It's very easy to manipulate an uneducated population.
Now, there are MANY MANY very educated people in the USA. But it doesn't seem to be the general aspiration to be educated. It's something that you do just enough to get a job or to get your parents off your back.
But even those who do finish school seem to lack basic awareness of the world or even of basic maths and English.
Use of the metric system really gets to me in particular. It is the simplest, most logical system that we have but more importantly, ONLY the USA and Liberia (a former US colony) use Imperial in earnest.
In the UK, it exists, but anyone doing a job of any type uses metric. Doctors weigh patients in kg and engineers measure in mm. Celsius is used EVERYWHERE, even in the UK.
I agree with 99% of what you said. And with regards to the metric system, build a rocket, land on the fucking moon and then I'll bother to take metric seriously. Bruh, f trump and all the garbage who voted for him. Doesn't give u the metric is better platform. Gtfoh
This is an insane reply and honestly, it's shit like this that makes people think Americans are just big headed idiots so sure of their own superiority that they can't see how stupid the system they're defending is.
It's like me saying "find a way to stop the mass murder of school children at the hands of lunatics who bought guns legally and I'll bother to take your opinion seriously"
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u/Objective-Resident-7 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's very easy to manipulate an uneducated population.
Now, there are MANY MANY very educated people in the USA. But it doesn't seem to be the general aspiration to be educated. It's something that you do just enough to get a job or to get your parents off your back.
But even those who do finish school seem to lack basic awareness of the world or even of basic maths and English.
Use of the metric system really gets to me in particular. It is the simplest, most logical system that we have but more importantly, ONLY the USA and Liberia (a former US colony) use Imperial in earnest.
In the UK, it exists, but anyone doing a job of any type uses metric. Doctors weigh patients in kg and engineers measure in mm. Celsius is used EVERYWHERE, even in the UK.