• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    One third of Americans are the worst of the worst. Racist, homophobic, bigoted, easily manipulated ,and stupid af.

    Another third is apathetic, which imo also means stupid.

    So yes.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    About 35% are undoubtedly and rigidly so. The truly unfortunate part is that they’re motivated idiots. They are actively and aggressively ignorant and very much want to impose their idiocy on the rest of the country.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I mean, is it not apparent at this point?

    If you watch someone do the thing where they step on a rake and hit themselves in the face more than once, you have to accept the reality that they’re probably stupid.

    Americans have stepped on the rake a lot more than once.

  • fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    reminder that this situation has been engineered by decades of a billionaire powered machine defunding education and capturing a significant portion of the country in a propaganda machine

    like, yea, americans are dumb and shitty, but we’ve largely been made to be this way. it’s not inherent and it’s not unfixable (altho it’s not like it’s solvable overnight, ofc, it took a long time to get here and it’ll take a long time to get out)

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    2 months ago

    This looks exactly like the cover of one of those “everyone is stupid but me” self help self fellatio instruction books. When do they tell you to pull a rib out?

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    I don’t think that was ever in doubt. Some of them are silly, mostly harmless idiots and others are violent, dangerous, evil idiots, though, it’s important to remember that.

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    2 months ago

    Yes! Oddly, the rest of the world, all of those smarties all over the globe, enable them, and even give them gobs of money.

    I don’t get it

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    I run into Euros all the time who think colonialism is over and everyone is forgiven because global south countries can make deals with Euro companies to destroy their land at the expense of their people instead of being invaded literally to destroy their land at the expense of their people (most of the time, of course). People in imperial metropoles are just more likely to require delusion to make sense of a world where they benefit from cruelty without being a bad person.

    Many of the tactics we have to fight settler-colonial imperialism has come from colonized and marginalized people in the United States; liberals conveniently forget they exist because this fact challenges the inevitability of their way of life.