Not wanting to tax the rich because “I might be rich one day”.
This also screams “I am a selfish and self-centered person”.
Yes, and it took awhile for us to recognize that in our friends and family.
Being a republican. Sure there are some educated grifters who decide to label themselves as republican, but your average republican voter is a mouth-breathing fucking idiot.
I don’t think evetybody, i think some rich white egoistic man might also be republican, but besides that, probably yes.
While I don’t always agree, I can see how people can justify fiscally conservative policies. I tend to swing left, but arguing for small government isn’t without merit. The problem is with socially conservative policies. The republican party is no longer the party of small government, but is instead the party of bigotry and hatred for their fellow Americans. I wish I had the option of voting for multiple parties, but unless I suddenly decide that I want to regress to 1920s social policies, Democrat is the only semi-sane option.
Depends on what the motivation is. There are fiscal conservatives that think it is a responsible thing to do and then there are the fiscal conservatives trying to pull the ladder up behind them. Fuck the latter. Agree to disagree with the former.
Being a
republicanfirst-party voter. Sure there are some educated grifters who decide to label themselves as republican or democrat, but your averagerepublicanfirst-party voter isa mouth-breathing fucking idiot.terribly misinformed.FTFY
Sorry tard boy, both sides aren’t the same.
Never said they were. But they are both inescapably corrupt any beholden to their corporate masters. Democrats are just better at pretending to care about social issues.
A vote for either party is a vote against progress.
Unfortunately in a first past the post system voting third party is little more than throwing your vote away, or even worse taking it away from a candidate who you support that actually has a chance of winning
Sad, but true. But also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If everyone was well-informed and voted for who they really felt deserved the position, regardless of party affiliation, we wouldn’t be in this mess. But that would also require that everyone actually spend time researching each candidate, and most people don’t have the time/mental capacity for that.
Thinking more on it, maybe this was always the endgame of representative democracy, especially when mixed with unregulated (for the last few decades, anyway) capitalism. Even if everyone spent hours researching each candidate and chose earnestly, we might have a small resurgence of third-party representatives in positions of power for a short while, but people would inevitably move towards two polarized parties, anyway.
So I guess our only option now is to tear it all down and start anew. Or maybe just wait for the AI singularity to happen, then we all either die horribly or live forever in paradise. 🤞
Ooooor we could push for ranked choice voting, haha
Psh, yeah, if you want the easy way out!
Seriously, though, it boggles the mind that there hasn’t been a stronger push for ranked choice voting. Of course the establishment parties would do their best to suppress anything that might help unseat them, but you’d think the disenfranchised millions who feel no strong affiliation to red or blue would be pushing harder for it. It’s not perfect, but at this point, I think most would agree that a major change is necessary if we ever want to Make America Kinda Okay Again™
Believing the above, but still believing we live in a democracy.
“Let’s go Brandon!” Bumper stickers.
Oof, yes. I feel second hand embarrassment whenever I see someone sporting one of those. Maybe it worked at the time, but now it’s just overplayed.
Same with “Fuck Trudeau” stickers and flags in Canada… ALWAYS on an oversized pavement princess truck, driven by a “but think of the children!” idiot who can’t figure out the irony.
“Whataboutism”, or if you are unfamiliar with the term:
“The act or practice of responding to an accusation of wrongdoing by claiming that an offense committed by another is similar or worse”
People that use this mechanism are “poorly educated” and unable to hold a conversation and they should just be mocked by whatabouting even harder, so they can maybe understand that they’re dumb and that’s not how you should debate.
Example of the last argument I had recently with my dumb c*nt father:
- Me: You shouldn’t idolize that politician, he evaded literally billions in taxes and that befalls on citizens like you
- Dumb c*nt father: Yeah? And what about that other politician?
- Me: What about the disappearing middle class?!
- D.C.F.: What…?
- Me: WHAT ABOUT THE BEES!?!
Believing that capitalism lifts people out of poverty.
oh but it does
why would you expose yourself like that
Being a baby. What do they even know?
I have literally never met a more uneducated cohort. Absolutely shameful.
Mb it’s that period from your past life when you still deleting files to have space for you new one.
They just don’t have the communicative havility to tell us, then ya forget.
My new religion is this(it has some inspiration from previous ones but hey, tell me one that didn’t)
Being poor and idolizing the rich.
That’s by design
Nationalism
Wearing camo and American flag shit in public. Honestly just having American flags on anything now pretty much is the same as that read hat
It’s pretty shitty how those loud people have ruined something that used to be awesome.
Was nationalism ever awesome? From an outside perspective it was quite disturbing and worrying.
There’s nothing wrong with loving your country when it is doing the right things. Displaying pride in your country isn’t necessarily nationalistic.
america was never awesome, I’m sorry to break it to you
I’ll take “poorly educated” over “educated and unwilling to learn or grow.”
That’s the same thing to me. Parents and teachers failed to educate them in how to be curious.
Any reference to “common sense”, which really means “what I believe”. Violating it is used as a universal rebuttal for any intellectually sophisticated argument.
Which sucks because it’s diluting the meaning of the phrase, and there are still many situations where it does/should apply.
People who are proud about their lack of knowledge on a topic as if that somehow means that they were not programmed prior to the encounter.
Listening to loud music without giving a shit about the neighbours.
Being poor or lower middle class and voting for right wing/conservatives. You essentially give away your hard earned money and give it to ultra rich and worsen the quality of your life… usually because the right wing scares people to be afraid of other people and new phenomena.
“People who don’t support my party are stupid”
Is a pretty big “poorly educated” sign.
I didn’t say that. I just said poor and lower middle class. If you are millionaire or billionaire and want to maximize your wealth, you definitely should vote for the conservatives as they transfer money from the poor majority to you.
having this opinion
Alright, lets have you and @squirrel_bear@sopuli.xyz both cite your education level. We can get an empirical read on this. Thanks for volunteering.
Why not. I have double masters from one of the world top 200 universities.
Whatever that means. What is the equivalent level of street smarts, egghead?
Username checks out
You are probably just a butt hurt double master, too! Laugh out loud. Maybe even a PhD! Rolling on the floor, laughing. Truth hurts, eggheads – but you wouldn’t know anything about that! Shaking my head.
Without sharing too many personal details for privacy reasons, I likely have slightly less higher education than @squirrel_bear@sopuli.xyz. Based on the info provided alone we aren’t far off, but it might be valuable to also look at non-academic experience, what field, or how we compare to others in our field or region. I’m not comfortable sharing these details, so I’m fine with conceding that I have slightly less higher education.
Edit: I’ll also add that I don’t support namecalling.
Edit2: I want to carify that the topic is poorly educated, and in my opinion the belief that you know more about other people’s self interest than they do can come from a place of being poorly educated about those people.
Edit: I’ll also add that I don’t support namecalling.
To be fair, while you didn’t use the word, you did call him uneducated.
IMO being called poorly educated doesn’t necessarily need to be taken as an insult
it might be valuable to also look at non-academic experience
That’s what I am saying! Guy probably doesn’t have half your street smarts.
Like I said, we can’t tell from the info here alone, so I wouldn’t draw this conclusion.
Thinking that someone without a formal education is somehow beneath you.
On the flipside, the belief that someone with a formal education is somehow beneath you or brainwashed for it.
Ten years ago I never would’ve believed that people like that exist, or that they think Science is evil for some reason
Science is neutral, but can be used for evil.
Science is not neutral. It is biased towards the truth.
Yeah, it’s just a tool that has been used for so much good that it’s bonkers to trash it altogether
Basically judging people in groups doesn’t work, you have decent and shit always wrapped together.
Everyone is below someone else somehow, since you use that word. I’m beneath my friend in film knowledge. I’m above my friend in gardening skill. In this sense, one can clearly be beneath someone else in education. Or height. Or travel experience.
You meant that regardless of education, we all have the same human worth. That’s true. But yeah you can absolutely be beneath me somehow
Not sure if you understood the assignment.
