rant · moment 13 of 24
Why Stupid People Should Be Mocked
from Gutsy | The Tim Dillon Show #315 · #315
2 min
Tim argues that mockery of stupid beliefs (COVID conspiracies, QAnon, celebrity worship) is actually socially useful because it makes bad ideas less potent and drives believers away.
- Tim argues that people with no background knowledge are right about one thing—that things are messed up and people are lying—but wrong about everything else that follows from it.
- Examples of conspiracy theories that went nowhere: COVID as a fake disease Trump released as cover for Hillary's bioweapon, or a military mill, or three days of darkness.
- Stupid people should be made fun of, just like people who think Hillary Clinton cares about women.
- Tim explains that mocking stupid people serves a social function: it diminishes their ideas' potency and causes them to fade away.
- Examples of stupid claims worthy of ridicule: the Earth is flat, the moon is a spaceship, Donald Trump Jr. never died, Princess Diana and Michael Jackson are alive.
- Tim's position: these people are actually just dumb, not even necessarily dangerous, though that argument could be made.