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I used to laugh at this one but now I just think about how many times the education system has failed this person.
I made the mistake of commenting on an instagram post about those crisis pregnancy centers which do not provide medical care or protect privacy and it basically devolved into someone saying “there is no forced birth. Pregnancy leads to birth. It’s biology.”
At least there was a mention of biology. Eventually the fundies and then the republicans in general are going to say stuff like we must not interfere because it's the Hand of God hand at work.
That kind of person should be denied antibiotics because who are mortal doctors to interfere with the plans of God?
There is 
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leads to .
It's causality.
The average American is an 11th century peasant with a computer.
Yep. They talk to me about Gog and Magog coming over the Urals after they come in from mucking the stables. No sense of history whatsoever. All they know is God and ~~King~~ flag.
coming over the Urals
They're Hungarian?
I didn't have Hungarians exactly in mind at first. In the middle ages people in Europe and the Islamic world used to think Gog and Magog would emerge from Central Asia and herald the end of the world. Every time a powerful steppe empire would emerge to challenge the settled people of Europe and the Levant, like the Mongols, people there would speculate if the beginning of the end was nigh. In the context of the Cold War, Evangelical Protestants ideologically aligned with the American government convinced gullible people like my Trump- supporting coworker that the Soviet Union was Gog and Magog from the Bible, and that they would herald the end of the world. Hence why these people have the mentality of medieval peasants who think every enemy of the king is in league with the actual Devil. I told her that the whole idea is ludicrous if you have even an ounce of historical knowledge about how every generation thinks they'll soon see the end of the world.
Something like 40% of Americans think the earth is less than 10,000 years old
This is an insult to 11th century peasants
If this surprises you, you obviously haven't heard about the number of people who think ~~women menstruate~~ people who menstruate do that and piss out of the same hole
The misogyny runs deeeeeeep in this country
Edit: late night idiocy - I have a trans son, I know better, I'm just a real dingus sometimes
One of the male teachers at our school had to have an impromptu sex ed class because he kept getting pissed at girls for going to the bathroom to change their pads during his class. He thought they could just turn it off for a little bit.
As a child I asked how a pregnant person could pee with the baby in the way, and if the baby gets wet when she pees. I was 9 but I do still cringe when I think about it, despite the fact that very few of my classmates really knew the answer either. I don't think that anymore though, I have learned that the baby nimbly avoids the pee because it tastes bad
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Call me authoritarian for this, but this is what happens when we respect everyone's opinions instead of shaming and belittling those who are proudly stupid, dogmatic, and cruel. The Reddit atheists were on to something.
First step in that is to stop teaching kids that everyone's opinions are valid.
Sorry, but if you think global warming isn't real, the earth is flat, or pineapple is an acceptable pizza topping, you should be mocked and shunned from society.
pineapple on pizza bad
Wow so funny and original. It's almost like I'm back on reddit.
I was originally gonna say something about outdoor cats but I didn't want to have an actual struggle session. Being called a Redditor is the lesser of those two evils.
Teach kids the difference between opinions and facts backed by scientific proof, opinions are like "we should go buy groceries and eat food at home instead of outside today" and not "I have no degree or formal education in anything related to medicine, vax is bad"
And if an adult replies "appeal to authority" you hit them with a stick named "authority" until they appeal for it to stop.
pineapple is an acceptable pizza topping, you should be mocked and shunned from society.
Americans will wash their food down with straight corn syrup but cry if some fruit touches their savory dinner treats.
The correct answer to "will adding cooked pineapple to this dish improve it?" is always "yes, that will always improve everything whether it's a burger or curry or pizza or soup or rice."
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Pineapple is a great pizza topping and haters don't understand the value of adding tartness to a rich dish. Mfs never balance a dish with acid or honey and it shows. It's no less a proper pizza than stuffed crust abominations.
Pineapple is a terrible topping on pizza because hot fruit is terrible on my tongue and in my tummy. Using a sauce concentrate thinned with pineapple juice or making the sauce with some pineapple juice mixed in gives you the good flavor without the terrible texture
Are pizzas in America really that rich? I find the tomato in pizza sauce to be sour enough to overcome the tiny amounts of mozzarella.
Honestly I mostly eat it for the woodfire smoky flavour and the sourdough base. It's essentially bread, cheese, tomato and basil.
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Broke: pineapple on pizza bad
Woke: jackfruit on pizza good
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The Reddit atheists were not any better on a lot of these topics. They were just smug.
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turns out that providing no education about human genitalia means that most adults are absolutely fucking clueless about the average human body
Stupid.
The shells break and cause cuts, and that's why women bleed on their periods
And this is the country that is allowed to reduce other countries to ashes
My aunt called her IUD her 'lil egg beater' so this tracks.
They need to ask follow up questions.
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Americans need to be put in basic education camps before they can be sent to the re-education camps.
At this rate Republicans will make teaching Haematogenous Reproduction Theory in schools a new plank in their platform by, lets say the next midterms.
Maybe they'll go back to teaching Aristotelian dentistry while they're at it.
I'm more interested in knowing the percentage of people who were certain that they do have shells.
I don’t mean to sound like a Trotskyist, but I feel like Communists have this opportunity to have public newspaper sites that provide factual information on a wide variety of things, and it’s also not paywalled after the 2nd article? The level of ignorance in this country makes me deeply concerned.
The general public has been poisoned against any form of intellectualism, and have no interest in factual information.
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Our pedagogy of the oppressed book club starts July 1sts.
What capitalism does to the brain
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