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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Low effort edge lords. I hate low effort edge lords.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As an American myself, your average Americans head would spind then explode due to extreme confusion 10 minutes into sagans show.

Duck dynasty However is, misogynistic, extreme evangelism, shoot em up guns, blownin up stuff, and incomprehensible hillbilly nonsense that your average American thinks they understand quite well. They don't know it's yet another propaganda enterprise made to make you think you know, ya know?

Anyways sorry for the rant I just really despise that whole family

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

lots of sensitive fee fees in here LOL

ok, i'll join in: americans are stupid

and it's by design. remember when al franken asked betsy devos a simple question and it was made abundantly clear that she didn't know the first goddamn thing about education? but she bought her seat, so she became the secretary of education, saying we need guns in schools for "potential grizzlies." i'm not fucking making that up

not only do 1%ers (the people who are calling the shots on public education) not give a fuck about public education, but they actively despise it, as that is money going to poor people instead of themselves AND an educated populace is bad for the aristocracy. so yes, there is a MAJOR anti-intellectual bent to all of american culture thanks entirely to republicans from the top all the way down to the mayor level, and spoiler alert: it's not getting any better, since every attempt to improve education is blocked. by people who watch duck dynasty

edit: i need to add: to the people who insist on arguing against the painfully obviously hyperbolic statement "all americans are stupid" without taking 2 seconds to consider "maybe the core claim is that way too many americans are stupid, not literally every single american"-- you are reinforcing a side of the debate, just not the side you think you are

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

No it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Reality TV shows sucks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I liked Duck Dynasty and I'm from Europe .__. I think it run on Comedy Central overe here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what exactly did you like about it? havent seen more than bits really so it looks like some vietnam veterans doing cosplay and have a bird kink or sth.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah I don't mind it either, I get their political views are WAYYYY different than mine but it's pretty entertaining.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

A far more appropriate channel. Sadly, it is not intended to be a farce.

Edit: American ignorance update!

Disturbing Findings Reveal Significant Number Of Millennials and Gen Z Can’t Name A Single Concentration Camp Or Ghetto, Believe That Two Million Or Fewer Jews Were Killed And A Concerning Percentage Believe That Jews Caused The Holocaust

https://www.claimscon.org/millennial-study/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Proclaiming that Americans are retarded while also running around with shit streaming out of your pants isn't a very endearing argument. You're not wrong, but you're also not going to convince anyone your points have merit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do not make ableist proclamations.

But I do proclaim that Americans are, in general, anti-intellectual.

You do not have to be bigoted to criticize me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You're literally mocking people based on their perceived intelligence quotient but you get offended if I use a term like retarded. Gotcha. Seems just a bit hypocritical. You can try to fancy it up with ephemeral vocabulary all you want but at the end of the day you're mocking people for being less cognitively able. I'm just helping you see the paint that you laid down.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Duck Dynasty?? Is this meme from the 2005 collection or is it 2006?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Duck Dynasty was on until 2017. The people on it are still major right-wing celebrities.

Edit: American ignorance update!

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — How well do Americans succeed at distinguishing statements of fact from statements of opinion? The answer: Not very well at all, according to new research co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholars.

Americans struggle to tell the difference between statements of fact and statements of opinion – a troubling trend that has grave implications for civic discourse and for navigating the torrent of political information that citizens receive every day, said Jeffery J. Mondak, a professor of political science and the James M. Benson Chair in Public Issues and Civic Leadership at Illinois.

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1254104642

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What a dumb meme lol

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've heard of the dead guy's series from almost half a century ago.

I have no idea wtf Duck Dynasty is. Sounds like something I'd order with plum sauce.

[–] [email protected] 163 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Oh fuck off. “Cosmos” was never meant to be an ongoing series. Sagan didn’t intend for it to be more than one season. And there were two follow- up seasons with Neil deGrasse Tyson later on.

Also, there are 51 (and counting) seasons of “NOVA.” Not all Americans are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

And yet this is the man who is a hair's breadth from the White House a second time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0

Edit: Because I'm enjoying the hate and I'm enjoying looking this stuff up, here's the last ignorant Americans fact until another person angrily suggests that Americans are so way into Carl Sagan stuff!

More than one in five (22%) of those taking the test said astronomy was “the study of how the positions of stars and planets can influence human behavior.” The answer they should have given was astrology.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-science-quiz-americans-pew-20150909-story.html

While a growing share of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, there is one belief that appears to unite a significant share of them: astrology. YouGov’s latest poll finds that a little more than one-quarter of Americans (27%) – including 37% of adults under 30 – say that they believe in astrology, or that the position of the stars and planets influences people’s lives. About half of Americans (51%) say they don't believe in astrology and 22% are unsure.

https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/42292-one-four-americans-say-they-believe-astrology

51 percent of people in a new AP/GFK poll said they were "not too confident" or "not at all confident" that the statement "the universe began 13.8 billion years ago with a big bang" was correct.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-majority-of-americans-question-the-science-of-the-big-bang/360976/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Give it a rest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can throw statistics upon statistics and they will mean nothing without a comparison point, control group, or null hypothesis.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yet he’s never won the popular vote. The majority of Americans don’t like him. His backers are just good at manipulating the rubes and gaming the system.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Never won the popular vote" isn't saying much considering our low voter turnout.

Which is another thing which supports the idea that America is a pretty anti-intellectual country.

I'm not sure why you're trying to pretend otherwise.

Edit: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/nearly-7-in-10-u-s-adults-believe-in-angels-ap-norc-poll-finds

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was the highest turnout last election, no?

Universities are not unpopular.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Universities are not unpopular because it's hard to get a decent-paying job without a degree unless you want to do something like be a plumber or electrician.

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[+] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A society full of people who just don't understand really basic things.

On the one hand, Americans lean toward positive assessments of US nuclear policy. A majority believe nuclear weapons are either very or somewhat effective at preventing conflict between the United States and other countries (63 percent). Almost half (46 percent) are at least somewhat confident that the US missile defense system will protect them in the event of a nuclear war. And Americans who say they are familiar with nuclear deterrence (40 percent of the overall sample) overwhelmingly think it has been effective at preventing a nuclear attack on the United States (88 percent of those familiar with deterrence).

On the other hand, just under half the public think nuclear weapons make the United States safer (47 percent). When combined, almost as many say that nuclear weapons don’t make a difference (24 percent) in making the country safer or that they don’t know enough about nuclear weapons to express a view (19 percent). On this question, there are significant differences between age groups, racial groups, and partisan affiliations. Only among Americans over the age of 45 does a majority say that the US nuclear arsenal makes the country safer (55 percent); a plurality of younger Americans say they don’t make a difference. White Americans are more likely than other racial groups to say nuclear weapons make the country safer, largely because Hispanic and African Americans are more likely to say they do not know enough to express a view. And Republicans (61 percent) are more convinced than Democrats (45 percent) that nuclear weapons make the United States safer.

https://thebulletin.org/2023/08/survey-most-americans-dont-know-much-about-nuclear-weapons-but-they-want-to-know-more/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Bottom text indeed, my friend

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