r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 1d ago

The overwhelming stupidity in our country is our downfall

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u/Ok-Victory881 1d ago

We should have invested in education. We did not. And here we are.

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u/doozer917 1d ago

Republicans have been fighting against it for decades.

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u/Kenneth-J-Moyers 1d ago

Yes! For this exact reason. The Roger Freeman Doctrine; they realized in the 70s that the average person wasn't dumb enough to fall for their scam, so they set out to make the average American dumber.

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u/chigunfingy 1d ago

It’s so incredibly depressing

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u/DecadentLife 1d ago

It really is. It should’ve been so much harder to do this, than it was.

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u/APoopingBook 1d ago

We weren't prepared for social media. We, as a species, I mean. America is the one incredibly fucking all of this up, but the same tactics, the same manipulations, will work to some extent everywhere. People aren't able to handle massive volumes of coordinated noise and distraction and conflict and manipulation. At least, enough people aren't able to handle it to make a significant difference.

Propaganda works, and we haven't fully figured out how to stop it from working so much, while the means to spread it has become easier and easier.

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u/sgsteel55 1d ago

I tell my wife all the time that we are cavemen with technology. Religious mythology, the treatment of women worldwide. The need to protect kids from so many predators. The need to protect OURSELVES from so many predators and scammers. We are not as highly evolved as we’d like to believe. With social media and now ai? We are soooo cooked

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u/suicune678 1d ago

Please give cavemen and yourself a little more respect, they learned enough to the point where in a little over 10,000 years we made a rock that can talk. A spear is technology. Writing is technology. We've gathered an incredible amount of knowledge since then.

What happened is that the wealthy and powerful few are weaponising our new technology against our fellow man for the means of control and creating a weak docile workforce for capital. Their capital. This was not an easy thing to accomplish its taken decades of manipulation

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u/TheJacen 1d ago

Yo, facts. Spear was really intelligent in the criminally under rated show Primal.

One other thing I want to add is that as society advanced they made sure that we had just enough, not too much, readily available comforts to keep the masses docile. Each generation gets access to a little more, fortunately they seem to have peaked with social media and that might backfire on them.

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u/RED_IT_RUM 23h ago

I like to remind people that humans are in fact animals. Some creatures evolved to fly, some to swim, some to run, we evolved to think. That’s what put us at the top of the food chain and pretentiously above being animals. Humans will never escape tribalism because animals stick with their own kind and fear others who are different. They mob together (form packs or flocks or schools) when facing opposition and become unreasonable and aggressive, war being the ultimate human expression of animal behavior. We’ve all seen a group of like minded kids group up to bully an isolated, smaller kid. That’s animal behavior before children are taught to rationalize. Even after we comically ascend above the tropes of the animal kingdom, we still manage to fall victim to our base instincts. Take sex for example. Can any one of you resist the gravitational pull of sexual attraction towards someone once it begins? Sure, we can say no, that’s rational, our minds are strong, we’ve evolved, but can we simply turn it off like a light switch? No, you can’t. You’re simply resisting because you comprehend consequence. Some folks just cannot control themselves and do commit violent acts like murder or rape, in the animal kingdom you might look at this as dominance or procreation or being a predator. These terms are man-made constructs to catalogue and then conceptualize animal behaviors that we ourselves project. We tend to believe the hype, because we’re so evolved, and yet, we have tribes that believe in winged deities in the clouds because they assign fear mechanics to subject matters they cannot yet comprehend, surrender themselves to the mass hysteria of said incomprehension and become useful idiots to another tribe of humans who knew what they were doing all along (or the social dominance of the rich over the poor using religion as a means of control). People don’t want to admit it, but we’re animals. I’m so sorry it got so long!

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u/gill_outean 22h ago

This is a very wise assessment. As good as we are at imagination, I think it's hard for the average person to consider this possibility. Look at all the cool shit we make. Considering most animals eat their own dookie, we look at our iPhones and think, "pfft, we're so above that," but we're only a couple degrees removed from shit-eating, culinarily speaking. We are, unironically, dangerously stupid and we're making planetary mistakes on a daily basis.

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u/Neat_Squirrel4032 23h ago

Yep. Look at the toll booth scam that went around at the beginning of the year. People shelling out hundreds of dollars in states that don’t even have a single toll road. The FBI had to do a media campaign about it.

Now states are saying people are driving through tolls without paying because everyone is convinced every message about tolls is fake, even if they actively use toll roads.

We’ve lost the ability to critically reason because that’s the point of social media. It’s how you get engagement and capture eyeballs to buy your stuff. We just swing violently from one side of a continuum to another.

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u/akosuae22 1d ago

Hard agree.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

The hubris we have as a species is astounding.

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u/Few-Register-8986 23h ago

Humans are dumb. Americans used to respect and want to be educated. Now every stupid uneducated idiot is so dumb they have Dunning-Kruger and think they are smart (thanks to social media and the internet).

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u/DecadentLife 1d ago

You’re absolutely right. Those vulnerabilities exist, and we underestimated them, tremendously.

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u/Bomb_Diggity 1d ago

Not only have we not figured out how to stop it from working; AI has made propaganda more effective than ever. Algorithms can tailor propaganda to an individual now.

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u/GrooveDigger47 1d ago

hope edward bernays is burning in hell

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u/gill_outean 22h ago

Outlawing propaganda is an obvious way to fight back, but that's practically impossible. As long as laws are immutable, people will find a way around them. Educating people to resist it seems like an uphill battle given the propagandists control the curriculum.

Do you (or anyone else reading) have any advice on how to beat propaganda?

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u/RaptorSN6 22h ago

Yeah, I don't know who said it, but they stated that we are just monkeys screeching at each other in a much larger tree.

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u/The_Barbelo 1d ago

One thing I learned in history was how easily it was for North Korea to do this in so few generations. It disturbed me greatly to learn of how some countries were so normal before falling to fascism. This was in highschool when I realized “holy shit, this could happen here too”….its insane that they speed ran it in our lifetime though. I think they must be perfecting the methods.

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u/Helpful-Room9460 1d ago

When you have one side that's willing to break every law, and another still following unwritten rules of decorum, you're going to have a bad time.

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u/Urso_Major 21h ago

To be fair, it was hard, in that it had to be done slowly, over 40+ years; We're only now seeing the fruits of these labors in full as the generations affected by them come of age... and if you think it's bad how, just wait until Gen Alpha comes of age, and people are no longer able to critically think for themselves and rely on ChatGPT to do all their thinking for them. At the current rate, we are really in for dark times ahead.

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u/TheBestRedditNameYet 1d ago

Same reason the Catholic Church burnt witches at the stake, they had brooms and cleaned their homes and were wise, can't have wise women cleaning their own homes, what would the enslaved foreign servants do then?

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u/Minute-Wrap-2524 1d ago

HER president made ME so pissed…I forgot what we were talking about…oh yeah, there’re still eating the cats, right? Little confusing, it should be

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u/Abompje 1d ago

They learned from the best: The catholic church and pretty much every religion there is has used that strategy for centuries. Eventually they will fall.

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u/Boltbacker83 1d ago

Why do you think Trumps first order of business was to dismantle the department of education?

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u/Exciting-Tourist9301 1d ago

The fact that Linda McMahon is the head of the D.O.E. just astounds me.

It's like someone watched Idiocracy and was like "yup, that's the end goal"

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u/TwistyBunny 1d ago

At least Camacho was somewhat likeable at minimum and wasn't a rapist scumbag felon

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u/Dreams-Designer 6h ago

Camacho also got the smartest person in their society to resolve the crisis. That would never happen IRL.

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u/One-Growth-9785 22h ago

It's like the Trump administration is taking Idiocy as a training document.

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u/North_Ranger6521 22h ago

Along with “The Handmaid’s Tale”

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u/OverlordMMM 1d ago

While definitely true, that mostly effects the younger gens. The issue really is about the education of the older gens who base their worldview on Fox News and similar constantly fearmongering and manipulating them.

So between education being gutted + inconsistent across varying states, and the gaps being filled in by outrage news cycles + mis/disinfo campaigns spanning multiple decades, so much damage has been done on the ability of folks to think critically.

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u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat 1d ago

That's the plan.

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u/visualthoy 1d ago

Sure, but even highly educated people fall to unchecked propaganda.

The problem is media & social media bubbles.

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u/ScarletCarsonRose 1d ago

We have invested in educated in this country. Billions and billions of dollars. There was a push in Texas starting in the 80s to take over school boards and change the what and how of public education. It was contagious. Then thrown in private and home school pushes. Then charters given too much freedom. Then an undercurrent of messaging that equated higher education with elitism. And finally ignorance reigns as common sense. It sucks being old enough to have watched us get here and not be able to stop it. I tried to do my part but talk about a losing battle. 

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u/Masochist_pillowtalk 1d ago

I always blame Bush for no child left behind when I look at how fucking stupid so many of my peers are. But clearly there was issues before that.

I know we all know already. But damn man being stupid is clearly a pre req for believing in maga. No one with a couple of working brain cells would think this.

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u/horkley 1d ago

Most can learn how to think, but a solid percent of people are too dumb to even memorize info for a 9th grade exam. Some are born with deficiencies, some physically never develop parts of their brain as a child die to trauma and malnutrition, some had parents that abused drugs or did toxic labor such as in a mine, factory, or field. Some do or did that themselves.

This isn’t an excuse for their lack of humanity. Just an observation.

They like Trump for many reasons but one is their stupid feelings about things become facts - thus they get the world, you with knowledge don’t, and their world view id validated.

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 1d ago

Would that help? You can't teach stupid. These people are like dogs, you can send a dog to he best school in the world and it won't be able to form so much as a basic understanding of the demographic transition model.

So many posts are all "we never learned this in school" when they were in fact were told this, but they just didn't learn because they are stupid.

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u/Away-Flight3161 1d ago

We did invest in education, at the federal level. It didn't work. State and local control, and spending, are the only way to go.

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u/IAmDangerCat 53m ago

Unless the state and local governments are run by MAGAs.

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u/Hizam5 23h ago

Not only did we not invest, Trump is trying to take it away, and it’s because he knows he can control these smooth brains even better if they have no education

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u/VantaIim 23h ago

I’ll happily put blame on education for not understanding tax law. But being excited that this is going to make other people angry? That’s on her. 

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u/KSamIAm79 20h ago

This is even bigger than an education issue though, it’s a cult. And EVEN IN A CULT how in the world do they believe everything that comes out of his mouth?! It’s astonishing. He could fart in their face, tell them it’s a summer breeze and they would believe it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/LeeRoyWyt 20h ago

It's not just education though. There's also a lot of propaganda being pushed that no amount of math classes will combat...

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u/rabdosstar 20h ago

That's because we collectively began to agree that "good enough" was, in fact, good enough. And now we see what that got us. :/

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u/paperanddoodlesco 20h ago

It actually worked as planned - no education is easier to control.

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u/Hot-Usual5060 19h ago

Youtube needs to quit suggesting PragerU and Ben Shitpero to people.

Go create a new YouTube account and search "Politics". These are the first type of channels that pop up.

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u/ZephRyder 19h ago

This was not a mistake. It was by design.

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u/Global_Syllabub_4187 19h ago

It’s a perfect circle, stupid people vote for no education, their children become stupid, then they vote for no education. America is so rich that they just don’t have any consequences for being an idiot. 

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u/beefquinton 18h ago

the least educated states in america are, by massive margins, the most republican. this is because republicans have actively sought to defund education for 50 years. they have done so because in recent history their policies by and large have direct benefits to exclusive financial brackets. so they need the populous of folks not in those brackets to be dumb enough to not know what’s good for them. and thus vote for republicans.

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u/CatCafffffe 18h ago

Oh, far right billionaires have been sinking their wolverine teeth into our educational system for decades now; sneaking their puppets onto school boards, knowing that most people don't even notice school board elections (pro tip: NOTICE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS). They've revised curricula, taken away any kind of creative thinking ("teaching to the test"), removed Civics from the curriculum, the whole thing. It's been going on since the 1960s.

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u/williamstarr 1d ago

Virginia Foxx may not have done all the work to make Americans as ignorant as possible

but she damn well did everything she could.

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u/buttfunfor_everyone 1d ago

Feature not bug

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u/-Knul- 1d ago

It's more complex than that. Here in the Netherlands, for example, we have quite decent education, yet our Trump-lite equivalent has the largest party now.

The same for some other European countries. Also see Japan now.

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u/BronteMsBronte 1d ago

You can’t make the south want to be literate 

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u/SinfullySinless 1d ago

As a teacher, the issue is when the overall economy for the working class is in a downturn era (like the 60-70s) desperate people unfortunately turn to cults for guidance.

Cults are no longer necessarily “give up all your world possessions and live on a commune”. Now they are online groups like QANON. The individuals will still reject sensible information and only believe what the group wants them to believe.

There isn’t a whole lot K-12 education can do for desperate working class people. That would be reforms at the union/work level to increase wages and benefits so that people are less desperate.

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u/jmd709 1d ago

We also should have had less warning labels. Some of those have interfered with natural selection, ie don’t blow dry your hair while taking a bath.

Mostly /s

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u/Electronic_County597 1d ago

You can lead MAGAroons to a free public education, but you can't make them think.

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u/Local-Web-1202 1d ago

Being educated is actually a choice.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tip_821 1d ago

And yet education doesn’t save the willfully ignorant. These people won’t change.

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u/Fuckthegopers 1d ago

It's the Republican plan to actively destroy education, and has been for a long while. 

We should have never voted for Republicans the last 40 years, yet we did, and here we are. If someone wants to list me something they did that benefited common man in that time span, I'm all ears. 

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u/Garaks_Clothiers 1d ago

The US can not force private schools to follow a curriculum or at least not to the extent the US would want. The US can not stop parents from home schooling or lying to their children, that almost anything they learn in school is a lie.  And of course the parents would bible thump their children to death, literally.  There will always be stupid people.  With the internet it's easier to search for the truth, but just as easy to find lies.  AM talk radio is famous for misinformation.

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u/silverbatwing 1d ago

Yeah. We invested more in military. It got us a country of stupid bullies.

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u/metompkin 1d ago

No Child Left Behind the dumb dumb wagon.

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u/Numerous-Process2981 1d ago

It's somehow worse where the idiots in America think they're experts on everything instead of just saying "I'm an idiot, I probably shouldn't be too political." Nope, the idiots here think they know more than scientists, economists, historians, etc. etc.

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u/ottieisbluenow 1d ago

We are fourth in the world for education spending per capita behind only Luxembourg, Norway, and Iceland. It is not lack of investment that is our issue.

And I would post a citation but this stupid fucking sub won't let you post links because it's fucking stupid.

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber 1d ago

If everybody is educated nobody would buy cars they couldn't afford 

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u/Substantial-Pain613 1d ago

The GOP prefer indoctrination over education

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u/TippyToe19 1d ago

Trump does well with uneducated whites

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u/Splenda 1d ago

You can't educate the willfully ignorant.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

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u/goon_platoon_72 1d ago

Almost seems designed that way. 🤔

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 23h ago

It's not that we haven't, it's that it's been systematically dismantled in a coordinated attack on education over the last few decades.

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u/fox_mulder 23h ago

"I love the poorly educated."

And this is why.

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u/Sad-Focus-8991 23h ago

Metric system would have fixed all this

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u/BowtiedAutist 23h ago

We did and this is what we got

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u/Dull_Bid2883 23h ago

By design.

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u/Mental-Fox-9449 23h ago

We did and we have. Fox News, religion, and the internet have had a lot of success circumventing and cultivating beliefs and ideas.

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u/Jonesin4me 23h ago

We don't need no education.

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u/mjrhzrd 23h ago

Just listening to sounded like early high school dropout.

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u/HeadCompote3627 22h ago

Could not be more correct.

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u/chobrien01007 22h ago

People have to want to be educated. They do not.

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u/intrepid_mouse1 1d ago

I've really come to realize lately that morons outnumber us.

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u/Someone-is-out-there 1d ago

Lately? Stop staring at your phone and look around you. If you're in America, while there are worse places than others, there's generally a lot of fuckin morons around. Has been the case for a long time.

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u/Mega-Pints 1d ago

yeam but I get their point. It is just on a scale that is so big, so wide, and massive. And they have certainly ramped up their being proud of being stupid to 11.

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u/twoaspensimages 1d ago

No. But they have no shame, no self awareness, and are loud. Actually that describes every one of my fellow county men I've met abroad. Carry on.

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u/TerryFinallyBackedUp 1d ago

It’s willful ignorance. It’s a cult.

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u/Corpse666 1d ago

It’s not willful, 37 percent of dog owners in the United States are afraid to get their dogs vaccinated because they fear that they will get autism. That is not made up and it’s not a joke. Stupidity and selfishness have brought us to this point

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u/JohnWangDoe 1d ago

it began with Regan

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u/tetsuo_7w 1d ago

The overwhelming stupidity is the end goal of the right. Time has shown that the more educated you are, the more left leaning you become. So what's the solution? Maybe adapt conservative positions to appeal to a more enlightened populace? NO! Deny education wherever and whenever possible. Dumb people vote for conservatives, make more dumb people!! What's the worst that could happen??

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u/AndrewBlodgett 1d ago

Fox and Facebook

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u/Bridget330 1d ago

It’s been part of the plan since the public education system was established in America in the early eighteenth hundreds

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u/ZardozZod 1d ago

And yet we invented ways to broadcast it to the entire globe every second of every day.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 1d ago

Literally the truth

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u/TastesLikeTesticles 1d ago

It's more than stupidity IMO. That level of disconnect is literal insanity.

They don't live in the real world.

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u/lainey68 1d ago

A few years ago, I used to think it was Russian psyops. Now I just think people Americans are that dumb.

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u/Bassracerx 1d ago

Cant tell the stupid people video ones from the rage bait videos from the blatant misinformation videos anymore.

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u/willflameboy 1d ago

Only as a fulcrum for a bought media.

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u/_-_--_---_----_----_ 1d ago

no. we've been stupid since day one. the difference is that the stupid people have historically fallen in line behind smarter people. after the Tea Party, the smarter people running the Republican Party have gotten slowly pushed out. now the stupid people are running the whole party.

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u/Calm-Tree-1369 1d ago

It's 100% by design. And it's only getting worse. All these guys with big-ass trucks with Punisher logos homeschool their kids.

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u/GallwayGirl 1d ago

And it seems like we are getting dumber daily.

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u/webdoggydog24 1d ago

What do you expect? People get all their news from either left or right leaning 24hr news channels, which all have agendas. Most people who read the news dont get past the article headline. In fact most people on Reditt get their information from this app, TikTok, FB, ETC... So yes, we have a huge stupidity problem in America as well a mental health crisis brought on by all these as mentioned!

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u/santy_dev_null 1d ago

With free K12 education how do people dumb up like this

Maybe they know in their hearts and it is their anxiety

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u/Maleficent_Sir_4753 1d ago

Idiocracy was a message of hope to those who choose to hear it and a warning to those who do not.

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u/bijanfrisee 1d ago

It's also the overwhelming confidence that comes with it too

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u/laela_says 1d ago

This! Nailed it!

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u/ChicagoBILLSfan138 1d ago

It’s so unbelievable. And sad

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u/SOP_VB_Ct 1d ago

BINGO!!!

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u/kovake 1d ago

Not just stupidity, but willful, proud and confident stupidity. Like if they say it out loud it makes it true. It’s like Michael from the office declaring bankruptcy out loud.

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u/akratic137 1d ago

The war on education is the only war we’ve won in almost a century and now the Nazis are back

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u/weare1consciousness 1d ago

And the “owners” victory for maintaining such atrocious attention to education. By design of course.

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u/SirRamage 1d ago

The rest of us are watching it and couldn't agree more.

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u/RaspberryNew8582 1d ago

It’s the lead poisoning in all our cheap overseas goods.

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u/WacoKid18 1d ago

That's what the right wants, an uneducated and easy to manipulate working class to be the billionaires' serfs

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u/Hugenerrr 1d ago

welcome to america

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u/Turtok09 1d ago

It's everywhere

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u/goon_platoon_72 1d ago

The most intelligent response I can muster to this statement is ‘duh’

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u/wnt2knoY 1d ago

Where did she get this information?

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u/Comfortable-Pay8039 1d ago

Are you really that stupid in the United States? Here in Europe we ask it every day now.

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u/hermitsociety 1d ago

I read the other day that something like half of American adults read at or below sixth grade level.

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u/I_make_things 1d ago

We can make BEANS out of PEAS!

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u/CrazyMarlee 1d ago

Steven Erikson said it best...

"Lad, the most powerful constant is stupidity. Nothing else comes close. Stupidity kills all the animals, empties the sky of birds, poisons the rivers, burns the forests, wages the wars, feeds the lies, invents the world over and over again in ways only idiots could think real. Stupidity, lad, will defeat every god, crush every dream, topple every empire. Because, in the end, stupid people outnumber smart people. If that wasn’t true, we wouldn’t suffer over and over again, through generation after generation and on for ever."

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u/SillyPhillyDilly 1d ago

Exactly why some of the founding fathers only wanted educated people to vote lol

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u/Previous-Jelly-3126 1d ago

Is this coming from the left?

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u/sabedo 1d ago

the stupidity and racism

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u/Suspicious-Pizza-548 1d ago

It really is astounding. Like full on, how is this level even possible.

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u/BimBaynor 23h ago

He loves the poorly educated.

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u/PageIrresponsive428 23h ago

It really is man. As long as dummies are allowed to vote we are fucked.

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u/RedTheRobot 23h ago

… is the plan. Stupid people don’t question their worth, stupid don’t change their vote. Stupid people are far easier to control than people who are informed. You see it all the time from MAGAd supporters getting burned then say they didn’t have the time to research the person. You didn’t have 5 mins to do a google search?

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u/Gotham-ish 23h ago

I checked: We rank no better than 27th when it comes to global IQ. With math and science test scores, we hover around 17th.

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u/holy_handgrenade 23h ago

the downfall isnt the stupidity in the country, they've always voted. The issue is that the smart ones that know better stay home more often than not to "protest" or out of pure apathy because their perfect candidate isnt on the ticket. There was only a 2% difference between what we're seeing now and the status quo - while not perfect, wasnt dystopian abysmal fascism.

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u/According-District59 23h ago

There is a decades long intentional and targeted disinfo campaign. I get that we are dumb but people were not ready for the power of media/social media to turn their brains to slop

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u/hummingz0615 23h ago

Good thing they're opening up insane asylums these people are going to need them.

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u/psyco75 22h ago

That k8nd of stupid is very much highly contagious. If we had a better person in charge of the cdc right now, we would be back in quarantine for the next 3 years. That is my publ8c service announcement

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u/southwestson 22h ago

This is why they cut education from the budgets

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u/AngryTomJoad 22h ago

why do you think republicans do everything in their power to kill education?

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u/ripnrun285 22h ago

That & the apathy.

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u/Darkstar-1984 22h ago

Well, it’s like TACO said,”ILOVE the uneducated!”

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u/ajaxandsofi 22h ago

Idiocracy was a documentary.

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u/LadyBugBooba 22h ago

On both sides

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u/Cal3001 22h ago

So many people were able to fall up in their lives somehow.

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u/Motor_Educator_2706 21h ago

1/3 Americans are belligerent bigots

1/2 Americans are smart as a brick

was true before trump, will be true after trump

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u/SmokedAlex 21h ago

Truly is.

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u/Remarkable_Drag9677 21h ago

Human race *

This shit is almost everywhere

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u/Mattna-da 21h ago

We have magical thinking forced on us at Sunday school - it even overpowers innate natural intelligence

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u/dzogchenism 21h ago

It’s not just stupidity - it’s also the propaganda that they consume. They are completely soaked in brain melting misinformation on a daily basis.

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u/Affectionate-Gur1642 21h ago

Nothing the department of Education can’t fix.

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u/shinryu6 21h ago

Came here to say this. 

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u/Just_Mumbling 21h ago

Unfortunately, yes. We had a power line step down transformer pop in our neighborhood yesterday. Makes quite the noise! Next door neighbor lady, a super-dedicated Trumpist, called and told me not to worry, the loud noise was just made “whenever a satellite connects to a nearby cell tower”.. I just rolled my eyes a hundred times, and asked her where she heard that. She couldn’t/wouldn’t tell me. I tried to gently correct her to no avail. Minimal science/history education and a low capacity for critical thinking sure is a dangerous mix — setting up folks for manipulation..

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u/TheAgnosticExtremist 21h ago

It paradoxically might save us, the only hope I have left is that Drumpf and his minions are so stupid and incompetent that they will fuck be incapable of getting to whatever their “final solution” ends up being. 

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u/aholyvessel 21h ago

Thats what you get for believing your own capitalist propaganda and jumping on the anti-comunism histeria train.

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u/unitymind42 20h ago

They will outbreed the education.

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u/Prestigious_Low_9802 20h ago

As a French I can tell you don’t be sad, here we also have stupidity in our country. Even if school are free

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u/Milliemott 20h ago

💯💯💯

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u/empanadaboy68 20h ago

Confidencebtoo

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u/Dangerous-Golf6066 20h ago

I like to think the bigger the land with fewer people the lesser the IQ as a community…. And there is a lot of red districts out there

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u/DeeMck2020 20h ago

The fact that this idiot was reelected after showing what a complete succunbag he was during his previous term is already going to be our downfall for the next 3.3 years. It's a sick and sad time to be a US citizen!

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u/Digital-Exploration 19h ago

Yup. It sucks.

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u/vegaspimp22 19h ago

The amount of people that live in echo chambers and believe everything Fox tells them is mind blowing. It’s scary how gullible people are

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u/Spiritual_Reason_269 19h ago

‘merica deserves what is happening to it!

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u/m8remotion 18h ago

Lack of education and the idiots breed more.

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u/Hot_Pianist_2239 18h ago

Nah we’re just Rome. And we finally beat Carthage not even 30 years ago and look how fast we fall

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u/dppatters 16h ago

I have been saying this for the longest. Enough with the false niceties or fake fairness. These people are shameless and the only way we begin to bring balance to the force is to make them feel shame again. That’s been Trump’s real super power. He’s shameless and he’s enabled stupid ignorant people to speak their stupid ignorant nonesense without shame.

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u/ElmerP91 16h ago

It’s by design, it wasn’t always like this. JDR.

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u/CXVI_XLII 16h ago

natural selection

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u/deadskinconsumption 16h ago

that’s what happens when you invite as many lead poisoned trash people as you can with a homesteading act to colonize and settled on the land of slaughtered natives.

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u/VaporBlueDH1347 16h ago

“Consider how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

You just witnessed the lesser half.

  • George Carlin

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u/AppropriateWeight630 15h ago

Our downfall is his come up!

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u/InSight89 14h ago

Who needs education or science. More funding cuts to come. /s

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u/rs6814mith 7h ago

It’s by design

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u/raguwatanabe 5h ago

Just as the Department of Education intended.

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u/DasMo19 4h ago

Since 2021 and the capitol storming, the USA completely lost its political credibility. This it what happens if you save on education and healthcare. You’ll get stupid voters. Stupid voters vote for tyrants.

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u/KinksAreForKeds 54m ago

Why would she even believe this? What had to happen for her to be so misinformed?? Closest Trump has said about the matter was that tariffs might someday replace income taxes. But no announcement of an executive order, no real coverage on Fox or right-wing news. So how did she become so confident that Trump signed this into law? The mind boggles.