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and people eat it up
I'm continuously baffled and horrified by how low average intelligence actually is. And I discover new depths in different ways every day. I used to consider myself below average to average intelligence, depending on what's being measured. Or I suppose I still could be below average, I just had no idea how absolutely stupid people can be. I've had conversations with children that have more critical thinking skills than the political talk I witness.
I don't think it is even an intelligence issue. I think you hit the nail on the head with the last sentence: Americans are not taught to think critically. That is a skill you have to be taught and once taught, you have to exercise it. And the latter isn't happening because most schools don't do the former.
You can be very smart, but without that skill in your tool belt, it doesn't matter in many situations. Especially not with politics.
And I think it explains why there are so many evangelicals in the engineering field. They aren't stupid people, they just don't know how to think critically and they are in a field where they don't necessarily have to but can still use their intelligence.
My fine aviatorial cephalopoda, they have to put warning signs to not drink battery acid from your car and that hot coffee will scald you. There are people out there that intelligence is indeed the issue.
I think you need to look more closely at the McDonald's coffee incident. The warnings are there so that they no longer get sued for causing customers ridiculously bad burns. The battery acid one is like "keep out of reach of children." Again, a way to not get sued.
That is about American litigiousness, not intelligence.
I'm sorry, but suggesting that Americans are just stupid as if there's some sort of stupidity field you enter when you cross the border or it's some sort of genetic thing is silly. There are people of all levels of intelligence in the U.S., just like everywhere else.
Spoken like a man who's never worked fast food or retail.
I've literally worked both. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.
They have those establishments in other countries and let me tell you, they complain about the same things Americans working those jobs do.
I understand the confusion, I meant a percentage of all people not just Americans.
Most of the people in my immediate family hate trump and voted for him anyways because he was still the best option. Plenty of people know what a terrible person/hypocrite he is. It's not about misinformation or intelligence, most people in the country agreed with him more than Kamala. I'm just glad we won't have to see him again in 4 years other than a lone speech here and there.
Don’t forget President Musk also disowned his own daughter because she’s trans/transitioned. Father of the year folks.
All depends which traditions you favor.
Only the ones told to us by the media in this household! /s
"I stand for the flag. I kneel for the cross."
Only uttered by people who have never once knelt in front of a cross.
Yes, but they are rich.
Rich people don't have to do anything according to any rules.
Anything that would be seen as a negative in a poor person is twisted in to being a positive quality if you're rich. Rich assholes are assertive leaders. Rapists are ladies men. Alcoholics just like to drink. Doesn't matter what it is.
I remember a post raving about the ability of some rich toddler (I think British royal) being able to speak 2 languages .... bitch please,... my wife had to translate official documents for her parents as soon as she could read and was born literally in the dirt of crumbled Soviet Russia....
The media is complicit...
I mean, why else would you want to be rich? (Paraphrasing from another comment on another thread here earlier today that referenced a Chinese movie from the 60's that expressed similar sentiments)
They lie, steal and are bald with phony purchased hair.
I'm more worried about how many children they had with children while visiting their buddy Epstein
Probably none, remember they are in favor of abortion when it's convenient for them.
Well. They claim credit for that many.
Like Donald Trump's penis ever got erect lol.
Have they actually preached about traditional family values? I don't recall either of them embracing any traditional values.
Their surrogates sure have. While praising them.
That's just a byproduct of the party he is aligned with. Trump did, however, try to quote a Bible verse and said 2 Corinthians as "two Corinthians" which made it obvious that the Bible was not something he was familiar with.