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You can just ignore it. Nothing changes as a result of being "informed."

by cullumsmith 5mo ago

inigyou 5mo ago
The current high gas prices are the direct results of people not being informed two years ago.
- user68858788 5mo ago
  “People” being informed is quite different from an individual being informed. Presumably you were informed back then, yet here we are still.
- kjkjadksj 5mo ago
  War with Iran was not on anyones bingo card.
  - h26d3r 5mo ago
    No, you're just highly misinformed. I could have told you a decade ago that all of this will play out in a second Trump term. The invasion of Iran was always going to be the culmination of the "War on Terror" and it was clear that Trump aligned himself with that political faction since long ago.
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  - nitwit005 5mo ago
    No one expected the guy who previously almost decided to bomb Iran to bomb Iran? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/21/donald-trump-retaliatory-iran-airstrike-cancelled-10-minutes-before https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/21/donald-trump-r... I don't know what could be stronger evidence than that. People just decided not to pay attention to it.
    - kjkjadksj 5mo ago
      We thought his handlers had a better wrangle on him.
  - inigyou 5mo ago
    Stupid shit should've been on everyone's bingo card. The exact format the stupid shit would take was hard to predict but there was definitely going to be a lot of it.
  - BirAdam 5mo ago
    Nah. People actively voted for a guy who said no war. Then he got the USA into a dumb war. Just like all the rest. Voting has objectively not produced the results that the people have wanted, and this is not new. Voting doesn’t work. Being “informed” changes nothing. The only way the hoi polloi can have any effect whatever is typically through rather violent uprising. This works for maybe a generation, and then it all starts falling apart again.
    - AnimalMuppet 5mo ago
      Well, voting doesn't produce the results you want when you vote for a liar. That doesn't mean that voting never produces the desired result, just that it doesn't in that condition.
      - BirAdam 5mo ago
        Well, politicians are generally liars. Trump, Obama, Biden, Bush, Clinton, Reagan… we can go all the way back to McKinley and I could easily say that the campaign people voted for was not what was delivered. Even more, it was usually the opposite.
    - inigyou 5mo ago
      People actively voted for a known serial liar, idiot, and warmonger who said no war.
- 4lx87 5mo ago
  Are they? I think it could be the opposite, ironically. Trump is in many ways the result of news media directed at voters, which was mostly misinformation and propaganda.

You can just ignore it. Nothing changes as a result of being "informed."

inigyou 5mo ago

The current high gas prices are the direct results of people not being informed two years ago.

user68858788 5mo ago
“People” being informed is quite different from an individual being informed. Presumably you were informed back then, yet here we are still.
kjkjadksj 5mo ago
War with Iran was not on anyones bingo card.
- h26d3r 5mo ago
  No, you're just highly misinformed. I could have told you a decade ago that all of this will play out in a second Trump term. The invasion of Iran was always going to be the culmination of the "War on Terror" and it was clear that Trump aligned himself with that political faction since long ago.
  - deleted 5mo ago
    [deleted]
- nitwit005 5mo ago
  No one expected the guy who previously almost decided to bomb Iran to bomb Iran? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/21/donald-trump-retaliatory-iran-airstrike-cancelled-10-minutes-before https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/21/donald-trump-r... I don't know what could be stronger evidence than that. People just decided not to pay attention to it.
  - kjkjadksj 5mo ago
    We thought his handlers had a better wrangle on him.
- inigyou 5mo ago
  Stupid shit should've been on everyone's bingo card. The exact format the stupid shit would take was hard to predict but there was definitely going to be a lot of it.
- BirAdam 5mo ago
  Nah. People actively voted for a guy who said no war. Then he got the USA into a dumb war. Just like all the rest. Voting has objectively not produced the results that the people have wanted, and this is not new. Voting doesn’t work. Being “informed” changes nothing. The only way the hoi polloi can have any effect whatever is typically through rather violent uprising. This works for maybe a generation, and then it all starts falling apart again.
  - AnimalMuppet 5mo ago
    Well, voting doesn't produce the results you want when you vote for a liar. That doesn't mean that voting never produces the desired result, just that it doesn't in that condition.
    - BirAdam 5mo ago
      Well, politicians are generally liars. Trump, Obama, Biden, Bush, Clinton, Reagan… we can go all the way back to McKinley and I could easily say that the campaign people voted for was not what was delivered. Even more, it was usually the opposite.
  - inigyou 5mo ago
    People actively voted for a known serial liar, idiot, and warmonger who said no war.
4lx87 5mo ago
Are they? I think it could be the opposite, ironically. Trump is in many ways the result of news media directed at voters, which was mostly misinformation and propaganda.