US Politics

I one met a girl in New York state, aged about 22, who asked me with total seriousness whether "you guys have roads in England?"

mmm hot, salty lazy stereotypes. it's what's for breakfast kids!

Mentioning one experience with one person is hardly stereotyping. Even if it does align with a lazy stereotype.

go back a page.

As someone who's lived a long time in both countries, I can assure that English people are equally stupid.

And university is increasingly expensive in the US not because of some elitist-led conspiracy to keep the masses undereducated but because of the greed of banks and the willingness of Americans to take on massive debt. And your point is contradicted by the fact that university and graduate program enrollment is still higher than it was 15 years ago.

Americans are obviously stupid, that's why we never see any of their technological or artistic accomplishments.

seems it's easy confuse people kicking back in whatever way they can against the betrayal of the working classes by successive years of establishment ridden administrations with being stupid. it's fucking annoying.

lack of access breeds the sort of racist shitshow we're seeing around the world right now.

Surely the average American (or indeed the average Briton) is of, er, average intelligence?

Mean or median?

I am guessing it is the mixed blessing of America’s willingness to forgive and let someone have a second chance.

George W Bush was once an alcoholic, but this was forgiven by his evangelist voters.

That Buzzfeed story was shady as fuck then

When Trump is long gone we'll still be Brexit fucked and hungover from the King Charles coronation party.

Yes and no. I think Mueller just wanted to make clear that the source wasn't a leak from the enquiry.

Look, my maths skills are pretty average so I'd appreciate it if you tried not to get too technical on me.

American Evangelicalists will forgive anybody who wants to ‘protect the sanctity of marriage’ and make it impossible to get any form of birth control. Which is why Trump, who has a string of divorces and some piss stained sheets from banging prostitutes, is number one prez for them, as he has done exactly what they told him to do about these two issues.

Look forward to Kanye courting the evangelical vote during the next election cycle. Maybe he’ll release some dope new sneakers for the happy clappers.

AOC doing her thing...

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1085737193564504066

(It's racking up some views, and might catch up with Kamala Harris' epic questioning of Kavanaugh)

Will those gov workers eventually get back pay for their missed salary?

Most direct employees will. Contractors far less likely.

Look forward to Kanye courting the evangelical vote during the next election cycle.

R Kelly would be more in keeping with their current president's predelictions.

Look, my maths skills are pretty average

Mean or median?

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American Evangelicalists will forgive anybody who wants to ‘protect the sanctity of marriage’ and make it impossible to get any form of birth control.

Or more specifically, the Evangelicals have decided that the Supreme Court Trump can give them is more valuable than the damage that their Christian witness will suffer from being associated with him.

"MATH"

get it right.

Average American is insanely ignorant. Not stupid, or bad people, just clueless about the world around them.

It's harder, if you live in a small country, to ignore the countries around you. Easier if you live in the less cosmopolitan parts (that is, most of) a big country like the U.S. or Russia. And yet many in the U.K. manage all the same kinds of idiocy, including creationism being taught at schools.

Up till recently we've heard a lot more about poorly educated/informed Americans than about their Brit equivalent. That probably says more about the relative openness of American society than the actual distribution of flat-earthers in both places. America has long had more routes for the less privileged to have a say (even if no more chance to have it heard and acted on) and Americans have had less inhibition about saying what they think.

Having more exposure to the wider world doesn't necessarily make people any less stupid about it. After a century of constant access to American-generated entertainment, you can still hear Brits saying nonsensical things like "Americans don't do/get sarcasm."

Their goal appears to be to put women’s rights into “family rights”, so either the husband or the father make decisions for the wife/daughter and she has no rights of her own. Linked of course to the repeal the 19th movement.

I met a guy in New York State who did not believe that we had a suspension bridge in Vancouver.
He really did not believe Canadians could build things that sophisticated.
Mind you this was early 1970s.

Re university access: the banks are run by the elite are they not? You don't see many lower class members on any boards deciding banking policy.
I see a clear divide in the USA between a well educated affluent class and a poorly educated less affluent majority. The rich are getting much richer and the poor have less and less hope of not being poor.
Most secure union ype work is gone, young people need two or three jobs, while top level executives get huge salaries and bonuses. The former head of CBS is demanding $120 million in severance, after being fired, for example.
This lack of hope is what drives Trump's support in blue collar America. They figured nothing else has worked so Trump was a Hail Mary long shot.
Students take on debt because there is no other way to pay. Banks make a ton of money off those loans. Without a degree qualification I don't see any way into a secure good paying job.
We are saving now to get our six year old grandson into med school.