I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn’t meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).

Since I’ve been living in that bubble my entire life, I’m curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don’t agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?

Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    Well I’m surrounded by religious magas so, yes.

    “Earth is 2000 years old. Gay is wrong and unnatural. Dinosaurs didnt exist. Democrats want to turn the US into Russia. Trump should take over Canada”

    All actual things said by real life people to me.

    Its baffling how stupid most Americans are.

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      democrats want to turn the us into russia??? the us has never been more like the ussr was portrayed in the 80’s

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      There’s a difference between intelligence and poor upbringing though. 500 years ago even the smartest person alive probably believed the first three of them, because anyone who said otherwise was crazy, and all the authority figures were saying it was objective fact. If you raise someone today from childhood, cut off from a lot of external influence, then regardless of how smart they are they’ll probably still lean towards believing them. Brains are weird, and the ability to process information, solve problems, remember things, and question things don’t necessarily correlate as well as you’d expect.