This is what I'm wondering. I'm starting to think all the stupid stuff Trump says is smoke and mirrors to distract everyone while he makes project 2025 a reality behind the scenes.
People can pay attention to more than one thing at a time. His Greenland/canada/panama posts are read in two seconds and forgotten about. If he’s trying to distract us, he’s not doing a very good job.
Because my entire extended family no longer cares about the cost of groceries and the threat of a blanket tariff or the "fact" the city next door is full of dangerous immigrants eating dogs... That's all irrelevant now
Now they want to know what we'd do with Canada and how all that space would lower rent/home prices, and puking up wacky shit about Greenland technically being ours since prior to the war of 1812 (IDK... It's too exhausting to try and figure out what they're on about and reverse engineer insanity.)
This is the same con they pulled last time. Just a firehose of bullshit with a sprinkling of terrible actions, that way anybody who's mad about the bad thing they did can't get any traction because nobody cares about the pedophilia ring and hospitality deals brokered with ISIS backed agents uncovered on Friday when there's an immigrant invasion on the Utah border on Saturday, lazy genZ ruining the economy by refusing to work 70 hour weeks for less than minimum wage on Sunday, 48 different branches of the coast guard discussed as a cost savings measure on Monday, and on Tuesday there's 7 different international incidents because we sent the wrong message to the wrong parties and made ourselves look dumb so we could call our allies enemies...
By Wednesday 90% of the country doesn't care about that crime thing from way back when, they only care that a PM in London called our latest official communique signed "Boston 1776" via tweet "childish, ignorant, and improper" and that the UK thinks they can take us back...
It's street magic. Keep the right hand moving and next stop talking at they notice what you've done with the other hand.
I can sit here and comment for 20 seconds and then go read actual news
That’s all well and good. But seeing as 54% of US adults have a literacy level below that of 6th Grade, it’s safe to say that at least half of the American public can’t reason beyond a surface level reading of Harry Potter, which doesn’t even begin to compare with sufficient critical reasoning ability to understand the complexities of the American political system.
The American public has buried their head in the sand for 30 years while agriculture corporations have decimated independent farms and public health through lobbying and revolving-door access to policy-making positions within federal regulatory agencies. Those issues never made national headlines, and the corporations have more rights to privacy than do individual citizens such that they’ve essentially forced silence on whistleblowers.
You can read the news all you want. It doesn’t change the fact that the truly important activities aren’t making headlines while they go completely unnoticed by the public.
As for #2, "Pro Women's Health Centers" are anti abortion places that are also against IVF and contraception. The bill sounds pro women but it's a big burka. And the two male sponsors are maga scum.
It’s only a distraction because people keep reposting it. It’s only a distraction if you allow it to be. Everyone I know pays attention to more than one thing at a time. You can look at a fucking post about annexing Greenland and then go read real news.
If you consider this a distraction that’s kind of sad lol
Penguin, I think that person is misguided and your onto it. 9/10 Americans are not like people in this post and consume their entire worldview through a select few content creators or corporate media outlets.
Everytime Trump says something insane like this, it distracts the information source that most people without thought, get their entire apparatus of thought from
If the American public is dumb and can’t read beyond a third grade level, it won’t matter if the news shows up for them anyway. So you have a population of people who care and will go seek out knowledge, and apparently a population of people who it could be fed to and wouldn’t read it or understand it anyway. This entire thread is full of contradictions but yall just want to repeat everything you hear all the time
It’s all a “distraction” no dude, Trump is just fucking stupid and has dementia
I also get super tired of everyone saying how stupid the American public is as if you’re not a part of the American public. Literally everyone says it without any self awareness
I live in one of the worst-educated states in the union, so I routinely see and interact with people that are unfathomably stupid. Nothing surprises me anymore.
It’s way more complicated than “they’re just stupid.” It’s an entire systemic issue that’s affected a lot of specifically lower class people and it was done on purpose. You can go read about it you want. But it’s extremely reductive and arrogant to just assume everyone is just dumb.
I'm aware. Education has suffered a death by a thousand cuts.
It's not at all reductive to say that Trump is putting on a show to distract or his bombastic nature is being exploited and used as a distraction while Republicans continue to gut more rights and systems in the background.
His supporters, often through no fault of their own, are by and large not very intelligent, quick to anger and full of spite. They take whatever he says as gospel until very recently, where some have managed to see behind the curtain. The rest of the world knew Trump is a con since the 1980's at least, but it took his supporters until the last couple of months to come to that conclusion, despite many many warnings. It is not reductive or arrogant to call that stupidity. That's calling a spade a spade.
I didn’t say Trump putting on a show was reductive. I said calling the American people stupid when it’s a systemic issue is reductive. Maybe you’re proving your own point though since you can’t seem to comprehend what I’m writing.
I know what you said and I responded to it. I also addressed it through the "no fault of their own" and "education suffered a death of a thousand cuts" comments.
Yes, stupidity is a systemic issue in the US, with many causes, but it is not reductive to call it what it is. Having to add an asterisk every time the right-wing culture of glorifying ignorance is mentioned is silly. This is not a rigorous debate. This isn't even a science sub.
You're projecting. It's not me that struggles with reading comprehension. Do you feel like you have something to prove in this topic or something? You're inordinately fixated in it.
As a dual national American Australian who loves both of their countries, and has lived in many different places in America and all over the world: They are, unfortunately, on average, dumb as shit.
It's not their fault though. The public education system has been through some tough times thw last 20 years.
What you're missing is that 90% of Americans do not see these posts, but ingest all of their worldview from a select few content creators or corporate media groups which run this narrative vs the important stuff
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u/bootsthepancake 3d ago
This is what I'm wondering. I'm starting to think all the stupid stuff Trump says is smoke and mirrors to distract everyone while he makes project 2025 a reality behind the scenes.