Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
No. of Recommendations: 8
Dumb, dumber & dumbest.
A low IQ simpleton who beats his wife and a low IQ simpleton who pretends to wrestle and a low IQ simpleton who pretends to be a successful businessman walk into a convention...
For the first time in my life I am embarrassed to be an American.
We need a better educated populace...
"Overall the Democratic Party has a 13-point advantage (55% vs. 42%) among voters with a bachelor’s degree or more formal education.
Six-in-ten voters who have a postgraduate degree identify with the Democratic Party (61%), while 37% associate with the Republican Party.
The GOP now holds a 6 point advantage over the Democratic Party (51% to 45%) among voters who do not have a bachelor’s degree."
Our freedom depends on it...
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/pa...
No. of Recommendations: 2
"Overall the Democratic Party has a 13-point advantage (55% vs. 42%) among voters with a bachelor’s degree or more formal education.
Six-in-ten voters who have a postgraduate degree identify with the Democratic Party (61%), while 37% associate with the Republican Party.
“I HATE WHEN PEOPLE CONFUSE EDUCATION WITH INTELLIGENCE.
YOU CAN HAVE A DEGREE AND STILL BE AN IDIOT.”
No. of Recommendations: 2
We need a better educated populace...
If wishes were fishes...
Deal with reality. An 81 yo Dem hairsniffing mumbler is insisting on clinging on to visions of another term. He is running against a charismatic and morally ... nimble demagogue who is giving his base and independents what they want.
This is going to be like 2016 when a stuck up princess thought that the rust belt and Middle America owed her their votes. She didn't have to court them.
No. of Recommendations: 6
This is going to be like 2016 when a stuck up princess thought that the rust belt and Middle America owed her their votes. She didn't have to court them.
While that was a huge miscalculation on her part (and an inexcusable blunder by her staff), I'm not sure how that is relevant in 2024. Biden actually joined "middle America" on the picket lines, fairly recently. He's not assuming they owe him their votes.
As to education, the Reps seem determined to destroy it in the country. Apparently they have embraced the Trump ideal of "I love the poorly educated", probably because those folks are more easily fooled. (Education isn't just about regurgitating facts, or minority studies, or whatever...it's about learning critical thinking.)
No. of Recommendations: 2
"Overall the Democratic Party has a 13-point advantage (55% vs. 42%) among voters with a bachelor’s degree or more formal education. - Bansky
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Golly you elitist liberals sure are smart. I, for one, am glad to have you to run my life for me since I might make wrong decisions. Freedom is too important to let it be exercised by the knuckle-dragging proletariat.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Golly you elitist liberals sure are smart. I, for one, am glad to have you to run my life for me since I might make wrong decisions. Freedom is too important to let it be exercised by the knuckle-dragging proletariat.
We are nickel-dragging proletariat too. Last I checked, Musk was not a proletariat, neither was Trump. :) Nothing elitist about watching your country get taken over by narcissistic psychopaths voted in by people who think they won't go on witch hunts. I'm apprehensive that at some point Trump will go nuts, after ceding half of Ukraine to Putin, and ratcheting up inflation interceding with China. Not to mention the internment camps for illegals and the d@mning stories that will come from that.
No. of Recommendations: 8
Freedom is too important to let it be exercised by the knuckle-dragging proletariat.
Actually, if you're an originalist, that's exactly how the Founders set it up. Knuckle-draggers need not apply. Later, it was expanded (even to include women and black people!), but it wasn't until relatively recently that the two conventions weren't tightly controlled by the "elite" from both sides. You would get to vote from whomever that elite selected.
I think the overall point is that education enhances (in general) critical thinking skills. Those skills include knowing what is credible and what is not, and parsing what is and is not said (by media, politicians, etc). Without those skills, you are more easily deceived. Not that highly-educated people can't be deceived. Happens all the time. It's just more difficult. Really has nothing to do with "smarts". There are a lot of smart people who never had the opportunity for higher education, and so didn't receive the kind of training we're discussing.**
And then there is willful ignorance. When presented with data that migrants do not commit an excess of crime compared to the native population (for example), the MAGA-ites ignore it. (Actually, they ignore anything that does not align with their already-made-up minds.) I suppose anyone can fall victim to that, but at this moment in history, it is dominated by the right-wing.
**Mine was hard science, which is another level again. The scientific method demands rigorous critical thinking. But even liberal arts persons will have that as part of their training, even if it isn't explicit. The analyses they engage in are different that hard science, but they are still analyses subject to critique and dissection.
No. of Recommendations: 4
OPG "I think the overall point is that education enhances (in general) critical thinking skills. Those skills include knowing what is credible and what is not...
Without those skills, you are more easily deceived....And then there is willful ignorance. When presented with data that migrants do not commit an excess of crime compared to the native population (for example), the MAGA-ites ignore it. (Actually, they ignore anything that does not align with their already-made-up minds.) I suppose anyone can fall victim to that, but at this moment in history, it is dominated by the right-wing."
Beautifully expressed Sir, Cheers!
If you don't have the ability to think critically, it's unlikely that you can understand the world you live in...
You are like a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest! (Always getting owned.)
No. of Recommendations: 8
"... a charismatic and morally ... nimble demagogue who is giving his base and independents what they want."...
You keep mispeaking on that point...er, mis-writing.
Try this..... - ' a charismatic and morally ... nimble demagogue who dishonestly promises his base and independents what they want.... but with the exception of corrupt judges, generally does not deliver.'
