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The Trump II cabinet so far: Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Jr. and Elon Musk.

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[–] samokosik 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I do not think musk is stupid but he is an idiot. At least behaves like one.

Whilst I do not think he has a low IQ, he certainly misses crucial points in many areas.

[–] quafeinum 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s really easy when you inherit wealth… hard part is inheriting wealth for most people though

[–] samokosik -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Elon actually says he hasn’t inherited money from parents and had quite terrible relationships with them.

[–] quafeinum 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You think he paid for his education himself? I sure believe him when he says that he thinks that, doesn’t make it true though

[–] samokosik 1 points 2 months ago

yeah but cost of the studies is a fraction of what he made

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] samokosik 2 points 2 months ago

Now let them argue i guess

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Would you believe an idiot though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I do not think musk is stupid but he is an idiot.

This is truly one of the observations of all time.

[–] ClamDrinker 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

People forget emotional intelligence is also just as much if not more important than logical intelligence when attempting to change the world for the better. And both Trump and Musk rank among the lowest of low there.

[–] Eximius 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It, honestly, is not. If you want to decide what is fair, what is true, what is good, you dont fucking believe the universe god flows through your emotions. Instead, you think logically, and try to analize and understand what in the human world are the concepts of liberty, good life. And also, analizing whether your emotions are dumbly guiding you in stupid directions.

You cannot solve any societal problems with emotional feeling of what is good. That is what republicans do. Empirical bullshit loosely based on their inherent emotional desires of racism, chauvinism and the rest of the assorted bag of megalomaniac insanity pills.

[–] ClamDrinker 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying, perhaps you are unfamiliar with the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence Because what you are describing is exactly what I was saying. High emotional intelligence is not relying blindly on your emotions like republicans do, that's what low emotional intelligence looks like.

[–] Eximius 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Relying on logic and rationalism is just intelligence. Emotional Intelligence is understanding and to some degree using peoples emotions, if you want to be very correct. You dont use emotions to define social policy, and hopefully, any social policy will be devoid of emotions, because that can only lead towards confusion, biasedness and group mentality.

If you want to define EI as ability to step away from one's own emotions. Sure. We can agree with that. Personally I would just call that intelligence.

[–] ClamDrinker 1 points 2 months ago

Every piece of legislature ever needs to deal with the emotions of it's subjects. An unemphatic, but cold hard rational law, will be nothing less of tyrannical most of the time. Laws are for humans to follow, and humans have emotions that need to be understood for a law to be successful and supported to last into the future. A law that isn't supported by it's subjects eventually leads to revolution (big and small).

How logic and rational a person can be is highly dependent on their emotional intelligence. You might be able to suppress your emotions when there is no stress at all, but if you cave during a stressful situation and start lashing out, that does impact your overall intelligence. Intelligence is just the collection of behaviors and training that make you effective at doing what you want to do, and being rational and logical is definitely good, but not the end of it all.