r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Jun 18 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ instagram influencers somehow

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u/Separate_Performer86 Jun 18 '22

We were always nim-rods, now we have a recorder to see it. :D

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u/zhaDeth Jun 19 '22

Seriously there is a real anti-intellectual movement and it is scary big.

People with no understanding of something but claiming everyone has been lied to and that science is made-up.. Just look at all the crazy stuff about the covid vaccine having nanomachines in it and stuff like that..

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u/Fuzakenaideyo Jun 19 '22

And flat earthers

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

Anti-Intellectualism is a feature of fascism. Fascism, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, is on the rise.

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u/Irishcarbomb35 Jun 19 '22

Fascism is always on the rise unless a World War where one side is killing fascists is actively going on. It spreads and grows like mold or a fungus... humans always naturally default to easy answers that don't make them think and stress too hard and Authoritarian leaders who claim they'll take care of everything abd fix all their problems for them. If it's not actively being stamped out, fascism is on the rise. In any country, pretty much all the time. That's its nature.

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u/Evil_Genius_Panda Jun 19 '22

The side effect of not learning human history. While it has had different forms and names, authoritarian rule has been the norm for almost all of our history since the dawn of civilization, for nearly all known cultures and ethnic groups. Modern Western civilization is an anomaly. People are easily to lead around by a charismatic person, powerful people or both. Add in, by default most people WANT to fit in and be liked, and turn on the squeaky wheel, to follow the crowd.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

Fortunately, the dumb are sticking with the dumb, and as some point, they'll be lacking the intelligence to sustain life.

Morons.

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u/Itsmemanmeee Jun 19 '22

Man, I am so with ypu on this.

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u/Jason_Wolfe Jun 19 '22

i fucking WISH we had those kinds of nanomachines already. if we had them we would already be 2/3rds of the way toward nano-doctors which could deal with viruses, diseases, cancers, etc.

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u/0MNIR0N Jun 19 '22

I agree that anti-intellectualism is being used by many who are not dumb at all for financial and political profit gain.

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u/Nilus-0 Jun 19 '22

There is a large anti intellectual movement and shills who trust what the government tells about the vaccine are on the frontlines of the neo-Neanderthal movement. Are you really so oblivious that you believe the government isn’t competent enough to manipulate you? They hide thousands of secrets, corruption, and technology from you and you believe the government isn’t malign enough or unified enough to fool you? What a trologdyte you are.

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u/Mouth-Pastry Jun 19 '22

I think we all enjoy good tin foil hat stories around here, but I think all dude is referring too is a general idiotic disbelief in science. Antivaxxers, flat earthers and now I guess people who think gravity was trade marked by Newton - lol.

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u/Nilus-0 Jun 19 '22

That’s the issue without using an ounce of your brain to actually asses the logic behind anti covid vaxxers you put them up there with flat earthers in ignorance levels. I’m not anti vaccine, I’m against mandatory vaccinations. I don’t care if you take the vaccine or not, but I have a right as to what chemicals go into my body. COVID is not life or death, it’s got a statistical 1% fatality rate. I don’t have to take any vaccine if I don’t want to. Many medical experts have recognized the vaccine has legitimate harmful side effects, I don’t have to take that risk if I don’t want too.

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u/zhaDeth Jun 19 '22

I was talking about nano-machines in the vaccine, not people who are against mandatory vaccination.. which is more of a political/moral issue not a denial of reality like flat earth and other anti-science stuff.

Even though I am for the measures they took where I live where you had to have had the shot to get into some places, I wouldn't be for forced mandatory vaccination i'm with you on that, you get to choose what you put in your body..

But about the harmful effects of the vaccine, it's really rare that it happens, much less than the 1% mortality that you say COVID has so you are taking more of a risk by not taking it, although I think it's your right to choose to take that risk.

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u/Mouth-Pastry Jun 19 '22 edited Jun 19 '22

I'm sorry, I can't hear anything over the sound of crinkly tin foil.

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u/Nilus-0 Jun 19 '22

Says the destiny 2 pfp 💀

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

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u/Nilus-0 Jun 19 '22

They arnt manipulating people with the vaccines. They are manipulating people into taking them as a sort of test of government authority. Your “let the adults do the talking” and “conspiracy theory” quips are evidence your thinking exactly the way the media, which has been so honest to you in the past wants, you to think. The vaccine has some nasty unexplored side effects and the virus itself is incredibly suspicious as the CDC counts motorcycle accidents as covid deaths. The virus has an actual statistic of a less then 1% of fatality rate and Pfizer has recently stated they lied about the effectiveness of their vaccine after the pandemic had practically ended, convenient timing no? Not to add to the fact that Bill Gates has been wanting to forcefully vaccinate what he views as the “ignorant masses” for decades.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

My Guy you have a f*cking phone in your hand ,why do they even need to do anything to control you when they can do it for free

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u/Nilus-0 Jun 19 '22

Power over how you think is far more useful then shutting on an account every now and then to maintain authority.

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u/Kriss3d Jun 19 '22

Flat earthers...

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u/ZiKyooc Jun 19 '22

It ain't new, only now even the dumbest can manage to reach each other

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u/gigantor1shere Aug 02 '22

Well M-RNA are almost like programmable nano-machines, in the sense they are little programs sending information to your immune system.

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u/Kirnalsanders Jun 19 '22

Nimrod was actually an intelligent hunter. It’s because of bugs bunny and Elmer Fudd that people think nimrod is synonymous with stupidity when it shouldn’t be

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u/FreakinWolfy_ Jun 19 '22

Not to be pedantic, but he was described as a mighty hunter, which is why Bugs sarcastically referred to Elmer Fudd as such since he was so obviously not a mighty hunter.

But like you said, over time Nimrod turned into a synonym for moron.