Americans are dumb as fuck
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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Gonna spend the rest of my life knowing I'm surrounded by fucking morons. And I'm not some genius. I had a typical public education. I guess the difference is I actually paid attention.
Not a great feeling. Especially since that probably means things aren't generally gonna get better. Can't have a good society if it's overflowing with dipshits.
Gonna spend the rest of my life knowing I’m surrounded by fucking morons. And I’m not some genius. I had a typical public education. I guess the difference is I actually paid attention.
Yep, I'm smart enough to know I'm not that smart. But I can at least look around me and go "This isn't normal, right?"
It's a weird fucking curse to have. Smarter than the average American due to the decades of under-funding the education system. I know how to use a computer more than boomers and younger people stuck using machines locked down by corporations.
Ask me to do a math question higher than high school level? I'm going to flounder. You ask me who was president in 1890 without looking it up, I probably know it. And I know that's not exactly a flex, it's probably overall better to know more advanced math than trivia, but it's just how my brain works.
And yet I'm still smarter than Trump and his cultists.
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This is by design. Decades of eroding education and critical thinking have produced a populace that is highly ignorant and extremely easy to manipulate.
There is a reason why attacking education is the first thing any right-wing government does.
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Americans didn't realize 1/3 lb burger is bigger than a 1/4 lb burger...
There's also the time JCPenney's actually had everything at the best price and so they weren't doing discounts. But everyone was waiting for the 'sales'. Your average American would rather have something be marked up $200 and then listed as 75% off than just pay $50 regular price.
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The rest of the world too. Americans are just louder and prouder about stupidity.
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Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a global trade war in the making—suddenly softened. A “pause,” he called it. A complete turnaround from the chest-thumping of the past week. And the reason? Mark Carney and a slow, deliberate financial maneuver that most people didn’t even notice: the coordinated Treasury bond slow bleed. (https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet-bond-play-forced-trump-to-drop-tariffs/) This is Mark Carney. Thank you, fellow Canadians, for voting for the experienced Captain to man the helm in the rough waters ahead!
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What people in the US also need to realize is, that the rest of the world still enjoys more or less unchanged prices on these sites. It is only the US that has put tarrifs on them and it has only affected the American consumers
On the other hand, American products are getting more expensive everywhere else, because of the retaliational tarrifs by the usa.
So it is a double edged sword, but the US is holding it by it's blade! With both hands!
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Hopefully this is a wakeup call for the folks who don't vote because they think that both parties are the same.
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It won't be
I still hear plenty of people say that not only are they the same but what is happening right now would have happened regardless who was president.
I simply do not understand the world these ppl live in
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"Did I miss something?"
No, you intentionally avoided listening to what we were telling you.
If Mangolini weren't such an idiot, he wouldn't have revoked the de minimus exemption (meaning orders under $800 were exempt from the tariffs), then his rube followers would never have noticed anything.
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I wish I was in a place were I had no idea what was going on. I'm just twitching when I think about Republicans sending people to concentration camps with out charges or trial. That just means everyone is just sheep to be plucked. We are now just living on luck.
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Yes. They missed the part where they specifically and repeatedly said they were going to do this. Because American voters evidently have the cognitive skills of a fucking sea sponge.
My sister voted for Trump, only learned after the fact, because of "the inflation" so I asked her how she tough the tariffs would help on that. Her answer? "What do you mean, what are tariffs?" A little too late I send her a youtube video about Tariffs and Trump and she was like wtf. She lives in California, so it's not like she helped him win, but I'm going to keep a tab on her before elections.
This is what the democratic party has to learn. Your sister is a sizable representation of the electorate. They have no goddamn idea how anything works. They voted purely based on vibes. You have to capture the terminally unengaged and uninformed voters if you want to be able to stay in power.
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Yah, you missed an election
Is this "nottheonion"? I cant believe that people are so oblivious.
"Did Biden drop out" was trending on Google on election day. We're cooked.
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Donald J Trump is a liar, rapist, cheat and a lousy business man that has failed every single business, and Americans voted in this useless excuse for a human being to enforce facism, racism, and colonialism. Well done America.
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One mistake Temu is making is showing it as "Import fees". That's correct of course, but they should label it specifically as "Import tariffs" or "Tariffs", so that it's clear what this is. From the comments in the linked reddit threads, a lot of people just think they're extra fees Temu is voluntarily putting on as retaliation, their brains still aren't making the link between "import fees" and "trump's tariffs on China".
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It's only just begun. Wait until there are empty shelves at Wal-Mart. MAGA is going to have to work overtime to blame it on Biden.
It's not hard work. They just blame Biden. When you're lying, and everyone knows you're lying, then there's no reason to put effort into the lie. If that doesn't catch on, they'll blame someone else. Zelensky or Xi, or they can always Blame Canada.
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If you're gonna be dumb, then you got to be tough
A Lemmy post about an article about a Reddit post. The internet feels more and more incestuous every day.
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