Mamdami is forcing children to participate in a heinous Islamic ritual called Al-gebra. It's like, demonic spells or something.

After 2016 I spent a lot of time on reddit talking to Trump voters to understand why.

Overwhelmingly they believe things that aren't true. Basic misconceptions of the world cascading in on one another culminating into the stupidest vote of their life.

One guy thought Obama was a vain man because he named his healthcare plan Obamacare. When I told him the healthcare plan was called the Affordable Care Act, and that Republicans and the media called it Obamacare as a way to hurt it, his brain couldn't process it because why would the media parrot Republican talking points if they were all biased towards Democrats?

You can understand how this individual would make this mistake. He pays just enough attention to be misinformed. Three generations of right-wing propaganda, the world's most disciplined messaging machine repeating the same lies and half-truths have absolutely run roughshod over this type of person.

One of my favourite conspiracies is that academic spaces are overwhelmingly left-leaning.

Years ago a German satire show interviewed random people on the street. They asked them what they think about the fact that "children are now forced to learn arabic numbers in German Schools". The interviewers flawlessly baited a bunch of idiots into exposing their mindless xenophobia on TV

I refuse arabic numbers. What the fuck is 2? 7? 9??? These are all made up concepts invented to corrupt the mind of people.

Look at how elegant these look instead: 10, 111, 1001.

Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?

Excuse me.. all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.

Thank you for your attention to this matter

I bet he’s not even talking about the real classical symbols but the new woke version!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

I thought she was talking about Polymarket posting this as a serious matter. Then I noticed who she is...

AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:

AKA dumb and ignorant people believe more lies. Trump loves the uneducated.

Oh no. Instead of writing out the numbers like one, two, three they will have to write them out like 1, 2, 3. The horror! 😱

I need a hug. We live in such a depressing world sometimes.

I saw this joke at least XV times already...

In all seriousness thank God for the Arabic number system. It would be a nightmare to use Roman numerals for math

I know right wingers in general are thick, but Americans really do seem to take it to a new level the dull witted.

I'm sure that IC% of them wouldn't even recognise the joke.

Is she being ironic or really didn't actually know? It's hard to know if attention-economy people do gimmicky things for attention or really are that... uh... unaware of things?

ERIKA has been celebrating everyday how rich she is becoming. she went through several personas, looking like kennith copeland, a demon, her eyes souless like a dolls eyes, going a WWE celebratory style funeral, and her sonya blade skin.

well... it is real...

Jesus. What an idiot.

Unfortunately, trying to set up this particular "rage bait" is also ignorant and uneducated. The numbers we use are derived from Arabic numerals. But modern Arabic numerals does not look like the ones we use in the Latin Alphabet. They can also change a bit depending on which arabic country you're in.

If you're an average "westerner" you probably don't know what modern arabic numerals look like. And learning them would be required to know which symbol means what.

That being said. Teaching children that different children across the world have different symbols for things is still a good thing to teach them. While also teaching them there are other systems than our base 10 system. Such as the Duodecimal system.