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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 8:31 am
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This is not surprising as a large chunk of the American population can't even pass the citizenship test that immigrants have to take. I've heard that a large proportion cannot even name the 50 states, let alone label them on a map.
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 8:41 am
Meh, by our current standards I'm fairly well educated, and I can admit that I get a bit fuzzy when it comes to the middle of the country.
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 9:45 am
Sometimes I get Alabama and Mississippi confused, but really, what's the difference?
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 9:59 am
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More than twice the amount of consonants?
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 1:04 pm
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(July 4, 2011 at 5:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/07/03/n...dence-day/
Quote:According to the poll, only 58 percent of Americans know the United States declared its independence in 1776. Twenty-six percent were unsure and 16 percent said another date.
How can you find the modest prevelence of comparatively modest ignorance hard to believe, when you've clearly already absorbed the fact that our society is riven with such extradianry prevelence of extraordinary ignorance as signified by utterly disgusting fact that the majority of its citizens still identify themselves, in the 21st century with space travel and quantum mechanics, as the follower of a demented little 1st century preacher from the apocolyptic offshoot of a minor and very unpleasant little enthnocentric bronze age cult?
No volume or quanlity of stupidity uttered on any subject could surpass my immediate expectation once a person identifies himself as a christian or muslim. It's not that I think every christian is already stupid about every things. It's that if a person could truly embrace christianity, then that betrays the fact that he is has no real safeguard against embracing anything which is told to him and he finds comforting. As such he has nothing that really securely keep him from becoming stupid about all other things so long as the stupidity can bring a contented smile to his face or appear to him to resolve some inner angst. What he believes thus can be totally detached from any reasonable process of truth finding, and can be totally dictated by the capricious whims of his inner intellectual dis-integrity.
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 2:21 pm
(July 5, 2011 at 1:04 pm)Chuck Wrote: (July 4, 2011 at 5:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/07/03/n...dence-day/
Quote:According to the poll, only 58 percent of Americans know the United States declared its independence in 1776. Twenty-six percent were unsure and 16 percent said another date.
I admit that sometimes I don't get all the facts down, but at least I know Paris is the capital of France. But are you considering that no religion means smarter people overall?
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Quote:How can you find the modest prevelence of comparatively modest ignorance hard to believe,
Uh, because it is was the 4th of July and I'll bet you these shitheads have flags all over their cars and trailers!
This isn't requiring them to quote The Federalist Papers. This is the fucking 4th of July!!!
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 2:26 pm
On the question of when America declared its independence, that would depend.
America is a big place with a lot of countries. The United States of America on the other hand, did it in 1776.
It is interesting to note that the Monroe Doctrine (Europe won't fiddle around in our backyard) only really lasted until the second country in America declared its independence, in the world's only successful slave revolt, Haiti. Dixie Representatives and Senators did everything they could to block recognition of Haiti for years, and even had Marines landed on the island, because they didn't want their own slaves getting ideas.
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 3:13 pm
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(July 5, 2011 at 2:21 pm)adam_1992p Wrote: (July 5, 2011 at 1:04 pm)Chuck Wrote: (July 4, 2011 at 5:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/07/03/n...dence-day/
Quote:According to the poll, only 58 percent of Americans know the United States declared its independence in 1776. Twenty-six percent were unsure and 16 percent said another date.
I admit that sometimes I don't get all the facts down, but at least I know Paris is the capital of France. But are you considering that no religion means smarter people overall?
It is uncertain how many people, when deprived of existing religion as a means to indulge in their infantile contempt for intellectual integrity, will not simply embrace or invent another, like homeopathic medicine and new age wellness bullshit. But it probably would means there will be less inveterate, systematic and organized rabble rousing against efforts of people who do value intellectual integrity.
(July 5, 2011 at 2:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:How can you find the modest prevelence of comparatively modest ignorance hard to believe,
Uh, because it is was the 4th of July and I'll bet you these shitheads have flags all over their cars and trailers!
This isn't requiring them to quote The Federalist Papers. This is the fucking 4th of July!!!
The same shit head also wave the bible which they haven't read and claim it to be the sole source for the sole truth which they already know.
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RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Do you suppose the two are related, Chuck?
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