No, this goes beyond ignorance. What that fucker is doing shows at least a fundamental understanding of the subject to deliberately arrive on the opposite side of reality.
It has nothing to do with intelligence or stupidity. You can’t fail the way Shapiro fails at thinking being stupid. It’s malice, the cruelty is the point. When you uphold hatred and cruelty above all, logic goes out of the window and then this advanced stupid becomes possible. He is not arriving to a POV from an understanding of a subject. He decides what he wanted his POV to be first, then he uses whatever he has at hand to justify it.
In fairness, the misunderstanding of the first law of thermodynamics isn’t a new thing. You hear it come up from every bad theist apologist so it’s not like he came up with this argument on his own based on researching science and misunderstanding his own research. He just heard someone else say it and is parroting it like all of the other people who make similar bad arguments related to the laws of thermodynamics.
Someone in the chain had to have some understanding of the issue. Most conservatives are stupid, but there has to be a few smart but evil ones to start the meme going.
Nah, the guy isn’t dumb, he just has zero integrity. He finds ways to reframe arguments to win arguments - that isn’t easy, the dude knows his takes are garbage. Every once in a while the mask slips
Someone like Jordan Peterson on the other hand? The dude believes what he’s saying, his takes are also trash, but he’s so dogmatic in his world view that he can’t grasp anything outside them. He’s not really that dumb either, he just has issues.
If you want just straight up dumb, Trump is the epitome. He doesn’t understand anything - he just has so much charisma it doesn’t matter. Try reading his speeches - you might listen to them and think “wtf is he on about?”, but without his delivery, it’s just incoherent rambling
For an example of an idiot who can sound smart, Elon musk comes to mind. He memorizes facts the way a child does about the specs of their model cars, but he can’t apply any of that knowledge
Don’t give them that much credit, all you need is a superficial understanding of something, done by skimming half a wikipedia page.
No, this goes beyond ignorance. What that fucker is doing shows at least a fundamental understanding of the subject to deliberately arrive on the opposite side of reality.
It has nothing to do with intelligence or stupidity. You can’t fail the way Shapiro fails at thinking being stupid. It’s malice, the cruelty is the point. When you uphold hatred and cruelty above all, logic goes out of the window and then this advanced stupid becomes possible. He is not arriving to a POV from an understanding of a subject. He decides what he wanted his POV to be first, then he uses whatever he has at hand to justify it.
Being a Rightwing Grifter is hella profitable. Chuds love throwing money at people that validate their shitty opinions with fancy talk.
In fairness, the misunderstanding of the first law of thermodynamics isn’t a new thing. You hear it come up from every bad theist apologist so it’s not like he came up with this argument on his own based on researching science and misunderstanding his own research. He just heard someone else say it and is parroting it like all of the other people who make similar bad arguments related to the laws of thermodynamics.
Someone in the chain had to have some understanding of the issue. Most conservatives are stupid, but there has to be a few smart but evil ones to start the meme going.
But you always have to skim the wrong half,it takes talent.
I too have an approximate knowledge of many things.
What I have approximates to knowledge if you round up enough
Nah, the guy isn’t dumb, he just has zero integrity. He finds ways to reframe arguments to win arguments - that isn’t easy, the dude knows his takes are garbage. Every once in a while the mask slips
Someone like Jordan Peterson on the other hand? The dude believes what he’s saying, his takes are also trash, but he’s so dogmatic in his world view that he can’t grasp anything outside them. He’s not really that dumb either, he just has issues.
If you want just straight up dumb, Trump is the epitome. He doesn’t understand anything - he just has so much charisma it doesn’t matter. Try reading his speeches - you might listen to them and think “wtf is he on about?”, but without his delivery, it’s just incoherent rambling
For an example of an idiot who can sound smart, Elon musk comes to mind. He memorizes facts the way a child does about the specs of their model cars, but he can’t apply any of that knowledge