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Percentages [Pearls Before Swine]

Political Memes @lemmy.world Percentages [Pearls Before Swine]

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Look, I'm not worried about the people that are UNinformed. I'm terrified of the MISinformed. They can pass these "tests" but still think the "elite" is Harris/Walz and not Trump/Musk/Murdock/Bezos...

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- Even worse are the people who think Harris isn't part of the "elite" just because she's on team blue. All D.C. politicians (with rare exception) are on the same team, and it ain't ours.
  
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  Money, to a degree, is power. If you decide that everyone with any power is against you, you’re pretty much consigning your side to total powerlessness.
  
  “Good news, everyone! I seized enough power to give us universal healthcare!”
  “But now you’re an elite! Fuck off!”
  
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  While I understand this frustration, time and again, Democrats have overwhelmingly voted to make the lives of their constituents better, while Republicans overwhelmingly voted against.
  
  It's not both sides, it's top and bottom. And consistently the right tries to keep you at the bottom much much more than the left.
  
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  It's a big club.....and you ain't in it!
  
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  hurr durr hurr durr both sides the same
  
  its all i see RUSSIANS OR RUSSIAN PROPAGANDISTS saying le BOTH SIDES OR THE SAME or blaming everything on le DEMS or leftists or u know any if the 20000 ways u can tell someone usnt a native english speaker by the way they phrase their bs
  
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- still think the “elite” is Harris/Wal
  
  Wait, a Midwestern governor and a Vice President aren't "elite"? What on earth qualifies?
  
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What a dupe that guy is for believing there are known percentages for all those things... Plus even asking people if they know these things is going to cause some people to go learn them shifting the percentages immediately.

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- And then there's me. If I think the fastest way to get this person I don't know to stop talking is by claiming I'm dumb....then suddenly I don't know what color grass is.
  
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  “You’re an alpha? Is that a furry thing?”
  
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- It's tiresome to see any kind of "X% of people don't know Y" with no citation.
  
  You can just say anything and people will believe worse.
  
  Also no real analysis or diagnosis or probing of the info. Just a bland "heh, people are stupid aren't they?" doomerism.
  
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Trump delivered the Gettysburg address, obviously.

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- Never fight uphill me boys
  
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Rat's the best.

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It's ORBITS the sun.

Not "revolves around the sun".

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- In what context is there a difference? "Orbit" and "revolve around" are synonyms.
  
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- "Revolve" is a scientifically accurate word to use.
  
  https://physics-network.org/what-is-difference-between-rotate-and-revolve/#What_is_a_revolution_in_physics
  
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- They both orbit a common center of mass called a barycenter. I assume that's what the 26% said.
  
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  Funnily enough, the barycenter of the earth and sun is inside the sun iirc
  
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  If you want to make that argument, you have to account for all the other bodies in the solar system... Which I think then becomes a hard problem to predict the movements thereof in the long term?
  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umpalMtQE50

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- there is a logical explanation here, no?
  
  First they selected only people who failed, but still, they are seeing the same map as us?
  
  I don't want to believe it's legit! please! Are the maps in the USA shaped differently for them to be so confused, was there an all you can drink buffet behind?
  
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  Jimmy Kimmel's show is filmed in the El Capitan in the heart of Hollywood Blvd. As long as the sun is out (and a few hours after), that street will be perpetually littered with people from all corners of the country, and the world. Choosing only 4-5 people out of the hundreds that pass by every hour is not a true indicator of reality
  
  Also, USA maps usually have the north American continent directly in the center:
  
  https://www.freeworldmaps.net/world/america-centric/america-centered-worldmap.jpg
  
  Nevertheless, those specific people are so fucking humiliatingly stupid, and yet they vote. So...
  
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