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Shit I should have an answer but all I can think about is categories of incompetent communication attempts, aka people that are effectively mute and can't form sentences.

For example, you can figure out from context someone is pro republican, but they say "republicans have got rid of bureaucracy/regulation that holds back businesses" and mean it as a good thing, then get mad when you push back and more mad that they have to justify their statement.

Then there's ass-pulls that lack any supporting logic (not evidence because human brain doesn't require evidence to believe things) then they get mad when there's push back. The example there is a random antivaxxers that decided that deaths from the covid vaccine was underreported by 20 times simple because "it's common for things to being reported by that much", then get furious when I multiply covid deaths by 20 and magically covid deaths are over reported

A team of American soldiers were wiped out by a huge red haired sasquash in the mountains of Afghanistan.

All the dumb that I hear just completely outstrips my memory capabilities.

Just top of my head I recall a pre Covid conversation between me and some lady in my neighborhood who confidently told me the flu shot wasn’t even worth getting because it doesn’t protect you from the stomach flu…

Some woman walking her ancient beagle and smoking a cigarette I tell her how cute her dog is and I’m wearing a mask. She tells me it’s good I’m wearing a mask to “protect your respiratories” because… they were installing 5G in the area

I’m sure there’s so many more

Oh recently in a car the person driving takes an illegal left, against a red no less, to get on the highway. I tell him it was an asshole move and you don’t get to pick and choose which traffic laws apply to you or not. He then tells me because “no one tried to stop him” it was ok?? I was like what?? Like in your car, like they should have hit you with their car to stop you (reminder it was red so they needed to run a red light to hit him for the purpose of telling him not to run a red light) otherwise it was fine for you to do? And he deadass said “yes”

This is second hand from a friend, but he said he overheard a conversation between 2 coworkers:

Person A: looks like you got some sun this weekend

Person B (badly sunburned): Yeah, I just bought a convertible and did a lot of driving with the top down. I figured that the wind would stop me from getting sunburned, but I guess it wasn't cold enough

Person B: That's... not how that works

That COVID was a plandemic so that states could send people into lockdown, during which they could install 5g. I asked who they were and only got ramblings in return.

That AI will make jobs.

“Can you find me an outlet that works”, during a building wide power outage. We have critical systems that run on UPS and wanted me to unplug something so their laptop battery didn’t die.

Don't worry about a thing. Every little thing gonna be alright.

united states is a democracy

A teacher in highschool put this up on the screen and told us to read it to ourselves,

"Aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

Then some bright light in the back of the room asked if that was actually true after fully comprehending what was in front of them.

I knew a girl that was convinced that ~90% of planes crash...

I had to ask her "do you really think they'd keep making them if almost all of them killed people?"

Trickle down economics.

Once in Kindergarten I overheard two adults talking. They were concerned about kids drinking from the same cup because of ... AIDS. That day I learned that even adults could be ignorant. I definitely knew that AIDS could only be transmitted through blood and specifically not through spit.

I didn't know about the other way but after hearing about AIDS in the news my (I think) brother assured me that it couldn't be transmitted through spit.

One time I was at a grocery store and they sold out of a particular drink I liked.

A manager was standing nearby and I asked when they would restock it.

"Never." He said. "It always sells out and I don't want to constantly order and restock it, so I'm not going to get more."

Trump president

"Monkeys are brown because they eat bananas. You know how flamingos turn pink because they eat shrimp? Well monkeys eat bananas and bananas turn brown" -two dead ass serious girls I met

"People didn't use crossbows when trying to siege a castle because the bolts fly in a straight line, so they fly over castle walls" -college history professor, about to be surprised gravity existed in the middle ages

We won't tax the rich more, coz they are gonna leave if we do.

Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line and a representative will be with you shortly.

At the zoo, by the meerkat enclosure, I heard a woman ask an employee "what kind of cats are those?"

I was once stopped by an elderly couple.

One side of the couple was arguing that the sun went out at night.

The other couple was arguing that the moon covered over the sun at night, and that's why we couldn't see the sun.

They asked me to clarify which one of them was correct as an independent third party, and I told them that the earth rotates, and so when you can't see the sun, it's because it's on the other side of the planet.

They both paused for a moment, looked at each other, and then looked at me and said, "oh, yeah", and that was the end of the argument.

When I read the news for the past 17 months or so, I swear it gets dumber every day.

I’ve mentioned this one before, but it’s worth retelling.

I briefly knew a guy, absolute hick ass trailer trash, who said a large number of incredibly dumb things to me, but this one stands out. He once told me that Southern Baptist was the one true religion, because, and this is a direct quote, “His name is John the Baptist, not John the Catholic!”

And for him that was a QED moment.

Dumbest motherfucker I’ve ever encountered.

Somebody once told me they don't read recreationally because authors are lazy for making readers do all the work of imagining what their story looks like. He was completely sincere, and actually became agitated at the idea of people reading anything beyond manuals or mandatory sorts of things.

I've already told that story but anyway: a relative told me that the GDPR was a conspiracy from Europe to destroy the European internet (why? why not!)

So that guy literally deleted his own web site (full of old stuff, it was a big project) so that... he would not be forced to delete his own web site by the big bad Europe.

He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth... except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)

giving rich people more money is important for 'job creation'.

the lie that killed the middle class