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The Big Short and Dunning-Kruger Effect Concluded

Prop — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:20:23 +0000

Hard-working citizens have been forced to dip into their wallets to rescue the very people that destroyed so much of their personal economic futures. The downwardly mobile American electorate has, by and large, an intuitive understanding that they are being royally screwed by the Powers That Be even if they aren't familiar with the particulars.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Part III

Prop — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 08:01:54 +0000

According to Fux News host, Obama used a raw onion to fake tears while talking about school kids dying. Recently, it was reported that―horror of horrors!―Obama doesn't watch enough cable news, and therefore doesn't understand the nation's concerns about terrorism...Some would consider eschewing the manufactured reality of the cable news media-industrial-complex a feature and not a bug.

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The Dunning Kruger Effect: Part II

Prop — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:39:30 +0000

To paraphrase Dunning-Kruger: Fools lack the tools to recognize their foolishness; i.e. their limitations. The alternative to this lack of self-awareness is to blame someone else for their failures; to wit, that secret Muslim-Kenyan commie illegally occupying the White House. Naturally, this illegal occupation trope is being sold to the gullible as a promise by certain GOP presidential candidates to repeal every piece of legislation, every executive order, signed into law by our illegitimate president. Because freedom!

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Strategery Fail

Prop — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:00:31 +0000

It actually gives me hope that, eventually, US policy makers will finally get a clue about the futility of trying to maintain worn out strategery tropes like: Might makes right, Manifest Destiny, and American Exceptionalism.

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From Their Apocalips to God’s Ears

Prop — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:06:29 +0000

According to Islamic tradition, the Mahdi's tenure will coincide with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ (Isa), who is to assist the Mahdi against the Masih ad-Dajjal (literally, the "false Messiah" or Antichrist)

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TRUMPENSTEIN!

Prop — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:40:33 +0000

In Mary Shelley’s classic sci-fi horror novel, Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818), her protagonist, the brilliant Dr. Viktor Frankenstein, allows his hubris to get the better of him by assuming the powers of the Creator. His monstrous faux human creation, without name or number in the original—let’s call him “Donald” for now– refers to himself initially as “the Adam of …

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Seriously, America? This??

KLAATU — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 20:30:56 +0000

So it may be too soon to start showing America just what a Trump "presidency" will look like. After all, it was many of those same sorry fuckers who elected Ronald Reagan.

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