Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

dilettante

I had to look that up as well.

Gordon Brown is a lot of things but he's not a half-wit.

he's not a half-wit

Teach me a better word for a person whose confidence in a hypothesis grows stronger as the evidence of its fallaciousness mounts.

A person with a self serving bias. Half wit commonly means stupid, he wasn't stupid, he was a dick.

I found it a weird characterisation, backwards from how he is generally characterised, which is an intelligent man who used his intelligence to bully and crush others and was arrogant to the point of self destruction.

word for a person whose confidence in a hypothesis grows stronger as the evidence of its fallaciousness mounts.

Given how prevalent this condition has become, and how annoying it must have always been throughout human history, it is odd that we don’t yet have a word for that specific definition.

So why does Tony Blair get wheeled out by the bbc to talk trash every now and then

It is isn't it. I wonder if the Germans have one.

why does Tony Blair get wheeled out by the bbc

Hmm...you do the maths

Teach me a better word for a person whose confidence in a hypothesis grows stronger as
the evidence of its fallaciousness mounts.

Brexiteer?

Brexiteer?

If you want to take a cheap shot, why not aim broader with "politician"?

Your answer fails because it presupposes that everybody who wanted to leave the EU wanted to do so for outcomes which were unlikely or even impossible. Furthermore, the failure to achieve certain desirable outcomes by means of the soft exit delivered by our government may legitimately strengthen hypotheses about the achievability of such outcomes by a hard exit.

I do not question that there is a subgroup of Brexiteers who meet the test of having been wrong before the vote, proved wrong after it, and nonetheless more vehement now in the delusion that the thing they wanted was both desirable and possible, but for the word to meet the definition, it must be universal, not partial.

Also, memes:
https://twitter.com/Russia/status/1446131525385293833?t=AB4lrhyGL7OoKRx7YOe6Lw&s=19

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Politician won’t work then.

It needs to convey a lack of meta cognitive wherewithal with an element of stubbornness. A mix of anosognosis and pig-headedness that also increases in correlation to opposition. There must be a word … 🤔

Not really a laughing meme but I found it interesting. Hint, it’s not a joke, probably more impressive with normal daytime settings on your screen.

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I can only make out 4 of them - how many are there?

I’m up to 7 so far

I detect a military presence of 2.

Subgroup

Yeah a tiny eeny weeny proportion

I was just thinking this too, where’s Oliver?

Took me a while but amazing that there’s at least 12.

Is that including the one in the gold and white dress?

13

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Not counting the two dressed as civilians who might be realistic mannequins… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6OoIHkseN8

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one for the boxing fans

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