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    "title": "Only Stupid People Call People Stupid",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Smart",
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    "created": "2014-08-13 08:22:48 UTC",
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        "2014-08-13 08:22:48 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Calling people stupid is simply a performance for the fellow travelers in your audience. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a way that we can all come together and agree that we don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have to engage with some argument, because the person making it is a bovine lackwit without the basic intellectual equipment to come in out of the rain. So the first message it sends -- \u00e2\u0080\u009cdon\u00e2\u0080\u0099t listen to opposing arguments\u00e2\u0080\u009d -- is a stupid message that is hardly going to make anyone smarter.</p>\n<p>The second message it sends is even worse: \u00e2\u0080\u009cIf he\u00e2\u0080\u0099s stupid, then we, who disagree with him, are the opposite of stupid, and can rest steady in the assurance of our cognitive superiority.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Feeding your own arrogance is an expansive, satisfying feeling. It is also the feeling of you getting stupider.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-12/only-stupid-people-call-people-stupid\">Only Stupid People Call People Stupid - Bloomberg View</a>.</p>\n"
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