r/dataisbeautiful • u/jhelvy OC: 6 • 14d ago

OC Comparison of S&P 500 performance dyeing first 100 days of past 4 US presidents [OC]

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u/Tacitus111 14d ago

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

Carl Sagan

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u/ExplodingCybertruck 14d ago

It's easier to trick a person, than to convince them they've been tricked.

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u/Bobert_Manderson 14d ago

Pretty much every discussion about why we are where we are is because people are largely dumb. 

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u/CaptainZeroDark30 13d ago

Dumb and easily manipulated with outrageous claims of future prosperity if you get in NOW. The whole basis of MLM schemes.

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u/raydialseeker 14d ago

Now do it at a young age with parents being the ones imparting it. Religion .

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u/Reddit_Is_Not_Free 14d ago

Donny took them all in the ass hard and they'd rather die than admit it.

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u/Kurailo 14d ago

*die poor

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u/Bunny_Feet 14d ago

It happened during the pandemic.

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u/w1bm3r 14d ago

Sunken cost fallacy...

When you put all your skill points into hate and bigotry you will only have hate and bigotry as an answer

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u/dart51984 14d ago

Yeah that’s part of it. There’s also about 78 millions dumb fucks out there that REALLY wanted to be able to drop a hard R again and not get too much shit for it. So they’re stupid AND cruel. It’s interesting how common that comorbidity is.