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[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I gotta wonder if there's one of those internet laws like "The dumber the opinion, the more attention it gets"

[–] vegetal@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ha - I'm not sure there is! There's still time to give it a name - perhaps Rittenhouse's Lowest Common Denominator: "the dumber the opinion, the more attention it gets." Feel free to disregard, improve, or workshop that.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] vegetal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yes - that's excellent.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

More dumb normalizes the regular dumb.