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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/04/2010 : 12:24:43
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Well, we all know that the overall percentage is higher than that, a lot higher, but we are dealing with a single topic, here. These morons don't know what everyone else learned almost fr5om our diaper days: that the American Revolution was war of rebellion fought successfully against....
Do you know? Or must I make snide remarks aimed in your direction?
Marist University saw that the Fourth of July was coming up and decided to commission a poll to show how stupid we all are. The question: “From which country did the United States win its independence?” Marist was surely expecting only 2% of Americans to know the answer. CNN.com was also prepared for the results with a “more than 1 in TK Americans don’t know which country America declared its independence from, the dumb freaks” story. Yet America surprised them all! SEVENTY-FOUR PERCENT OF US know the answer to the question! USA! USA! USA!
How can CNN honestly still present this cynically as an Americans-are-stupid-fucks story? This is an AMAZING result. Consider that a good 10% of Americans probably have Alzheimer’s. Then another 5% are just regular crazy people. And probably 11% of Americans got offended that some annoying academic called them up during dinner to ask them this single, inane question and answered “the United States won its independence from the country of My Ass.”
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Congratulations & Well Done! to the the elite 74 percent who were paying attention in grade school classes, instead of trying to get the girl at the next desk to them to show them her panties, and answered correctly. There is yet hope for the nation.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
 Posted - 07/04/2010 : 17:57:29 [Permalink]
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My favorite was a question to 16-25 year olds, "what is the most heavily defended border in the world?"
Like 48% of them answered U.S./Mexico... |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2010 : 00:48:23 [Permalink]
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The comments on the Marist poll site are a bit interesting.... seems as if there are a lot of tea-party types hanging out there and they seem to think it's liberals and Obama voters who can't answer that question properly.
My guess would be that there is no specific political demographic that answered any better/worse than others.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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26% of Americans are morons....
