On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 4:57 AM Giulio Prisco <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >>> >> Politically Elon Musk is a moron and morally I believe him to be a very >>> >> unpleasant character, but exactly the same thing could be said about >>> >> Isaac Newton. As painful as it is for me to admit it, I've got to give >>> >> the devil his due. >> >> >> > He could well be a very unpleasant character, but perhaps you should >> > reconsider "moron." > > > Nobody is a genius in every area of human activity, I wouldn't go so far as > to call Einstein a political moron but, although his intentions were good, he > certainly wasn't very adept at politics. Leonardo de Vinci was a genius at > art but an overrated dilettante in science. As for likability, Newton and > Gauss were geniuses at physics and mathematics but both were unpleasant > characters, especially Newton. But except for antisemites everybody liked > Einstein, and even people who hated Darwin's theory like the man when they > met him. > >> > Do you ever pause to think that perhaps, just perhaps, those who don't >> > hate Donald Trump like you might have one valid point or two? > > > As for Donald Trump, he has a genius for finding and pushing the buttons > needed to get a mob enraged, but he's a moron in all other forms of human > activity, and that even includes the ability to make money. If Trump had > simply taken the money that his daddy had given him and then invested it in a > stock index mutual fund and sat on his hands for the next 35 years he'd be > much richer than he is now. > > And Giulio, have you ever met or heard of another human being who could spew > out lies at a machine gun rate like Donald Trump does at every speech he > gives? What I find so bizarre is that even Trump's greatest fans know he is > lying but, for reasons I don't pretend to understand, they just don't care. >
Most politicians can lie at that rate, it is a necessary skill for the job. For example, nearly everyone in the other party has repeated and repeated a huge lie for months (not to mention other lies of course). > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > jgc > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "extropolis" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/extropolis/CAJPayv1a%3DFNs%3DbE2xfZ6iWrC4F_tvmH%3DigJ6NmD5y%2BbQ9t223w%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAKTCJyceqAMyzXrv_Fp%3DMqVH8Ajoc2BOP0e4ifEsme%3DyN-mpCg%40mail.gmail.com.
