• BillyClark@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    I’m not even sure why Trump needs a ballroom in the first place, considering that he doesn’t have any balls.

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    2 days ago

    If the ballroom shit gets you off the coach and doing something. I’m all for it. It amazes me that the thing that has hurt Trump the most with boomers and “centrist” is the ballroom and him being rude about some guy (I forget the name of) dying.

    The oblivious liberal pipeline to the left starts at the ballroom I guess. I’m not complaining. I just wish I knew that’s what it was gonna take.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      It amazes me that the thing that has hurt Trump the most with boomers and “centrist” is the ballroom and him being rude about some guy

      There’s a basic psychological theory that gets used a lot in safety fields, and I’m sure it applies here.

      People suck at predicting how they will feel about something novel. In safety this is most applied as “if you tell someone they will lose an arm, they have no concept how terrible that is, because they’ve never lost an arm. If you tell people the fine is 200 bucks, they know exactly how shitty that makes them feel, so they won’t stick their arm in”. Generally people with… Less flexible… minds have this is far greater degrees.

      Im convinced this is similar. They have no concept about going to war random countries or destroying international trust or what it means that tariffs are vaguely increasing the prices they pay.

      But they can form a clear imagine of some guy taking building a really ugly shed from their money. They have a great concept of some asshole insulting their friend. Those are basic concepts they can relate too, because they’re a bunch of mentally rigid boomers who couldn’t rotate an apple in their mind without a LLM model to stare at.