On Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 8:35:26 AM UTC-6 Giulio Prisco wrote:
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). That's called a False Equivalence, which is what Trumpers are skilled at. You can't compare Trump with Kamala without continuing to lie bigly. AG > 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/555201d5-90a3-47b7-ba74-ff5e5f6474e3n%40googlegroups.com.
