• essell@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Well, it’s hard to judge how stupid people are.

    People often mistake disagreement for being stupid. Or someone doing something dumb as being stupid, even though everyone does something dumb sometimes.

    Better to judge on actions, rather than whatever guess we have of how stupid someone is.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      2 days ago

      Sure. One or two stupid things here or there is not an issue but you can take how they respond to it into account. Do they get pissed off and double down when confronted with a mistake or do they try to be better? Even being stupid isn’t in itself a bad thing if the stupid person acknowledges the issue and stays in their lane instead of, I don’t know, getting themselves elected president of the united states.