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1000 Years Of Tyranny & Now London's About To Break Under Trump​

JayDubya said:

There's a reason I don't post here anymore.

I stopped a long time ago when several of our members showed just how blindly they were loyal to someone simply because that person wore the jersey of their team.

Well, here's the result of that in spades.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer nailed it when he said: "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
There are several people here who this perfectly describes.

If you see yourself reflected here, then it's time to rethink some things. The problem is you're likely way too stupid to see yourself reflected her.

Bonhoeffer wasn't most disturbed by the cruelty of the guards at the concentration camp in which he was imprisoned. He was most disturbed by what he saw in the entirety of Germany. Pastors, doctors, professors, people who had gone to university and were regarded as highly intelligent applauding Hitler.

The question as Bonhoeffer saw it wasn't how evil could exist; it was how good people could come to applaud it.

He said you can fight evil. You can expose it, resist it, lock it away. Evil has a logic, it wants something. And because it wants something you can see it coming.

But against stupidity you have no defense. Because the stupid person, and here's the part almost nobody talks about, isn't someone with low intelligence, it's someone who has given up using their own judgement. Someone who has handed their capacity to think over to a leader, a group, an ideology.

And once that happens you can't reach them with facts. You can't appeal to their reason because it isn't their reason anymore. It's someone else's, borrowed and worn like a uniform.

Bonhoeffer wasn't describing ignorant people. He said explicitly that stupidity shows up most in people who have just gained social power or
who belong to groups with a lot of collective power.

The more powerful your group, the easier it is to stop thinking for yourself because the group hands you an identity, a sense of safety and ready-made answers.

And suddenly thinking for yourself carries a price that it never used to carry. The risk of being cast out by your own people.

Evil acts alone. It has to hide, it has to lie, it has limits.

But the stupid person is an instrument of someone else.

And the worst part is they don't know it. They feel certain. They feel a part of something bigger. They feel like they're on the right side.

It wasn't monsters who tore Germany apart. It was millions of ordinary people who handed over their judgement to a movement and stopped asking questions.

They weren't evil. They were something worse. They were obedient. Obedient without a mind of their own.

Now look around you - people repeating lines with no idea where they came from. People sharing headlines they never read past. People hating strangers they've never met because someone told them they are the enemy. These are people who've stopped thinking for themselves, and they don't even realize it.

That's the real problem. The stupid person never recognizes it in themself. They feel informed. They feel awake. They feel smarter than everyone else. And that's exactly what makes them IMPOSSIBLE to reach.

So, what do you do with that? Bonhoeffer had an answer.

He said stupidity isn't cured with education, it isn't cured with information, it isn't cured with better arguments, because the problem was never that the person didn't know. The problem was that the person decided, consciously or not, that their group's approval mattered more than their own judgment.

And that only breaks from the inside with an act of courage not intelligence.

With the moment someone decides they would rather think alone than think in company, but without thinking at all.

Bonhoeffer wrote all of this knowing he was going to die. He wasn't writing a book. He was writing so that someday someone would understand what had actually happened. And what happened wasn't that a monster seized power. What happened was that millions of people decided thinking for themselves was too uncomfortable to bother with.

So, for those of you on the forum who this is targeted for....

When was the last time you changed your mind regarding something that truly matters?

When was the last time you said something within your own group (this forum perhaps?) that you knew wasn't going to garner applause?

If you don't know the answer maybe the problem isn't that you're stupid, maybe you just stopped thinking and you never noticed.

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Fatrat said:

^^^^ Oh what happy horseshit....^^^

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searcher said:

Republicans turn against Hegseth after election losses

Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit strategy - and no plan for managing the inevitable political fallout.
And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader.

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