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[–] 73 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 99 points 9 hours ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    They're solving for X, which is slang for MDMA and also what porn is rated. Obviously they're indoctrinating kids into child rape cults.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

    And teaching them how to do Islamic ablutions, like using mouthwash and washing their hands. And showering! Heinous!

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  • [–] 8 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    nah, do the french ablutions

    BIDETS FOR NEW YORK

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    [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    Is kill for a legitimate 3rd option.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 hours ago

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

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  • [–] 49 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

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

    Thank you for your attention to this matter

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  • [–] 59 points 10 hours ago* (21 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 hours ago (16 children)

    I dont care if i have to say it X times, roman numerals are superior

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  • [–] 24 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

    If I've said it once I've said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right

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    [–] 28 points 10 hours ago* (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 15 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can't be properly depicted in Base-10.

    If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.

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