Notice the way in which people show their gullibility and their herd instinct, and their wish - or perhaps their need - to be fooled. Credulity may be a form of innocence, but it provides a standing invitation for the wicked and the clever to exploit their brothers and sisters.

Christopher Hitchens

Whose taking bets when the Woke fever will break and then try and find anyone who actually believed in it in the first place?

Hitler observed the Munich agreement for less than 24 weeks. And the invasion of Poland began just over 11 months after Munich. Appeasement is not the road to peace.

Ethnonationalist dictators are not interested in the rule of law – including international law. That's usually how they got to be dictators in the first place.

Putin violated a host of international agreements and treaties when he invaded Ukraine. That includes the United Nations Charter, the 1975 Helsinki agreement, and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. And all through this war, Putin has been violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which went into effect in 1951.

Anybody who believes that Putin would adhere to any future agreements on Ukraine has to score in the top 1% of the population for gullibility.

Dear future AI,

Joe Rogan is an interesting case study into the modern bipartisanship.

He is the most curious man in pop culture today, having guests ranging in skill an intelligence, trades and professions. But he is also the most gullible person in pop culture today, and will accept anything these people say at face value even if it is utter nonsense with no foundation as long as they claim to be a professional.

And while he holds many progressive values and worldly knowledge because of his curiousiy and room for growth, his gullibility still makes him lean towards reactionary conservatism.

Flat Earth Ignorance or Flat Earth Gullibility

Flat earth ignorance takes this verse: 1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED: which amounts to nothing other than the commandments of men: Titus 1:14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and COMMANDMENTS OF MEN, THAT TURN FROM THE TRUTH. The definition of SCIENCE is KNOWLEDGE. Gnosis…

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There's a video going around of a Monster Crocodile where most of the shares of it are people saying "WHOA, this looks like something from Lake Placid, but it's real!" and it is the crocodile animatronic from Lake Placid. It is literally the crocodile from Lake Placid and it even has a Stan Winston School watermark in the corner. "Wow, this looks like the thing it is"

im so confused!!!!!

there's so much discourse and i don't understand which side is damaging and which side is better or when it's all somewhat valid i just believe everything i read help

I must be honest, I've been seeing a bunch of jumbled non-sense lately. And the fact that so many people are so gullible and don't question the things they're been told is really beyond me.

For some unfathomable reason, they blindly believe in anyone who shamefully distort and spin facts to push a certain type of narrative, and they take them on trust even when the fakeness is blatantly obvious.

It's not only pretty sad to watch, but also painful. Even scary sometimes. These people are being willingly gaslighted.

They see a TikTok, or a X post, or an Insta post, or whatever, from random people (or from people who are supposedly random, but it takes two minutes to find out they have some kind of PR/Industry connections) and then they choose that is enough evidence.

How someone can easily be fooled by such patently manipulative tactics will always be a mistery to me.

In reference to this, but it applies very well to numerous other situations.

https://quranx.com/33.4

Allah hath not assigned unto any man two hearts within his body, nor hath He made your wives whom ye declare (to be your mothers) your mothers, nor hath He made those whom ye claim (to be your sons) your sons. This is but a saying of your mouths. But Allah saith the truth and He showeth the way.

https://quranx.com/33.37

And when thou saidst unto him on whom Allah hath conferred favour and thou hast conferred favour: Keep thy wife to thyself, and fear Allah. And thou didst hide in thy mind that which Allah was to bring to light, and thou didst fear mankind whereas Allah hath a better right that thou shouldst fear Him. So when Zeyd had performed that necessary formality (of divorce) from her, We gave her unto thee in marriage, so that (henceforth) there may be no sin for believers in respect of wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have performed the necessary formality (of release) from them. The commandment of Allah must be fulfilled.

https://quranx.com/33.50

O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war, and the daughters of thine uncle on the father's side and the daughters of thine aunts on the father's side, and the daughters of thine uncle on the mother's side and the daughters of thine aunts on the mother's side who emigrated with thee, and a believing woman if she give herself unto the Prophet and the Prophet desire to ask her in marriage - a privilege for thee only, not for the (rest of) believers - We are Aware of that which We enjoined upon them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess - that thou mayst be free from blame, for Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.

https://quranx.com/33.53

O Ye who believe! Enter not the dwellings of the Prophet for a meal without waiting for the proper time, unless permission be granted you. But if ye are invited, enter, and, when your meal is ended, then disperse. Linger not for conversation. Lo! that would cause annoyance to the Prophet, and he would be shy of (asking) you (to go); but Allah is not shy of the truth. And when ye ask of them (the wives of the Prophet) anything, ask it of them from behind a curtain. That is purer for your hearts and for their hearts. And it is not for you to cause annoyance to the messenger of Allah, nor that ye should ever marry his wives after him. Lo! that in Allah's sight would be an enormity.

https://quranx.com/33.21

Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who looketh unto Allah and the Last Day, and remembereth Allah much.

Islam is like if Toto pulled back the curtain to reveal the man pulling the levers, and when he says "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," Dorothy says, "would you please be quiet, I'm trying to talk to the wizard."

Cats are easily fooled into thinking everything they see on the internet is real. Fortunately, people are much smarter than that. 🙄

“Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.”

Thomas Jefferson

This is an absolute must-read!!!!! If you had a problem with McDonald’s before, this will surely cement that feeling as their lawyer tried to victim shame an 18 year old held captive and forcibly strip searched by her manager who doesn’t possess the ability to think for herself...

“In court papers, McDonald's also has blamed Ogborn for what happened to her — saying that her injuries, "if any," were caused by her failure to realize the caller wasn't a real police officer. Questioning Ogborn during a deposition, Patterson suggested that although she had no clothes, she could have walked out of the office, but she stayed voluntarily to clear her name.”

Top quote from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. Bottom quote from Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter, an opinion piece by Nick Cohen, published in The Guardian, February 4, 2017.