Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Marjorie Taylor Greene Gifts Us The Dumbest Tweet Of All Time" video.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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I waiting for when she's announced as Trumps running mate for 2024. After all they don't want that traitor Pence back again do they.
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@cezarcatalin1406 But then she and Jared wont be able to scam like they did these last 4 years. Reports have it they made $400 million. Which makes me wonder why the druggie son making about $600K working in Ukraine is even a story?
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Listen to what Prof Mark Blyth has to say on the requirements for office, its something Trump realised and others too often don't apply. This is time stamped to a question on Elizabeth Warren after a lecture about Global Trumpism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s And Isaac Asimov put it this way. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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@Pllayer064 Good point but I'd sort of go further with the second type who are pretentious. I've been having a bit of a rage fight with some on a David Pakman vid about the Fauci emails. I tried to get people to see that there was a discussion that we should have had 12-15 months ago. There was a lot of publicly available information that WAS available about NIH funding of research into COVID viruses in China. It was NEVER discussed because people took sides and started howling at each other. There was a great comment last year (I forget who first said it) but it goes like: "There are the radicals on the left and the radicals on the right who just scream at each other and the rest of us trapped in the middle are simply exhausted." Your right there are these 2 groups and they have trapped themselves (and us) in this raging culture war. On one side there's no brain function and on the other is pretentious brain function. How the fark we get out of this is the real problem?
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@TestMeatDollSteak She's college educated. So unless she really has lost her mind there has to be a reason. Just recently Adam Tooze was in discussion with Mark Blyth (2 people everyone needs to listen to and David should interview BOTH) described the GOP as a "ruthlessly cynical operator." Its sort of the thing everybody hopes isn't true but the world is starting to accept. The GOP will do and say A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G to stay in power. I came across this interview with an ex-KGB guy who said some super interesting stuff way back in 1984. He's totally wrong on a few points like how successful they were and we know Soviet Russia collapsed not America. BUT on the subject of brainwashing and getting people so disconnected they can't reach sensible conclusions he's totally right. The entire Western World missed it hasn't been the Russians or Chinese brainwashing chunks of our populations. Its been people like the GOP, Televangelists and Rupert Murdoch. Just listen to what he says about reaching sensible conclusions -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI Now consider what MTG, Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, Hannity, Lauren Boebert and all the rest are doing. Brian Tyler Cohen did this vid yesterday -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFJPFy7L3E
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@madworldisrael7584 I've been playing Assassins Creed Odyssey and chatted Socrates several times. He's very smart but a little pedantic. On the sensible side to actually listen to someone who was there at the start and who actually considered where it might go is actually pretty smart on your part (kudos there). I did aerospace engineering and my studies of classical Greece are limited to some humanities options. BUT in aerospace we learn about systems engineering, which are techniques where we don't just look at solutions and outcomes we also look at effects and consequences to related other parts of the system. A civil engineer for instance doesn't have to worry about the weight of a bridge he just has to make it strong enough for the loads. But an aerospace engineer who wants to make an airplane stronger has to be concerned about the weight that adds and the power needed to lift that weight which might mean adding more weight for a more powerful engine and that means considering the extra fuel needed which again adds more weight and then you have to consider the size of the wings to lift that weight. Like politics it gets convoluted very quickly. Now you know why it takes years to design, develop and test a Mars rover or probe to look at Pluto.
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
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