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minus-squareBen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down4·1 month agoI’m struggling here to avoid being offensive - but really, Americans often appear to me to be averaging subhuman intelligence. Yesterday I was reading about Latino MAGA’s who just assume Trump isn’t talking about them…
minus-squarevxx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-21 month agoUsing “subhuman” for persons while arguing against eugenics… You can’t make that stuff up
minus-squarepiccolo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-21 month agoeveryone thinks they are the leopard eating faces until a bigger leopard eats their face. Just a reminder, there were “Jews for Hitler”. We can guess what happened to them after hitler rose to power.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoI’m not saying America is the center of world intellectualism, but you’re also getting quite a selection bias since “stupid American” stories are even popular to other Americans.
minus-squareLastWish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThink of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin Great man, that George Carlin, great man.
minus-squareauzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agoI thought that same But actually, after visiting Denver I was super surprised by how friendly and normal people were I’d easily live there (and no, I’m not a weed smoker. Never tried it, no plans to, do doesn’t influence my decision)
I’m struggling here to avoid being offensive - but really, Americans often appear to me to be averaging subhuman intelligence.
Yesterday I was reading about Latino MAGA’s who just assume Trump isn’t talking about them…
Using “subhuman” for persons while arguing against eugenics…
You can’t make that stuff up
everyone thinks they are the leopard eating faces until a bigger leopard eats their face.
Just a reminder, there were “Jews for Hitler”. We can guess what happened to them after hitler rose to power.
I’m not saying America is the center of world intellectualism, but you’re also getting quite a selection bias since “stupid American” stories are even popular to other Americans.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
Great man, that George Carlin, great man.
I thought that same
But actually, after visiting Denver I was super surprised by how friendly and normal people were
I’d easily live there (and no, I’m not a weed smoker. Never tried it, no plans to, do doesn’t influence my decision)