Eh, I dunno, personally I'm willing to believe that Tony was at one point sufficiently smart and hard-working to get a decent grade at university. The past decade has seen plenty of book-smart people turn their brains off, make outlandish statements, and denounce anyone who disagrees as a nazi.
OT but wtf autocorrect? making me look more retarded than I am.
The tony trope is actually a bit of a thing here in the south that I’ve noticed. (Big fish in a little pond) People who were gifted as children or excelled in academic settings are praised and bathed in their “brilliance” while young and they find in the real world that you can’t coast on As, you have to apply intuition, repetition, learning as you go. Things that can’t be taught in school and only come from lived experience. It’s a bit jarring to go from knowing what to expect in a school setting and mastering that, to being thrown out of the nest and finding that the world isn’t as predictable, nor will the world be as impressed with your thinkin meats as your mother. As they get older and venture into the real world a lot of the “gifted kids” struggle to cope with the drastic difference and turn to drugs and alcohol, dumbing themselves down over time, many still speaking fondly of their childhood achievements.
it certainly takes a level of cunning to be as manipulative he is, getting yourself on tv and in front of lawmakers certainly takes something. i guess i wish he'd apply it to some of his tweets but when his audience are so dumb they won't call him out on it, or he knows he can call anyone who does a bigot, he doesn't need to.
"We're not experts in X so we can't regulate X" is an interesting position for people who are nominally representing their constituents to take! (The composition of the chamber aside.) Perhaps the Democrats will carry this through into the 2024 election and run on a platform of abolishing democracy and instituting a technocracy? Even under conservative definitions, we've had representative democracy for several hundred years, if only we had come up with some way for elected representatives to gather information from subject matter experts.
I'm sure this was the case for Tony. He wrote on his teenage Livejournal about being "gifted" and attending a selective school (LSMSA). Previously:
I disagree. The copious drug use did a number on his brain cells sooner than when he enlisted to become a late-term eunuch. Even so, he is a bit over 100 years late to wield any social power in Imperial China. Now he just has a severed penis to show for it.
Has there been a "major pro-trans hearing" in the House before?I'm not sure what is more amusing. Tony's deranged babbling about "misinformation" which he is spreading himself or his insane delusion that he "corrected" anything.
As well as wanting to be viewed as an authority, I think he needs control over people. To the extent he wants to control what they think.
I think there was a title IX case where the ban on troons in women's sports was overturned. That'll go to federal court and the troons will likely lose. I think the court will properly recognize that sex means sex.
It should be known that the education system is so bad in Louisiana (grade school through college) that anyone with *any* spare money sends their kids to private school and if you have a 4.0 the state will literally pay you to stay in-state to go to college. I knew someone who was offered a free ride plus thousands of dollars a year to go to LSU but still chose to go out of state because her family could afford it.
I wouldn't read too much into the selective-school thing. I'm not in the US, but I went to a selective school (sorry for powerlevel) and there were quite a few people there who weren't that smart at all, but attended private training colleges to prepare for the entrance test and then worked their arses off to partly compensate. I'd say that selective-school attendance (on its face) is indicative more of a propensity/willingness to study than it is of real intelligence. And Tony is a social climber, so he'd have fit that mould, which I think gels with what g. multiforme said in the third bit of quoted text.
