations require command and control.
what’re you talking about mugabe?
asians are obedient.
blacks are disobedient.
wypipo are a combination of both.
too much obedience is bad. chomsky talks about this.
too little obedience is also bad.
more obedience = higher IQ…
but only up to a point.
thus all geniuses are not chinapeople.
From 1500 to the mid-20th century, 60-65 million people left Europe, of which less than 9% went to tropical areas (the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa).
and they settled in countries which had people. i know that peepee. but hardly any people when they first settled. so europe had fucked themselves into overcrowded and spilled out into sparsely inhabited places like north america, ANZ, and ZA.
but then the europeans developed “big medicine” and farming techne and gave it to the indigenes…and thus indigenes’ pop has exploded.
porno:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emigration
there was a point in european history where poor people had sexier bodies.
two factors:
1. better nutrition whilst growing = sexier body.
2. hard work with your body = sexier body.
at some point these two crossed.
…
supposedly (made up history) it used to be that a tan was declasse as it meant one had to work (under the sun)…
but then it became a status symbol as one had to afford a vacation to hawaii synecdochally speaking.
reality: a tan is sexy for black people too.
it’s interesting how it’s impossible to tell a wypipo is part south asian below 25%.
“i wish i was a chinaman.”
NOT!
sad.
New paper from Rebecca Sear arguing against the validity of “national IQ” “estimates.”
https://psyarxiv.com/26vfb/
Hey guys, I just wanted to say Im graduating from law school soon and will be working for a semi-large real estate law firm in South Florida come July making close to six figures ($95,000 with a potential 5-10,000 performance bonus). This time 5 years ago I was living with a gay man in North Florida who would have random gang bangs, and I had no furniture or objects to my name except my car, some books about race and IQ and history and LSAT prep, and some other weird stuff, and my guitars. I made barely $50,000 working as a clerk in the local city government. You can be a lonely overweight semi-incel Michael B. Jordan look-a-like who lives with a gay man, and still have a future. I believe in all of y’all. Never get discouraged. Especially that Animekitty guy. Amen
That’s fantastic! You deserve every penny! BRAVO!
Such a good news. Congrats GondwanaMan.
PS : The gay gangbang part in your home made me smile I must confess … I hope it didn’t turn you into hating all gays.
Congratulations. I remember you talking about getting into law school.
affirmative action for sockpuppets is sad.
Congrats, GMan!
What are rents like in South Florida these days? I’d assume 100K goes a lot farther there than it does in a city like LA, let alone NYC or SF.
South Florida is actually pretty expensive now, especially in the last 5 years or so. A lot of major financial and tech corporations have re-located there, and even some Big Law firms have started offices there recently. Not quite LA levels yet, but its getting there (unfortunately). I can’t seem to find a 1 BR/BA under $1500/month anyhwere, even in the worst parts of Miami-Dade/Broward.
Ok Ill do your stupid social intelligence test.
Great news! Provide an email I can send it too (I’ll redact it).
Lets get 1 thing straight puppy. If I do this stupid test you will NEVER ban me again no many how many tantrums you throw or how angry you get. Capiche?
Agreed
as misdreavus noted, gman = peepee.
sad.
Which shows misdreavus’s lack of intelligence, because he’s not.
he showed a picture of “himself”, a black woman without her wig.
sad.
You’re hilarious. Not!
PP, if I made an analogies test, like Paul’s (but less culture-based), would you be interested in checking it out and considering using it? If so, what is the minimum number of questions you’d require for it to not be too vague in its correspondence to IQ?
I’m not looking at any new tests at this time. It’s a full time job processing all the test results and I just don’t have the time right now. But I’m glad Teff’s test inspired you!
No problem! I imagine it’d be fun. I might make it anyway.
Funny GMan mentioned graduating law school yesterday because I actually got my LSAT results back this morning. 176.
Very impressive!
It kinda pisses me off that only 3 sections of the LSAT are scored now, down from 4 a couple years ago. It probably makes scores ~20-30% less reliable.
Plus, putting everything online got rid of the need for test takers to fill out a scantron, which essentially gives everyone an extra 1-2 minutes per section.
If it were up to me, there’d be 2 logic games sections, 1 logical reasoning section, and 1 for reading comp. When you first start studying, your performance on the LGs benefits the most from learning the proper techniques, but once you’ve learned them it’s extremely hard to improve. Practically everyone taking the test knows what to do, so I’d bet LG scores are the most g-loaded.
RC and LR scores are pretty sensitive to the types of passages you get, question mix, etc, so they should count for less than LG.
Or maybe you’d have 2 sections of each type, but you’d average your LR and RC scores and count them both for 25%.
Last LSAT post.
I was surprised to find this, but LSAC publishes detailed interactive data breaking down LSAT scores by race, sex, region, etc. The race/score data pretty much confirms what you’d expect.
Applicants scoring 175+ by group (2022 so far):
Asians: 320 out of 7,424 (4.3%)
Whites (including Jews): 847 out of 35,301 (2.4%)
Hispanics: 83 out of 8,844 (0.9%)
Blacks: 25 out of 8,134 (0.3%)
https://report.lsac.org/VolumeSummary.aspx
100% of those “asians” are south asians.
sad.
today the thought police require that trannies be called by whatever pronoun they ask.
in the near future the thought police will require everyone pretend that a person like peepee who suffers from MPD be treated as many different distinct people.
AI would crush the Similarities subtest.
Are analogies/similarities a verbal subtest?
I remember someone on here referring to the ‘variant du jour’ of the china chest cold, a term which I borrowed for “Coronavirus”. That’s better than the variant toujours
(pepe is a leafman so he probably understands enough frenchie to get the joke)
Hey ganzo-man! I hope you’re well.
Well, if you have a variant every day, then you have always have some variant hehe.
PP, I know that you’re Celindian, but do you live in the USA or are you just very well-informed on US politics, history etc?
Celindian? An Indian incel?
Lol I didn’t even notice that. I meant he comes from the land of Celine Dion. The Empress of Canada.
I was under the impression that the canonical terminology for an Indian incel was currycel. You could also make an argument for ‘celindian’ referring to an Indian from Quebec, Celine Dion’s place of origin.
It looks like the gay community has another plague Monkey Pox. My wife said it’s due to promiscuity in Europe. There are two sorts : 1 in west Africa 1% letal and central Africa 10% letal, but mostly for babies. She said the main problem is for brown people or dark skinned who would get scare in their face from the disease much more than with common pox ….
I hope Philo stays safe
burn
Got a source for those claims?
RR you are a homosexual.
No I’m not. Guys, I’m having a baby.
are you serious?
Yea I am. She’s 12 weeks right now. I’m still shocked.
Congratulations! Does this mean you’re married?
Well your opinions are homosexual and your comments are homosexual.
You’re the homosexual Pill. That’s why you hate them so much. You have feeling towards other men and you hate yourself for it, and thus are lashing out.
RR knowledge from hospital but this could help : already 45 gays contaminated (30 sure, 15 suspected) in one gay sauna in Madrid.
https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-madrid-clausura-sauna-mas-grande-capital-identificada-como-principal-foco-viruela-mono-202205201941_noticia.html
Unban me
Sorry for the late reply; busy celebrating at the cottage.
You will be unbanned when the test (which I just sent you part 1) is completed.
Pepe have you ever considered banning me?
yes
How is he banned if he can post? (PP immediately assumes I have a very small head, after this comment)
Are there any commenters here you haven’t considered banning?
Bruno
Why did you want to ban Ganzir?
https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/contestant-jeffect/colby-burnett-he-represents-all-us
black culture is anti-intellectual. so nascent guys like this have been discouraged. they’ve been called “gay” and “oreo”…all just demonstrating the racism of…blacks!
“there’s nothing sadder than a black nerd.” — charles barkley.
where is the alpha zero of bridge?
1. haven’t tried.
2. tried and failure not made public.
which?
by a german!
sad.
This 8×8 variant of draughts was weakly solved on April 29, 2007, by the team of Jonathan Schaeffer. From the standard starting position, both players can guarantee a draw with perfect play.[5] Checkers is the largest game that has been solved to date, with a search space of 5×1020.[6] The number of calculations involved was 1014, which were done over a period of 18 years. The process involved from 200 desktop computers at its peak down to around 50.[7]
wikipedia says the reason for the chin is unknown and that wypipo and MENAs have bigger chins than any other humans and are thus more evolved.
wikipedia also says that this is sad.
chinapeople cry about their lower level of evolution. like chinapeople, neanderthals had no chin. sad.
I think the strongest evidence of Trump having a high IQ is that his style of deflection has become the standard for the powerful right. Even relative neophytes to the movement, like Elon Musk, have carefully studied and readily employed it. I think my mistake was thinking of him as a business mogul or president, neither of which is truly remarkable at under further investigation. I should have been looking at him as one of the greatest charlatans of all time. A man so great at deception that when when his lies are revealed to his followers, it somehow deepens their faith in him. In that way he truly does defy explanation. Truly remarkable.
It’s only intelligence if he knows what he’s doing. LotB’s theory is he’s Mr. Magoo.
“I should have been looking at him as one of the greatest charlatans of all time. A man so great at deception that when his lies are revealed to his followers, it somehow deepens their faith in him. In that way he truly does defy explanation.”
I wonder if, perhaps, the mindset is akin to that of many of the “defund the police” advocates, wherein there is broad perception that law enforcement has gotten away with criminal behavior for as long as policing has existed; that It is well past time that criminal “underdogs” enjoy their “day in the sun”. Perhaps Trump’s proclivity to deceive is viewed as a mere foible in relative terms, and kudos to him for his capacity to “deceive the truly egregious deceivers”. I suspect that many (if not most) of his supporters believe that his conduct and character are deeply flawed. Some, perhaps, feel they are condemnable. He is, after all, a loathsome bully who, most probably, has breached the law on an occasion or two. Still, they likely reason: There was a move afoot since day-one of his tenure as president – a move perpetrated by an elite of a nature far more pernicious and repugnant than anything Mr. Trump has exhibited – to dispose of him like a couple of hundred pounds of putrid, orange-tinged meat. And so, in response to a perceived attempt at disenfranchisement by their venomous and vile “betters”, they bitterly, stridently, spitefully, and steadfastly hold to a seemingly untenable position. In their view, Donald Trump is vastly the lesser of two evils, the “relatively-good Samaritan”. He is the bullied bully who has become the beneficiary of profound resentment.
Again, OCD is the victor: “…that *it* is well past time…”.
i just graduated myself! also why am i banned? i did so many good things for you Bumpkin Berson!
Puppy needs to bookmark Scott Adams blog and learn psychology.
Adams has autism. He thought Trump was a 4D chess player when in reality he was Bibi’s bitch and suffered the biggest loss in history at the hands of a dementia patient..
some very smart people, like peter navarro and patrick byrne believe he won the election peepee.
They’re lying/delusional
Thanks, Ganzoline!
indeed! as langan may have said:
all religions are stupid but one religion is way less stupid than all the others. and that religion is:
NOT mormonism or scientology.
but one religion is way less stupid than all the others…and that religion is:
NOT buddhism!
but what about the kaihogyo?
this is as close as buddhism gets to ultimate reality.
Mug of Pee is a Christian.
Puppy is even worse, hes an atheist.
No I’m agnostic
Being an atheist is worse than being a Christian? Dear God you’re stupid.
whereas judaism split in two in the first century, islam had no filial relationship to judaism and is obviously made up and gay.
this is sad.
Puppy what are your thoughts on why the police stood outside the classroom while the shooter murdered all those kids? Any theories?
I’m not following the case. I know nothing about it.
said peepee, responding to her own sockpuppet. what a freak!
…around the globe, Muslims have higher fertility rates than Christians on average. Muslim women’s low educational attainment is a likely factor…
No I oppose Islam too.
^^^spoken like a true muslim…like obama^^^
and yes. i know obama is a crypto muslim, because james woods said so.
He is a Muslim. He can deny it, his apologists in the media can refute it, and his enablers can promote a narrative that he is a Christian. It’s a pack of lies. Obama is a Muslim and that is where his allegiance lies. Always has. Always will.
— Woods on Twitter in 2017
The fact that someone with such a self-proclaimed high SAT score could fear Muslims have too much power over U.S. foreign policy shows his utter autism.
^^^again with the autism.
how do you know he isn’t just saying such things for you know who? the people who can get him work or deny it.
wikipedia says oprah is a christian peepee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey#Religious_views
here’s a documentary on autism. notice the people who think trump is a liar or worse a “bullshitter”.
w et al were liars. and people died. trump started no wars.
So why wont you publish my theory on why the cops stood outside if you don’t know anything about the case?
Because those types of comments scare away intelligent readers, even intelligent readers who agree with you.
You run a fuckin HBD blog puppy, nobody who would be offended by that comment would even be on this website in the first place.
I’m so much more than an HBD blog. I attract people from all over the political spectrum.
It’s a textbook case for Hanlon’s razor