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Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« on: March 21, 2025, 11:54:35 AM »
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Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
I am a 66 year old natural born citizen of the United States of America. I have two college degrees, both of them achieved with high honors. I am a member of a national honor society. Subsequent to my academic life, my career consisted of progressively more responsible positions in a difficult and competitive field. I am able to follow and participate in complex discussions on a variety of topics.

And guess what?

I recently had to look up two words because I did not have the foggiest idea what they meant.

Those two words are:

"Oligarchy" and "autocracy".

I feel no shame in not knowing what these words meant. No matter how smart or how "dumb" we may be...we know what we know, and that's the way life is.

So why in the world are these words being used in Democratic messaging to the general population...a population that you are trying to persuade? A population who you are trying to make understand your point of view?

As I think more about this, why is the word "hyperbole" used in the arguments in which you are trying to persuade? Most people do not know what that word means without looking it up.

When you look up the definition of a word, you can read the definition, you can understand the definition, but the real world implications of that word do not register in your mind on an emotional level.

So why are these words being used in Democratic messaging to a general audience? Inquisitive and truly intelligent people research words that they hear, but do not know the meaning of.
However, just knowing the meaning of a word is not enough.

Simple language must be used when communicating to a general audience.

People trying to persuade need to "dumb it down" if they want to get a message across.

For example:

lie
liar
bullshit
damn lie
****ing lie
king
ruler
Hitler-like
Mussolini-like
their actions could very well cause your death, and the death of those you love
your savings are being stolen
you paid into Social Security your whole life, and they are taking it from you
they think they are better than you
they are not like you
they don't care about you
open up your eyes
you're too smart to fall for this bullshit
your family will be ruined, if they are lucky enough to survive
misery for you and yours
do the right thing and fight for your family
if you are not scared, you should be
don't think it can't happen. it happened to your grandparents
believe your own eyes, not what someone tells you that you are seeing
you're being crushed under the thumb of insane billionaires
etc
etc

NOT...OLIGARCHY AND AUTOCRACY.

For persuasion, people need to feel something in their heart, not their head.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220161142

This luckycharms DUmmie is a complete POS. Wow.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2025, 12:11:19 PM »
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lie
liar
bullshit
damn lie
****ing lie
king
ruler
Hitler-like
Mussolini-like
their actions could very well cause your death, and the death of those you love
your savings are being stolen
you paid into Social Security your whole life, and they are taking it from you
they think they are better than you
they are not like you
they don't care about you
open up your eyes
you're too smart to fall for this bullshit
your family will be ruined, if they are lucky enough to survive
misery for you and yours
do the right thing and fight for your family
if you are not scared, you should be
don't think it can't happen. it happened to your grandparents
believe your own eyes, not what someone tells you that you are seeing
you're being crushed under the thumb of insane billionaires
etc
etc

NOT...OLIGARCHY AND AUTOCRACY.

This is the democratic play book, the words and excuses that they use to try and win elections because they have no idea ideas how to make life better for their constituents. All they consider is them.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2025, 12:13:18 PM »
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I recently had to look up two words because I did not have the foggiest idea what they meant.

Those two words are:

"Oligarchy" and "autocracy".

Ummmmmmm how did ChuckyLarms avoid learning the meaning of "Oligarchy" in high school? That's when I did and my alma mater was/is not some fancy elite school. And how did brilliant honors grad ChuckyLarms avoid learning learning either the meaning of "Autocracy" or enough Greek roots to figure out the meaning without consulting Webster or Google? Whether it's the claimed academic credentials or the Googling, ChuckyLarms went full-DUmmie, i.e. lying.

The rest of the runt-rant is TL;DR.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2025, 12:18:59 PM »
I didn’t go to any college in fact they wouldn’t even let me in to use the bathroom, but I do know the Democrats are losing because they’re not listening to the American people and picking the wrong battles to fight and the wrong hill to die on.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2025, 12:31:53 PM »
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Hitler-like
Mussolini-like
their actions could very well cause your death, and the death of those you love 1
your savings are being stolen
you paid into Social Security your whole life, and they are taking it from you 2

1 US voters ballot-box rejected this stupidity in November 2024.

2 Two months of Social Security checks and auto-deposits have already disproven this stupid claim.

But don't let facts stop you from doing stupid-you, ChuckyLarms.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2025, 12:45:40 PM »
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I have two college degrees, both of them achieved with high honors.

Anyone else besides me want to know what these two "degrees" are in?  Guarantee they are not in the STEM field and will still be paying for it well into its 60's. :popcorn:
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2025, 12:59:04 PM »
Quote from: 67 Rover on March 21, 2025, 12:45:40 PM
Anyone else besides me want to know what these two "degrees" are in?  Guarantee they are not in the STEM field and will still be paying for it well into its 60's. :popcorn:

To be honest, given what sort of courses would have been required for graduation in the 1970s and ChuckyLarms' claim to be ignorant of the meanings of "Oligarchy" and "Autocracy", I wonder whether ChuckyLarms has any college degree.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2025, 01:08:21 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on March 21, 2025, 12:59:04 PM
To be honest, given what sort of courses would have been required for graduation in the 1970s and ChuckyLarms' claim to be ignorant of the meanings of "Oligarchy" and "Autocracy", I wonder whether ChuckyLarms has any college degree.

Bachelors in Philosophy and Art maybe?
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2025, 01:16:39 PM »
Not this again.

You don't need to dumb it down, dems, you need better policies. The majority of Americans are never going to come around to lax immigration policy, defunding the police (or non-policing), foreign policy or trade policy that makes America's welfare secondary, or government censorship of whatever it considers "disinformation".
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2025, 03:23:53 PM »
Quote from: 67 Rover on March 21, 2025, 12:45:40 PM
Anyone else besides me want to know what these two "degrees" are in?  Guarantee they are not in the STEM field and will still be paying for it well into its 60's. :popcorn:

My guess is one of them is in "speech and drama" the other one is in "drama and speech"

Hardcore all the way.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2025, 04:46:58 PM »
Possibly lezbonics and barista technology
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2025, 04:49:52 PM »
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I am a 66 year old natural born citizen of the United States of America. I have two college degrees, both of them achieved with high honors. I am a member of a national honor society. Subsequent to my academic life, my career consisted of progressively more responsible positions in a difficult and competitive field. I am able to follow and participate in complex discussions on a variety of topics.

I quit counting the lies in this paragraph after I got into double digits.
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2025, 05:52:27 PM »
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Simple language must be used when communicating to a general audience.

People trying to persuade need to "dumb it down" if they want to get a message across.

Dumbing down ChuckyLarms runt-rant: American voters are stupid. Talk down to them.

Denigrating American voters worked great for HilLIARy and Kammie, so keep it up, Dems! :evillaugh: :evillaugh: :evillaugh:
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2025, 11:24:37 PM »
This DUmmy chose the wrong screen name.

It should have been FruitLoop.

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« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2025, 08:58:10 AM »
I love that thread. I’ve been reading it off and on for a couple days. It’s basically one of their “High IQ” threads and it’s hilarious!

So much faux elitism going on there. “You have to talk to doctors, lawyers, and professors, differently than you do the “Bubba plumbers.””

And they ALL know how to do that.

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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2025, 09:30:36 AM »
The Dems' problem is not that American voters fail to understand the Dems' message but that voters do understand.
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« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2025, 12:34:11 PM »
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For example:

lie -like Biden's handlers lied to us? Like Fauci lied to us? Like the Russia hoax? Like Hunter's laptop hoax?
liar - see above
bullshit - like Biden's employment stats, that were consistently revised downward when the news cycle was on to something else?
damn lie - like Biden was competent? Like bio males wearing lipstick are women?
****ing lie - like everything else from that era?
king - I prefer King Trump to President Kamala
ruler - Like you guys thought 0bama was?
Hitler-like - Jesus Christ, everyone you don't like is LITERALLY HITLER.
Mussolini-like - Yeah, that'll resound with Middle America trying to cope with Biden's cash-splosion.
their actions could very well cause your death, and the death of those you love - how so?
your savings are being stolen - your savings are in the bank, where they always were, until you withdraw it to buy sex change drugs or weed
you paid into Social Security your whole life, and they are taking it from you - Example, please. From the actual world.
they think they are better than you - I am most assuredly and absolutely better than you.
they are not like you - No, we are not. For example, 40-year-old men shouldn't get to shit in a stall next to a 10-year-old girl.
they don't care about you - hey, where are Clinton, 0bama, and Biden right now? Organizing? Yeah: organizing their fat stacks while their security detail preps to kill anyone who saunters onto their compounds
open up your eyes - and see how fiscal policy will ensure your future, asshole
you're too smart to fall for this bullshit - like the Green New Deal, huh?
your family will be ruined, if they are lucky enough to survive - if you believed that, you wouldn't be posting on the internet
misery for you and yours - is what we avoided by not putting that drunken inarticulate pseudo-black retard woman in the White House
do the right thing and fight for your family - and quit listening to liberals
if you are not scared, you should be - that the deep state is plotting revenge
don't think it can't happen. it happened to your grandparents - yeah, they experienced the Reagan years and prospered as their elder years approached
believe your own eyes, not what someone tells you that you are seeing - yeah, watch liberals torch cars and infrastructure they disapprove of while TV monkeys egg them on
you're being crushed under the thumb of insane billionaires - and all we can hope for is the death of Bill Gates and George Soros
etc
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2025, 01:00:59 PM »
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lie
liar
bullshit
damn lie
****ing lie
king
ruler
Hitler-like
Mussolini-like
their actions could very well cause your death, and the death of those you love
your savings are being stolen
you paid into Social Security your whole life, and they are taking it from you
they think they are better than you
they are not like you
they don't care about you
open up your eyes
you're too smart to fall for this bullshit
your family will be ruined, if they are lucky enough to survive
misery for you and yours
do the right thing and fight for your family
if you are not scared, you should be
don't think it can't happen. it happened to your grandparents
believe your own eyes, not what someone tells you that you are seeing
you're being crushed under the thumb of insane billionaires

These aren't arguments, they're just slogans. Some of them are actually kind of manipulative. I can say them just as easily as you can.

You can't just say "lie","bullshit", or something like that, you have to back those claims with facts. That is why democrats fail to persuade people, not because they need to "dumb it  down".
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Re: Dumb it down, for ****'s sake.
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2025, 06:06:34 PM »
I'll be your huckleberry:

Your party stands for:

Illegal Immigration
Government Waste and Abuse
Teenage boys sharing a bathroom or shower with your underage girls
HAMAS terrorists

There are those only the few bullet points that I've listed so please join in to add.
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« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2025, 10:31:47 AM »
In related news:

MSNBC’s Michael Steele says Dems Too Dumb to Know What ‘Oligarchy’ Means

MSNBC hosts Symone Sanders, Eugene Daniels, and Michael Steele say their fellow Democrats are too stupid to understand the word ‘oligarchy.’ You’ll recall that Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called their traveling rallying event, ‘The Fighting Oligarchy Tour.’ The hosts say they should have known better and dumbed it down for Democrats.

https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/03/23/oligarchy-too-complicated-aoc-michael-steele-msnbc-n2410284

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