Republicans were, though, more likely to believe Russian disinformation claims than their Democratic counterparts, with 57.6% falling for at least one Russian disinformation claim, compared with just 17.9% of Democrats and 29.5% of people who didn’t identify with one particular party.
Americans Also Believe American Disinformation ‘To Alarming Degree’
Actually Americans tend to easily believe a lot of nonsense … and have a harder time grasping reality.
While true, American stupidity is not unique. Every nation has shown that they have tons of idiots willing to believe whatever the Internet tells them
Yep. Poilievre, Brexit, Meloni, AFD, just off the top of my head.
it’s like our education & welfare systems have been intentionally defunded for decades to keep us in line with our ruling classes’ desires and make us buy into silly groupthink ideas like american exceptionalism; but, of course, that’s the not true since that can only happen in oligarchies like russia or china and, also, could never happen to us, the greatest country that the world has ever seen. /s
while blue states arnt as bad as red state in funding education, it is still heavily underfunded, it might as well be bad as red areas in some cases, they have participation grades to run people through to graduation. i had a friend who dint want to be a public district teacher in the west, because starting salary was very low, plus they lock you into multi-year contracts . you can tell its bad when the armed services are trying to recruit in middle income areas, not poor but not rich more like close to the lower end of middle class. i noticed at least 2 of the branches are in 2 different malls where HS, college goers frequent.
our HS paraded around a handful of “succesful students who were getting scholarships” and tried to rub it into the rest of students faces, by piratically saying “look at these people, and look at you”, of course everyone rolled thier eyes when they did this. i assume this was also common in the district, when people were struggling in certain classes they would shunt them all in to a “useless elective” class which is a babysitting class, so we dont affect the qouta and metrics statistics of the school for funding.
by the time around CC, there were mutlitudes of people struggling in arithmetic classes, not from the same school, as it mostly like a nationwide problem as people from all over us came to this cc because its cheap.
But in the US the lunatics run the asylum.
“When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America you get a front row seat.”
― George Carlin