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I would never dream of telling you not to pursue marital happiness.

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Some people just REALLY want to get out of Detroit.

I suggest letting the wookie get all the stars

FAIL! I could follow your writing.

I keep thinking back to my high school English teacher. If I had turned that in as a sentence in an essay, he would have handed it back to me and said “You like to show off? How about you diagram this sentence for the class.”

I have a vague notion but got lost in the mythopoetic stew of shitty writing.

I couldnt read anything in the post because I could not get by: Read more

The director of “Rogue One,” Gareth Edwards, has stepped into a mythopoetic stew so half-baked and overcooked, a morass of pre-instantly overanalyzed implications of such shuddering impact to the series’ fundamentalists, that he lumbers through, seemingly stunned or constrained or cautious to the vanishing point of… Read more

“Are you now or have you ever been a believer that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for rapid global warming? Answer the question!”

You probably saw this before, but just in case:

“How has he had any business success at all?” Read more

Absolutely. The smarter someone is, the greater their grasp of the limitations imposed by their own knowledge. In other words - smart people know how dumb they are, whereas dumb people often think they’re smart.

Yeah, Trump is one of the most striking examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect that I’ve ever seen.

He doesn’t just lack intellectual curiosity, he’s fucking lazy and unwilling to do any part of the job that he finds boring. He could literally get someone to read his daily briefings to him in their entirety, but he won’t even do that.

Part of being smart is knowing what you don’t know. He has no intellectual curiousity, none.

It’s a mark of intelligence to recognize what you don’t know and seek counsel and knowledge about it. Only stupid people think they know everything.
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“In contrast, Mike Pence reportedly reads six PDB’s a day, which sounds suspiciously like he reads the rest of them.” Read more

Hey President Dumbshit! Even smart people need to read to actually know things. Being smart doesn’t mean you just magically acquire knowledge. It just means that you’re capable of processing and understanding what you read!