• Sunrosa@lemmy.world
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      Sometimes my friends laugh at me for how little I know about pop culture. I laugh back though. I wouldn’t say I’m proud of it but it’s just funny.

    • mcc@sh.itjust.works
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      Some people can be very well educated but choose not to follow reason. For example polititions appealing to a voting base. Point is these things certainly say “what a twat” but doesn’t necessarily reflect poor education.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      Coping mechanism for the poor, they can’t admit they’re at the bottom and so it feels good to put other people down for nonsense reasons

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    People who litter. Throw their rubbish out the window of the car. Or who throw rubbish in public, like into drains or sidewalks.

    It’s in the mentality, and I say the lack of education is the reason for it.

    It’s sad to see the people of my country do this, and to see it with your own eyes.

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      On the flipside, the belief that someone with a formal education is somehow beneath you or brainwashed for it.

  • BrooklynMan@lemmy.mlBanned
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    religion and the belief in the supernatural/paranormal. also the belief in conspiracy theories.

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      conspiracy theories i agree with, but religion? organized religion, definitely. joining a religion with a hierarchy signals that you want someone else to give you all the answers, which is very much a mark of poor education. but religious beliefs are not an automatic marker of poor education, as long as they’re sincerely held, don’t supersede science, and are frequently revisited and revised based on personal experience and knowledge. even basic, broad frameworks like animism or some parts of Buddhism can help you make sense of the world when science can’t help you

  • Antik@lemmy.ml
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    Being a republican. Sure there are some educated grifters who decide to label themselves as republican, but your average republican voter is a mouth-breathing fucking idiot.

  • salarua@sopuli.xyz
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    taking Ayn Rand’s work seriously. five seconds of critical thought and her entire philosophy comes crashing down

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      One thing that few people seem to accept when saying that they believe in Ayn Rand’s philosophy is that you are supposed to pay people what they are worth, not what you can negotiate with them.

      For instance, in Atlas Shrugged, it is made explicit that Rearden pays his mill workers far above typical salaries because it is worth it to him to have the best staff working in his mills. Rearden is also the kind of person who isn’t going to make racist or sexist jokes because he wants the best person regardless of sex or color.

      What Objectivist is that moral?

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        That’s actually the root of all social philosophies: they require decent people.

        No matter which system you take, capitalism, communism, anarchism, monarchy, democracy, etc. they all would work perfectly fine, if people wouldn’t be stupid, selfish and about 1% downright psychopaths. And I’m not even talking about real crimes. In your example it would be perfectly legal, to pay the workers the absolute minimum possible, but it would be a dick move.

        At the end of the day, a system always has to answer the question: How do you reign in assholes? That’s it. Designing a system based on Jesuses is trivial.

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          It’s not enough to reign in assholes, the system has to be designed in such a way that carriers of “dark triad” traits (i.e. the usual bad faith actors in a system) are still incentivized to contribute to or improve society without gradually dismantling it to increase their wealth/power/status. That’s a hard problem to solve.

  • CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    Parents feeding their baby cola in bottles and smoking while pregnant are two things that usually cause me to make assumptions

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    MAGA Hats. Those people are dumb by choice. And that’s less forgivable than people who just don’t know any better.

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    Associating with arbitrary groups, such as football fans, nationalists, wearing certain clothing brands