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[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

...I walk into this thread, and that's what I see. That image in my mind cracks me up.

Anyway, who's your most favoritest evil conniver who're-you-fooling liar yelling idiot yet-another-bush Republican candidate? I don't know who I'd pick (if I had to), but I know it wouldn't be Trump or Cruz or Carson. Seriously, you're a brain surgeon, that means you've been through college. Did you sleep through every class you took?

[Sheb]

Ads for the national radio channel next to my place:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

BXL stands for Brussels, the text reads "If this happens, we'll be the first to tell you".

[smjjames]

Ads for the national radio channel next to my place:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

BXL stands for Brussels, the text reads "If this happens, we'll be the first to tell you".

So, if Trump eats a frosted Belgian waffle, they'll be the first to tell you? lol.....

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump really did love Brussels, or at least certain parts of it.

[Loud Whispers]

Cos there's an obvious difference between someone growing up in a family who for generations has been obligated to the country and someone whose parents just illegally immigrated

must not be that obvious, i'm not seeing it

3rd generation Turks living in Germany descended from illegal migrants - still not integrated to this day

Obvious ostrich chiki briki

[RedKing]

Define "integrated".

[Helgoland]

If we differentiate, they turn out to be regular Turks.

[Bauglir]

Seriously, you're a brain surgeon, that means you've been through college. Did you sleep through every class you took?

I like to imagine his whole campaign has been a coldly calculated effort to appeal to the crazy parts of the party in order to gain power, but that he simply didn't count on Trump running this year and ever since has been struggling, and failing, to keep up.

In reality, though, it's more likely that intelligence and knowledge aren't simple linear scales, and competence at surgery doesn't at all translate into competence at running a government. Also, I doubt he ever took any relevant classes, having presumably dedicated his undergrad time to premed studies, although I don't actually care enough to verify that.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

His competence in surgery is actually pretty questionable. I know one of his former patients, her condition was a severe but well-understood one, and ultimately his intervention ended up causing her a lifetime of severe chronic pain and some loss of motor function.

[misko27]

No, I’m not—no, no no. I don’t repeat myself. I don’t repeat myself.

[scriver]

His competence in surgery is actually pretty questionable. I know one of his former patients, her condition was a severe but well-understood one, and ultimately his intervention ended up causing her a lifetime of severe chronic pain and some loss of motor function.

Any surgery can go wrong, though. It's not like he was trying to replace her throat pipe with a plastic protesis or anything.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Maybe, but it doesn't support the idea of "genius neurosurgeon Ben Carson". An average doctor can make those mistakes, a field prodigy cannot.

[nenjin]

I basically don't trust the capacity of anyone that self-describes as a genius.

Most of all Ben Carson. He may have the rep of a genius surgeon, but he's got the presence and charisma of a tre-panning patient.

[Bauglir]

An average doctor can make those mistakes, a field prodigy cannot.

That's... not actually how it works, sorry. A prodigy would get to the level of an average doctor faster, and/or be able to deal with less-understood conditions more effectively, and/or fail with well-understood conditions less often. In any of those cases, a sample size of 1 fuckup doesn't actually rule out anything.

Like, I'm not actually claiming that he's a particularly great doctor, I'm just saying your criteria are bad.

[smjjames]

Not to mention that he has a sample size of one. MSH, do you know any other patients of his or have access to data that shows how many didn't go well and how many went well? (rhetorical question)