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Philhelm 63 points ago +63 / -0

Yet the stereotype is that the right is dumb.

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golfbrora 8 points ago +8 / -0

Wasn't sure if it would be John Casale, Chris Cuomo, or Homer Simpson.

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OrangeFruitGood 8 points ago +8 / -0

I knew it would be Fredo before I clicked the link. I knew.

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GopnikGod 5 points ago +8 / -3

The louder someone tells you they're a genius, the more you should doubt it.

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Glentennis 1 point ago +1 / -0

Blows my mind how many people seem to think "if i shout it, it will become true"

I mean, we all know the chick shrieking "I AM A STRONG VALID INDEPENDENT WOMAN OF COLOR AND I AM PROUD!!!" The loudest, is actually as far removed from any of those claims as humanly possible

I don't think I've ever heard someone yell "I AM HAPPY" and actually believed it.

Normal people don't go around explaining how normal they are. They just exist and go along their day and try to keep things positive for themselves.

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CrocodileBeers 17 points ago +17 / -0

Because the left equates education with intelligence. They know a bunch of fancy 3 dollar words they made up, but they can’t change a tire.

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Philhelm 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm not even sure that they possess most of the degrees.

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TrumpSmashLibtards 1 point ago +1 / -0

The intellectual insecurity of the left is astonishing. The lefty media gets so much wrong and the one that stands out to me was Rachel Maddow declaring the USN hospital ships MERCY and COMFORT could never be where Trump sent them in a week. Because she has no idea how fast ships travel at sea. She has never really been outside nor has she ever "done" anything...I've given up correcting daily news outlets on their mistakes.

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anduriliamfotw 1 point ago +1 / -0

i actually helped a young college student change her tire awhile back (she was cute).

  1. she was amazed as i showed her that there was a spare tire in her TRUNK

2), when i pulled the shredded remains of her old tire off with a crowbar (shed effed it up by driving on it), she was floored.

3), when i smacked the trim back in place (just putting the plugs in the holes), she said, “youre like a wizard with cars.”

im thinking, no lady, im not. i can just change a tire and i grew up hitting my tv to get reception.

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Mitschu 1 point ago +1 / -0

We need to fix a market rate to words. My dad called them "tenpenny words", but by the time I was an adult adjusted inflation made them "ten dollar words", but here you are saying they're only worth three dollars.

I propose the following formula:

(average cost of a year of college) x (average years of college) / (percentage of population with any college education) over (number of words in the English language) - (shared language)

That gives us: approximately $34,000 a year (averaging private school with public costs), most people take 4 years of English in college (indeed, in most places it's mandatory), 34% of Americans have at least a four year degree, there are 170,000 "in use" words (including "persnickety", meaning overly obsessed with small details like the cost of words, but excluding obsolete, forgotten, or replaced words, like "finickity" instead of "finicky", "wherefore" instead of "why", etc.), and 30,000 "common use" words that we all share as English speakers (such as "and", "as", "the", etc. -- words you hardly need to go to college to learn.)

($34k x 4 / 0.34) / (170k - 30k) = $400k / 140k = $2.86 per word.

Huh. Your "three dollar words" claim is actually valid. Consider yourself factchecked on the fly.

Now to go see how many words you can purchase by changing a tire...

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Doth 8 points ago +8 / -0

Yeah... dumb... that's why we have the skills to build, repair, and maintain the entire country from scratch if necessary. I'm sure if the world collapses, liberal arts major barristas are going to reinvent the global logistic network that makes modern commerce and availability of goods possible.

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MadMaxUSMC 3 points ago +3 / -0

Only for lefties.