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As it turns out, there actually is such a thing as having too much confidence. Having principles is perfectly fine; being arrogant and close-minded, however, is a recipe for disaster. Just because you write something on the internet with complete conviction doesn’t automatically make it the truth. And not all opinions are facts. [Surprised Pikachu gasps dramatically!]

Some of the worst, most uneducated, completely bonkers opinions end up being featured on the ‘Delusional Takes’ Twitter page, where followers can poke fun at them. There’s being wrong and owning up to your mistakes. And then there’s the stuff featured on ‘Delusional Takes’ which is a whole other level of insanity.

Be warned, Pandas, what you’re about to see might make you facepalm so hard that your friends might wonder why you’ve got a red mark on your face. Scroll down for some of the worst things that the internet has to offer.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do Americans speak English, an English language from England, rather than speaking Native American?

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The ‘Delusional Takes’ Twitter page was started up fairly recently, just half a year ago, in June 2022. However, in that time, it has managed to attract over 162.9k followers with its posts that focus on wrong opinions and arrogant social media users.

The page moderator suggests that people should unfollow the account if they’re cringe. Meanwhile, if you’ve come across an incredibly delusional take while surfing the net or scrolling through your social media feeds, you can send them a link to the post. Who knows, you might get lucky and your post might get featured. 

Reading through some of the posts that were featured on ‘Delusional Takes’ is bound to give you a heavy dose of secondhand embarrassment. Seriously, how can people be so incredibly wrong?

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It’s moments like this one that remind you that common sense isn’t all that common. And that many people would rather stay comfortably within their opinion echo chambers than risk being proven wrong. What’s life worth if you don’t try to learn more about the world and instead bonk everyone on the heads if they dare disagree with you? That’s no way to live.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then by her logic, she is single because theres something wrong with her, which im honestly starting to believe...

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People who have delusional takes are prime examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect at work. To put it simply, the effect means that most individuals firmly believe that they’re smarter than average. Now, obviously, that’s not how averages work. But these people think that they’re far more competent and intelligent than the rest. As a result, they see their opinions as closer to the truth than anyone else’s. Often, they’re wrong.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shush white person shouting and telling black people what should offend them

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kicking this guy in the kahunas is just a natural human reaction to such a pervy suggestion.

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However, the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to experts as well. Though, slightly differently. Specialists believe that everyone else is aware of the (objectively complicated) things they know. To these experts, everything seems clear, but the general public might not understand the concept they use. Furthermore, well-educated people tend to underestimate their skills.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh NO! Not the Furries! How long would it take for society to collapse if all the doggers died?

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As a result, you have a very weirdly skewed situation where those who lack education are the most confident in their opinions. Meanwhile, those who are well-educated are too timid and far too critical of themselves. People, in general, have an extremely tough time estimating how competent they are in a given area.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Appropriation again? Literally anything and everything is cultural appropriation. And do not dare to respond to this comment using the English Language unless you are English. That is cultural appropriation.

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There’s another issue. Repetition is something that makes people believe an opinion, even if it’s factually incorrect. The more we’re exposed to certain information, the more plausible it seems to us. And even if we’re aware of the role that repetition plays in our perception of reality doesn’t make us completely immune to it. That’s the power of fake news and propaganda.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you think a man owns his wife you should be in therapy and single.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of them pretty much are. It is not a healthy way to have a relationship, but those exist anyway. It can happen for various reasons, such as religious brainwashing, manipulative exploitation if an inexperienced/naive girl or plain abuse by the man, which is quite sad.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I understand what they're saying. Lots of racist white people say stuff like "I can't be racist, my partner is black!" When in reality intimate relationships are used to inflict abuse/racism. So no, you cannot assume someone ISNT racist just because they're married to someone a different colour than them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Literally, over half of my recent ancestry is a non-white woman marrying a white man. Also, my very Hawai'ian grandmother would like to inform you that her husband was the sex slave, not her.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is there a disease that I'm not aware of that doesn't allow people to understand the nonsense that comes out of their own mouth?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Formulated a response to the first part and then the second part just floored me with the assumption that a wife is a sex slave

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this idiot calling Burr's wife an owned minority sex servant? The only racist here is OP.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We-e-ell, there actually could be something to this- John Wayne was very vocally racist against blacks and hispanics, and all three of his wives were hispanic. I've heard more than a few fellas spouting racist stuff on fb who claim they couldn't possible be racist because they married to a person of color. I'm not saying all mixed marriages are indicative of it, but there are certainly a few of them that may qualify.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, and they very well may just love each other, or married because the children resulting from an ONS should have Ma and Pa, both, and if, when, sometimes, in case, blabla. People wearing a pointed onesie and playing with combustible religous symbolery are a lot more likely to be racists than white men who date/mate/marry black women. As it seems, OP is a bit focussed on such, and the focus being on a minorly important set of parameters being different to adapt for weather and nutritious situation in the area of life of the ancestors of either of them, ... ........ can't that just be something not to care that great a deal about? I know this isn't necessarily our default setting ... the less alike, the more upset, ... but, as we're in the process of civilization already, which proceeds by replacing superstition by knowledge, the right of the strongest by the right of the (most) reasonable and so forth, and falling back behind race at least being irrelevant per the letters of the law, we gotta prevent from happening NOW ... instead of even further progress, the main task these days is to keep it from getting worse instead of deciding that it shall get better, ... when race doesn't count, because it not deserving any relevance to is acknowledged and taken into account by everybody ... aiming at it actually, currently, truly not being of any importance at least ... but, damned, currently, preventing to get left behind and pushed backwards, it seems, is more of a task than adjusting a succesfully finished attempt ... and at that state, we should consider ourselves owing to our brains and every member of mankind who don't share your colour.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Racist if you don't have relationships with other races and racist if you do. Pick one.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s a huge statement to make on a particular person. Anyone can be racist and anyone can not be racist. Anyone can be sexist or not. This has nothing to do with Bill more than it would for anyone in society bc racism exists. Slandering bill void of real proof is insanity.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the guy is crazy but there is a point in there. someone can still be racist if they have friends or date people of color. we’ve all heard someone say the words “i can say that because my ________ is ________ .”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd love for them to say that to Bill's face. The comeback would be highly destructive.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wtf??? This is why I was always scared to date a white man as a black women. Someone seeing our relationship as "white man master and black women slave". I was scared we would get hate from both sides and I just couldn't take it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I'm not saying so-and-so is a racist, but..." is the new "I'm not a racist, but..."

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Two ways to counter misinformation are to find reputable sources and to do a bit of background research on a ‘fact’ before retweeting or reposting someone else’s opinion. No news source is perfect; everyone makes mistakes. However, this doesn’t mean that all sources are equal. Far from it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, she wont have to be worried about eviction anymore. Lifetime housing for her.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh god this is similar to that guy telling AOC that she isn’t a congresswoman just because she’s a woman in congress. It’s just the racist edition

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Focus on new sites that do actual investigative journalism, instead of just parroting information from other sources. The more transparency there is, the better. Media literacy and being able to gauge the reliability of ‘facts’ is an incredibly vital skill in the Internet Age. It will only become more important as time goes by.

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Which of these horrible, horrible takes do you think were the worst of the bunch, dear Pandas? Why do you think these people aren't more self-aware of just how delusional they sound? What's the very worst opinion you've ever read online? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They may have the largest brains, cannot be bothered to see if this maybe true, but they know sod all, and will spend the next few years too obsessed with sex.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is the opposite also true? Should I cheat on your delusional a**e, are you going to help me become a better man?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure of the context here, COULD be family, brothers and sisters, OR this could be mega creepy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or Pakistan? They used to have a squad of transvestite tax inspectors in Karachi (to embarass business owners into paying, otherwise they hang around their shops all week; pay or go bankrupt!). So it's the only country where you could defend "no dad, I'm not like that, I'm a tax inspector I only do it for work"? Hm.

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