Dumb Is As Dumb Does

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195 soverign nations on Earth and King Trumpet { MAFiA } is now set to increase the divide between rich and poor greater than ever, ---world wide--  at cost of other sovereign nations.

Dumb is as dumb does when it comes to concern for the ecology --ex access to fresh water-- that supports humanity and other animals, plants, fungi etc.

.." Desovereignization

GRUNCH
Never before in all history have the inequities and themomentums of unthinking money-power been more glaringly evident to sovastly large a number of now literate, competent, and constructivelythinking all-around-the-world humans. There's a soon-to-occurcritical-mass moment when the intuition of the responsibly inspiredmajority of humanity, in contradistinction to the angered Luddites andavenging Robin Hoods, faced with comprehensive functional discontinuityof nationally contained techno-economic system, will call for andaccomplish a world-around reorientation of our planetary affairs.

R. Buckminster Fuller
"Can't Fool Cosmic Computer"
Grunchof Giants (St. Martin's Press, 1983), pg. 89
So does Fuller encourage hot heads to rise up and overthrow theoppressive state apparatus? No. Remember, this guy received the Medalof Freedom from President Ronald Reagan. Desovereignization is anatural evolutionary process stemming from the inevitable effects ofglobalized communications and trade -- and is already very far advanced.

Fuller's Grunch of Giants, a sequel to Critical Path, is about the power of post-LAWCAP supranational corporations to counter the brain dead approaches of the selfishly preoccupied sovereign politicos -- approaches which continue to have extremely unprofitable and disasterous consequences.

Fuller clearly documents how today's sovereignties are largely sponsored entities, sustained behind-the-scenes by nebulous global financial networks which keep our governments afloat, and in debt, because this serves our interests. [4]

Just look at EPCOT (Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow). Corporate pavilions dominate Tomorrowland (the future). On the other side of the artificial lake (the past), nation-state pavilions come across as so many quaintly antiquated and commercialized cultures. The once proud nations have been reduced to so many moneymaking theme park tourist attractions. "....
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Universal Basic access to minimal standard of living for all, as a starter. This requires a one Earth nation concept of sovereignty.

7.5 million year old splits from chimpanzees,  humanity may be having a senior moment 79 years after the invention of the atomic bomb. 

1945 - 1995 { See START 1 and 2 } - 2045 is 100 years after 1945. 

Dumb and less compassionate is more suffering for most humans going forward.

Smart and more compassionate is less suffering for fewest amount of humans going forward
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Universal Basic access to minimal standard of living for all, as a starter. This requires a one Earth nation concept of sovereignty.

7.5 million year old splits from chimpanzees,  humanity may be having a senior moment 79 years after the invention of the atomic bomb. 

1945 - 1995 { See START 1 and 2 } - 2045 is 100 years after 1945.  

Dumb and less compassionate is more suffering for most humans going forward.

Smart and more compassionate is less suffering for fewest amount of humans going forward
Trumps definition of shithole countries is being taken seriously now that he has won the right to say it again.
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Alright, here's the deal. Buckminster Fuller was a genius, no doubt, but Grunch of Giants misses the bullseye. He talks about corporations as these evil giants running the world, but they don't actually make money out of thin air—banks do. Banks, especially central banks, literally create the cash that everyone else has to fight over. Corporations? They're just trying to survive in a system where banks set all the rules.

If Bucky had focused his firepower on banks—how they create money, control debt, and shape the entire economy—his argument would’ve been unstoppable. Instead, he lumped corporations into the blame, which muddles the real issue. Corporations can be greedy, sure, but they actually have to produce things to make money. Banks? They just lend out money they don’t even have, charge interest, and control everything from the top down.

Bucky was close, but he should’ve aimed higher—right at the banking system. That's the real "grunch" pulling the strings.
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So banks are "them".
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Dumb and less compassionate is more suffering for most humans going forward.

Smart and more compassionate is less suffering for fewest amount of humans going forward
Both groups are represented in the map.
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Corporations can be greedy, sure, but they actually have to produce things to make money.

Corporations --souless entitiees---  are responsible to make money for their shareholders.  If the corp. does not be responsible to the shareholders reason for investment  --to make money---,  then then the CEO is replaced.

Ltd = Limited Liability and was assigned by the King of England to the first corps. that went out to sea to fine resoures --riches-- of corp. and of course the King.

..." History
By the 15th century, English law had awarded limited liability to monastic communities and trade guilds with commonly held property. In the 17th century, joint stock charters were awarded by the crown to monopolies such as the East India Company.[14]

The world's first modern limited liability law was enacted by the state of New York in 1811.[15] In England it became more straightforward to incorporate a joint stock company following the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844, although investors in such companies carried unlimited liability until the Limited Liability Act 1855.

There was a degree of public and legislative distaste for a limitation of liability, with fears that it would cause a drop in standards of probity.[16][17][18] The 1855 Act allowed limited liability to companies of more than 25 members (shareholders). "...

See East India Co. above....} A joint-stock company (JSC) is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares (certificates of ownership).[1] Shareholders are able to transfer their shares to others without any effects to the continued existence of the company."

... Ie the corp. continues on as souless entity to create as much money as possible without regard for Earth ecological environment that sustains us all. 


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Shila, would you please do me a favor and not reply to any of my individual posts in a thread Ive started
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Shila, would you please do me a favor and not reply to any of my individual posts in a thread Ive started
Would you please take your topics off the forum since it is no longer open to the public.
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Ha, thank you for that laugh.  That looks like the style of mini-bike from my childhood.

That looks  a little Trumpet mini-me in the front basket. Too bad no fast foods  bag in there somewhere with the label MAFiA { Make America Fat Again }.
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Bucky was close, but he should’ve aimed higher—right at the banking system. That's the real "grunch" pulling the strings.
People trust banks more than they trust their own relatives.
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Trust no one.
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Trust no one

Zed, that  would violate concept of team work. I understand a 8 person team lift of log, beam etc, we may feel we carrying more load than another.

This is true of any team oriented tasks, whether direclty as in the above team lift or less in direct in that each person is doing their best to do the specific task assigned to them, and not leaving if for others.

Trust does become violated and then we have potential for conflict. Then we need fair persons outside the group to hear each concern privately, and then seek joint meeting guided by fair person outside group, to allow for speaking what each has observed, and seek resolution of the info, either as true or mis-understanding or other,

These meetings take time, and not many if any corp. going to spend time and effort and moderating teams lack of trust in each other.
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Trust no one.
That is going back to Ronald Reagan trust but verify.
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Trust no one.

This was advice that my Dad gave to me.

Anyone is capable of letting you down, if they feel it necessary.

Which isn't to say that people will try not to, if they can.

Sort of a fine line between expectation and trust.
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Trust no one.

This was advice that my Dad gave to me.

Anyone is capable of letting you down, if they feel it necessary.

Which isn't to say that people will try not to, if they can.

Sort of a fine line between expectation and trust.
That is why you trust but verify.
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Well, I think that verification would be self evident.

If it weren't, you would have already have been let down.
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Sort of a fine line between expectation and trust.

We have trust faith expectations that the vehicle coming from other direction, will not cross the middle line and hit us, yet we know drunkards, falling asleep young people, or others have done that. 

So we see it on news, read about etc, but like many things we never expect it will happen to us, yet we do our best to be conscientious drivers. No gives 100% attention to road, 100% of the time.

Driving in brain-mind automatic mode is common to all of us and more so as we gain years of experience.

Think of the amount of trust these long distance bicylers on these two lane roads with barely a shoulder, and they trust they are not going to get hit from behind. Yikes!

I did that as kid riding 25 miles on shoulder to see  my best buddies.  Young and dumb
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Shila, would you please do me a favor and not reply to any of my individual posts in a thread Ive started
Bots can't change their programming.
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Bots can't change their programming.

Shoo bot fly dont bother me, sung to a tune I heard once, maybe it was this one
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Well, I think that verification would be self evident.

If it weren't, you would have already have been let down.
Verification avoids the let down.
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Here is LINK to King Trumpet treatment of citizens not loyal to the  MAFia { Make America i Fat Again }

Moe = King Trumpet supported by MAFiA

Curly and Larry = all others

..' Before there was Jackass there was Dumb Ass '..




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Oppinion and this all before Gaetz..." Donald Trump’s motley cabinet is getting a bum and a dumb rap
So far, his cabinet picks look like a bunch of [sheet white] boy scouts and girl guides in comparison to many of those who preceded them.   

....Rogan has not been appointed by president-elect Donald Trump to his cabinet of conspiracy theorists, cable news talk show “stars”, and various charlatans, racists, Islamophobes, alleged sexual assaulters, and confirmed thugs in suits.

....I suspect that Rogan was not inclined, quite sensibly, to take a hefty pay cut from his lucrative gig.
Many others have abandoned their comfortable perches on Fox News and the rancid fever pit otherwise known as the far-right-media “ecosystem” to take up the urgent call to serve their dear leader.

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Well, I think that verification would be self evident.

If it weren't, you would have already have been let down.
It wasn’t to Ronald Reagan. Even as president there was an attempt on his life.
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In the Second Trump Era, don’t expect reality to be realistic.

There is a power that dumb things have in this world. It is not the power of imperviousness to criticism, but rather of being so permeable that all criticism passes through with no effect, like the invisible neutrinos that stream through our bodies every second. Grappling with the dawn of the Second Trump Era will require an acceptance of the disquieting truth that Dumb Things and Important Things are about to merge into a single excruciating category of existence.

Donald Trump is an ignorant, overconfident, narcissistic, grievance-ridden man — a dumb man, who over time has attracted around him an asteroid field of dumb allies who are but lesser versions of himself. His invariable instinct to act without knowledge is dumb; his unwavering instinct to make consequential decisions based upon minor personal whim is dumb; his unshakeable belief in his own laughable reasoning is dumb. No sober analysis would grant him any benefit of the doubt. He possesses the poisonous combination of great power and the utter absence of concern for responsibility. He knows little and does much. He lives the child’s fantasy of arranging the immediately visible parts of the world for his own flattery and receiving in return the praise of all the people who wish that they themselves could live such a charmed and feckless existence.

In 2004, a Bush White House official was famously quoted in the New York Times Magazine deriding the “reality-based community.”

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out,” the anonymous official said. “We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” This quote was widely mocked at the time. These haughty imperial stereotypes! Surely they will be hoist on the petards of their own grandiosity! The failures of the Iraq War were attributed to this sort of overweening arrogance in the White House.

Two decades later, the arc of the moral universe has bent back towards this attitude. But dumber. The Trump administration will have not only the belief that it can create an alternate reality, but also the pacifying lack of understanding that such a thing might raise eyebrows. Here are history’s new actors: Reality show dregs, cable news hair gel models, pro wrestling moguls, wastrel political heirs driven insane by online conspiracy theories. If you think that the joke is on them, I’m sorry to report that it’s the other way around. They will create the reality that all of us are about to be swamped by. The sooner we understand this, the better.

Part of Trump’s power has always been that his dumb decisions strike his opponents like a series of blows to the head, leaving them woozy and spluttering. The amount of analytical power that non-Republicans have dedicated to trying to process Trump’s actions over the past decade could fuel all the nation’s data centers. We scrutinize each apparently idiotic policy or quote or appointment for signs of hidden strategy, like crazed numerologists trying to pull meaning out of a random number generator. This serves to exhaust the intellectual opposition, while Trump World proceeds merrily on its way. We can do ourselves a tactical favor by coming to terms with the role of one integral factor in what is about to happen to America: Dumbness.

How has the mightiest nation in the world ended up with a Fox News host as its Defense Secretary nominee? A weird vaccine disbeliever running its health services? A fraud-adjacent television doctor named to lead Medicare, a pro wrestling executive to run education, a skeevy little failson sex predator as attorney general, a meme-poisoned billionaire nerd king as Lord of the federal budget? The swirl of senselessness that seems to grow with each passing day should be a familiar feeling to anyone who was forced to reckon seriously with the first iteration of a Trump presidency. It is enough to make people welcome the nominees who are merely fascist but not incompetent. That is one of its most dangerous effects.

We can torture ourselves by trying to impose mental order on the chaos that is to come, but it is not the best use of our time.
Donald Trump is an aggressively ignorant man who doesn’t care about anything that doesn’t affect him personally. He doesn’t know much about issues of consequence and is picking his cabinet based upon who has done the best job of flattering him and who he has seen on television. The fact that this is a ridiculous thing to do — a method that a child operating in a dream might use, a fearful abdication of responsibility that will surely have terrible consequences for the entire world — does not matter. He is the president and this is how he is. The American people decided to forsake the opportunity to prevent this, in favor of the entertainment value of watching it play out. We can torture ourselves by trying to impose mental order on the chaos that is to come, but it is not the best use of our time.

Reading the mind of a dumb man has no payoff. The Reign of the Dumb is a black hole for attacks of the intellect. It is going to happen much faster than any complex theories about it can be usefully employed. What is worth thinking deeply about is not what will happen, but how we got here. The fact of the Dumb Tidal Wave is already upon us.


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Donald Trump is an ignorant, overconfident, narcissistic, grievance-ridden man — a dumb man, who over time has attracted around him an asteroid field of dumb allies who are but lesser versions of himself. 

The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he’s picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20.

In a Sunday announcement naming his ambassador to Denmark, Trump wrote that, “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

Trump again having designs on Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the U.S. could retake control of the Panama Canal if something isn’t done to ease rising shipping costs required for using the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

He’s also been suggesting that Canada become the 51st U.S. state and referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the “Great State of Canada.”

Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, said Trump tweaking friendly countries harkens back to an aggressive style he used during his days in business.


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Shouldn't we be buying Slovenia? I could use 3 or 4 sex workers.
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Shouldn't we be buying Slovenia? I could use 3 or 4 sex workers.
Trump should have consulted you before he married a Slovenian.
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How has the mightiest nation in the world ended up with a Fox News host as its Defense Secretary nominee? A weird vaccine disbeliever running its health services? A fraud-adjacent television doctor named to lead Medicare, a pro wrestling executive to run education, a skeevy little failson sex predator as attorney general, a meme-poisoned billionaire nerd king as Lord of the federal budget?

Excellent summary SD! Wow!

  Sing along with Trumpet and MAF & DA.....Dumb-de-dumb-dumb, dumb...sung to the tune of dum-de-dum-dum, dum, and yeah fascist.

Merriam-Webster " often Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition "...

Wiki " Fascism is a far-right form of government in which most of the country's power is held by one ruler or a small group, under a single party. Fascist governments are usually totalitarian and authoritarian one-party states. "...


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Shouldn't we be buying Slovenia? I could use 3 or 4 sex workers.
Trump is eying Greenland. Maybe Slovenian is not so hot as it is rumoured to be.