How about this one then: a quarter of the population thinks the sun goes round the earth.

I'm not convinced that most people have any better a grasp on political issues. The canonical example is that when people were asked what percentage of the US budget goes to foreign aid, the mean guess was 26%. 56% of people thought the US was spending too much on foreign aid; this dropped to 28% once they were clued in to the actual figure (less than 1%). Are these the people whose opinions I am supposed to take seriously?

Side note, you've really gotta respect the pimps who guessed some number 25 times the actual amount and then didn't change their opinion that it was too much when told the actual number. No backing down, baby.

See, you're just tipping your hand here.

What the hell happened here last night?

Crossnerd,

You were hammered last night, right?

you sound surprised

Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to Obama, regarding trying to get the GOP to the table on Obamacare:

Speechless.

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So it's April 2nd. augie still has his forum. Mat smugly takes your ongoing participation for granted. The only person to demod was gregorio. The only person willing to significantly change how they posted in protest of any of this is apparently me. The rest of you just gonna keep on keepin' on like nothing happened. wow. so principle. much backbone.

I'm having a pretty hard time seeing this country take any meaningful opposition to our progression into a failed state when ya'll can't even be bothered to take a stand on a web forum.

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Damn, this is supposed to be low content, not one member freaking out because a person called Melania a whore and has gone on a rampage calling everybody sexist scum despite practically everybody agreeing with her.

Even though the points made by Crossnerd are ones I agree with, part of me really thinks she is trolling from the left based on her unwillingness to acknowledge our agreements with her and painting an entire board as sexist because one person used the word 'whore'.

Sucks too because it would be nice to have diverse opinions that aren't based on white supremacy or xenophobia and I'm sure a male-dominated forum like this has some blind spots that could be fixed.

Also, lol jman and his old-fashioned electron TV. Get a flat scree, dude.

it went downhill after half the forum started defending marching nazis and spreading conspiracy theories. had nothing to do with moderation.

Mom just cited racism as a disqualifying factor for why DC shouldn't be a state; that while living there my older white brother couldn't pass a driving test because he was discriminated against by a black DMV worker.

I can't even. But I'll snap accept racism as a litmus test on statehood!

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in 1960 the dumbest kid in the class knew what that giant island was on the giant map in front of most classrooms. Plus it was specifically explained to them why the size was deceptive.a boomer is more likely to be able to identify Greenland than France. Much more likely

lol

Having known her as a poster for a long time, I am very confident that crossnerd is sincere.

lol she clearly aint trolling. jesus bob.

Chris knows how to multi-quote properly.

Got ya.

Still doesn't justify the extreme response to the entire board imo.

yet you all except tomdemaine think that the principle that there should be no intellectual qualifications to vote so important that it takes precedence over all the possible horrible consequences that can stem from that principle

Electrons are the people in the Electron College. Huge Electron College Victory!

We have some soul searching to do now that we know olds (David's peers) are better at finding countries on a map than us.

I should have said more likely to not be able to find France. Meanwhile you managed to show how much dumber millenials are.

David dunking on Millenials is also a bold move.