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Blackvegetable » 20 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

20 minutes ago

What's your favorite book, Rebel

I’m gonna guess “the pet goat”

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 7:50 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 7:50 pm

Andreas Schleicher, the head of education and skills at the O.E.C.D., told The Financial Times, “Thirty percent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child.” He continued, “It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”

This kind of literacy is the backbone of reasoning ability, the source of the background knowledge you need to make good decisions in a complicated world. As the retired general Jim Mattis and Bing West once wrote, “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.”....

Last year The Atlantic published an essay by Rose Horowitch titled “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.” One professor recalled the lively classroom discussions of books like “Crime and Punishment.” Now the students say they can’t handle that kind of reading load....

What happens when people lose the ability to reason or render good judgments? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump’s tariff policy. I’ve covered a lot of policies over the decades, some of which I supported and some of which I opposed. But I have never seen a policy as stupid as this one. It is based on false assumptions. It rests on no coherent argument in its favor. It relies on no empirical evidence. It has almost no experts on its side — from left, right or center. It is jumble-headedness exemplified. Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking. And of course when the approach led to absolutely predictable mayhem, Trump, lacking any coherent plan, backtracked, flip-flopped, responding impulsively to the pressures of the moment as his team struggled to keep up.

 Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of incuriosity, decades of not cracking a book, decades of being impervious to evidence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opin ... riffs.html

Dave, 

It's like this

 As I've pointed out before, Stupid is a plague...and now we are reaping the harvest of failing to cull our litters.

Is everyone clear on the point?

Your scared little *** waits until I was offline to post an OP. LOL! Veghead, midnight edition. Waits for the lights to go out, then slaps together a thread that’s basically a giant game of “Look, people smarter than me agree with me!” No original thoughts, just a cut-and-paste collage with a self-righteous closer.
 So here’s an actual question—not that I expect an answer, since we’re currently sitting at dodge #67:

If literacy and reasoning are the backbone of good judgment, and if, as you claim, Trump’s policy is pure “jumble-headedness,” then why haven’t you offered a coherent economic counter proposal in your own words—without quoting five other people and pretending that makes up for analysis?

 You keep saying “as I’ve pointed out before,” but when exactly was that? You don’t point things out—you quote them, slap on a smug tagline, and vanish when questioned.
 I’m sure you’ll be back in a few hours with 12 questions for me and another dodge of the one you were asked. Predictable. Legendary. Veghead.
 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 7:50 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 7:50 pm

Andreas Schleicher, the head of education and skills at the O.E.C.D., told The Financial Times, “Thirty percent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child.” He continued, “It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”

This kind of literacy is the backbone of reasoning ability, the source of the background knowledge you need to make good decisions in a complicated world. As the retired general Jim Mattis and Bing West once wrote, “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.”....

Last year The Atlantic published an essay by Rose Horowitch titled “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.” One professor recalled the lively classroom discussions of books like “Crime and Punishment.” Now the students say they can’t handle that kind of reading load....

What happens when people lose the ability to reason or render good judgments? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump’s tariff policy. I’ve covered a lot of policies over the decades, some of which I supported and some of which I opposed. But I have never seen a policy as stupid as this one. It is based on false assumptions. It rests on no coherent argument in its favor. It relies on no empirical evidence. It has almost no experts on its side — from left, right or center. It is jumble-headedness exemplified. Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking. And of course when the approach led to absolutely predictable mayhem, Trump, lacking any coherent plan, backtracked, flip-flopped, responding impulsively to the pressures of the moment as his team struggled to keep up.

 Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of incuriosity, decades of not cracking a book, decades of being impervious to evidence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opin ... riffs.html

Dave, 

It's like this

 As I've pointed out before, Stupid is a plague...and now we are reaping the harvest of failing to cull our litters.

Is everyone clear on the point?

Dam, he. So many things to discuss.  Reading levels, policy, the ability to reason re Trump (after your defense of Biden the last 4 years you have no high ground), etc etc etc.

And you use an opinion piece.

Blackvegetable » Today, 5:47 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 5:47 am

Stupids?

More than 1/3 of our population is Black and Latino.

Nuff said......  

Blackvegetable » Today, 8:09 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 8:09 am

So who voted for the rapist felon?

He wasn't running the SCHOOLS, ****!!

Your DHIMOCRAP UNIONS WERE!!

Sucks you can't seem to fathom that WE are much smarter than you will ever be.

*Huey » 29 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

29 minutes ago

Dam, he. So many things to discuss.  Reading levels, policy, the ability to reason re Trump (after your defense of Biden the last 4 years you have no high ground), etc etc etc.

And you use an opinion piece.

after your defense of Biden the last 4 years you have no high ground)

There's the "tied for 13th v. 2XWorse than Buchanan" thing...

I can find others, I'm sure...

Vegas » Today, 9:34 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 9:34 am

Your scared little *** waits until I was offline to post an OP. LOL! Veghead, midnight edition. Waits for the lights to go out, then slaps together a thread that’s basically a giant game of “Look, people smarter than me agree with me!” No original thoughts, just a cut-and-paste collage with a self-righteous closer.
 So here’s an actual question—not that I expect an answer, since we’re currently sitting at dodge #67:

 You keep saying “as I’ve pointed out before,” but when exactly was that? You don’t point things out—you quote them, slap on a smug tagline, and vanish when questioned.
 I’m sure you’ll be back in a few hours with 12 questions for me and another dodge of the one you were asked. Predictable. Legendary. Veghead.

At 5:50 pm your time?


Sounds highly implausible.
 

Blackvegetable » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

6 minutes ago

There's the "tied for 13th v. 2XWorse than Buchanan" thing...

I can find others, I'm sure...

Oh, you mean one biased egg head poll.  

That’s ok.  Biden insiders are now writing books and it ain’t looking good for all the scuds you made.  

Blackvegetable » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

5 minutes ago

At 5:50 pm your time?

Sounds highly implausible.

You know I am only here in the morning and sporadically thereafter. Shut up. You were scared. You know it. I know it. Keep dodging those questions. 
 

Blackvegetable » 17 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

17 minutes ago

There's the "tied for 13th v. 2XWorse than Buchanan" thing...

I can find others, I'm sure...

What you won't find, you caricaturize into fruition by theory and theology promising life isn't self evident time simply adapting in series parallel positions of ancestral lineages inhabiting space now.

*Beekeeper » 35 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

35 minutes ago

He wasn't running the SCHOOLS, ****!!

Your DHIMOCRAP UNION ILK WERE!!

Sucks you can't seem to fathom that WE are much smarter than you will ever be.

Local elected boards run public schools, papist

*Huey » 23 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

23 minutes ago

Oh, you mean one biased egg head poll.  

That’s ok.  Biden insiders are now writing books and it ain’t looking good for all the scuds you made.

You're dismissing the opinions of those who READ books, Toady...

Blackvegetable » 32 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

32 minutes ago

You're dismissing the opinions of those who READ books, Toady...

Bitch, you would throw a hissy fit if someone on the right used an opinion piece.  You are being told what to think.

*Huey » 17 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

17 minutes ago

Bitch, you would throw a hissy fit if someone on the right used an opinion piece.  You are being told what to think.

Tiny,

The only hissy is yours...

I quote opinions which confirm what I've already told you.

You quote opinions because they are fed to you...10,400 minutes every year..
 

Blackvegetable » 40 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

40 minutes ago

Tiny,

The only hissy is yours...

I quote opinions which confirm what I've already told you.

You quote opinions because they are fed to you...10,400 minutes every year..

I have posted very few, if any, opinion pieces, over the past few years.  I used just other you bitch about them, hypocrite.

You are not a smart person, Bitch.

*Huey » 15 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

15 minutes ago

I have posted very few, if any, opinion pieces, over the past few years.  I used just other you bitch about them, hypocrite.

You are not a smart person, Bitch.

Tiny,

No recall informed narratives, please.
 

*Huey » 20 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

20 minutes ago

I have posted very few, if any, opinion pieces, over the past few years.  I used just other you bitch about them, hypocrite.

You are not a smart person, Bitch.

 I used just other you bitch about them, hypocrite.

 

You are not a smart person, Bitch

 

Blackvegetable » 37 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

37 minutes ago

 

A smart person would have figured out what I was saying.  ;)

Have you figured out what is and isn't a gu, in pieces, Kydex?

*Huey » 52 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

52 minutes ago

A smart person would have figured out what I was saying.  

Have you figured out what is and isn't a gu, in pieces, Kydex?

Have you figured out what is and isn't a gu, in pieces, Kydex?

never change...

Blackvegetable » 3 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

3 minutes ago

never change...

Choke on a ballistic missile. Cock sucker...