The US is cooked. It really is.

The average American is an 11th century peasant with a computer.

Yep. They talk to me about Gog and Magog coming over the Urals after they come in from mucking the stables. No sense of history whatsoever. All they know is God and ~~King~~ flag.
- Gog and Magog coming over the Urals
- coming over the Urals
  They're Hungarian?
Something like 40% of Americans think the earth is less than 10,000 years old
This is an insult to 11th century peasants

Call me authoritarian for this, but this is what happens when we respect everyone's opinions instead of shaming and belittling those who are proudly stupid, dogmatic, and cruel. The Reddit atheists were on to something.

First step in that is to stop teaching kids that everyone's opinions are valid.
Sorry, but if you think global warming isn't real, the earth is flat, or pineapple is an acceptable pizza topping, you should be mocked and shunned from society.
- pineapple on pizza bad
  Wow so funny and original. It's almost like I'm back on reddit.
- Teach kids the difference between opinions and facts backed by scientific proof, opinions are like "we should go buy groceries and eat food at home instead of outside today" and not "I have no degree or formal education in anything related to medicine, vax is bad"
- pineapple is an acceptable pizza topping, you should be mocked and shunned from society.
  Americans will wash their food down with straight corn syrup but cry if some fruit touches their savory dinner treats.
  The correct answer to "will adding cooked pineapple to this dish improve it?" is always "yes, that will always improve everything whether it's a burger or curry or pizza or soup or rice."
- Pineapple is a great pizza topping and haters don't understand the value of adding tartness to a rich dish. Mfs never balance a dish with acid or honey and it shows. It's no less a proper pizza than stuffed crust abominations.
- I love pineapple on pizza and after the revolution ™️ pineapple pizza will be the official dish of the USSA. Required to be patriotically served in grade schools and work cafeterias every Friday
- Broke: pineapple on pizza bad
  Woke: jackfruit on pizza good
- peanut butter and gummy bears on my pizza
The Reddit atheists were not any better on a lot of these topics. They were just smug.
- Yeah but so were the people who presumed they were saving random people from going to hell, so it was a good counterbalance. I don't think all people can be reasoned with, some people have to be cowed by getting "owned" to refrain from loudly espousing a toxic belief, so Reddit atheists' smugness and vitriol was a good way to shame annoying religious people out of proselytizing too much.
agreed
Yes, crush stupid opinions!

I made the mistake of commenting on an instagram post about those crisis pregnancy centers which do not provide medical care or protect privacy and it basically devolved into someone saying “there is no forced birth. Pregnancy leads to birth. It’s biology.”

At least there was a mention of biology. Eventually the fundies and then the republicans in general are going to say stuff like we must not interfere because it's the Hand of God hand at work.
- That kind of person should be denied antibiotics because who are mortal doctors to interfere with the plans of God?
There is
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leads to
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It's causality.

If this surprises you, you obviously haven't heard about the number of people who think ~~women menstruate~~ people who menstruate do that and piss out of the same hole

The misogyny runs deeeeeeep in this country

Edit: late night idiocy - I have a trans son, I know better, I'm just a real dingus sometimes

One of the male teachers at our school had to have an impromptu sex ed class because he kept getting pissed at girls for going to the bathroom to change their pads during his class. He thought they could just turn it off for a little bit.
As a child I asked how a pregnant person could pee with the baby in the way, and if the baby gets wet when she pees. I was 9 but I do still cringe when I think about it, despite the fact that very few of my classmates really knew the answer either. I don't think that anymore though, I have learned that the baby nimbly avoids the pee because it tastes bad
- it's crazy how early the tastebuds develop!

turns out that providing no education about human genitalia means that most adults are absolutely fucking clueless about the average human body

Stupid.

The shells break and cause cuts, and that's why women bleed on their periods

Americans need to be put in basic education camps before they can be sent to the re-education camps.

They need to ask follow up questions.

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𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎?

𝟷. 𝙾𝚗𝚎
𝟸. 𝙰 𝚏𝚎𝚠
𝟹. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚢
𝟺. 𝙰 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚍

And this is the country that is allowed to reduce other countries to ashes

My aunt called her IUD her 'lil egg beater' so this tracks.

At this rate Republicans will make teaching Haematogenous Reproduction Theory in schools a new plank in their platform by, lets say the next midterms.

Maybe they'll go back to teaching Aristotelian dentistry while they're at it.

I'm more interested in knowing the percentage of people who were certain that they do have shells.

Yeah tbh if someone asked me this question genuinely I would ask myself if there's some kind of counterintuitive truth. I can imagine learning that they would have something called "the shell" but that is not actually a chicken egg shell or something. Because science have a lot of surprises, there are actually good reasons to be unsure about any science related question

I don’t mean to sound like a Trotskyist, but I feel like Communists have this opportunity to have public newspaper sites that provide factual information on a wide variety of things, and it’s also not paywalled after the 2nd article? The level of ignorance in this country makes me deeply concerned.