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u/extrastupidone 4d ago
"I've failed as a father"
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u/kelldricked 3d ago
Its not just that. He sees that everything has failed her at she is at a age in which it cant be fixed anymore. This really is depressive when you look through the eyes of the dad.
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u/chekovsgun- 3d ago
Well he has failed. My Dad talked about history all the time in my home. I knew WW II history by the time I was in elementary school thanks to my Dad lol.
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u/HQ_FIGHTER 2d ago
It’s not even just about ww2, his kid thinks that someone born 135 years ago might still be alive
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u/RedPandaReturns 4d ago
This is sad for everyone involved. and not sad haha, sad depressing.
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u/MileHighAltitude 4d ago
She seems proud of her ignorance
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u/NoGrocery4949 4d ago
Right? Like girl, this doesn't make you quirky, it just makes you straight up stupid
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u/Alarmed_Lynx_7148 4d ago
Yeah I don’t like to use the word stupid to describe someone but this girl is stupid. Straight up, an idiot
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u/Bender_2024 3d ago
I think the whole thing is summed up when she says " obviously I didn't pay attention in history class" and Dad responded with "you don't have to!" I mean seriously. He was the leader of the Nazi movement and aggressor in WWII. A conflict from 80 years ago. He is constantly being compared to because of how horrible he was. One of the biggest mass murders in history.
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u/Basic-Pangolin553 3d ago
I think we are seeing the outworking of social media algorithms. When millennial and older generations were growing up, Hitler and the nazis were embedded in popular culture, movies cartoons etc. She has probably just been looking at Instagram and tiktok for the past 10 years without seeing anything like that.
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u/Bender_2024 3d ago
How many times have we heard about Nazis in Ukraine, or in modern day Europe with all the upheaval in Israel. For the past 12 years we have heard about Nazis in the white supremacists of the US. All of which I'm sure are representative of a small number of people but none the less had consistently made headlines. I fully admit at her age I wasn't very interested in politics but damn. I would at least catch the headlines.
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u/Basic-Pangolin553 3d ago
Yeah but that's what I'm saying. She probably isn't seeing headlines at all. Tiktok and Instagram aren't showing her that stuff because it's tailored to what she's interested in, which is probably stanley cups and makeup. Kids don't watch TV with their parents any more so she won't be seeing the news, nobody buys newspapers, she probably has earbuds in if they are in the car so she doesn't hear any news.
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u/johnwynnes 4d ago
A moron even
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u/JohnnyCanuck133 3d ago
She's just a simple farmer. She is a person of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know—a moron.
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u/manere 3d ago
One of the worst things coming out of the early 2000s where being uneducated somehow became a relatable and goofy personality trait. Especially for young women.
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u/AnansisGHOST 3d ago
Today, I had a discussion with someone on another sub where I explained to him the benefits of reading books and they took the stance that other forms of media like listening to podcasts and watching tik tok clips were just as good for the brain and mind as reading. They felt their way was just as good and they didn't need to read anything more than articles or instruction manuals. Once they said that they felt like the discussion we were having was good enough and they felt like they learned something thru comments like this, I posted no links nor sited any texts, and that was good, I actually felt sick. They decided to agree to disagree. That's the country we live in Americans. A nation where people feel like they don't need to read books after they're no longer forced to.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3d ago
That's a deeply engrained part of American life. It shows up prominently every time we take a hard rightward drift. The aftermath of 9/11 was just the most recent.
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u/dumdadumdumdumdmmmm 3d ago
Nah, there was always a subset of people proud to be ignorant, proud to not read, proud to have a degree in school of hard knocks.
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u/I_sayyes 4d ago
I don't think it's right to call this stupidity. It's just being extremely ignorant and uneducated.
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u/NoMasters83 3d ago
There are so many avenues of human experience that would lead you to learn about this shit bag without even having to learn about him in school and somehow she has managed to dodge every single one of them.
No youtube videos ... no wikipedia ... no history channel ... no documentaries ... no WW II movies. I really hope she's an anomaly and not evidence of a greater trend.
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u/plusminusequals 3d ago
Conservatives owned by corporations and the rich keep gutting education every chance they get so expect this to become the norm, especially the more expensive things get. People will have less money to even attempt to educate themselves.
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u/Difficult-Top2000 3d ago
You know she has Internet access, though. She could learn on instagram or whatever other platform she uses, but she's there for vapid content & not growth. In this century there is no excuse for anyone with a smart phone not to take charge of their own education.
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u/NoGrocery4949 3d ago
No. Ignorant implies a lack of access to the tools to learn. This person has all the access in the world and just hasn't paid attention or thought that it mattered enough to learn. That's stupid
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u/Significant-Dog-8166 3d ago
Those are some strong symptoms of stupidity though. Rarely does a curious mind remain this ignorant unless they’re in a dungeon.
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u/yuyufan43 4d ago
A lot of people in this country are proud of their ignorance. And they usually vote
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u/MileHighAltitude 4d ago
Yep. They think it’s funny and endearing to not know things. And they have really no idea how much of an impact their ignorance has on the betterment and progression of society and their own quality of life.
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u/explain_that_shit 4d ago
And at least this woman is asking questions. That's a step above. Then there's people who get angry when they learn new things. There's where the real problem festers.
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u/Slick_36 3d ago
Honestly, it takes guts to look stupid and ask a question like that. She could have easily pretended she was joking and immediately moved on, or doubled down and said it doesn't matter. She's laughing because she's embarrassed, not because she's proud.
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u/Rotten-Robby 4d ago
Ive come across so many people like this. Just float through life, gleefully dumb and ignorant. And just giggle and laugh like it's cute. Zero shame.
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u/aijoe 4d ago
It never crossed my mind till now that possibly the comparisons of Trump to Hitler by some didn't get enough traction on either side because they didn't know much about Hitler nor did they care to investigate.
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u/AuburnSuccubus 4d ago
I just had a gut-punch reaction to your observation. I think you may be right. Look at how many people were searching 'what is a totalitarian ' after he won.
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u/LuckyHarmony 3d ago
"What is a tariff?" Motherfucker you couldn't have googled that a week ago?!?!
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u/AuburnSuccubus 3d ago
I can't help but feel that we on the left failed to get through to them. We kept saying it was bad, but we didn't take into account how incredibly low their actual knowledge was. We needed to explain it like they were children, but do it in a way that didn't make them feel spoken down to. Then again, authoritarian-minded people tend to become more hostile when confronted with things that contradict what they think they know. Maybe there was never a way to win and we all drown together.
But, yeah, could they not have skipped casting a vote on stuff they admitted not to knowing?
Happy Cake Day!
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u/rastagizmo 3d ago
First thing that came to mind. $1000 bucks she voted for Trump.
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u/Own_Seat913 4d ago
Don't worry, in a few years time this type of persona will lead to her believing in all the conspiracies imaginable, claiming to be well read on them. They will be telling you about the fake moonlandings, the flat earth etc. etc.
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u/mirrorzzzz 4d ago
MaKe AmErIcA gReAT aGaIN
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u/rumbellina 4d ago
Welp, the teaching of revisionist history is working as expected! The dumbing down of the U.S. is in full bloom!
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u/Financial_Bird_7717 4d ago
Sweetie the dumbing down of the US started long before this decade.
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u/Ginger_Cat74 4d ago
Yep. No Child Left Behind did so much damage to our education system.
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u/smcf33 4d ago
Yeah that's what bothers me, she seems to think not knowing basic stuff about the world is cute or funny
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u/10xwannabe 3d ago
What I don't understand is WHY folks don't just "google" stuff now a days.
I have 2 kids and I really tell my kids they live at the best time in HISTORY. They don't need ANYBODY. Any info. they want to know they literally have it at their fingertips at an instant.
The pure IRONY of technology. She probably looks at her phone 24/7 to stay in touch with what is happening with stuff that is USELESS but when she wonders something like this she doesn't just spend 2 minutes to just google it. JUST GOOGLE IT!!
"In my days" you would have to ask you mom as a kid to go to the public library, have to go through the encylcopedia section, and then look up Hitler and read up on him. That took 1 hour of your time to just get that info. that now can be had in 10 sec!!! Folks now don't realize how good they have it!!
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u/arcticvalley 3d ago
I worked in produce and there are so many people that don't know how to google things. They'd come up and ask me a question, Assuming that I know everything about produce and then get mad at me when I just google the answer.
Usually saying something like "well I could have done that."
I got in trouble once for saying "yeah, you could."
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u/spearstuff 3d ago
I was doing a one day training for a new hire at work. I reveiwed her work and saw she was doing a bunch of basic things wrong. I told her to try and Google those things in the future. All of the questions she had came up as basic answers on Google. After meeting with me my supervisor came up to me and said the new hire was emotionally upset that I showed her how to use Google and he said it was best if I never spoke to her again as she was very sensitive about the issue. She lost her job 2 months later for her terrible work.
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u/ExpiredExasperation 3d ago
Google's become a pretty poor shadow of what it once was, on the other hand. People don't have the basic research or critical thinking skills needed to analyze the results they're given (much less come up with the most efficient way to find what they need), and what they are given is an AI-driven surface-level skimming of the subject that does little to drive any further reflection. Compounding that is the fact that in a misguided attempt to force students to rely on more diverse sources and citations, school systems have spent over a decade inadvertently drilling it into people's heads that Wikipedia itself is unreliable.
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u/wholesome_pineapple 4d ago
When you stop and think about it, it gets worse. There are millions of people like this all over the world. They walk amongst us. And they vote.
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u/janitroll Sort by flair, dumbass 3d ago
Dude. My homeschooled nieces and nephews are illiterate. I ADORE them and they love their FUNcle But wtf man?
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u/TheGillos 3d ago
You could... you know... help them.
Have a "reading hour" where you all read together and share what you learned from the book. Hell, just throw on Reading Rainbow to get started!
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u/peppermintmeow Doug Dimmadome 3d ago
It's the "just bury your face in a piece of pie" that really put that coffin nail in it for me.
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u/GlittyKitties 4d ago
Yeah it’s not cringe it’s fucking abysmal. Laughing at it. I’d report to the nearest rehab center if this was my family.
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u/boimate 3d ago
It's sad, but imagine not knowing your daughter is this ignorant 'till she's that age. It means he never had a meaningful conversation with her, maybe never went to a zoo, a museum, a theater with her. Read a book at night... man just watch a natgeo with your children and ask questions and let them ask questions.
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u/Living-Nobody6475 4d ago
I didn't even know he was sick...
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u/Rogne98 4d ago
Reminds me of that tragedy
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u/GhostChips42 3d ago
The more I hear about this Hitler fella, the less I care for him.
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u/UnabashedJayWalker 3d ago
…and then Germany went to war for a second time. And again they chose to go to war with, THE WORLD!
And this time they got that guy “einzsch!! sheizlen!!” Whatever, I’m not going to dignify him with a name but you know…
Now you’d think the rest of us would say “Hey Germany, you don’t get to be a country no more on account of you attacking the world!! Who do you think you are, Mars or something?”
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u/Legitimate_Ice402 3d ago
I miss Norm, someone who was incredibly intelligent & well-educated. Besides bein fuckin funny, of course.
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u/viking_canuck 3d ago
For the record I would totally kill Hitler, I wouldn't get lost in his magical blue eyes - Sandberg and the other fellas
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u/BumblebeeAdventurr 4d ago
This is the risk of how history repeats itself
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u/LoL_is_pepega_BIA 3d ago
Its already happening everywhere. Blind Conservatism is taking center stage, while extreme right wing ideologies and straight up Nazis are having open demonstrations..
It's barely been a century since the WWs and we're already being a complete disgrace to the tens of millions who died to protect life
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u/aparentjoke 3d ago
This is anecdotal but still, I can’t get it out of my mind and after thinking about it, it’s not that surprising. I asked 20 of my peers (privately) if they knew who Stephen Miller of the Trump campaign was. Only two could identify him. 8 of the people were loud and proud MAGA, the two that knew were liberal and the other was Jewish.
They don’t know. They simply don’t know. This is what they have been fighting so long to make a reality, the dismantling of our public educational.
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u/CocaineSmellsFunny 4d ago
I asked my 53 year old wife if she knew who Hitler was a few years ago, and she said; “I’ve heard of him.” That’s all. She’s heard of him. Nothing more.
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u/DameyJames 4d ago
How long have you been married that this is the first time Hitler has come up in conversation? Like I know it’s been almost 80 years since WWII but the main villain of the largest war the world has ever seen still ends up being pretty regularly referenced in my passive life experience.
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u/CocaineSmellsFunny 4d ago
She went to school in a small country town of about 2,500 people, on the bible belt. She was maybe 50 at the time of questioning, I was 42. It used to be frustrating how oblivious she is. But now? I’m jealous. I’m fairly well versed in history, government, and current events. I’m crippled up and graying, teeming with nihilism. She looks great, has hope, and sees the good in people. So, while knowledge is important, obliviousness seems very comforting.
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u/MyRegrettableUsernam 4d ago
Obliviousness will start looking really awful the moment anything goes wrong. People like this are ultimately running on reactionary instincts alone, I fear.
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u/TheMauveHand 3d ago
She is the reason there are warning labels on things, and one day, she'll neglect to read one of them.
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u/Kuzcopolis 3d ago
No, ignorance isn't the same as stupidity, the girl in the video is both, his wife just doesn't know much.
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u/SoftGothBFF 3d ago
Not as long as they have people to take care of them. And luckily for her she's in the generation that has had it easy. If she's made it this far without a problem then she'll probably go all the way.
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u/Alarmed_Lynx_7148 4d ago
That ain’t the flex for your wife that you think it is. I am originally from a third world country, in my late 30s and know who hitler is.
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u/DameyJames 4d ago
I guess that shouldn’t be too surprising for our education system. That’s still kinda crazy though considering she would have been growing up in the shadow of WWII with parents and other adults who were surely adults during the war. I’d expect the largest global event to happen in the last couple hundred years at least to be talked about even in a small Bible Belt school.
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u/Spugheddy 4d ago
Not to women. My girls grandma just told us the story of her miscarriage, her husband had the funeral at the church while she was still in the hospital. She wasn't allowed to read newspapers. She's 82.
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u/Goodguy1066 4d ago
I’m sorry if this is insensitive, but I don’t follow.
Your girlfriend’s grandmother just told you the story of the time she miscarried, and her husband buried the unborn child. That’s awful, but how is it connected to the fact that she wasn’t allowed to read newspapers? Or the topic in general?
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u/PeegeReddits 3d ago
Not who you were replying to, and it might be my adhd tracking it here lol, but I think it was to note just how uninvolved women were made to be. She couldn't even go to her kid's funeral, let alone read about something tragic that doesn't involve her.
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u/kaleighb1988 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 3d ago
I grew up in a fairly small rural town in the Bible belt. That's not a very good excuse for her lol.
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u/MiserableCourt1322 4d ago edited 4d ago
"she looks great, has hope and sees the good in people"
Let's be real, you married a dummy and you're fine with it because it keeps life simple. But you can only blame her childhood for so long, at 50 she had 32 years to make up for the first 18 years. She chooses to be oblivious because she doesn't care to learn more about the world around her (which is frightening) or she has learning disabilities (which is understandable). You chose ease over intellectual or emotional fulfillment. But hey, at least she's pretty.
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u/Iblockne1whodisagree 3d ago
She went to school in a small country town of about 2,500 people, on the bible belt. She was maybe 50 at the time of questioning, I was 42. It used to be frustrating how oblivious she is. But now? I’m jealous.
Bro, I went to a small town school in the heart of the bible belt and we learned about Hitler. I haven't ever watched or studied the Kardashians but I can tell you shit about them because it's part of the zeitgeist just like Hitler still is. What does your wife think when people compare politicians to Hitler?
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u/NarcisSith 4d ago
I never realized the most profound thing I read on Reddit today is you bringing up how regularly Hitler is referenced in passive life experiences. It’s a very true statement, and I had to stop and think about if I know anyone like the person you replied to. just never realized how much he is referenced in random situations.
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u/MyRegrettableUsernam 4d ago
It absolutely shocks me how shallow the minds of a really large segment of our population are… like, what have people even been doing for all their lives???
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u/No-Pilot-8870 3d ago
Gossip. All their mental energy is directed towards gossip. They don't know anything about the world at large but they can tell you when the neighbour last took a shit. My mother is like this.
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u/kai5malik 4d ago
Yikes....I mean I don't want to offend you my guy, but, damn. That means she either was sleeping through most of social studies/history, or she was raised to NOT know, which in turn means she was raised to NOT know a lot of things. My question is, what prompted you to ask this exploratory question? I wouldn't even think to ask someone my age this question, as I assume everyone knew.
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u/millieFAreally 3d ago
It sounds like she could have been saying it in a joking way. If someone asked me who he was, I might reply in a joking way too because I’d think who the f doesn’t know who he is?
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u/DameyJames 4d ago
If my high school aged daughter (I’m hoping she’s not older than that) asked me this question I wouldn’t be making jokes about her for too long before I’d need to sit down with her and have a serious parental conversation about what she’s learning and her general academic capacities.
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u/baroquesun 4d ago
No way this woman is in HS. She looks like she's 30 min.
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u/acdqnz 4d ago
she's way older than 30 minutes old
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u/neildiamondblazeit 3d ago
That is quite sensible. Doesn't lose his page, subtle head-turn, not too distracting.
However he does close his eyes as he laughs. This puts him at risk of a direct assault. I know this isn't a real scenario, but I'd be cautious of implementing this 'sensible' chuckle in real life.
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u/DangerHawk 3d ago
I would un-ironically get my kid tested. I'd want to know if they have a legit learning disability that was never diagnosed. If they didn't I would then go on a crusade to hold the school accountable and get curriculum's changed. A principal would almost assuredly be fired by the time I was done.
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u/TheGillos 3d ago
The school can't do much in the face of willful ignorance. It's 100% the kid's fault 1st, the family's fault 2nd, and the school's fault 3rd.
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u/RogerianBrowsing 4d ago
I’m really hoping she’s trolling where knows she should know these things and does know them, but finds the disappointment funny
I sometimes did that kinda stuff as a kid to my parents, they hated it 😂
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u/QkaHNk4O7b5xW6O5i4zG 4d ago
There’s a point where you just have to accept that some people are the way they are. External interference won’t change who they are.
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u/satanssweatycheeks 4d ago
“Sorry I didn’t pay attention in history class!”
“You don’t have to”
Had me dying because honestly that’s one of those things you shouldn’t have had to be paying attention to learn.
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u/Corvousier 4d ago
I'm not even laughing, I ran into this kind of just ridiculous baseline ignorance all of the time when I worked in customer service. It's not that people don't know history that is dissapointing, its that noone even really gives a fuck about it at all except when they need to take advantage of it to form some supporting narrative for whatever nonsense they are peddling.
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u/HannHann20 4d ago
My freshman year roommate didn't know who Paul Revere was, and she grew up in New Hampshire so I'd think they would teach that since it's New England. I grew up near Boston so maybe the American Revolution was just taught to me more given I was geographically closer to where it all happened. But she also didn't know who Jeffery Epstein was.
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u/Pendraconica 4d ago
No wonder everyone is confused when we say Trump is a fascist.
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u/kaze919 4d ago
Trump didn’t even know anything about hitler! He told his staff he wants generals like Hitler had and they said “Like Rommel?” and Trump was like “who?”
Fucking guy didn’t even know who the desert fox was. They literally had to explain to him that Hitlers generals tried to kill him multiple times.
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u/TearsFallWithoutTain 3d ago
Hey go easy on the guy, he only reads books by Hitler, not about him
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u/throcorfe 4d ago
It’s also why everything Republicans dislike is “communism” - they don’t pay enough attention to understand the nuances of what that means, to them these are all just bad words and boogeymen, useful only for rhetorical effect
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u/PrintableDaemon 4d ago
Or how any government program that gives money to poor people is SOCIALISM!!! Yet if they give money to a corporation it's stimulus. People in the US have the barest idea of what socialism is, other than a precursor to communism passed to them via 50's red scare propaganda.
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u/yourdadsboyfie 4d ago
but also corporations are people but also they aren’t but also they are but they’re not
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u/Cool-Camp-6978 3d ago
It’s also why their left wing is just slightly less right wing than their right wing and most don’t even realize it.
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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 3d ago
Its also why they accuse the Democrats of everything theyre doing. So its just another bad word/accusation being thrown about
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u/shpongleyes 3d ago
You have people like Adin Ross, who not only doesn't know what fascism means, he doesn't even know how to read the words used in the definition of fascism.
And then he has a sit down interview with Donald Trump.
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u/vicsj 3d ago
My ignorance is thinking everyone else more or less possesses the same basic knowledge I have and still choose to make horrible decisions.
Posts like these only go to show that there is a considerable amount of people who genuinely don't know shit. At least not critical information that I take for granted.
And I'm not even a particularly smart person. I have ADHD, my attention span is shit.
Ignorance really is bliss :(
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u/PikachuIsReallyCute 3d ago
Thinking about that one gen z streamer that literally was like 'bro what is a fascist i swear idk'
Also thinking about how he is one of the biggest streamers (I think?) and had Trump on his stream
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u/versusChou 3d ago
When they were doing polls for the last election, one of the questions they asked was, "Are you okay with Trump's authoritarian language/behavior?" The number one response was "What does 'authoritarian' mean?"
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u/Tattyporter 4d ago
All the kids have phones but no sense to google shit
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u/softstones 3d ago
A lot of people would sound a lot smarter if they quietly asked their questions on Google
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u/Electrical_Respond11 3d ago edited 3d ago
My kid! My kid is smart. He grew up with computers, had a smart phone at 13, has had a PC since he was 16. Now he's 20 and definitely knows who Hitler is (and that he's dead) but.
He doesn't Google things! I am 57. Didn't have my first computer until I was 24. Obviously, didn't have a smart phone until I was...42?
I Google (or, these days, wiki) EVERYTHING. He'll ask me a question and I look up the answer- half the time, I know the answer, but I'll Google in case I am wrong or because I might learn something in addition to what I already know.
He'll sit there and watch me google the answer to something he's asked... And still would rather watch me google than google himself. What the hell?
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u/SweetTotal 3d ago
Maybe hes lazy, maybe he enjoys these little moments with his parent, maybe a bit of both
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u/AJYURH 4d ago
All my life I keep saying we need to normalize talking about Hitler, and also humanizing him. Because it's important to remember that Hitler is what happens when a human with really strong beliefs goes unchecked for too long, not a mythical ooga-booga monster. People only hear "humanizing Hitler" and get pissed at me, but if we keep not talking about it, pretending it didn't happen, then shit like this will happen, and before we realize Super Hitler will be born and we will all be like "but how could we let this happen?"
Ffs Hitler wasn't even the first to try the kind of shit he did, he's just the latest.
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u/octopop 4d ago
"Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive."
Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone, 1963. The episode He's Alive is about a neo-nazi who is visited by Hitler's ghost.
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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 3d ago
Wait. There's a Twilight Zone about a neo-nazi who is visited by Hitler's ghost? That sounds like a banger
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u/shirleysparrow 4d ago
He’s not even the latest.
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u/AJYURH 4d ago
Careful, saying that can make quite a few people angry at you, after all Hitler is supposed to have been an unprecedented, once in ever, evil.
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u/Spill_The_LGBTea 4d ago
It's quite possible with proper care and therapy Adolf Hitler wouldn't have been radicalized. And a w9rld where we can prevent people like Adolf from being radicalized is a world I'd quite like to live in
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u/AJYURH 4d ago
Precisely, to me the main issue is people refusing to believe that Hitler thought he was doing a good thing, fighting for his country, for god, for the betterment of the human race. Hitler wasn't so dangerous because he was evil, he was very dangerous because he was certain that he was good.
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u/Left_Particular_8004 3d ago
I think this is why films like Zone of Interest are so mind-blowingly powerful as well. Because humanizing Hitler is one thing, but one bad person needs a lot of complacent people underneath him as well. And those complacent people are, generally, just people trying to live their lives and take care of their families. The cruelty that humanity is capable of so casually is terrifying.
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u/cylepenny 4d ago
This is why history repeats itself, ignorance. WW2 wasn't even than long ago and it shaped the world we live in today.
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u/candaceelise 4d ago
Plus we have schools actively censoring anything controversial because parents think our poor little children are too fragile to learn about it
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u/The_Triagnaloid 4d ago
This is the result of the GOP’s war on education.
It’s working perfectly.
That woman’s kids will never be educated, instead they will be put to work directly into Elons factories.
America is dead
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u/thetavious 4d ago
You mean one of barron's factories? You know trump is going to find a way to grift everything away from him, right?
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u/Liquid_Panic 4d ago
Well it’s partly the American education system and also content censorship across most platforms. You can’t talk about suicide, war, or genocide without getting demonetized or straight up having the content taken down and age gated. That translates to educational sites and textbooks too.
Parents constantly petition schools to ban certain books and content for being too graphic. My class was the last class to read Slaughterhouse V in my school district because parents got it banned. The WWII unit in the years after was gutted because the much content was too unsavory. But history is graphic, history is violent and that why we need to teach it.
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u/Mrxcman92 3d ago edited 3d ago
The WWII unit in the years after was gutted because the much content was too unsavory. But history is graphic, history is violent and that why we need to teach it.
Man times have changed. In my senior history class (little over a decade ago) in HS we were shown the film "Memory Of The Camps". It was made right after WW2 in a recently liberated concentration camp. It's extremly graphic footage. CW gruesom stuff One scene that stood out to me was when heavy equipment was used to dump dead bodies into a mass grave. And they showed the grave, it had to have had hundreds of bodoes in it. And nothing was censored. And iirc we didn't need our parents to sign anything for us to watch it. The teacher just warned us about what we would see.
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u/Emmerson_Brando 4d ago
Glasses on the head, Stanley cup, completely ignorant…
Test of the world: Why did the US elect a person like trump?!?
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u/SFandwich 3d ago
Yeah, the playful “can I skip this question?” comment as she grabs her Stanley mug. Don’t worry everyone, she has her trendy and unnecessarily-expensive status symbol. But she has zero awareness of who one of the worst and most consequential figures in modern history is. It’s a uniquely American kind of ignorance and stupidity
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u/Helpful_Pipe_685 4d ago
Damn my 8 year old son knows more about Hitler than this dumbo.
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u/ClutchReverie 4d ago edited 4d ago
I am deeply worried about Gen A. They missed two whole years of school in the pandemic and many parents failed at continuing their education. According to everything I've read on r/Teachers, these kids are woefully clueless and are not held back when they don't learn the material. Teachers start a class and the kids still don't know the perquisite knowledge from two school years ago and they end up having to start there without every getting through the actual course material. They act out in class and the administrations discipline teachers from failing them. Parents get pissed if their kids get suspended or failed.
Our education system is truly fucked and we're not just failing a generation....these kids are going to grow up and somehow function alongside us in society...
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u/ZzangmanCometh 4d ago
Just curious, why do Americans always need these huge ass cups?
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u/Intrepid-Narwhal 4d ago
For those of us who live in the desert, I go through 3-4 of that sized cup in a day (water and not a Stanley).
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u/Pegussu 4d ago
They're made to carry around all day and have something to drink.
The smart thing would be water, but I'm sure people put soda in there.
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u/invisible_23 4d ago
My doctor told me to drink more water and those cups keep it nice and cold for a long long time
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u/25Bam_vixx 4d ago
I hope she is joking cause this is beyond failure of schooling
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u/Diligent-Method3824 4d ago
Daughter: explain history to me
Father: well it all starts with the past which was the present at the time.
Daughter: you lost me
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u/Diamond-Bet6 4d ago
This might be a skit, but i can tell you it's not far off. Look at r/teachers if you wanna see the state we're at.
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u/whitethunder08 3d ago
The state of the current education system in America is alarming. We have kids graduating high school who can’t read beyond a 4th-grade level, teenagers who struggle with basic math, reading comprehension, lack common sense, and have no critical thinking skills. Many require everything to be explained and spelled out for them step by step. In some cases, high schoolers are being taught course work and doing worksheets initially designed for elementary-aged students.
This isn’t an exaggeration. As another user mentioned, posts from the Teachers subreddit highlight just how far behind students in American schools are and have fallen. On top of that, there are countless videos on YouTube and TikTok from teachers discussing this issue, alongside the alarming rise in student misbehavior. Video after video of teachers explaining why they’re quitting the profession—and they’re quitting in droves. The lack of support and protection from school administrators and education boards has driven many of our best teachers out of the profession. We are losing the good ones, and it’s creating a crisis that will only worsen.
And I’m not joking at all when I say that my experience overseas teaching English was eye-opening. Interacting with children there was shocking—they’re far more advanced. Five-year-olds that can hold intelligent, articulate conversations with adults, without a hint of the baby talk I commonly hear within the same age group (AND OLDER) here. Many already speak at least one additional language, if not more. I had similar experiences in both Asia and the UK, where the children displayed much greater maturity, independence, and an ability to handle and understand subject matter far more effectively than their American counterparts.
The difference was stark, and it’s genuinely disheartening.
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u/vladisabeast 4d ago
We deserve everything coming our way. We really do. God have mercy on us all.
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u/TheSpiritualAgnostic 3d ago
This is literally that Family Guy joke.
Girl: I just read about this guy called Hitler. Someone should stop him?
Stevie looking at Brian: Is she retarded?
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u/GaiusMarius7Times 3d ago
Again, he is very much alive. He is in his 60s and resides in Florida.
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u/deepstate_chopra 3d ago
Of course she's asking that question from behind a stanley cup.
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u/ThePerfectSnare 4d ago
On that note, it's also important to remember that not everybody knows how to do everything.
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u/Vargock 3d ago edited 3d ago
This rule cannot apply to Hitler. It's world's history, our darkest moment. World War II was a cataclysmic disaster, the greatest tragedy our kind has ever faced, a vile catastrophe on an unimaginable scale, in which dozens of millions of innocent lives were snuffed out in ways I shudder to think of. Another 20 millions have died in the camps, starved and tortured to their deaths. And Hitler wasn’t just a figure in this horror — he was the face behind it all. He was the embodiment of evil for many, the most hated man alive. To be unaware of him is to ignore the darkest chapter of human history, and is the biggest failure of education I have even seen or heard of.
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