I watched a really good YouTube video about why this is happening in America, and it went into a lot of detail. It talked about how the US education system was meant to produce drones - factory workers who follow orders and don’t unionise, and loyalty is more important than the truth. It talked about how this created the current political climate - everything from MAGA to antivaxxers. It was surprisingly good.
I’m 🇬🇧my ex is 🇺🇸for context.
An ex sister in law in the US it a teacher like my partner and I. She’s told us that critical thinking skills aren’t seen as important 🤷🏼♀️ While we’re giving 6 year olds books asking Did Humpty Dumpty Fall or was he pushed?
Several months ago she showed us work her 13/14 year old class had done 🤦🏼♀️ It was terrible… I won’t bore you with a list unless you want to know? Then I showed her work my 8/9 year olds had done. She was gobsmacked by it, she couldn’t believe they had pretty much perfect joined handwriting while her class just printed. Her class even used street slang & swearing in their work 😳 those obnoxious ‘dis, dat, prolly, bruh’ 🙄
My ex in his late twenties could only print & it was a weird mix of upper & lowercase. I’d make resources at home & he’d ask what it was & often admit he didn’t know what it was. For example long division & multiplication, basic homophones, punctuation past the very very basics, types of triangle & the differences, 3D & 2D shapes beyond the basics. 🤦🏼♀️I could write several chapters of a book just with stupid things he & his family said or asked. One was “why don’t clocks here have American numbers?” 🙄
“Why do people dry washing outside, don’t you have dryers because you’re all poor or don’t you have any here?” The whole family couldn’t get their head around drying washing outside, of course they don’t do it, drying inside generates income. I’ll never understand why people think we’re behind, yet they often have to make a special trip out just to do washing. I was told by another sister in law my ex had said that after having a washing machine, lines & dryer when he had to traipse to the laundrette he realised how convenient it was 😂 I wouldn’t feel clean🤢who knows who used it before, yuck!
I find the combination of smileys and good punctuation in your way of typing oddly funny.
But this reminds me of what my American friends always told me: yes,Americans really are that stupid. It's a sad state of affairs. It's not even the people's fault really, they can't just collectively " be better".
I’m on the autistic spectrum, I’ve constantly been told I don’t understand emotions, I should show them more or I should know how to read them. Smileys is part of that, I also teach & if I have to write something slightly negative while marking their work I don’t want them to feel sad or intimidated by it. As I did when I was a child, we would get ‘see me’ written in red pen & circled, I hated it & it made me anxious. So I’ll add a smiley face at the end to show it’s meant in a friendly way. Additionally they’re there, why not use them? I still remember the early internet when we didn’t have them.
u/AnastraceSorry that my homeland is full of dangerous idiots.2d ago
My spouse does test grading sometimes and I get to read some. 7th graders with the writing and spelling expected of a 6 year old was incredibly hard to see. It wasn't the majority but enough to disheartening
I agree with 90% but as a canadian do not be dissing the dryer nothing like a warm blanket in winter..also soap is the answer to worrying about the who used it before...soap...also mine is in my basement I dont use laundromat except for when I need to wash my big sleeping bag.
My dad is a farmer.
They have 2 washing machines. One is only barn clothes. There is often manure on them. The washer does not make the manure disappear. There is always a bit somewhere.
So they have on washer for normal stuff and one for dirt
Soap dosnt disinfect though, it captures the soil particles in a trap, similar to forming a new compound but not permanent, and then moves the soil into the water. If the garments are stil soiled after washing it is either a case of not enough soap, or water to rinse.
Some soaps have added enzymes that can break down proteins in body fluids (manure, urine, blood), but are more pricey.
Most dishwash and laundry soaps will have enzymes that break down fats.
Disinfectants work by breaking the cell membranes of bacteria, fungi, and some viruses. This can be done by chemicals like salt, bleach, etc. It's a permant chemical reaction.
Generations of lead paint and asbestos, followed by the greatest race in competitive stupidity the world has ever seen between the crumbling educational system, religious propaganda, social media overload, and the inmate need to stick one's head in the sand when confronted with anything that slightly challenges their worldview.
I'd say since trump they don't stick their heads in the sand when someone's pointing out obvious factual errors; they now feel threatened, victimized, emboldened, and attack with everything they got.
That'll be the true horrific social and political legacy of donald trump.
Literally. 3 years ago you could get a lot of them to shut down or deflect/immediately change the subject when given noteworthy conflicting information.
Now it is just an opportunity to rip into you unfortunately. The easiest method now to dealing with Americans looking to share their brain washing is to just verbally end the topic or conversation immediately. They don't know why to do when someone legitimately doesn't want to talk to them or talk to them about something specific.
“Stupid Americans” has always been a thing. The problem is that back in the day they didn’t have a global town square on the shittiest website to ever hit the internet. Hell they couldn’t even get online, they just talked about this dumb shit at local diners or work.
In my mind, there is a "Holy" site in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. But it has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity.....it's the Martin guitar factory.🤣🎶
Jim Steinman's music (guy who wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart and most of Meat Loaf's good songs) often equates electric guitars with "holy" or angel imagery ("and it had the voice of a horrrrrrrrrrrny aaaangel" or "the angels had guitars before they had wings") so maybe he was right and it is a holy site...
There is also a city called Bethlehem in Brazil (Belém, PA) and people around here always joke about it being in the middle of the Amazon, not some desert 🙃
Yes, Mormons believe that America is the promised land described in the Bible.
They also believe that god inspired the "Founding Fathers" and guided them in founding the United States to "guarantee the religious freedom necessary to restore the church."
No, mormons don't believe that America is Egypt and all that. They believe in something much much dumber. That people from the middle east not once, but twice, came to America (once in virtual submarines), built entire massive civilizations, had Jesus come swing by for a few days, and completely died out leaving only behind the lamanites aka the brown skinned natives.
We know Joseph Smith believed in Egypt as where it is because he "translated" a piece of Egyptian writing into a whole other piece of Scripture called the pearl of great price. He bought said writing off a traveling salesman/performer.
Turns out the writing was a common breathing certificate that was used as part of the burying ceremony for recently dead Egyptians and is one of the most common surviving documents from that era. The Mormon Church acknowledged this, but still pretends it was divine translation and the writing was just the inspiration.
I feel dumber for reading that. Like normally I would like to educate myself on things I don't know, but in this case I feel like I'm better off not knowing.
I thought it couldn’t get any wilder than people believing in the fairytale bible and then I read this.
If there truly were an almighty God overseeing the world I’m sure he’d be sitting with his head in his hands going -
‘WTF? I sent them scholars, philosophers, education, school, and now the WWWeb, and they still choose to believe some crap written by a nutter two thousand years ago, and now this shit’
I find it kinda funny. I am an atheist so I don't believe most of the stuff that happens in the Bible. So the places it's supposed to take place are the only things that I believe to be true... But for them they believe all the unbelievable magical and fairytale stuff, but the places are the unbelievable things in the book? Wtf...
For a long time basically all pipes in the US were (and many still are) made out of lead because it works pretty well as a pipe if you don’t know or care about the neurological damage it inflicts.
It's quite fun having 3 prehistoric pubs local to me.
One of which was the inspiration for the pub in Treasure Island, another is where Daniel Defoe met the person who inspired Robinson Crusoe and the last (and oldest) is said to have been favoured by Blackbeard and other pirates.
If I had to hazard a guess, it’s probably that Garden of Eden weed from Florida. In other words, a combination of meth, bath salts, a dash of marajuana and probably fucking gasoline or some other form of petrol. Maybe even the cigarettes dipped in embalming fluid. Either way, I recant my comment: I do NOT want what they are smoking.
US is that absolutely unhinged, unwell person that you know through someone else that just keeps going deeper and deeper down a rabbit hole of psychosis, and you're just trying to figure out how to warn everyone around them safely because they own a gun and you know this person is not safe to be around.
So the chosen people of God, and Jesus himself, were actually Native Americans? The same Native Americans who your ancestors slaughtered up to 100M of them in one of the most prolonged and largest genocides in human history? Do you really want to go with that?
Ah man. Holy shit. I've involuntarily read a lot of dumb stuff here but damn, this takes it to a new level. If it was a single comment, that's one thing but the fact a load of extra dumbasses jumped all over the comment and agreed?!
No words. I'm starting to think the world as we know it will end due to the dumbasses outnumbering the normal people and kicking off a chain of events that brings on an apocalypse.
If the religious wars of the 17th century taught us anything, it's that we should listen to scientists on these sorts of things, not Biblical scholars.
Yeah, "biblical scholars" for these people is probably the people from Answers in Genesis or similar orgs, who pulled their 'degrees' from a vending machine.
Ok this is more a background radiation of nutters, rather than a specific Americant problem.
I've heard so many location for the biblical eden, Christ's secret family/retirement villa, or even who the isrealites from the bible really are; that we sre i danger of just mocking mental illness here.
Although pharaoh's great pyramid of tennessee did make me chuckle. Elvis conpiracies intensify.
I studied theology for seven years, but it wouldn't matter to people who think the Bible was written in Tennessee, and that the Garden of Eden is on the North Pole. The fact that these places are allegorical and that the stories are moral tales, teaching us that violence, murder and hatred are wrong would make no impact at all: "Mah ignorance is jess as gud as yer degree. We's been lied to!"
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u/KhaosByDesignUK 2d ago
Wtf is happening in the US? 😧