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“The free market will come up with a solution.”

Most, if not all things our president says and the rubes that believe it after all this time.

I don’t remember. I can’t let things like that live rent free in my head, and people are always upping their game.

united states is a democracy

In a leftist bookstore, talking with the proprietor who has an extensive collection of left-wing labor/union literature, and randomly he starts talking about how Lincoln was the worst president etc. and just launches into lost cause mythology of the Confederacy. Hardest conversational 180 I've ever experienced

A coworker got drunk at an office party, telling me "Then I can't drive, so when I ask Caroline from marketing to drive me home, she can't say no. wink, wink
When that predictably failed, he drove home drunk.

"Going faster with the car doesnt use more fuel".

Not the very dumbest because i heard lots of dumb stuff to really list it all but this is defenetly up there just like: "Water does take longer to boil with salt". While true, it is so minimal that its not even a second for a regular pot

“Just do something, take action”. On what exactly? “Just something”. That’s not actionable advice, and it’s always driven me crazy that people think they’re being helpful.

"If democrats want to make the vaccine free because it's 'life saving', why come they don't want to make cancer treatment free too???"

"I dont know. You're the engineer, engineer it" told to me by my boss when I presented the budget for the testing was not adequate for what we wanted and I presented 3 alternatives that were within the buget with their pros and cons asking how we should proceed. The boss in question was not an engineer but a HR manager with an MBA

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

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

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”

Einstein never proved anything and what he said were just stories he made up

The efficient market hypothesis.

“Salt is making a comeback.”

—Mother in law, after a quadruple bypass.

Israel's right to self-defense

Whatever Donny tweeted most recently.

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.

believing in FLOURIDE-FREE toothpaste, different brands /off brand ones do the same thing. they dont provide any benefit at all. its a placebo effect if you look at the reviews, and then the ingredients people said they have cleaner whiter teeth, no sht, its because these other toothpastes are highly abrasive thats why they get a clean feeling from it,ends up being more damaging because of its abrasiveness., plus people are confusing ingesting flouride in childhood with flouride use in adulthood. and then comes the complain that thier teeth health dint get any better or they still getting cavaties.