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Yeah I’m american and a huge majority of the people I interact with are idiots just mindlessly consuming shit as the world burns down around them.
I used to work in customer service some 10+ years ago. After having to interact with the general public for an extended period of time, I can confirm, the average American is dumb as a bag of rocks.
Spoiler: Yes.
Is it even a spoiler at this point? I mean, I live here and it’s fucking terrifying how stupid we are
This is the analogy I use.
Remember those high school seniors who were bullies to everyone and treated the teachers like garbage? The ones who know they were destined to work shitty jobs or join the military because they’d never go to college or get a good trade.
That’s your Trump voter. They know their way of life has peaked. They are too old, too dumb, or too stubborn to adapt to a changing world. They want coal plants and big gas guzzling cars because that’s what they want
You are missing a vital point. Those folks are mindless herd animals looking for a leader. They can’t leave the herd for fear of being lost and they are too dumb or lazy to figure things out themselves.
Oh, I agree. When Trump crashes and burns they’ll come up with a reason to blame the trans* folks for distracting them and vote for the next Great Leader.
*trans, or immigrants, or Greens, or anyone except themselves
If you add that these bullies were given high-paying blue collar jobs, cheap houses, and wives to abuse freely, it’s no longer an analogy. The Trumpist boomers literally had this happen. When this system broke they reacted to it like the selfish, hateful idiots they are.
Don’t kid yourself.
Trump has support across all age groups.
Go back to 'Gamergate" and you’ll see how the Right created the incel movement.
Never suggested he didn’t. The average age of Trump voters skews over 50 though.
One third of Americans are the worst of the worst. Racist, homophobic, bigoted, easily manipulated ,and stupid af.
Another third is apathetic, which imo also means stupid.
So yes.
Anyone that lived through the pandemic knows that yes, most people are idiots
Anyone that lived ~through the pandemic~ knows that yes, most people are idiots.
I feel like this is a pretty universal belief.
Even among the idiots, probably
Certainly. I think it’s kind of a truism that a high opinion of one’s own intelligence is comorbid with idiocy.
reminder that this situation has been engineered by decades of a billionaire powered machine defunding education and capturing a significant portion of the country in a propaganda machine
like, yea, americans are dumb and shitty, but we’ve largely been made to be this way. it’s not inherent and it’s not unfixable (altho it’s not like it’s solvable overnight, ofc, it took a long time to get here and it’ll take a long time to get out)
What are those two symbols that look like A in a circle?
Bottom seems to be anarchism (more of a political philosophy and not a religion) While top seems to be atheism (which is more of lack of a religion)
Its Atheism and Trekism, no Anarchy here sadly. Usually Anarchy has the A breaking the circle
Is this not Arch btw?
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The wagon wheel is kubernetes
That’s the Wheel of Dharma, a symbol from Buddhism, and to its right is the “Happy Human” symbol used by secular humanists.
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The one on the bottom is the common Anarchy symbol, while the one above is a 90s era trek com badge
Definitely not a circle A, or very strangely stylized one. But considering the context, it’s as unlikely as the bottom one being kubernetes logo
Anarchism is the only thing I can think of, but I’d have thought it’s more of a political movement than a religion
About 35% are undoubtedly and rigidly so. The truly unfortunate part is that they’re motivated idiots. They are actively and aggressively ignorant and very much want to impose their idiocy on the rest of the country.
The idiots make the most noise.
yes
I run into Euros all the time who think colonialism is over and everyone is forgiven because global south countries can make deals with Euro companies to destroy their land at the expense of their people instead of being invaded literally to destroy their land at the expense of their people (most of the time, of course). People in imperial metropoles are just more likely to require delusion to make sense of a world where they benefit from cruelty without being a bad person.
Many of the tactics we have to fight settler-colonial imperialism has come from colonized and marginalized people in the United States; liberals conveniently forget they exist because this fact challenges the inevitability of their way of life.
This looks exactly like the cover of one of those “everyone is stupid but me” self help self fellatio instruction books. When do they tell you to pull a rib out?
I mean, is it not apparent at this point?
If you watch someone do the thing where they step on a rake and hit themselves in the face more than once, you have to accept the reality that they’re probably stupid.
Americans have stepped on the rake a lot more than once.
It’s like they built roads out of rakes and will loudly exclaim that they have the best roads in the world.
My theory is brain atrophy. It’s not that those people are stupid and unable to learn, it’s that they don’t have to use their brains for any sort of analytical thinking and kind of forget how to do it. You can still teach them their trade and they will be good at their job but they are never challenged intellectually. School is easy and you can finish education just by playing sports or whatever, news are predigested and dumbed down, entertainment is not intellectually stimulating in any way. Most people go through their lives without ever having to contemplate anything deeper than what hamburger to have for lunch. Then when Trump shows up they simply don’t have the brain capacity needed to understand he’s lying to them. “He says the war is good for us”. That’s it. There’s no “but” because their brains can’t do that anymore. The processing just stops right there.
Of course there are still curious people there that study, wonder about things and try to understand the world. It’s just that they are the minority now. In other countries the proportions are reversed for now but things don’t look that good there either.
Dunning-Kruger effect runs rampant in America.
