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25% of Americans are documented as fucking stupid.

#1

Dave

Dave

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - TRENDING: CNN Poll: Quarter doubt Obama was born in U.S. « - Blogs from CNN.com

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#2

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

I'm trying to find that south park clip about this and the 9/11 conspiracy.

EDIT: Well, the link is here. 9/11 All Over Again - Video Clips - South Park Studios


#3

General Specific

General Specific

I'd say that's about right, maybe even a bit conservative


#4

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

75,000,000 can't be wrong...

He's a ferrener...


#5

Espy

Espy

Dave said:
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Indeed.


#6



Chibibar

I didn't read the article, but only 25%?


#7

Covar

Covar

Can't say I'm that surprised. It's a little higher than your typical 17% (plus or minus about 3) that you see take the opposite opinion of a poll.


#8

Seraphyn

Seraphyn

Was it Carlin who said: Think of the average mans intelligence, now consider that 50% of the population is less intelligent then that guy?

Statistics like these really can't be all that surprising. People are stupid, it's why we have all those damned warning labels on everything.


#9

Krisken

Krisken

I wish I could claim surprise, but people are ignorant beings. It has gone beyond the realm of opinion and into the land of faith and belief.


#10

Troll

Troll

This is why I fucking hate people sometimes. Like him or hate him, can we at least skip the stupid conspiracy theories about the president?


#11

Covar

Covar

Troll said:
This is why I fucking hate people sometimes. Like him or hate him, can we at least skip the stupid conspiracy theories about the president?
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No. The CIA was behind the assassination of Kennedy I tell you.


#12

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Covar;423698][QUOTE=Troll said:
This is why I fucking hate people sometimes. Like him or hate him, can we at least skip the stupid conspiracy theories about the president?
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No. The CIA was behind the assassination of Kennedy I tell you.[/QUOTE]

Last time I heard it was the grand Jewish world conspiracy. You know, the same who hoodwinked the world with that Holocaust schtick?

Seriously, though, I've stopped wondering about the stupidity of people. A person by himself may be calm, rational and understanding, but put him in enough company... In Finnish, we actually say Joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy, 'in a crowd there's a condensation of stupidity'.

What I actually worry about is these stupid people gettin' elected into offices.


#13

GasBandit

GasBandit

STOP TALKING ABOUT THE 5 JEW BANKERS!


But seriously, we'd all be better off if MERELY 25% of americans were stupid. I'd say it's closer to 80 or 90%... and the figure grows to about 95% in the world at large. People are morons.


#14

Dave

Dave

Amorous Eyes;423711][QUOTE=Espy;423667][QUOTE=Dave said:
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Indeed.[/QUOTE]

....Guh...

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Get that foreigner out of my thread!! :rofl:


#15

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Dave said:
Get that foreigner out of my thread!! :rofl:
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What did ya say, jenkki? :D


#16



Element 117

North_Ranger;424135][QUOTE=Dave said:
Get that foreigner out of my thread!! :rofl:
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What did ya say, jenkki? :D[/QUOTE]

がいじんですね？


#17



Philosopher B.

*Wonders aloud*

How do you say 'son of a bitch' in Finnish?


#18

Dave

Dave

For the record, this is a joke. I don't mean it but it's the first thing that came to my mind.

Philosopher B. said:
*Wonders aloud*

How do you say 'son of a bitch' in Finnish?
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"Chazwozel"

---------- Post added at 06:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:59 PM ----------

(I'm sorry! I didn't mean it!)


#19

Krisken

Krisken

Mean it! It was hilarious.


#20

Sparhawk

Sparhawk

North_Ranger said:
What I actually worry about is these stupid people gettin' elected into offices.
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Too late, we've been electing them for years, generally they are referred to as "Congress."


#21

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Philosopher B. said:
*Wonders aloud*

How do you say 'son of a bitch' in Finnish?
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Literally? Huoranpenikka ('runt of a whore') or nartunpenikka ('runt of a bitch').

Figuratively or as an expletive? Paskiainen.


#22

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

North_Ranger;424294][QUOTE=Philosopher B. said:
*Wonders aloud*

How do you say 'son of a bitch' in Finnish?
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Literally? Huoranpenikka ('runt of a whore') or nartunpenikka ('runt of a bitch').

Figuratively or as an expletive? Paskiainen.[/QUOTE]

I think I have my next WoW character name.


#23



Wasabi Poptart

I was reading something about this subject this morning though it was a different story (Army Officer "birther" on trial ) . The comments were unbelievable. If my kids ever want to go into politics I'll have to warn them against it since they both have a "Certificate of Live Birth". :rolleyes:


#24

SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Wasabi Poptart said:
I was reading something about this subject this morning though it was a different story (Army Officer "birther" on trial ) . The comments were unbelievable. If my kids ever want to go into politics I'll have to warn them against it since they both have a "Certificate of Live Birth". :rolleyes:
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From that article:

Birthers have argued that Obama was not born in Hawaii or that if he was, his citizenship was invalidated by living overseas as a child.
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So. Much. Stupid.


#25

Dave

Dave

If Obama were white these people wouldn't care.

If Obama were Republican this would never have been an issue.

If Obama's middle name wasn't Hussain these people again wouldn't care.


But I'm convinced that the Obama presidency and the immigration issue have made it so that racists and bigots feel like they are in the mainstream and can express themselves openly. It's like we turned on the lights and the cockroaches saw how many of them there were so they decided not to scatter this time.


#26



crono1224

Just counter with the fact that John McCain was born in Panama.


#27

Krisken

Krisken

Dave said:
It's like we turned on the lights and the cockroaches saw how many of them there were so they decided not to scatter this time.
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Great, America is Joe's Apartment.


#28

Dave

Dave

crono1224 said:
Just counter with the fact that John McCain was born in Panama.
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But that doesn't matter. He was born on a military base, which is considered U.S. territory. Just because they are stupid doesn't mean I have to act that way.


#29



crono1224

Dave;424404][QUOTE=crono1224 said:
Just counter with the fact that John McCain was born in Panama.
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But that doesn't matter. He was born on a military base, which is considered U.S. territory. Just because they are stupid doesn't mean I have to act that way.[/QUOTE]

Impossible, we must continue the fight of ignorance with ignorance. My point was merely that if they go as far as to claim that because Obama was born overseas it shows they no very little about where the other candidate was born (A completely diff country, although on a military base).


#30

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

sixpackshaker;424318][QUOTE=North_Ranger;424294][QUOTE=Philosopher B. said:
*Wonders aloud*

How do you say 'son of a bitch' in Finnish?
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Literally? Huoranpenikka ('runt of a whore') or nartunpenikka ('runt of a bitch').

Figuratively or as an expletive? Paskiainen.[/QUOTE]

I think I have my next WoW character name.[/QUOTE]

Wait, what?


#31



Soliloquy

Ah, going for a worgen character, eh?


#32

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

A foreign-stationed military base is more American than one the country's states.


#33

Jay

Jay

I thought I read 29%? A huge portion of them Republicans.

Makes sense.


#34

Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

General Specific said:
I'd say that's about right, maybe even a bit conservative
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I see what you did there


#35

Norris

Norris

I was discussing the issue of birthers on the IMDB politics boards (intellectual vacuum though it may be) reccently. One person claimed that "where there is smoke, there must be fire" and the amount of work Obama is supposedly doing to hide his records & the amount of shifty evidence he was born in Kenya are worth investigating. I countered that, since his birth announcement (which is admittedly not proof he was born in the U.S. on its own) listed a Hawaiian hospital as his birthplace, the "conspiracy" to conceal his birthplace would have to have begun almost immediately after his birth. Which doesn't make any fucking sense. When he was born, the idea of a black president in his lifetime would have been just barely plausible but still HIGHLY unlikely. His mother was a U.S. citizen so he wouldn't have had to worry about citizenship (if he was born in Kenya, you could MAKE hay over the phrase "natural born" I guess...it'd be idiotic and futile though), so there is no reason to fake it that early.

Wanna guess how many rebuttals I got?


#36

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

I'm guessing the number had at least three digits...


#37



crono1224

Norris said:
I was discussing the issue of birthers on the IMDB politics boards (intellectual vacuum though it may be) reccently. One person claimed that "where there is smoke, there must be fire" and the amount of work Obama is supposedly doing to hide his records & the amount of shifty evidence he was born in Kenya are worth investigating. I countered that, since his birth announcement (which is admittedly not proof he was born in the U.S. on its own) listed a Hawaiian hospital as his birthplace, the "conspiracy" to conceal his birthplace would have to have begun almost immediately after his birth. Which doesn't make any fucking sense. When he was born, the idea of a black president in his lifetime would have been just barely plausible but still HIGHLY unlikely. His mother was a U.S. citizen so he wouldn't have had to worry about citizenship (if he was born in Kenya, you could MAKE hay over the phrase "natural born" I guess...it'd be idiotic and futile though), so there is no reason to fake it that early.

Wanna guess how many rebuttals I got?
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Being that the civil rights movement was still huge then, I would say there was nearly no chance they would have thought to go through all that to plant a black president. Although, I'm not sure else would require being born on USA soil to do, if there are other things that require that maybe they would have faked it for that (would be a better excuse as to why they would fake it). But the fact that they don't care about him posting his birth certificate means it's useless to argue.


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