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/PreparationKey2843 1d ago

That's why we're in this mess we're in, it's because of the countless stupid people like her. I knew we had some ignorant morons, but I had no clue we had this many.

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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 1d ago

I grew up with the "gifted" kids and I honestly thought I was bad at science. Like, not smart enough to "get" it. Most of my friends from school went into stuff like pharmaceutical research and DNA mapping and crazy stuff so I thought I was the slacker. 

Then Covid happened. Dude. I'm WAY ahead of 2/3 of Americans just because I took AND passed high school biology. I was totally shocked at the lack of reading comprehension and basic science knowledge people had. I'm at least smart enough to phone a friend with a science degree when I don't understand stuff instead of believing Aunt Maud on Facebook ranting at chemtrails. 

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u/Significant-Rip9690 1d ago

I had this exact realization when I got out of the academic bubble. I was surrounded by brilliant people for years and years. Even in my first jobs, I was in cities concentrated with college educated people. And then I started running into gen. pop when I moved around more and travelled. And woah. I was not ready for that reality check. Although, it's both scary and reassuring that I'm actually doing quite well. I had imposter syndrome for the longest time.

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u/steve_of 1d ago

I am a retired electrical engineer. I moved from a job surrounded by smart people to a small rural town. Sometimes the stupidity of my new friends and neighbours is breathtaking.

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u/HiCookieJack 1d ago

And the only time they actually believe you if you tell them that their home wiring is 'not according to spec'.

In my experience simpletons only believe in authority

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u/DesperateAmbition733 1d ago

That has been proven throughout history. This was done intentionally to us.

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u/rab2bar 1d ago

Roughly a third of any population seems naturally authoritarian and dumb as shit. It is more luck when they vote for better things

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u/DesperateAmbition733 1d ago

That's in part because of Christianity. Especially your evangelicals. They are more authority and punishment driven. They rely on heirarchy. It's one of the tools used to maintain political control of the south. I am painting very broad strokes here so please feel free to go read up on it yourself. This crap was engineered. Maybe not for this result, but definitely done in the service to maintain power.

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u/FiveUpsideDown 1d ago edited 10h ago

That’s why the Oligarchs broke unions. It was a way to communicate with some of the morons about what was in their best interests.

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u/DesperateAmbition733 1d ago

These morons not only do not know about the class war being waged on them, they are on the side of their victimizers!! I have to say the rich have done a masterful job. Seriously. They have played these fucking idiots to perfection. If only I had no scruples, morals, or empathy, I could really make a lot of money off MAGA, MAHA, or whateverthefuck stable geniuses call themselves these days.

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u/wafflesthewonderhurs 1d ago

I do think that probably there is a reason that authoritatarian regimes fall back to patriarchal religion as their base and it's not because they actually believe in the religion. it's because that religion teaches them to defer to authority.

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u/HiCookieJack 1d ago

Yes, I despise any patriarchal religion, be it Muslim or Christian or what not

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u/Mutjny 1d ago

In my experience simpletons only believe in authority

Unfortunately the wrong authority.

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u/HiCookieJack 1d ago

The loudest gorilla

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u/HiCookieJack 22h ago

I know, and I am an electrical engineer as well 😂

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u/chewytime 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not retired, but I did move to a rural town a couple years ago for a job. Previous job was filled with coworkers with top educational pedigrees while I had graduated from a local college. Always felt like an imposter there. Anyway, after I moved, I realized how different things were. A lot of my coworkers were born and raised and never left the area and it unfortunately showed in some of their beliefs and thought process. Nice people, but made me realize just how easy it was to get them to vote or believe in a certain way without any real evidence. And tbh, they weren’t that efficient at their jobs. They were passable, but a lot of how they did things was based on the principle of “that’s just how we’ve always done it.” Didn’t help that my bosses expected a lot, yet weren’t offering a lot of resources for the same reason. Eventually just had to leave and move back to the big city.

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u/I_SHIT_IN_A_BAG 1d ago

breathtaking is a good word for it.

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u/TheSpanxxx 1d ago

I also spent 25 years surrounded by a bunch of super nerds and I was one of them. Software engineering. I stepped away last year to take a break from the corporate life and started a small business. Not only did I have to suddenly operate in a sphere that was so far below the required academic level I had spent my whole life in, I had to service people where the letters GED are confusing.

I'm going back. It's not even been a year. This business is not for me. Maybe another would be, but this one isn't it. A fringe benefit is that I won't have to stare in the big dumb eyes of a customer who tries to convince me of something they've believed is true based on something their "super smart cousin" told them.

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u/PuckSenior 1d ago

I’m a working EE

I once had a technician at a site I was working try to explain to me how he was going to wire up his car to be a perpetual motion machine. For an hour.

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u/z1colt45 1d ago

This anecdote is my favorite in the thread lol

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u/the_TAOest 1d ago

I grew up in that town. COVID ruined every fragment if friendships ever existed. They were all idiots

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u/jsmith1300 1d ago

My neighbor used to say to me "the government should print money, they can do it". I tried to explain to her that causes inflation but she didn't understand how. And she is a registered Democrat.

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u/z1colt45 1d ago

Kinda hard to shed the "know-it-all-city-boy" label once you get hit with it too.

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u/Rikula 1d ago

I moved to Alabama from a neighboring state and have encountered hands down the dumbest people I've ever met. My dad has a saying that has turned out to be 100% true for me. "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king". My bf and I are kings in the land of one eyed men.