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Mob mentality — sometimes also called herd or hive mentality — is the inclination that humans have to be part of a large group, neglecting their individual feelings in the process, and adopting the behaviors and actions of the collective.

Interested in how this concept manifests in everyday life, Reddit user AdmirableFlow made a post on the platform, asking everyone: "What's the most severe case of mass stupidity you've ever witnessed?"

As of now, the question has received over 4.1K comments, so compiled those that stood out and invite you to learn more about the challenges of maintaining critical thinking.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb The January 6th Assault on the Capitol was probably the most severe case of mass stupidity I've seen in my lifetime.

Not even talking politically.

There were idiots climbing walls when there were accessible stairs nearby. Most of these idiots thought they wouldn't meet any police resistance.

They acted as if their attempted coup would be met with smiling cops and clapping congresspeople, thanking them for their service or something.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb People that keep insisting Elon Musk is a genius.

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BTDubs
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only smart thing he ever did was to be born into a wealthy family.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Probably get downvoted to hell for it, but widespread continued use of single-use plastics. It's insane. We know these things end up in the oceans and in the food chain (and therefore inside us) but we keep using them all the same. Future generations are going to hate us for this.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People are just going to buy what they can and it's up to manufactures to provide affordable packaging that is environmentally friendly.

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Viktor
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Manufacturers are using whatever is cheap and legal to use, so it’s up to politicians to restrict plastic use. Some third world countries have banned single-use plastic bags but the rich countries don’t seem to care.

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Susie Elle
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In The Netherlands we're now charged a small fee when buying things that come in plastic packaging, and though I agree with the idea that 'less consumers, less production', how the f**k am I supposed to transport that salad other than the plastic container it came in, that I want to buy because I forgot my lunch at home and now have no food? Offer me an alternative package and I'll gladly pay for that instead of plastic. Now you're punishing the consumer when there's no alternative.

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Kristal
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kind of the same in Canada., basically anything in a plastic bottle. They got rid of plastic bags, except for the small produce and meat bags, and charge for paper bags at fast food places (you can opt not to have the bag).

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deejak
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the Producers, not the Consumers, who must fix this.

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Child of the Stars
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. I try to minimize my use of single-use plastic, but it's often simply not possible. Incidentally, there are a lot of plastic items that are *intended* as single-use but can be used many times over. There's the most obvious ones like sour cream tubs that can be used to hold anything from leftovers to spare change. But my mom has always washed and reused Ziploc baggies until they become unusable (unless they held raw meat since they can't really be sanitized). And I bought some plastic cups with lids and straws when my daughter was little that the packaging said they were disposable, but they were sturdy enough for the dishwasher; it's been nearly a decade and I still have almost all of them.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I try my best not to buy things like that but it can be hard.

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BrownTabby
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m helping with the collective fight that’s needed in order to change this. If everyone who posted a bunch of hot air about how terrible “we” are would channel that same energy into contributing to one of the many group efforts going on at the moment, we’d be further along. And those who post this kind of thing and then vote right wing belong at the top of this stupidity hall of fame.

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George Costanza
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In many cases we don't have a lot of choice. It's near impossible to buy products that aren't wrapped/packaged in plastic. Really we need governments to step in and legislate it, no matter how unpopular.

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Brittania Kelli
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reading about the amount of microplastics we each have inside of us and how we simply do not know the long term damage this could do makes me try to avoid plastic in general, not just single use.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im working on a story in which the new dominant species hundreds of million years in the future, descended from the Red Swamp Crayfish and its future descendants, discover the remnants of humanity and find out abt plastic, climate change, deforestation, war, and ultimately, what led to the extinction of humanity, and many other lifeforms. Keep in mind that this story isnt like a "oh humans are evil destructive monsters", its more like the only way we can fix things is if we actually do something about it

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Recently noticed that in Coca-Cola commercials the actors are always shown with the little glass bottles of Coke, but in the stores all you ever see are plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Glass and aluminum are easily recycled yet Coke continues to bottle in plastic.

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UKGrandad
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coke is still sold in glass bottles, but they're labelled as 'classic' or some such and sold at a premium price.

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CD King
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate us now and not even for single plastic in particular.

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Brenard
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our family has bought a set of washable metal straws for this reason.

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WindySwede
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Read something about mold in reusable straws, any risk here?

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The way this world is right now I highly doubt that there will even be future generations. I am 48yrs old and when I was 15 I decided I didn't want kids for the reasons that are happening at this very moment. I swore I would never put a child through not being able to work normal hours for a normal pay and not even be able to rent a tiny apartment that is going for 2,000.00 a month. Environment is completely destroyed, wouldn't trust my kid would be safe walking around the town, woods, beach without being raped, kidnapped, robbed, followed, possibly killed. It's a scary world and we are not even slowly destroying it. We are fast tracking the destruction of it.

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Dr Robert Neville
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unilever are being investigated in the UK for greenwashing (basically bullshitting about their products environmental greenness).

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David Paterson
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The real stupidity is the killing of a million tons of trees a year just to make us feel good about not using plastic.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when it was paper or plastic. Eventually it was only plastic, but now I'm seeing in some places that paper is making a comeback. It was thought that we humans were destroying forests, so we must use plastic. It turns out paper comes from a replenishable source, in fact probably comes from tree farms. In my particular case I purchased cloth reusable bags for grocery shopping, I recycle the any plastic and paper I get.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes me so crazy. Especially living in Canada with good municipal clean water, yet I see neighbors buying bottled water every week.

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Steve Hall
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Future generations will hate us no matter what, that is the way it has always been and the way it will always be. We just need to find a useful way to use all this leftover plastic.

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Jayjay
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You should be on top. See all the microplastics that fish and animals digest for us to eat. People have no idea they are eating their own waste all the time.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Probably get downvoted to hell for it, but..." Why do people start uncontroversial posts like that, especially when they're about to give the kind of answer that is perfectly on-topic? They know they're not going to be downvoted for it, and my suspicion is that they do it as a psychological trick to get more upvotes from people rushing to reassure them that they won't be downvoted by upvoting the comments. Me? I'd downvote them for trying to con upvotes out of people.

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Chelle Martin
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Manufacturers definitely need to do better, but there are things the consumer can do as well. Stop buying bottled water if you have safe tap water, I use bar shampoo/conditioner, use laundry detergent sheets, toothpaste tablets, reusable liquid soap dispensers (our soap is a tablet that dissolves in water and makes soap), use bar soap rather than body wash, use your own shopping bags... Some of these do cost more, but if you can afford it, why not?

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. The packaging has to be changed. We can only buy what is on the shelves. Sure we can recycle or use cloth grocery bags. But recycling plastic is an oxymoron, and a pathetic joke.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I'm against this as an accusation of stupidity toward people in general. No one person can actually do anything about this. Holding individuals accountable is just buying into the blame shifting of the manufacturing industry.

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Beanz' Mum
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Starting with the whole bottled water fad that just blew up to an insane level...

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The solution is to make a sustainable and environmentally friendly material that can do the job of plastic and can be as cheap.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try doing weekly shopping even for ONE person w/o buying any plastic items. Easy to do if you want to pay a lot more money AND buy far fewer products than you want to get! The profit margin is higher for cheaper plastic packaging.

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SpaceFrog
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Overhead workmates saying they were happy that we don't ban single use beverages and that other teams who ask people to bring reusable cups for water etc. are ridiculous. No, our team is ridiculous 😭

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Nora Cook
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do they keep making them. That is the corporate stupidity

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Thatkamloopsguy
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like the milk bottling companies that decided to add a plastic pour point from the paper carton that worked great for many years. I have to ask, are you people fu cking stupid?

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catmom3
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish I could u]vote you a couple of hundred times. This issue drives me ABSOLUTELY crazy!! Since grad school a ton of years ago, I have been a member of NYPIRG. One of our big issues quite a while ago was getting a deposit slapped on plasto

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shoot....I am on my phone and if you try to pick up where you left off on a reply it is almost impossible because there is such a tiny space between the last letter typed and the send button. Anyhow. The big thing NYPIRG worked on was decreasing the use of plastic bottles...soda bottles, juice bottles, water bottles, etc. We got SO far. .. and then abject cowards in the Assembly said..'we'll do it on soda bottles...but not tea, juice or water bottles. It cut down on some of the roadside litter...but why NOT water bottles, juice bottles, tea bottles. Well, because the billion dollar rip - off company that is Nestlé sobbed to the General Assembly and donated who knows how ma y millions of $ to re-electio n campaigns. NYPIRG and other organizations worried hard on single-use plastic bags. Again, we were told that laws against single- use plastic bags were practically being written. And the we saw the actual law and Swiss cheese has more substance, only this time, it was a local company that went crying to the Assembly members, with their single- use plastic bags stuffed with campaign dollars. This local company, Wegmans, has been bragging for the last three decades about how green they are,yadayada. Turns out Wegmans led the charge to have exceptions to the law...so that they could put their prescription drugs in little plastic bags. There is NO earthly reason WHY pill-bottles need to go in frickin' plastic bags. The ONLY use I can see for plastic/plastic bags in a grocery store is for meat and bread . Produce can go in paper bags (I take my own paper bags to put produce in). To regress a little, neither Walgreens or Kinneys use plastic bags in their pharmacies. And, ultimately, we have bloody Robert's and his corrupt court to thank for the fact that Wegmans and Nestlé, and thousands of other companies, can spend MORE money buying legislators than they would spend on getting rid of one- use plastic bags or putting deposits on EVERY SINGLE PLASTIC BOTTLE sold, whether it contains juice, tea,, or ESPECIALLY water! I spent a fair amount of time in the UK. Much of the water sold is in recyclable aluminum cans. Take out places sell sodas - even the largest size - in paper cups...with PAPER straws. They do not use single - use plastic bags....at least , I could find none

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But why would anyone vote that down? I haven't even heard climate change deniers deny the problem with plastic.

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Mario Strada
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you be downvoted? This is definitely a crisis and something we should be very worried about.

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Eric Williams
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah but when aliens crash land here because they ran out of HDPE, PPG, PEG, or ULDPE they convert for fuel, they will be MOST grateful!

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stupid comment by the OP. I'm downvoting because the OP either thinks people really want single use plastic or is trying to get votes.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Future generations will have million reasons to hate us. We think of previous generations as being underdeveloped and uneducated who didn't know what they were doing, but we are also real deekheads against the future with a clear knowledge of the consequences. We build hell on Earth for our children :(

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's one of the great album titles in music, "give me convenience or give me death."

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Mart Se
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

History of mankind has 4 main eras - The stone age, The bronze age, The iron age, The plastic age

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Downvoted for the martyr spiel. FU and your "Ohhh, I'm going to be sooooo downvoted for this" (continues to say something absolutely harmless.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A really annoying problem I've encountered is that I'd like to even pay a little extra for products that don't come in plastic containers but going even to the biggest supermarkets it's all plastic containers. Even soaps that are wrapped in paper have a plastic wrap on the inside. There are shampoo bottles that look rustic, with the appearance of a metal bottle, but alas, is plastic too. I have found some online stores that sell cleaning products in old timey metal and glass bottles (with metal caps too) with prices that aren't robbing me. But it's only affordable in bulk so it is hardly very convenient for a small household. Just go to any supermarket and pay attention to if you can find any household product that isn't plastic, you'll be amazed how difficult it is.

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Zaach
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It bothers me that the edibles I love are individually wrapped in plastic - I actually stopped using for months; but now I am back

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Quirinus
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are two sides of a coin to this: A plastic bottle weights less than a glass one. Therefore you can put more bottled beverages into the truck, reducing the price you have to pay for transit of a certain amount of the bottles. Also you need less trucks, so you pollute the air less.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, so I buy deer park water in sports cap bottles. I like the taste (of nothing) and the flip top sports caps. If they can make a bottle with that cap on it and link up deer park water to my faucet then no more single use water bottles needed.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Taking private jets to a conference about climate change.

linuxares , Asad Photo Maldives / Pexels Report

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Any of the hundreds of megachurches across the world.

AnimalFarenheit1984 , Luis Quintero / Pexels Report

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If a church takes its parishioners money and spends it on fancy buildings and fountains and the preacher is wearing fancy suits instead of putting those donations back into the community I like to imagine sky daddy's thumb coming out the clouds and smooshing that building. In America some of the churches that televise their worship pay professional singers to sing in their choirs. My cousin is an opera singer in LA, that was a good regular income for him. Meanwhile preachers in Africa sell their own holy 'elixirs' they promise cure all ailments out of their churches after their service...

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb The rise of Qanon and the Flat Earth Society.

Lordfuton92 , Kajetan Sumila / Unsplash Report

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb 70 million people in the US voted for a completely unqualified person for President - TWICE.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Politicians just need to be likeable. Elections are literally popularity contest, and that's only on the surface. In the US, it's established that winning the popular vote doesn't determine the presidency. Still go out and vote, but know one of the things you need to vote towards is de-corrupting the US government.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Anti-vaxers dying in hospitals screaming, “Tell me what I’ve got!! Covid doesn’t exist!!”

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have Moron-orrhea. Incurable and there's no treatment for that. Best to live your days far away from society so you don't infect others.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Anti-vaxxers by far. I find it rather ironic that people can discount things like vaccines because vaccines have created a world where kids aren't dying left and right from childhood illnesses. I am not aware of any antivaxxers existing when the Polio vaccine came out because Polio was a horror show.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the 60s when I was a kid it was more common to see people who had been crippled by polio. Think Southpark "Jimmy" on those metal crutches and the Forest Gump leg braces.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb People wearing a mask, but UNDER the nose. How dumb is that?

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What I find absolutely amazing is that now I can go into a place that doesn't require a mask and there will be people wearing a mask like this. It was bad enough that people worn them wrong when required, but wearing them wrong when they aren't required requires "flat Earth" level at stupidity!

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb During the Canadian trucker freedom rally, watching the mass of people protest and getting mad about their “2nd Amendment rights”. I’m like 90% sure that the Canadian 2nd Amendment is recognizing Manitoba as a province….. not the right to bear arms like our southerly neighbours.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The whole farce would have been laughable had it not been so severe for the downtown Ottawa residents. Never underestimate the potential damage of stupid.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Scientology.

Doright36:

The rich ones at the top are just in for the tax dodge. A lot of the ones below them are in it thinking they can shmooze with the rich ones at the top and become one of them some days. So yea dumb but with a layer of greed involved.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is literally describing capitalism. Is Scientology just capitalism with aliens?

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb My generation, raised knowing how absolutely awful smoking is, excessively vaping.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The targeted advertisement to young and at risk people is worse IMO.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Those public challenges that CLEARLY risk health, i.e., "the tide pod challenge." Next time, just let things sort themselves out of their own. We can use less idiots in the world.

The ice bucket challenge was at least kind of cute and DID give ALS a lot of media attention/awareness and raised a lot of money.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would agree with the first statement, except that the victims of these "challenges" are mostly naive kids and kids are stupid. We all were. Maybe some were smart enough to know that detergent could hurt or kill you, but not smart enough to understand that cinnamon, despite being 'food," could actually suffocate you if inhaled. The idiots that promoted those challenges should have been prosecuted.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Climate change deniers.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they took the 'climate also changes naturally' statement WAY out of context

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb The rise of the anti-vaccine crowd. Or generally the growing anti-science mindset in our culture.

So many people dead...

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Asimov (It's statistically conservative governments that give rise to such movements)

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Every time I see a video of someone being beat up, or in some sort of bad/dangerous situation and everyone is just standing around recording instead of helping.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can use that footage to instantly put it on the internet and spread it, and even if you don't get it involved it be as good as a testimony. Also, in the US, those people beating up might have guns.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Half the GOP thinking Joe Biden somehow stole an election. And they're still at it!

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb My local parks playground has a push gate. EVERYDAY I watch grown adults stare at it for like 20 seconds then go "I think it's locked is there another one?" To which I walk up and...... Push the gate open. What annoys me about this is they want to catch an attitude like I'm an ahole for it.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, they're just a bit weirded out by you lurking next to the gate of a playground every day.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb People who ingested bleach because they thought it would keep them safe from Covid.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they drank enough, it would, just not in the way they were thinking it would

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Someone I knew awhile ago had a theft record a mile long. One time, she went in front of the judge, who told her "You know, every time you've appeared in front of me, you've denied stealing. They have you on camera, clearly walking out of the store with unpaid merchandise. So, here's what we're going to do: you can admit you did it this time, and I'll let you walk out of here today, with probation. If you still deny it, then I'll sentence you to 90 days right here, right now".

Now, her attorney looked at her and said three words: "Take the deal". She said something back, shaking her head. Her attorney then looked at the judge, and said "Your honor, my client maintains her innocence"; BOOM, three months in the county jail, just like that.

It never ceases to amaze me how some people would rather jump off of the Empire State building (or lose their freedom) than simply admit they are wrong.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's a mental problem. I'm no psychiatrist but this mental issue screams for help

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb People who blindly believe any information on the Internet.

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#24

“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb In the UK, Brexit. Dishonest rabble rousing politicians lied to a gullible public in a non-binding referendum promoted by a shady conservative PM in order to fix the conflicts within his own party.

We lost a lot and are still feeling the consequences.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they lied basically had big adverts saying we send 350 million to the EU and we can put that back into the NHS they played on peoples fears as well

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Religion. Full stop.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m gonna pîss in some of my fellow atheists’ cornflakes: we have exactly the same capacity to be stupid, selfish, callous or idol-worshipping as religious people do, and I’ll take a humble religious person over the worst-behaved atheists any day.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Maybe not the most severe, but one that everyone here has personally seen at least once in their lives. When at an airport and the gate agent says "We're about to commence boarding. Please remain in your seats until your group has been called.", and then half the people waiting stands up and crowds the gate in a scene of utter chaos. Every time, without fail.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like the plane will leave without them or someone will take their seat. Guys. Come on 😂. I go absolutely last. Less time on a plane seat the better

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb The great toilet paper rush at the start of COVID. There was nothing about COVID that threatened the global toilet paper supply, and yet people just started panic-buying it and artificially creating a huge shortage.

(We would eventually realize that there *was* a small uptick in toilet paper sold for private use, as many people were going to the bathroom at home more than at work, but no one realized that at the time and it had *nothing* to do with the panic - people just started buying more because people were buying more.)

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really didn't get it. I'm not saying TP is not necessary, but in dire times you can find an alternative solution, ie find a way to wash yourself if TP is not available. I would expect more hoarding of food that is not immediately perishable, or medicaments or else, not TP (not that this wouldn't be silly, only less silly)

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Whatever the latest conservative outrage/conspiracy fad happens to be. Doesn't matter if it's Trumpism, Satanic Panic, birtherism, Jan 6th Antifa, school shooting "crisis actors," George Soros, Jewish control of media, immigrants "takin our jerbs," 2020 election fraud, Benghazi, Jade Helm, Q-Anon, transphobia, anti-wokeism, border caravans, grooming, anti-vax, elite pedophile rings, Brexit ... the list is almost literally endless. It's always stupid and it's always based on either straight-up fictional nonsense, or a kernel of truth that's been distorted so badly by conspiracist delusion and baldfaced lies that it bears zero resemblance to the actual facts.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Thousands of people during the pandemic thinking the vaccination made their skin magnetic. What in the actual f**k.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never heard this one. I heard the nanobot one which was bad enough.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Anyone who keeps getting involved in Ponzi or MLM schemes.

For decades the public have been warned on what to watch out for to avoid these schemes, you would assume that the vast majority of people would have learned by now that these schemes are fraudulent and just can't work out. Yet somehow here we with thousands of these companies still up and running and thriving and even more people being taken advantage of by them.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb With all the pro-Hamas rallies, the targeting of Jewish-owned businesses, kosher restaurants, firebombing synagogues or Jewish community centers, harassing Jewish students and physically preventing them from attending classes and locking diners in restaurants because they’re mad at the Israeli government. Going after Jews in the Diaspora isn’t going to “free Palestine.”

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t think they’re pro-Hamas; they’re pro-Palestinian. There’s a big difference.

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“We Can Use Fewer Idiots In The World”: 40 Cases Of Mass Stupidity That Prove People Are Dumb Cult members who lost it all for their beliefs and almost obsessive adoration for their leaders.

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#33

Every single time there's a claim that the end of the world will be on (Insert date here).

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For-profit torture of children to 'fix' them, a few times throughout history.

Straight Incorporated did it to stop kids from ever using dugs. You didn't even have to inject the marijuana, just the fear you might.

More recently it's been used by the likes of WWASPS or Aspen Education's programs to 'cure' depression or anxiety by making you hide symptoms, or 'cure' gay by being tortured into pretending to be straight.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The latter -- "conversion therapy" -- was made illegal in Canada following a unanimous vote in the House of Commons.

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“Prosperity Gospel” church attendees.

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This! These people willingly give money to these charlatans and are willfully ignorant of the fact that the only one prospering is the person they’re giving money to. It just blows my mind.

God already gave you the tools to prosper. Your brain, hands, feet… he’s done his job.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's thievery acheived through manipulation. It should be outlawed.

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People who knew nothing about the Middle East on October 6th chanting “from the river to the sea” on October 7th.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What Hamas did on the 7th was one of the most horrifying things the world has witnessed. Israel seems to be doubling on that now

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Pizzagate gotta be up there.

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Those idiots who paid $500 to $7000 for Taylor Swift tix.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not idiotic. It's their money, their choice. If that is what they want to "blow" that much money on, then more power to them. No skin off my nose.

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People waiting in Dealey Plaza for JFK Jr. to show up.

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