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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    7 hours ago

    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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    6 hours ago

    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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      4 hours ago

      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.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      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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      6 hours ago

      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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      4 hours ago

      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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      5 hours ago

      This is inaccurate; only a minority of people are meaningfully less “intelligent” and it’s rarely those people who are the real problem. The problem isn’t intelligence, but the foolishness of people unable to see past their own biases or think critically.

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        4 hours ago

        The problem isn’t intelligence, but the foolishness of people unable to see past their own biases or think critically.

        “The problem isn’t stupid people, its dumb people.”

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            2 hours ago

            Being unable to think critically doesn’t mean someone is unintelligent?

            The inability to see past their own bias (or at least show the capacity to actually try) isn’t unintelligent?

            Being able to do those things, by my own measure, is arguably one of the prerequisites for intellect. Those things and curiosity of course.

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              19 minutes ago

              I’m telling you, I’ve seen otherwise brilliant people say the dumbest shit. The world is hard to understand in the first place and it’s often too scary to face the facts.

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    8 hours ago

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