• watson@lemmy.world
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    The difference between the US and Europe in this regard is that Europeans are a bit more discreet with their crazy people. EU have 3 times the population as the United States does, obviously they’re gonna have ~3 times more crazy people than we do. They just don’t talk much about it, while, in the US, the crazy people refuse to shut the fuck up

    Edit: I mistakingly used EU instead of Europe when referring to a population of around 750 million. The EU does not have that population, but Europe, generally speaking, it does. That was my mistake.

    Edit: yikes, a lot of crazy people disagree with me

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      Crazy vs. uneducated. Two different things. Not being able to read or not knowing how vaccines work is not a crazy person thing, it’s an uneducated person thing.

      The education in the EU is better AND it’s free. That’s why there are less dumb people who are anti-vaxers and can’t read.

      They are not more discreet. They actually just have better educated people.

      Being better education also helps deal with mental health issues in addition to having free healthcare (although it’s lacking in the mental health department), so less people are actually going crazy and doing things like school shootings or voting for a rapist in the presidential elections.

      It’s all education.

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        I feel that you may be correlating untreated mental illness with a lack of education, and those are not the same things.

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          The initial commenter talked about not being able to read and thinking dogs can get autism.

          You said this is a crazy people thing and Europe has just as many if them, but they are just more “quiet”.

          I corrected you that this is an education thing and that is why Europe has less people who can’t read or think that dogs can get autism.

          I also linked education and healthcare to having more mentally stable people.

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          I feel that you may be correlating untreated mental illness with a lack of education

          And the USA has more of both. More mentally ill people AND more uneducated people.

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            I suggest you get a dictionary and look up the word “nuance”

            Edit: apparently, Europeans are just as capable of xenophobia and bigotry as Americans are. We have so much in common!