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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.

#1

“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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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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#4

“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.

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#5

“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.

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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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#6

“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.

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#7

“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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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“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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#13

“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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#15

“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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#16

“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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#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“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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#21

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

We did have trouble here with people buying dried pasta and long life milk- including all the gluten free and alternative mills for people with allergies. So people with allergies struggled to get safe food for a while until the supermarkets brought in limits of what people could buy in one shop.

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

This is more defensible than it appears. No one knew how long lockdowns would last. So they'd buy double their normal and move on. But *everyone* did that. Normally TP doesn't go at once, so need it today, some next week, some next month. But suddenly EVERYONE needed. At the same time. That's what broke the supply chain. And once stores struggled to supply, people panic bough it in huge bulk, grossly misinterpreting the situation. But that happened near the end when the actual damage was already done.

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

It was the panic buying of hand wash for me. I mean, what were you doing before Covid? On second thoughts, perhaps I don't want to know.

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

That's where my love for solid soaps and overbuying by mistake came in handy.

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

The panic buying of anything during covid was ridiculous. Here in the UK the supermarket shelves were completely empty just before lockdown was announced, but the supermarkets remained open during lockdown so it was pointless. Telling the public that there is no need to panic buy created a panic. 🤣

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

I honestly thought I'd miss diarrhea being a symptom of COVID the way it disappeared off the shelves!!

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

I do remember people trying to grab TP out of the cages when staff were coming out of the stock rooms at supermarkets. It was not a small uptick

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

the small uptick referred to was the actual increase in use, not the temporary artificial increase in demand.

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

Just wash your a*s under the tub faucet or buy a bidet / attachment. WAY better than TP! Cleaner too!

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

Don't forget the hand sanitizer being bought by the gallon to keep people protected from an AIR-BORNE virus.

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

How about buying up all the milk though? Because that will last for a super long time 🧐

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

From what I remember there was a factory I think in Japan that made toilet paper but had to shut down because of covid and so there was a particular area or country that got most their supply from them so the people in that place started panic buying it because it really was running short but then the rest of the world heard about people panic buying TP so they jumped on the bandwagon though it didn't affect them.

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

I went to a warehouse store and "sourced" TP for my non-member friends during COVID. I'd buy 2 bundles of TP and give a 12 roll package to each of them every few weeks until things came back to near-normal again.

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

I loved it when the hoarders were a lot of places refused return and refund after the panic was over.

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

I learned about bidet's and what a great alternative they are. House with four people and no toilet paper shortage for us!

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

So here's what I saw in my area, YMMV. March 2020, the media was saying "Hey, if you catch this, you might have to be isolated in your house for up to a month, so you need to be prepared for that. That's not just food, BTW, it's also paper goods like toilet paper." Then stuff really hit the fan March 13, which was the second Friday of the month, which is the first payday of the month for a lot of people. So they went and stocked up on things, including toilet paper, like they were warned to.

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

It only takes a few giant a******s being asinine and selfish to ruin it for everyone else's a******s. There would've been more than enough for everyone.

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

Same with antibacterial wipes and gel. I saw a person who had an entire huge garage packed with boxes and boxes of Lysol wipes. They were clearing out the stores entire inventory then selling online at shameful profits.

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

News media are also to blame for this. They should be banned from reporting "shortages". Same goes for the tutorial videos they put out whenever a new form of crime becomes popular.

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

They were buying more because the whole country was in lockdown and they didn't wanna run out.

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

I think I went through a roll more quickly then usual when I got covid.

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

I remember that Saturday morning when I went to open my store, the line of people waiting for me. It lives in my nightmares

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

I think is was more of an emotional reaction to feeling completely out of control. If they could just get enough toilet paper everything would be right in the world again. My husband fell for it. We still have some.

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

There was no TP shortage in neither Danmark nor France, but at one point yeast was quite hard to get hold of.

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

I couldn't get yeast in the USA. I'm a frequent baker and it did affect me.

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

Also tp takes up a lot of space on supermarket shelves- so any increase in purchases was immediately obvious. What made me so made was when pensioners were left with nothing. Selfishness

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

I remember a meme titled "How to catch an Australian" it showed a packet of toilet rolls under a box propped up with a stick

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

Well, people were worried that there was going to be one, because all of the people using office bathrooms had to use their home bathrooms. The companies producing the type of toilet paper we use at home were not making enough of the type of toilet paper we needed,so people panic bought.

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

Add the huge black market in hand sanitiser as well.......stockpiles in garages....sheer lunacy.....

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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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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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#37

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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