I'm beginning to realize that the BBS people who say they don't want to talk politics are just saying that because they are brainwashed leftists, they know that they're dealing with people who actually compute, and they're afraid to be wrong about something.

Deep down they really do have political beliefs, but those beliefs are half baked notions that are sitting on the back burner next to other discarded thought processes like 2 chapters of a karate book that they never finished.

So when they talk to a guy like me, they get annoyed because I don't say what the TV says, I complain about the things that the TV don't complain about, and it's like I'm asking them how to do advanced karate moves but it's not a subject that they're comfortable with because they don't wanna be wrong.

It's ok to be wrong, but instead of suppressing it these people should grow from it.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-

I'm beginning to realize that the BBS people who say they don't want to talk politics are just saying that because they are brainwashed
leftists,

"brainwashed leftists" is a redundant term.

they know that they're dealing with people who actually
compute, and they're afraid to be wrong about something.

Terrified, more likely, based on the mental gymnastics that they do.

Deep down they really do have political beliefs, but those beliefs are half baked notions that are sitting on the back burner next to other discarded thought processes like 2 chapters of a karate book that they never finished.

Not only are they half baked, but they willfully ignore any facts that go against those political beliefs. That's why I term their "political beliefs" as a "narrative". It's less about fact and more about performance.

It's ok to be wrong, but instead of suppressing it these people should grow from it.

Ah, but you see, that's the basis of this. They can't grow. They are children (mentally) and are stuck there. Because to grow means having to deal with Reality, admitting that they were wrong, and dealing with facts.

Especially the fact that they are not the super-smart, special person that they've been told all their lives that they are.


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"brainwashed leftists" is a redundant term.

Some of them are responsible for the scrubbing.

Not only are they half baked, but they willfully ignore any facts that go against those political beliefs. That's why I term their "political beliefs" as a "narrative". It's less about fact and more about performance.

I was just explaining to my kid yesterday that when I went to college all the stuff I learned went to my head. Suddenly I was using words that I never used before, I was criticizing people who didn't write in MLA format, and I understood things that the news was talking about, things I never understood before.

But then one day I realized that I was being a smug ahole, that vocabulary isn't a valuable life skill, and neither is writing, and that I was
understanding the news more because I was brainwashed. (We were driving past the college.)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I was just explaining to my kid yesterday that when I went to college
all the stuff I learned went to my head. Suddenly I was using words
that I never used before, I was criticizing people who didn't write in
MLA format, and I understood things that the news was talking about, things I never understood before.

I saw the same things in college - but only among the non-technical students/teachers.

But then one day I realized that I was being a smug ahole, that
vocabulary isn't a valuable life skill, and neither is writing, and
that I was understanding the news more because I was brainwashed. (We
were driving past the college.)

Somehow I was gifted with more self-awareness than the average person. I saw myself becomming this early on and stopped the progression.

But I saw it in sooooo many people when I was in large corporations. It was always funny to (not really on purpose) make them look like fools. The smarter ones straightened out. The dumb ones.... well, let's say that stupidity is terminal.



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But then one day I realized that I was being a smug ahole, that vocabulary isn't a valuable life skill, and neither is writing, and that I was understanding the news more because I was brainwashed. (We were driving past the college.)

Somehow I was gifted with more self-awareness than the average person.
I saw myself becomming this early on and stopped the progression.

But I saw it in sooooo many people when I was in large corporations. It was always funny to (not really on purpose) make them look like fools. The smarter ones straightened out. The dumb ones.... well, let's say
that stupidity is terminal.

That's the Jesus way. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly important, and insignificant things will work themselves out.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

That's the Jesus way. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly important, and insignificant things will work themselves out.

That's what I tell my wife all the time when she's harassed at work by the low IQ-high ego people.


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On 07 Aug 2026, Aaron Thomas said the following...

It's ok to be wrong, but instead of suppressing it these people should grow from it.

It's hard when you have to support your claims with facts..

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It's ok to be wrong, but instead of suppressing it these people shoul grow from it.

It's hard when you have to support your claims with facts..

That explains it. It's easier for people to just be full of crap, until someone corners them ;)

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