Many Americans are simply quite stupid
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I bet those people know what Windex tastes like
The issue isn’t that they’re stupid. I’d argue a large percentage of Americans are stupid. The issue is they’re stupid, but they’ve been gaslit into believe that they’re smart and other people are taking advantage of them.
As a result, instead of looking for people smarter than them to actually do the job, they’re looking for people AS SMART as them. And by God, they succeeded.
Americans aren’t taught critical thinking skills in school. It’s a major oversight.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
“A person is smart, people are dumb”-men in black
Honestly, it’s wild that people are more willing to listen to a reality TV doctor than actual experts. 🙄
…because they trust Trump, or at least they enjoy the after taste when the kneel behind him and kiss.
By the time these psychos are through, hundreds of millions of Americans will outraged with the direction of the country. 80M Americans will be gargling with ‘Ass Away Mouth and Mind Cleanser’
They are victims of the [illusory truth effect](https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-021-00301-5).
> Repeated information is often perceived as more truthful than new information. This finding is known as the illusory truth effect, and it is typically thought to occur because repetition increases processing fluency. Because fluency and truth are frequently correlated in the real world, people learn to use processing fluency as a marker for truthfulness.
If you want to get people to believe something, **true or not**, say it many times.
in my 20s i had a roommate that didnt know what an eclipse was. when i explain that the moon would get infront of the sun during the day time he scoffed at me and laughed “the moon doesnt come out during the day time” i grabbed him by the arm took him outside and pointed it. his jaw dropped.
not only are people stupid, they are woefully unaware.
I think Americans love to think they’re learning, the problem is they’re “learning” from TikTok, Facebook/X memes and The Joe Rogan Podcast.
If you don’t read (and half of Americans are functionally illiterate), you get your info from TV. Dr Oz has been on TV promoting himself as a medical expert for ages. Trump promoted himself as a genius businessman. Go on TV and proclaim yourself an expert at something and make sure the show portrays you that way, and you too can gain the trust of illiterates.
It’s because trust for ”the system” and the establishment is probably at an all time low right now. Everyone believes they’re being lied to and most people don’t understand how anything works. It’s not just an American problem either.
That’s why it’s so easy to gain people’s support by just screaming that the government is trying to kill you with vaccines and is trying to indoctrinate you into some ideology. It confirms pre-conceived biases and positions.
Most of it is due to lack of understanding of modern technology and science. If you understand something, you can understand what’s in the realm of possibility and what isn’t, if you don understand it, well… then anything’s possible. The government is creating hurricanes in order to push climate change propaganda on us. You’ll believe it if you have no idea how anything in the world works.
Hi from Canada; plus, they look like they are proud of being stupid. #sorry
Thanks Oprah đź«
It’s a strange realization after trying to figure out exactly how this happened. They are dumb. Like DUMB dumb.
While Dr Oz is an actual doctor. A lot of his on screen recommendations were questionable at best.
I’d balk at suggesting he’s suitable for running HHS much less RFK.
I suppose we’re in the era of TV personalities running the govt.
Inb4 Hulk Hogan become secretary of fitness.
No one trusts RFK. Except, maybe, that worm.
they voted for a reality TV fake business man, a grifting TV doctor only makes sense. Maybe we can find one of them ice truckers for transportation secretary.
I trust that they will do nothing but dumb shit
It’s baffling that Trump wants to put RFK Jr in charge of health/food safety all while we’re experiencing widespread contaminated food all over and he’s known for eating rotten and contaminated food himself…
Why do people always fall prey to the worst version of their fears?
It’s fair to question large companies and the medical community given how profit driven everything is, but a quack and a failson of a fallen dynasty? These two have some embarrassing histories.Â
RFK’s cv reads like a rap sheet.Â
…. what on earth would violate the content policy here.. lol
Sooo, what did it say before it was removed?
The popularity of The Fast and the Furious movies should have been a wakeup call.Â
Because they have interesting names and have been on tv.
The only Dr. Oz I’d trust would be Dr. Nicholas Oseransky.
They didn’t vote for them so who trusts them.
They are maga morons
Yup.
The same reason why “ grifter” is a word!
Many people in medicine don’t like Oz. He’s promoted diets and supplements that have no evidence of working. It’s worrisome that people trust that guy.
MAGA.. it should have been. MARA
Make Americans Read Again.
đź’Ż and They know right from wrong . Critical thinking or no you have to be Stupid to do what 75 Million Americans just did to the free world.
How is this a clever comeback?