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#americans are fucking stupid

they treat #voting as a joke

americans are removed from the consequences of living under #autocracy and #fascism, unlike other places that understand the stakes

#alienated and #entitled on a topic that will *personally* harm them, no need for glorious appeals to #society and #responsibility

they need to learn to fucking #vote

or not vote for their own impoverishment and rights removal under #bigotry and #plutocracy

they will learn

the hard way

fucking morons

I feel like this is one of the most #interesting question I came across in a while.

I am reflecting on it since it strikes so many bells.

Because my #logical #brain is always working in full motion, I am perceived as #intelligent.

Maybe as suggested by the answers in this thread I am the stupid one. I may be intelligent, but it doesnt mean I am better off in life. I mostly feel #frustrated because of feeling #alienated.

When does #intelligence become a #curse? - Quora
quora.com/When-does-intelligen

QuoraWhen does intelligence become a curse?Answer (1 of 296): Intelligence becomes a curse when people fail to understand you. Even worse is when they start misinterpreting you. It becomes very stressful for the person in question. The more you try to explain, the more you're trapped. Finally, it leads you to isolation, and depression and...

🧵 1/8 It often exhausts me: 2 days of work to explain a natural phenomenon to highly intelligent people with a #nature #alienation. In the thread, I reveal my tricks for #biodiversity #activism.
The problem: A family #alienated from nature, the garden is super clean. But one is highly allergic against nearly everything. Knowledge from Google.
The fact: Every evening many #hornets come to their terrace. The fear: We will all die. And "maximum 3 stings are mortal for a man". Google: doom&gloom!

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@freemo

Yes. That would be a good start. My suggestion was though to try seeing things from a larger perspective.

I believe that one of the problems is that too many individuals are #alienated from their immediate local (physical) #community while fulfilling their "communal needs" primarily with strangers over the Internet except for #Work and maybe #Church, which is obviously not enough, and sometimes even adds to further alienation.

I think people should be free (or even encouraged) to form their own local societies with real people they get to know because of things they feel strongly about, and guns seemed like one such catalyst to increase the number of "good guys" and minimize the harm done by "bad guys" with guns.

@thatguyoverthere @mike805 @lmrocha

“We need to start seeing #alienated boffins not as ‘unemotional’ but as people with over-abstracted metaphysical beliefs that interfere with their emotional integration. Similarly, an ‘emotional’ person has lots of beliefs which they are reasoning about a good deal: just on the basis of over-narrow assumptions. It is this false #dichotomy between #rationality and #emotion that, I think, more than anything, is responsible for #moral failures in the history of Western thought.” - Robert Ellis