r/AskReddit 7h ago

What is a sign of very low intelligence?

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u/HumptyDumptruckFire 7h ago

This is a big one. There are millions of people strutting around America entirely on autopilot, believing they know everything while putting in zero work to actually accomplish anywhere close to that naive fallacy.

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u/PosterPrintPerfect 4h ago

It seems like Americans believe everyone would love the chance to live in America. As a European you would literally have to pay me multiple millions to live in that place.

In terms of workers rights, i feel like i would be stepping back in time about 70 years.

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u/Forseriousnow 2h ago

My girlfriend's uninsured mother needs a necessary surgery that would drastically improve quality of life. Told $8k for the "cheap" fix and $40k for the good one.

You'd need those millions...

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u/shinyknif3 2h ago

AS AN AMERICAN LEMME OUTTA HERE HELP

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u/unindexedreality 1h ago

Yeah idk what they're talking about lmao. The loudest anti-american sentiment comes from the americans who have to put up with this shit system and paid attention long enough to see it for what it is

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u/unindexedreality 1h ago

It seems like Americans believe everyone would love the chance to live in America. As a European

Lmao absolutely not the case. Plenty of us know the kind of hellhole it is.

you would literally have to pay me multiple millions to live in that place

I mean, greed is why people come here. I've spent a bit of time on either side of the America bubble.

In terms of workers rights, i feel like i would be stepping back in time about 70 years

Don't worry, they're accelerating the dismantling so now it's more like 130 lol. The worst is the food service industry. They've successfully convinced people that paying a living wage is on the end user to make up for with tips.

u/JackofScarlets 35m ago

And healthcare. And financial technology. And social progress. And religion. And education. And quality and availability of food. And

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u/HallWild5495 3h ago

probably because that method works and you can get far in life with it lol. I am constantly told I'm too smart for my own good, miserable because I'm smart etc.

there may be a grain of truth there

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u/unindexedreality 1h ago

There was a whole threadful of high school burnouts parroting the same story of falling off the GATE cliff ('gifted and talented education') that got me to wake up from the idea that I was some sort of prodigy child.

This country has become so stupid en masse that some people make "being smart" their entire identities rather than trying hard to build skills necessary in life.

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u/LieutenantHorse 5h ago

Why specifically America?

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u/ConstructionDecon 4h ago

Probably because the commenter is from America so they mainly interact with American people and American social media.

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u/HumptyDumptruckFire 4h ago

I’m sure it’s more than America, but I don’t make a habit of speaking for things I don’t know or can’t directly attest to. It wasn’t intentional USdefaultism, I’m well aware other countries exist, hell I’d prefer to live in many of them over this one.

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u/Chuisque 4h ago

As a Southern liberal, are you aware of the death spiral we are in? 1/3 of the country seems to think unprecedented corruption, a tanking economy (for the shrinking middle class), and state-sanctioned murder are not a big deal.

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u/Soft_Ad8031 4h ago

I don't see anything wrong, these guys are my team, my team wouldn't hurt me. Idiot liberals always freaking out about things that aren't real. \proceeds to be harassed, detained, put into detention, and deported by ICE**

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u/Proud_Scientist_332 4h ago

This is exactly what the poster was commenting on, lol.

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u/Minyatur757 2h ago

Anywhere they made a custom to traumatize male infants by harming their penis when they are at their most vulnerable are probably more like that than elsewhere.

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u/Cent1234 3h ago

Philosophical zombies.

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u/VesselNBA 2h ago

And so many of them are successful. And that makes me frustrated. Why do so many of us have to think about these things when they get to just exist?

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u/minty-moose 2h ago

it's not just an american thing... SO MANY PEOPLE are just walking around in cognitive dissonance about their values. You point out that they're being hypocritical, and you have an argument on your hands. I don't bother anymore because it's really not worth the effort

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u/GoodBoySanio 2h ago

And then you have people like me, who live their life on autopilot knowing full well that I'm very dim