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"I love you, christians. I am a christian!"
Who the fuck talks like that? And who the fuck votes for a guy that talks like that?
Hello my fellow human beings, I'm a human and love doing human activities.
Reminds me of this
These people who talk equally as phony.
Behold: a black person.
Too stupid to be satire, but also too stupid to not be satire. I am not sure with this one, chief.
If I recall correctly, he forgot to switch accounts before posting that one.
Quite a few of those on social media.
AND YET...
I read something that put conservatives into greater context, just changed one word.
“Imagine how stupid the average Republican is, then realize half of all republicans are stupider than that.”
Median would be the more generally correct number to use, but apparently IQ (debatable as a proxy for intelligence...) is roughly normally distributed, so either is likely close enough.
Oh yeah, they normalize IQ every year, and 100 is always used as the median.
But thanks to the Flynn Effect, getting a 100 (the number they always choose for the middle) in 2024 means you're significantly smarter than someone who got a 100 in 1990.
So when Carlin said, "think of a person with average intelligence" he was calling to mind (to his 1990 audience) a person who was average in 1990 but would score [EDIT: I originally said 70s to 80s, but I was off by a lot. Such a person would actually score right around 90 points] today.
This is what happens when you take the lead out of gasoline.
A person would only drop a couple points over time. 80s, and especially 70s, would be significantly impaired.
Yeah, I ended up looking up the actual Flynn effect numbers AFTER leaving my comment, and had to edit because I was way off.
The word average is used to signify mean, median or mode freely, depending only on context. For example, "he's just an average Joe" is to say he's like most other men in his demographic. In that case average means mode. In Carlin's joke, average means median.
Truer words never have been uttered
Happy cake day!
Aw thanks! I didn't even realize it was so until you said that. Curious -- how did you know? I'm using boost right now and it's not made obvious anywhere I've checked.
There is a picture of little cake on the right side of your nick. Maybe Boost don't like cakes?
Hello, fellow kids!
Christians, apparently.
When you've already lost the capacity for critical thought...
Yes it's like when I, too, enjoy human food like a real human
Millions of stupid Americans. They are everywhere! Even in your city, maybe even in your neighborhood.
Who talks like that? A grifter. A guy who literally embodies all of the seven deadly sins, trying to convince his followers that "he's a Christian." That is just exploding with irony.