Who do you think taught America to be dumb AF?

Don't worry, the American public is also wrong about nearly everything.

Disagree. They're even further right.

They have no understanding of statistics or causality and correlation... they lack any critical thinking skills and blindly believe what they are told and can normally be guaranteed to consume their media from predictable sources (facebook, telegraph, daily mail, xhitter and so forth).

My sister is becoming one of those... she refuses to watch the news because it's depressing and has no understanding of the world outside of her own little bubble or facebook... she voted for brexit and has tried to deny it ever since instead of admitting she was fooled into doing so by the lies of racists, rich wankers who wanted to protect their tax haves and avoidance. I wouldn't be surprised to find out she voted for reform or tory last election or would do in the next.

And this is because 99% of our press is explicitly right-wing and has a somewhat fuzzy relationship with truth.

Thanks, Murdoch!

In france companies gets 279 BILLION euros of help every year (of course no verification is done, and it's hidden in "lower charges/taxes" instead of "handouts"). Thats 900€ per working person.

Per month.

And we're supposed to be angry at poor people just trying to get by? I wonder why /s

Anyone should be banned from owning media outlets

Media outlets should be sponsored by independent non profits which in turn are government sponsored. These independent outlets can then pay independent news outlets on the condition that they bring independent and neutral news, just the facts, and all the facts.

Anyone steps out of line and let's a little too much bias flow will see their payments reduced until they become neutral again

The ghoul is a big part of a reason the world is the way it is today.

He and his heirs need lined up against a wall.

I suggest you read La Haine de la démocratie from Jacques Rancière. It shows that the people are actually not retarded, and the narrative pushed against democracy has no practical foundation

They choose people either randomly off the street, or through consensual databases, which you might not have put yourself into.

Patriotism*

I mean you can't write a whole paragraph about what a smart cookie you are and not proofread :p

I do appreciate "flag shagging wanker" tho since trump is literally that having fucked several flags without consent. And he's nothing if not a wanker.

That's not how representative surveys work

Love the username.

I've been arguing against these kinds of idiots for about 2 decades now.

Moron 1 says 'Oh there's been a 75% decrease in this problem since they introduced these new rules (IE, draconian, invasive and in violation of basic human rights that just happened to affect a group they dislike)'

Me: Facts and figures please

Moron 2: It's 75% like they said

Me: No the numbers those percentages are based upon are the facts and figures... that's just a statistic derived from them.

Moron 1: Go look it up yourself, I'm not doing your research for you.

Me: You made the claim, you are responsible for providing the evidence... But since you don't want too... I did, and I can understand why you didn't want to provide them.

Me: There was a decrease in deaths from 4 to 1 over the previous year... and those 4 deaths happened because of 1 traffic collision that claimed all 4 lives... technically a 75% reduction in deaths. But the number incidents that happened actually increased from 64 to 73.

Moron 1: (silence) Moron 2: (silence)

That's a pretty accurate account of how these things go... claim a % refuse to provide the numbers... numbers actually show a difference that could almost be within a margin of error, or rely entirely on random outliers that massively skew the data and from a statistical point of view are so far from the avg that they are discounted.

It's like when people claimed that femisism was causing a spike in divorce and pointed to a % rise in the 70's... when the actual causes was women being able to achieve financial independence, because they didn't need their husbands permission to get a mortgage, or a loan, or even a credit card... and were able to safely leave abusive marriages and become independent.

Same thing happened with a spike in left handed people being reported... after practices forcing lefties to use their right (by abusive means) was stopped.

In both cases... the avgs went along at the same rate, suddenly spiked and then carried on at a level rate again.

Same happening right now with autism diagnosis, sudden spike as it's understood and diagnosed more easily... then levels even out once more.

You can apply this statistical logic to almost anything that the bigots claim to be 'a sudden spike in (insert bigoted view here)'... attitudes change... suffers no longer hiding who they are and society as a whole being more open and tolerant of it. But the bigots always scream the loudest and they're becoming emboldened to reveal their true selves more and more... If anyone needs to be back in the closest stewing over their own hatred... it's those pieces of shit. But on the bright side, it makes them easier to spot and shun from civilised solciety.

This is such an interesting read. Thank you for posting it.

Thanks for the read!