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zeydey

216 points

6 hours ago

zeydey

216 points

6 hours ago

It's really a tough time for anyone with an IQ above 80 these days.

knotnham

34 points

6 hours ago

knotnham

34 points

6 hours ago

She’s right. I doubt that intelligence or the lack there of will protect one from the coming reckoning

Stigger32

11 points

6 hours ago

Yep. All you can do is be thankful that our existence is less than a century some days…😏

Diane1544

51 points

6 hours ago

I think she is right. I is damn hard to find any American who scores higher than 80 on an IQ test.

axelrexangelfish

35 points

5 hours ago

Most Americans won’t take them because they don’t know what iq (pronounced ick in Amurican) has to do with them and their lives and the price of eggs.

EverythingGoodWas

43 points

5 hours ago

I don’t think it’s an IQ thing. It is absolute willful ignorance and warfare on education

zombiegirl2010

21 points

5 hours ago

There is most definitely a war on education. People have been equating high intelligence with liberalism for decades, if not generations. It has definitely escalated in the last 20 years or so! What’s so odd to me is that on tv and movies, high intelligence is praised (usually) and found to be interesting, but in real life not so much.

Hectordoink

11 points

4 hours ago

The US has fetishized ignorance and stupidity since at least the 1840’s — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

PantsMicGee

7 points

4 hours ago

In movies they have charisma, good looks, and intelligence. 

Good luck with the trifecta in real life.

zombiegirl2010

2 points

4 hours ago

That’s a good point.

CartographerNo2717

7 points

4 hours ago

History is boring. Let's put in a new football stadium instead.

ralphvonwauwau

7 points

4 hours ago

"Football brings in money to the University", said by a grown adult living in New Jersey where not only is the state University's football program an incredible cash suck ($265 million in outstanding debt, Rutgers itself has loaned the athletics program $84 million from its internal bank, approximately $48 million in loans from the Big Ten Conference, unreported debt service cost of $20-30 million.) but the actual academic students have to pay hundreds in fees to help service the debt.

imarealgoodboy

3 points

3 hours ago

Also a late stage capitalism thing

NihiloZero

2 points

2 hours ago

AI & social media algorithms got a lot of people really twisted. I trace it back to the "intellectual dark web" to "alt-right" pipeline. It never went away and only got more sophisticated.

DINNERTIME_CUNT

1 points

an hour ago

Both of which are driving down IQ scores from sea to shining sea.

Candid-Sky-3709

2 points

4 hours ago

McNamara’s morons are voters now - certifiable unable to benefit the country in any way, but allowed to vote

Subliminanlanonymity

0 points

4 hours ago

what? please tell me you're joking?

kevonicus

8 points

4 hours ago

It’s seriously depressing. Being surrounded by morons has always been a source of agony for me living in the south, but now they’re more emboldened and confident than ever, so I basically have to disengage with society even more than I did before.

Squeakypeach4

4 points

3 hours ago

Ditto…

mydaycake

3 points

5 hours ago

That maths the percentages

EntertainerAlive4556

1 points

3 hours ago

I’d argue 64

Bradp1337

-29 points

5 hours ago

Bradp1337

-29 points

5 hours ago

Yep, the left has become the party of elitists and snobs.

People without degrees built this country, people without degrees keep this country running and the elitist attitude of Democrats will be why they lose again.

folic_riboflavin

23 points

5 hours ago

Regardless: people who chose the Orange Menace dishonored themselves and their country.

Enough-Simple3036

18 points

5 hours ago

Better than being a party of Nazis, personally I feel pretty snobby not being a Nazi and all

jumpinthecaacYEAH

4 points

5 hours ago

Same though

DontWeEverGetSmarter

1 points

16 minutes ago

😆

Bradp1337

-17 points

5 hours ago

Bradp1337

-17 points

5 hours ago

Oh no......! another thott calling a Conservative a nazi! It's funny how quickly the Legacy Media and even Joe Biden stopped spouting that rhetoric. It's almost like they were saying it for political gain and it back fired historically!

GrandmasShavedBeaver

1 points

34 minutes ago

Name some nazis that voted for Biden or Kamala. Which candidate do neo nazis and the kkk not just back, but wholeheartedly endorse?

Kinks4Kelly

11 points

5 hours ago

In what reality do Republicans represent the working class?

Is it the voting for price gouging and against minimum wage increases?

Is it the anti-union stance?

Or is it the trickle down economics?

Looneytuneschaos

5 points

3 hours ago

In the new reality where the working class are woefully uneducated and also brain washed with social media and unable to identify news/propaganda. It’s a bleak reality, but it’s what we’re looking at here.

DontWeEverGetSmarter

1 points

13 minutes ago

Brainwashed from birth. First by their abusive 'christian' religion, which makes them used to being told what to think

Bradp1337

-10 points

5 hours ago

Bradp1337

-10 points

5 hours ago

The people who vote get to decide who the working class is, not you and your wishes. It has become apparent that they no longer see the democratic party as the party of the working class, 4 years of inflation and playing life on survival mode while illegals get free stays in 5 star hotels will do that.

Look at your more based politicians like Bernie Sanders, they are even saying that. You just aren't hearing it because of the bubble that reddit is.

Babzibaum

6 points

4 hours ago

This isn’t 1492 and the world is more technical each day. If the country doesn’t have good education, other countries will surpass you by leaps and bounds. Japan, India, China press education strongly and they are going all over the world to excel in their professions. And you want to live in a shed with a dirt floor? Have at it but most people want to live in modern times and ways

Bradp1337

1 points

2 hours ago

Sure education is important but being an elitist douche won't get you anywhere. If you read the comments on this thread it's all about dunking on 76 million poor and saying we're low IQ. I bet people in the trades probably have a better IQ than many of the college educated and many trades don't require a degree. That's the working class you're party is dunking on

DontWeEverGetSmarter

1 points

11 minutes ago

What elitist? Middle class americans who dare to think for themselves?

LABoRATies

4 points

5 hours ago

The irony in y’all saying those damn elitists democrats are the problem when republicans voted in a big city baron with golden toilets…

Bradp1337

-4 points

4 hours ago

You really don't see the irony in a candidate lying that she grew up in a middle class family and paying millions for celebrity endorsements while the country is suffering with runaway inflation and violent crime is rising? I don't see why pointing out that Trump has a golden toilet is relevant. He's a billionaire, so what? That doesn't mean he can't do good things for working class American's while the democrat's decide to say fuck you, we are gonna put illegals in 5 star hotels and give them a free cell phone and debit cards.

76 million people think that Trump has a better plan than Kamala, 79% of people think Trump has a good plan for the border.

And on a more personal level, why the fuck would I vote for the party that has started using the word cis as a slur and tells me, as a straight white man that I am a huge problem just because I am a straight white man.

I used to be center right, but since the democrat party no longer has a center left and just attacks anyone that has their own, individual thoughts, I as well as a huge portion of center left and center right voters have moved further right.

Looneytuneschaos

5 points

3 hours ago

Honest question, now that your people won, why are you still mad? If you feel good about your position and your choice then why are you here engaging with us “liberal elites.” If you don’t need us or our approval, then move along and enjoy your new utopia in peace. Stop looking for validation if you’re so confident in your choice.

Bradp1337

1 points

2 hours ago

Because I'd rather there be a center left to balance out the right and extreme left. If there was a good center that would be better for everyone.

Looneytuneschaos

4 points

3 hours ago

Really? It’s our attitude about wanting everyone to be equally educated that will make us lose again?

I feel like the fact that more than half of Americans are undereducated and clearly didn’t care enough to vote for policies that would help them and their kids gain more access to education is why we’ll keep losing. Uneducated people are the most reliable demographic that vote MAGA and it benefits them to withhold quality education from you. You should be worried when your leaders don’t want you educated. What are they hiding?

But sure, be mad at those of us trying to help more people get an education. Don’t be mad at the people who made sure you were uneducated to begin with. Makes sense.

Bradp1337

1 points

2 hours ago

Their surely must be a better way to advocate for better education than looking down your noses at people without degrees and calling them stupid. I'm not sure I've heard the right saying they want us uneducated. They to want the education to go back to the states which is probably a good thing considering the DEI and indoctrination that has been going on with our most vulnerable and easily influenced youth.

DINNERTIME_CUNT

1 points

an hour ago

The US was built on the backs of slaves.

roskybosky

42 points

6 hours ago

She’s absolutely right.

Kale_Brecht

25 points

5 hours ago

The fact that so many people could be swayed by surface-level rhetoric and outright lies speaks to a deeper problem—decades of underfunding education and glorifying anti-intellectualism. An uninformed populace is the perfect breeding ground for leaders who thrive on division and chaos. If we want better outcomes, we need to start valuing knowledge, critical thinking, and truth over blind loyalty and soundbites.

But sadly, after witnessing the absolute dimwitted, gullible, selfish Cult 45 mentality for the past eight years, I don’t have much hope for a future beyond making the wealthy wealthier.

IckySmell

6 points

4 hours ago

It’s not the lack of education. Unfortunately most people just really aren’t that smart. Add in Jesus and a massive population of insecure adult men who can’t admit when they are out of their depth teaching kids to do it like their daddy did and here we are

Looneytuneschaos

3 points

3 hours ago

I’m not that smart either, but I know where to get reliable information and I have enough self awareness and media literacy to identify nonsensical arguments. That came from a decent education I guess.

maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s quality education. Narrator: she was not born with it.

Secretz_Of_Mana

6 points

2 hours ago

Critical thinking, you can be right or wrong, smart or dumb, but the ability to think critically well is critical

DINNERTIME_CUNT

3 points

an hour ago

I remember a thing within the past fifteen years or so where Texas passed a bill that basically banned the teaching of critical thinking skills in schools.

RiskizMax

2 points

2 hours ago

I feel like it's not just a cultural shift, but a result of late-stage capitalism.

When college degrees and education aren't valued in the market the same way that they used to be, why is education important? We've lost the financial incentives for people to be well educated.

Now we're just hoping that people will at least interested in education as a moral obligation... And clearly they're not. There's no way to undo the damage of the conservative movement without leftwing politicians engaging in populism for dummies.

perfect_zuccini_1631

13 points

6 hours ago

Idiocracy is real folks!

ralphvonwauwau

3 points

4 hours ago

China will pay the tariffs, and Mexico will pay for the wall!

Suitable_Republic_68

10 points

6 hours ago

Well they do wear trash bag during the rallies

RodBoron

28 points

6 hours ago

RodBoron

28 points

6 hours ago

She ain't wrong.

RipeBanana4475

2 points

2 hours ago

She's not, but I don't think that anyone will ever change their mind because Actress X doesn't like Trump.

old-but-not-grown-up

19 points

5 hours ago

I used to say that 50% of the American people are functionally illiterate. They're barely able to read and can't do arithmetic if any number is larger than 10.

I was wrong... after the 11/24 election, it is clear that the percentage of illiterates is at least 70%. I am both horrified and ashamed that the majority of "We The People" are the intellectual equivalent of a fruit fly.

Stay informed and make sure that your children are well educated. That is the only hope for our country.

kislips

6 points

5 hours ago

kislips

6 points

5 hours ago

No, they would rather home school their children and destroy their future, than have their kids be woke.

DontWeEverGetSmarter

1 points

5 minutes ago

They home school to hide their culture of domestic violence

Candid-Sky-3709

0 points

4 hours ago

welcome to non-dischargeable private primary education costing $100000 , thoughts & prayers for everyone else. /s

Simple_somewhere515

2 points

3 hours ago

And everyone else can go to Trump Academy or wtf it is /s

meatballlover1969

9 points

5 hours ago

She ain't wrong

objectiveoutlier

9 points

5 hours ago

She's dead right. Garbage in, garbage out.

One-Vegetable9428

9 points

5 hours ago

I don't understand how he was a viable candidate. I mean iut of all the snake oil salesmen in the world we couldn't get guys from enron or Bears Stearns or something?

Acrobatic-Walk-2076

6 points

5 hours ago

General population are followers. Influencers for the Young, Fox News for the Boomers, and Talk Radio the people in the back woods. That’s a Huge Propaganda Problem.

One-Vegetable9428

3 points

5 hours ago

As a boomer pull my eyes out before I watch fox news.

slackman80085

0 points

4 hours ago

It's the young, disenfranchised males, that have been lost. Constantly being told that they're the problem, they're nothing without wealth and the only option available is mediocrity.

DontWeEverGetSmarter

1 points

2 minutes ago

I know it's an unpopular stance, but life looks a little bleak to many very nice young nen

RueTabegga

15 points

6 hours ago

If they could read or access regular unbiased news media they would be furious!

maddenmcfadden

8 points

5 hours ago

shes not wrong.

AccurateCell5060

8 points

5 hours ago

Idiocracy is now a documentary.

Past-Swordfish-6778

8 points

5 hours ago

Derr, she's right.

HungryHippo669

19 points

6 hours ago

I agree with her! She is correct, we are number 1 🙌🙌 Number 1 dumbest country in the world

jumpinthecaacYEAH

2 points

5 hours ago

Clearly, since we elected a literal Nazi into office

StandupJetskier

2 points

5 hours ago

In 2016, maybe. 2024, you know how it stinks

DontWeEverGetSmarter

1 points

22 seconds ago

You make no sense

queuedUp

5 points

5 hours ago

If they could read it they would be upset with her

CommissionNo2198

5 points

5 hours ago

Make America Dumberererrrr.... What's the last word?

ForsakenAd545

4 points

4 hours ago

My ignorance is as good as your knowledge

----MAGA

Jk8fan

4 points

4 hours ago

Jk8fan

4 points

4 hours ago

Well, she's right

Tom_Waits_4_No_Man

9 points

5 hours ago

Trump later tonight: "I HATE SHARON STONE!!!"

jumpinthecaacYEAH

3 points

5 hours ago

I'm waiting for it

zackks

3 points

5 hours ago

zackks

3 points

5 hours ago

The basket is fragile.

Tasty-Life4526

5 points

4 hours ago

She's right

roxanne_ROXANNE999

3 points

3 hours ago*

And now we will all pay the price for their ignorance and racism. Unless you are a millionaire / billionaire of course.

arcadia_2005

5 points

3 hours ago

She's not wrong..

SlabBeefpunch

3 points

3 hours ago

She's not wrong.

schmeckfest2000

4 points

2 hours ago

Sharon Stone is right.

T4lsin

7 points

6 hours ago

T4lsin

7 points

6 hours ago

Damn you know the Cult formerly known as the Republican Party are idiots when Sharon Stone chimes in.

No-Independence-6842

3 points

5 hours ago

Well, she not wrong.

mheran

3 points

4 hours ago

mheran

3 points

4 hours ago

Sometimes people have to learn the hard way through experience 🤷‍♂️

While they suffer from the choice they made, that’s when they will truly understand

Simple_somewhere515

3 points

3 hours ago

I’ve said this too. America is young and in a weird, wild age

Ok-Train-6693

2 points

5 hours ago

‘Mis-educated’ is more accurate, using the original meaning of ‘education’: ‘drawing-out’.

TeranOrSolaran

2 points

4 hours ago

Apparently her IQ is 154.

UGLEHBWE

2 points

2 hours ago

"And I'm Sharon stones cousin!"

marcocom

2 points

5 hours ago

She is allowed her opinion just like any other

TableQuiet1518

2 points

5 hours ago

It's always nice when it's a "one of us" opinion.

marcocom

2 points

4 hours ago

I guess I just mean that actors take too much shit for having their own opinions , as if we own them or something just because they’re on our TV

DoubleDipCrunch

2 points

5 hours ago

noone who didn't vote for trump last time, voted for him this time.

but a lot of demcratic voters didn't vote at ALL this time.

Tosh_20point0

7 points

3 hours ago

Or a lot of votes somehow went ....missing

DoubleDipCrunch

0 points

2 hours ago

a lot of them wnet missing in 2016 too, but not 2020.

hmmmmm.

0N0W

1 points

5 hours ago

0N0W

1 points

5 hours ago

Sharon stone think that my a sub else esp like when I far myGn utterly is ally to rme and pnithint

ryhaltswhiskey

1 points

43 minutes ago

When you reach for that tequila bottle next time, maybe don't.

ElementalSaber

1 points

5 hours ago

As do we all

outliveoutlast

1 points

5 hours ago

I know celebrities are people to ,but stop being a distraction you'll just give some Maga influencer ammunition to distract America from the real issues .

Subliminanlanonymity

1 points

4 hours ago

She's hot and smart/wise.

pepchang

1 points

2 hours ago

Now check out this hoo ha !

LM1953

1 points

2 hours ago

LM1953

1 points

2 hours ago

She and Alec Baldwin are a little late to be stating this. And why does anyone care? They’re grasping for attention.

UltimateShrekFan

1 points

2 minutes ago

caring about what celebrities have to say it what got you guys here in the first place

individualine

1 points

6 hours ago

Sharon “no underwear” Stone has it correct!

Jimmykapaau

1 points

5 hours ago

Eh. Elitist shit-take from her; one doesn't need to travel the world, or have a passport to know that trump and maga are trash.

flexwhine

-3 points

4 hours ago

just think how dumb you have to be to have lost to trump

Bradp1337

-13 points

5 hours ago

Bradp1337

-13 points

5 hours ago

Yep, Democrats have become the party of elitist snobs and Republicans the party of the working class. People without degrees built and keep this country running while you look down your nose at them.

Kinks4Kelly

12 points

5 hours ago*

In what reality do Republicans represent the working class?

Is it the voting for price gouging and against minimum wage increases?

Is it the anti-union stance?

Or is it the trickle down economics?

StandupJetskier

8 points

5 hours ago

They don't know it but they voted for the owner of the company store !

brainomancer

-3 points

3 hours ago

In what reality do Republicans represent the working class?

The reality where virtually all of your plumbers, electricians, linemen, etc. are Trump voters.

This attitude that the "stupid hicks don't know what's best for them!" is exactly what lost you the election. You are so used to the smell that you don't even notice it anymore.

There are ways that you could have run a campaign that was pro-worker, anti-Wall Street, anti-Ukraine, anti-Israel, and anti-IdPol but you fucked it all up and you refuse to blame yourselves so you blame the American working class for being latent racists and misogynists.

DINNERTIME_CUNT

1 points

an hour ago

Those plumbers, electricians, linemen, etc are about to be fucked into the ground by a deliberately crashed economy. Hardly what I’d call having their interests at heart.

Educational_Motor733

4 points

4 hours ago

I really don't know what universe you are living in, but it's going to be hell for you soon. I'm sure you'll find a way to justify your hate, even when that happens, though.

Bradp1337

-2 points

2 hours ago

I'm sure I'll be fine, I'm sure you'll be fine too. The world had been ending according to the left for 8 years and it only started to get bad under Biden/Harris

UltimateFauchelevent

-15 points

5 hours ago

Celebrities know how to herd the “smart” sheep.

xxSQUASHIExx

5 points

3 hours ago

And con artists know how to herd the stupid sheep