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Superstar
The epicenter of flat earth, anti-vax, and modern far right movements?
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How Stupid Would You Rate America, From 1 to 10, 10 being immensely STUPID.
- Thread starter Prince.Skeletor
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Vast majority of the people in this country is dumb as fukk. As some have already pointed out, look who is president.
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Red Shield
Global Domination
sad isn't it... could have had a real shining city on the hill.
When all of this shyt finally goes... I wonder if they will think it was all worth it.
mc_brew
#NotMyPresident
i was going to say something like this.... the human race isn't all that bright period... we're still primitive as a species....
And some idiots are Lupe haters
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I think it's actually noticeably worse now than 10 or 20 years ago. In the 90s or 2000s my answer would've been a 7 or 8, but it's definitely a 10 now.
Not only the Trump presidency, but you have large sections of the population that think the Earth is flat, climate change isn't real, and vaccines are some sort of conspiracy.
Feels like living through the country's descent into the Idiocracy.
Not only the Trump presidency, but you have large sections of the population that think the Earth is flat, climate change isn't real, and vaccines are some sort of conspiracy.
Feels like living through the country's descent into the Idiocracy.
A solid 7.
It's interesting to see how even "smart" people can be incredibly emotionally driven.
I mentioned the other day that a Democratic city council member went off on me online when I said that some Dems wouldn't vote for Bloomberg even going up against Trump. The guy who went off was actually a really smart guy. But he was SO emotional about the fact that I had a different position than him, all he could do was insult me, call me a moron, repeat himself while failing to address any of my arguments. He wasn't even reading my arguments correctly because anything I said he just assumed fit into some box he had already labeled me into. When he deleted the original conversation from his public page I thought he might have figured out that he had fukked up, but then he said even worse shyt in my PMs than he had said in public.
I went to college with all sorts of brilliant scientists, and the truth is even a lot of smart folk make many of their decisions emotionally, then figure out how to use their intellect to justify those decisions after the fact. Outside of a few very careful, fair-minded people (not even 1 in 5), I'd say that even smart people are only maybe 10% less wrong on important shyt than average people. The rest of the time they're just going off of groupthink or emotion and their intelligence ain't helping them at all except in how creatively they can justify the decisions that their emotions already made.
I mentioned the other day that a Democratic city council member went off on me online when I said that some Dems wouldn't vote for Bloomberg even going up against Trump. The guy who went off was actually a really smart guy. But he was SO emotional about the fact that I had a different position than him, all he could do was insult me, call me a moron, repeat himself while failing to address any of my arguments. He wasn't even reading my arguments correctly because anything I said he just assumed fit into some box he had already labeled me into. When he deleted the original conversation from his public page I thought he might have figured out that he had fukked up, but then he said even worse shyt in my PMs than he had said in public.
I went to college with all sorts of brilliant scientists, and the truth is even a lot of smart folk make many of their decisions emotionally, then figure out how to use their intellect to justify those decisions after the fact. Outside of a few very careful, fair-minded people (not even 1 in 5), I'd say that even smart people are only maybe 10% less wrong on important shyt than average people. The rest of the time they're just going off of groupthink or emotion and their intelligence ain't helping them at all except in how creatively they can justify the decisions that their emotions already made.
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mc_brew
#NotMyPresident
this is the most articulate answer in this thread and it applies to all humans, not just americans... smart people do the same things as dumb people, they just have better thought out justifications for the same actions.... like rhakim said, it is emotions that dictate far too many of our actions... it's just the human condition....