[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Let's get to the root causes of the root causes, folks.

Some people are better than other people.

Let's call the better people "smart", and the inferior people "stupid".

Stupid people get hateful when they see smart people going around and doing the things that smart people do.

What do better people do? Smart people create and maintain most of the wealth, smart people win most of the wars, smart people are often better ethically too.

As long as there are nothing but stupid people, nobody is going to notice anybody's stupidity, laziness, impulsiveness, weakness and amorality. Then smart people come along and ruin everything for stupid people.

Different political systems propose ways to deal with the hatred this stirs up in stupid people.

1. Leftism prevents smart people from doing their thing. Leftism punishes people for creating or maintaining wealth, winning wars, and being ethically superior. (Ethically superior? Yes: if your race/culture is the first/only one to ban slavery, the left will accuse you of inventing slavery. Ditto with racism, sexism, bigotry, prudery, genocide, imperialism, fascism, pollution, school shootings and everything else the left claims the West invented.)

2. Fascism/identity politics redirects the hate, reminding stupid people that they also hate other stupid people, which is true because stupid people are so hateful that they have enough hatred for everyone. Plus, stupid people tend to be very easy to hate.

3. Democracy keeps stupid people out of power, by giving power to the smart person who is best at manipulating stupid people. The winners tend to manipulate the stupid people with empty promises, distractions, and low-calorie "lite" versions of leftism and identity politics/fascism. However, no democracy has lasted very long, eventually it always becomes one of the other two systems.

So you can deal with haters by 1. Indulging the hate, 2. redirecting the hate, or 3. Lying to the haters. However, while you can fool stupid people by lying to them, reality can't be fooled.

All of these systems fail because they do not deal with the root problem: the hatred itself, which is spawned when stupid people witness smart people in action.

I propose a fourth political system:

4. Stealth superiority.

In this system, the smart are free to remain smart so long as they stay out of the public attention. Meanwhile the stupid get to take credit for running the world, as long as they don't actually do anything substantial.

Think of how people worship sports heroes, as if playing fetch actually achieves something. Or how rock stars get interviewed about politics as if anyone expects them to know anything. Think of how people still follow the Royal Family. Think Donald Trump, with a deeper deep state to keep him from accidentally bombing "thighland".

Let's take a bunch of charismatic stupid people, give them a bunch of impressive uniforms, get them offices in all the impressive old buildings, get them laboratories with colorful bubbling chemicals, and give them credit every time a peace treaty is signed or a vaccine is invented or an astronaut lands on a planet.

When they have beefs with each other, let them blame each other for all the bad things that happen in the world.

Let our charismatic pseudo-elite have absurd amounts of money and all the showy new toys our secret scientists can invent. Let the stupid masses live vicariously through them.

Let's turn every institution into a constitutional monarchy, only instead of a parliament, you have a smoke-filled backroom filled with shabbily-dressed nerds who everybody assumes must work in accounting or something. All anybody knows is that they take a lot of sick days. And know a lot about private islands.

It would be like Idiocracy, only when something goes wrong, mysterious men in black show up, fix the problem, and then congratulate whoever was officially in charge for saving the day.

Sort of like how US special forces helicopter into a warzone at night, quietly snipe all the bad guys, and then allow the local keystone cops to brag about the epic battle they just won.

Or think of it as Atlas Shrugged only without the genocide-level mass death and the question of whatever happens with the nuclear weapons. Also, more private islands, and less gulches. Like, 100% less gulches.

[Johny Joe Hold]

That's deep, Brother Jeb. It's important we read it several times to understand. I can't thank you enough to bringing to us the insight on how to build a better society.

[handmaiden]

Well, I know that I like to keep my superiority under wraps. People really hate me for being better than them. They especially hate me for knowing the Bible better than them.

Knowing the Bible really brings out the hate. You can see the stupid at work in those who hold up Bibles that they haven't really read.

[Basilissa]

I might be an outlier here, but I actually believe that the evolutionist hypothesis has some merit when it comes to stupid people.

Wait, wait, I know what you're thinking, but hear me out: stupid people do stupid things, and if they manage to kill themselves in the process, that's one stupid person less in the world. Win-win.

So I say, let's allow stupid people to be stupid, and we'll have the last laugh.

Example: the coronavirus debacle. As True Christians™ we know what is the correct (that is, not stupid) behavior when it comes to wearing masks and public gatherings. Stupid people, on the other hand, don't. And if we take a look at the statistics, I know we can find a way to prove that there are more people dying getting strangled with their own masks than people dying because they or their loved ones were not wearing masks. Right?

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Smart people create and maintain most of the wealth, smart people win most of the wars, smart people are often better ethnically too.

Just wondering if that was a typo introduced in transmission? If so, FTFY.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Basilissa

I might be an outlier here, but I actually believe that the evolutionist hypothesis has some merit when it comes to stupid people.

Wait, wait, I know what you're thinking, but hear me out: stupid people do stupid things, and if they manage to kill themselves in the process, that's one stupid person less in the world. Win-win.

So I say, let's allow stupid people to be stupid, and we'll have the last laugh.

Example: the coronavirus debacle. As True Christians™ we know what is the correct (that is, not stupid) behavior when it comes to wearing masks and public gatherings. Stupid people, on the other hand, don't. And if we take a look at the statistics, I know we can find a way to prove that there are more people dying getting strangled with their own masks than people dying because they or their loved ones were not wearing masks. Right?

Has anyone noticed how stupidity tends to congregate in some very specific locations? Of course idiots have dumb-klutz families and quite soon you'd have whole dimwit cities. They'd probably poison themselves or blow the place up or get electrocuted but that's too simplistic an approach. One dimensional. By placing one's emergency grain reserves adjacent to unregulated explosive dumps a deeper and more pervasive level of derangement is achieved. Surely no administration even of the least competence would allow that?

Proverbs 1:5-7 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: to understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

It's almost as if there were a religion out there destroying whatever God had ordained, breeding up twerps. Give them an "in" to your political system and the whole thing goes belly up! We've heard about the red left and the hard right. Now we've got deep moron: everywhere it goes destruction surely follows.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

Think Donald Trump.. more private islands, and less gulches. Like, 100% less gulches.

Yet instead, now we will be ruled by a stuttering hair-sniffer and a vice-president who is nothing but one big fat gulch, if you know what I mean.

[WWJDnow]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

Let's turn every institution into a constitutional monarchy...

This could be the perfect way to settle the election litigation. Let Biden be President until we elect a Republican in 2024, but anoint Donald Trump king.

[Isabella White]

Originally Posted by WWJDnow

This could be the perfect way to settle the election litigation. Let Biden be President until we elect a Republican in 2024, but anoint Donald Trump king.

Amen, dear Brother Now! Amen, and to goes the

[Didymus Much]

Originally Posted by WWJDnow

...anoint Donald Trump king.

As the Constitution confers no powers, privileges, rights, not even free parking every other Tuesday (9 A.M. to 5 P.M., north side only), on anyone so named as "king", if it will end this national embarrassment of a tantrum long enough to get Dorito Mussolini out of the White House, go for it.

edit: get him a gold-plated plaque to really sell the deal

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

Stupid people get hateful when they see smart people going around and doing the things that smart people do....


I propose a fourth political system:

4. Stealth superiority.

In this system, the smart are free to remain smart so long as they stay out of the public attention....

You know, kind of like the complete opposite of what the space industry is doing:

Sure is fun watching the neckbeard libcucks tear themselves to pieces over events that are as obviously faked as the moon landing.

"Your rocket is sexist because it looks like a penis! We demand rockets that are shaped like vaginas!"

"Oh yeah, well your spaceplane doesn't use organic arugula for fuel so it has to stay grounded until we've solved obesity, sexual dimorphism, and the continental drift crisis!"

"Three word chant! Three word chant!"

[MitzaLizalor]

Oh - I didn't know organic arugula was causing sexual dimorphism. Something to check out tomorrow.

Libraries are so fantastic! You can look up anything, even get source material – a book, usually – on interlibrary loan and if you return 90 or 100 years later, it's still there. For example Hitler's speeches are preserved on U-matic (one of several media) (and in text, less interesting than the vid though) then you know. Don't speak German? A student will translate it for you, bonus points for initiative as a project, anyone can go to a library and questions are more than welcome: they're the whole point of the library! Jesus has material in libraries. But Jesus is not alone. Satan is there too. Prayer is the answer.

[Johny Joe Hold]

When it comes down to understanding stupid people, we can simply look at known facts. Those who do not believe known facts are stupid. Let's summarize the known facts:

The Bible is the word of God.

It says God created the universe.

Those who do not sin go the heaven after they die, those who sin go the hell.

Anyone who does not believe this is stupid. I rest my case.

[MitzaLizalor]

Another thing Christ-deniers often claim is that there are unknown facts.

[handmaiden]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

Another thing Christ-deniers often claim is that there are unknown facts.

So sad. God knows everything and He gave us the Bible so we can know what He wants us to know.

[MitzaLizalor]

Have you noticed though when [I don't like to use the word "idiots" but let's face it, they're] idiots want to justify an idea they've come up with, they'll open The Bible looking for support? And of course God can communicate information any time He likes to whomever He wishes; in these cases though the "information" rarely if ever comes from God. Instead the new idea is cobbled together from vaguely similar youtube response videos. You must have seen one: looking for a particular topic you happen across something and make it play.

It's someone listening to something they haven't heard before making idiotic facial expressions as though they're amazed and you're being offered the opportunity to watch them do so. Often there's a soliloquy lasting anything up to an hour about how another youtuber didn't understand the first youtuber's response to whatever was sent for perusal by the zeroth youtuber looking for a reaction. “What an utter waste of electrons!” you'd probably have thought turning it off ASAP – but a hybrid of several such could form in an idiot's brain and manifest as a New Idea.

It would be comprehensively nonsensical but for some reason they want Biblical confirmation for whatever they think God has told them, particularly when it flat-out contradicts that portion of His perfect knowledge God has already communicated. And the more explicit He has been, the more ardent they become in their contradictions. Perhaps they've decided to give words new meanings. For example if the word pomegranate were assigned a new meaning:

Song of Solomon 8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

NEWS JUST IN ! !

The word pomegranate.

This no longer signifies the plant variety Punica granatum.
Its new meaning is Atropa belladonna.

Punica sp. will be known collectively as Gromboolians.

Please use these words correctly and keep up with
the latest new words. Current meanings shouldn't
be taken as fixed and words as well as meanings
may be withdrawn without notice at any time.

As you can see, changing the meanings of words without telling everyone could result a fruit drink very different from what God intended. Nevertheless, by doing so a Dionysian cult could be inferred from The Bible, replete with ecstatic orgies and maniacs off their onions raving like idiots – which is about where we came in. If they want to do that, and anything connected with Dionysus is condemned very solidly in The Bible, why even bother referring to it al all? Their new idea has nothing to with God and nothing He does communicate will contradict anything He's taught us already. Reaction videos notwithstanding!

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

Let's get to the root causes of the root causes, folks.

Some people are better than other people.

Let's call the better people "smart", and the inferior people "stupid".

Stupid people get hateful when they see smart people going around and doing the things that smart people do.

What do better people do? Smart people create and maintain most of the wealth, smart people win most of the wars, smart people are often better ethically too.

As long as there are nothing but stupid people, nobody is going to notice anybody's stupidity, laziness, impulsiveness, weakness and amorality. Then smart people come along and ruin everything for stupid people.

Different political systems propose ways to deal with the hatred this stirs up in stupid people.

Here's a deep-dive that goes into various things cultures have done to appease envy (Trigger warning: Catholicism):