Re: idiots walk among us

On Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:25:15 -0500, WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com>
wrote:

On Mar 8, 2025, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote
(in article <vqh2n1$2tjk$1@dont-email.me>):
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On 3/7/25 6:11 PM, WolfFan wrote:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/marjorie-taylor-greene-promotes-
measles-parties-for-kids-amid-deadly-outbreaks/ar-AA1At4JL
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you can’t make this up. If someone tried to put this into the plot of a
work of SF, any competent editor would reject it as too stupid to allow
suspension of disbelief.

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You do realize that these were a thing back in the 1950s and 1960s,
right? So if someone is writing an SF work set in that era, it would be
perfectly accurate.

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not around my parents. they were epidemiologists. Tropical disease
specialists, which is why the family spent a lot of time in Africa and the
Caribbean. someone suggesting a measles party would have been invited to go
outside and play with the hippos.

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That said, yes, of course, idiots walk among us. Are you just now
noticing that? :-)

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i didn’t think that even MTG was _this_ stupid.

/Never/ underestimate the stupidity of a follower of QAnon. Or Bernie,
for that matter.

And the Schiller quote used by I Asimov:

Against stupidity,
the gods themselves
struggle in vain

tells us how hard it is to deal with stupidity.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"