From I love Amy

Unfortunately for this girl (and for everyone else) all countries are mostly made up of stupid people.

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    Americans on hearing a British accent: “wow, they must be so much more intelligent and cultured than us!”

    Britons: “I’d be fine with migrants if they came here to work instead of just stealing all the jobs. Also, I wonder how many Creme Eggs I can fit up my bum”

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    People in other countries are not dumb and neither are Americans.

    Making decisions as a collective and on a national level is really difficult. Americans’ voices are just amplified because they dominate media and the economy. This is further amplified by the fact that the state and structures support perverse incentives and systematically reward people for not acting in collective interest.

    Thinking you’re smart and everyone else is dumb is such immature “I’m 14 and this is deep” kinda bullshit that it really makes me think negatively of any person expressing this opinion. Stop blaming people (who are your peers and neighbours and community) and start blaming leaders and systems.

    But I guess none of this makes for a quick, funny meme.

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      A person can be smart. “People” are not. Groupthink changes a person, especially when tribalism is involved. The masses are easily led by “us vs. them” narratives.

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      and neither are Americans.

      The majority of adults in your country can’t read above a 6th grade level. About 25% of adults are functionally illerate.

      Might want to rethink that opening line.

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      This is a real measurable phenomenon.

      65% of Americans think they have above average intelligence. People who are smart downgrade their own intelligence, slightly. People who are idiots greatly over estimate their intelligence. The deltas are separated by multiple magnitudes.

      A more mundane version of this, 85% of drivers think they are above average drivers.

      If you cannot surmise from this that most people are actually less smart than they think, the most polite way I can put that is that the problem is not with those who are calling out the issue. A quarter of society is unable to recognize they are below average.

      That is real problem. It is serious problem. It’s made worse because a large chunk of society is composed of stupid people thinking they are smarter than the smart people. This isn’t new. It is not imagined. It is not exaggerated. It is measurable. It is very real.

      Denialists doom us all because stupid people glob to their comforting lies.

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      68% of them are stupid or evil or both. I can blame both them and leadership at the same time.

      Why should I forgive them? Honest question.

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      It’s a joke.

      She knows there is no God. She’s an absurdist

      …you just don’t get it

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    At least they (boomers, exers, millennials, zoomers… whatever) didn’t vote for… (gasp)… a woman!
    Because a woman for president?!! When PIGS fly!!!

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    mostly made up of stupid people

    Nop. The structures of power support people that are not focussing on the greater good for us humans but for short profit. Not stupid. Just not using the power we have together.

    And even if I am stupid: I still want the best for you. Why would we be against stupid people? I am way more against smart people profiting on our back.

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      Why would we be against stupid people?

      Because stupid people are easily lead to act against their own, and other’s, interests.

      The good news is that stupid is curable, the bad news is that it involves the person in question putting in some effort, that they may not have spare, and doing so against the command of those manipulating them.