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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Former President Donald Trump urged members of a crowd in Florida to vote and said that if he wins, they “won’t have to vote anymore.”

Speaking at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach on Friday, Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost, delivered a cryptic message.

“And again, Christians, get out and vote!” he said to a cheering audience. “Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again.”

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[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 216 points 3 months ago

"I love you, christians. I am a christian!"

Who the fuck talks like that? And who the fuck votes for a guy that talks like that?

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 104 points 3 months ago

Hello my fellow human beings, I'm a human and love doing human activities.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 80 points 3 months ago

These people who talk equally as phony.

Behold: a black person.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 55 points 3 months ago

Too stupid to be satire, but also too stupid to not be satire. I am not sure with this one, chief.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

If I recall correctly, he forgot to switch accounts before posting that one.

[-] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 months ago

Quite a few of those on social media.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Poe's law 2: conservative, satire, or bot

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 66 points 3 months ago

Imagine how stupid the average person is, then realize half of all people are stupider than that.

  • George Carlin
[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 months ago

I read something that put conservatives into greater context, just changed one word.

“Imagine how stupid the average Republican is, then realize half of all republicans are stupider than that.”

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 3 months ago

Median would be the more generally correct number to use, but apparently IQ (debatable as a proxy for intelligence...) is roughly normally distributed, so either is likely close enough.

[-] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh yeah, they normalize IQ every year, and 100 is always used as the median.

But thanks to the Flynn Effect, getting a 100 (the number they always choose for the middle) in 2024 means you're significantly smarter than someone who got a 100 in 1990.

So when Carlin said, "think of a person with average intelligence" he was calling to mind (to his 1990 audience) a person who was average in 1990 but would score [EDIT: I originally said 70s to 80s, but I was off by a lot. Such a person would actually score right around 90 points] today.

This is what happens when you take the lead out of gasoline.

[-] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A person would only drop a couple points over time. 80s, and especially 70s, would be significantly impaired.

[-] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I ended up looking up the actual Flynn effect numbers AFTER leaving my comment, and had to edit because I was way off.

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

The word average is used to signify mean, median or mode freely, depending only on context. For example, "he's just an average Joe" is to say he's like most other men in his demographic. In that case average means mode. In Carlin's joke, average means median.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Truer words never have been uttered

[-] Centaur@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Aw thanks! I didn't even realize it was so until you said that. Curious -- how did you know? I'm using boost right now and it's not made obvious anywhere I've checked.

[-] Centaur@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

There is a picture of little cake on the right side of your nick. Maybe Boost don't like cakes?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Hello, fellow kids!

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago

When you've already lost the capacity for critical thought...

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Yes it's like when I, too, enjoy human food like a real human

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Millions of stupid Americans. They are everywhere! Even in your city, maybe even in your neighborhood.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Who talks like that? A grifter. A guy who literally embodies all of the seven deadly sins, trying to convince his followers that "he's a Christian." That is just exploding with irony.

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