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[–] koper@feddit.nl 305 points 6 months ago (38 children)

“You’re telling me none of these people shop on Amazon?” said New Orleans native Jake Springer, who, along with his wife, was spending a weekend in Venice on a wine tour through Italy. “At least they are protesting peacefully. Americans could learn a thing or two from this.”

They found the dumbest possible American to give a comment.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's of course impossible to know if it was intentional, but lets not forget - platforming the dumb drives engagement, one of the reasons our view of the world is distorted towards thinking people are worse than they are. (Don't get me wrong, people aren't great on average, and broadly follow the lowest common denominator trends - but especially with terminally online people, there is a huge problem with paranoia and defeatism thanks to that dynamic).

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

people aren’t great on average

Well, of course not. If 'great' was the average, it wouldn't be great anymore - it'd just be average.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 months ago

Aren't great on... median? Majority fall below some arbitrary standard of "decent"?

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