Glen writes:
" I posit the tendency to trust Trump will correlate with the tendency to prefer oversimplification. [‡] But the same would apply to any chant you might hear at a liberal march/rally. Anyone who enjoys those stupid chants is enjoying oversimplification." People talk about `playing by the rules' like it is a good thing. But is fulfillment of an old or obsolete social contract (get married, get a soul-destroying job, and make babies) really something to be honored? Some reason to lock-out cheaper or more-skilled workers in their favor? It seems to me little more than fear of failure, and an absence of curiosity. A bunch of people that take pride in their ability to truncate the world into a set of rules that can be conveyed by using a belt or a chant, and while intoxicated. Marcus ________________________________ From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of glen ☣ <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:54:05 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Trump Support I'm inclined to call that articlet "fake news". 8^) YouGov has a good rating with 538 (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/). But I can't help but wonder about the one-sidedness of the articlet. Why only include those 2 (or 7 ... or 8, or whatever it was) questions? Where's the fine-print link to the poll and its analysis? Maybe I missed it. Etc. Regardless, I have 2 reactions: 1) Excellent! The more the flat-earthers flock together and reinforce their batsh!t delusions, the more obvious it becomes to anyone how delusional they are. Maybe they'll even go all "Heaven's Gate" and suffocate themselves from all the methane[†]. 2) It's not so much self-defeating on the R's part as it is our (every one of us) inability to think about complex things. I posit the tendency to trust Trump will correlate with the tendency to prefer oversimplification. [‡] But the same would apply to any chant you might hear at a liberal march/rally. Anyone who enjoys those stupid chants is enjoying oversimplification. [†] https://youtu.be/BPC7e8W8u18 [‡] I feel the same way about "tl;dr" and people who overvalue the disgusting concept of 'pithyness' and/or sayings like "brevity is the soul of wit". No, it's an indicator of ADHD you aphorism-obsessed @#$%. >8^D On 08/03/2017 12:23 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > The Economist sez: > > We asked YouGov, a pollster, to survey 1,500 Americans about Donald Trump > and several national media outlets. When Republicans were asked whether > they trusted Mr Trump more than the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN, > 70% sided with the president each time. Republicans now loathe these > outlets so much that nearly half would be glad to see unconstitutional > means used to silence them, writes our data team > > > https://goo.gl/Xmfqcr > > > I've wanted to know if Trump voters hang onto him after all the harm he's > done to them. Apparently they are like this tweet: > [image: Inline image 1] -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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