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| Topic | Ricky Gervais to celebs: Don't get political. Accept your award and fuck off. |
| Romes187 01/06/20 12:43:53 PM #17: | Balrog0 posted... I don't have any reason to believe the average celebrity knows less about public policy than the average politician Politicians are certainly stupid But the average celebrity combines that stupidity with an insane amount of money, giving them a lethal combination of impostor syndrome and cognitive dissonance. The justification to help ease the impostor syndrome comes in the form of "I must be smart and my opinions must be valuable" therefore I will use my platform I gained by pretending to be someone else, and I'll just be myself. They all need to go study an actual problem and really (like, really actually) learn about it and its nuances instead of reading a wiki article like most people do for whatever hot button issue is in the public discourse. All it really takes is seeing the nuance of one item to realize you don't know shit about anything (no one does) and the world is far to complicated to be giving "hot takes" on anything really. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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