When Bush was president 25% of people thought that the government was behind some conspiricy theory regarding 9/11. Now 25% of people think that Obama is a muslim. Will this be an ongoing trend?
Will 25% of America always believe something crazy.
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Well, I'm English and a view from across the pond says yes, there probably will be idiot Americans forever, but there's always the smart with the stupid. Hell, England has its idiots, I met someone not long ago who thought that Brown was still prime minister.
These people tend to shun technology and disagree with TVs. I like to think that the modern age has brought us not only the ability to know what's going on on the other side of the World, but also extra knowledge in general, thus people who don't have all of this tech and gadgetry end up with less common sense.
These people tend to shun technology and disagree with TVs. I like to think that the modern age has brought us not only the ability to know what's going on on the other side of the World, but also extra knowledge in general, thus people who don't have all of this tech and gadgetry end up with less common sense.
I think as the internet becomes more and more pervasive this sort of prejudiced ingrained stupidity will diminish. As to why there is still so much of it in America? well I think this has a lot to do with what America is and has been, i.e. it is somewhat isolated by the Atlantic and the Pacific plus for 100 years it has been the premier global superpower, and with that comes a certain amount of pride and wilful ignorance.
As long as the human races hold sentient thought there will always be some one ready to tell you they have a royale flush with a hand yu-gi-oh cards.
To be honest it's a vicious circle, the media sells stuff in one light the people over react and gorge themselves on it causing the media to response by filling the their consumer bellies up with for of the same old tripe.
:B so glad i live in a world where i can criticise thigns freely without the goverment kicking my door down puting a black bag over my head and then claiming i've never existed.
although under Bush it seems America was quickly travling towards that.
Bleh does ti really matter? when the unkes go off the common cockroach will inherit the earth anyway.
To be honest it's a vicious circle, the media sells stuff in one light the people over react and gorge themselves on it causing the media to response by filling the their consumer bellies up with for of the same old tripe.
:B so glad i live in a world where i can criticise thigns freely without the goverment kicking my door down puting a black bag over my head and then claiming i've never existed.
although under Bush it seems America was quickly travling towards that.
Bleh does ti really matter? when the unkes go off the common cockroach will inherit the earth anyway.
As long as Marijuana exists, then people will believe pretty much anything.Amphoteric said:
I can guarantee that most of those 25% are Conservative Republicans living in Southern States who don't have access to any media outlet.
You interestingly have The Young Turks logo as your avatar. My hat off to you, sir.
and it probably doesnt help that the people getting these statistics probably asked 100 or 1000 and then based the statistic of only a small portion of these. like how back in the day CNNNN use to have a stupid american section on their show. im sure they asked 15 people to get the 3-4 that they used in the segment.
"for 100 years it has been the premier global superpower" pretty sure america has only been a super power since world war 2. not for 100 years. But in my mind any country that can claim to be a superpower should have a half decent education system and not have as many stupid people.
"for 100 years it has been the premier global superpower" pretty sure america has only been a super power since world war 2. not for 100 years. But in my mind any country that can claim to be a superpower should have a half decent education system and not have as many stupid people.
9/11 conspiracy... well there were a few things that didn't quite add up, and it certainly doesn't seem as clear cut as we would like to believe, but I don't think Bush was involved. He always struck me as genuinely surprised and confused. Sata- I mean Dick Cheney on the other hand...
But Obama is definitely not a Muslim. He got in trouble when the pastor at his church began saying controversial things for Christ's sake. Fox news aired it enough, it's amazing how quickly people forget stuff like that.
But Obama is definitely not a Muslim. He got in trouble when the pastor at his church began saying controversial things for Christ's sake. Fox news aired it enough, it's amazing how quickly people forget stuff like that.
90 percent of internet statistics are completely false. True story.
Personally, I'm more concerned with how many people in the USA don't think evolution is real compared to conspiracy theories or claiming a person follows a different religion. It isn't exactly unchallenged here, but in the USA the polls on that issue are depressing. But that's me.
Personally, I'm more concerned with how many people in the USA don't think evolution is real compared to conspiracy theories or claiming a person follows a different religion. It isn't exactly unchallenged here, but in the USA the polls on that issue are depressing. But that's me.
Well, everyone is crazy in some sense, since crazy is in the eye of the beholder, but I agree that there always will be someone who believes conspiracy theories and that sort of thing. Not to worry though, since this is something of all ages. It only becomes dangerous if one of those idiots get an influential position.
Evidence suggests otherwise.Continuity said:
Since the internets more and more of these crackpots has gotten the chance to reach a wider audience. And ppl in general are stupid.
Just look at the damn 2012-myth. It used to be something potheads around Berkeley fantasized about in the 60s. Nowadays you find 2012 believers all over the fucken world.
And it's not like they even bother to do the research.
Even those that don't believe in the end of the world, go around claiming the Maya calender is some kind of infallible almanac over the universe, capable of predicting solar eclipses and shit down to the second.
In reality it's a moon cycle calender that is so unreliable by now that even the experts don't agree about the date conversion (there's +-2 day tolerance fer fecks sake).
And there's the chemtrails, and 911 and all kindsa shit, like the swine flu.
Some of those that believe in these thinks are nutters that believe in everything, other's are ordinary ppl too gullible to do any actual research. Same kind of ppl that fall for pyramide schemes.
Stupid, stupid ppl.
/rant off
I think around five or ten percent percent of them did it as a joke. Or were high/drunk when surveyed.