• Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Hardly surprising coming from a nation where a third of you think dogs can get autism and about half can’t read good

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      6 hours ago

      half can’t read good

      It should be ‘read well’, not good. ‘Good’ is an adjective and is always used with a noun. ‘Well’ is an adverb and is used to modify a verb, adverb or another adjective and answers the question ‘how?’. Since the verb is ‘read’ it would need the adverb ‘well’ to modify the verb.

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      8 hours ago

      The difference between the US and Europe in this regard is that Europeans are a bit more discreet with their crazy people. EU have 3 times the population as the United States does, obviously they’re gonna have ~3 times more crazy people than we do. They just don’t talk much about it, while, in the US, the crazy people refuse to shut the fuck up

      Edit: I mistakingly used EU instead of Europe when referring to a population of around 750 million. The EU does not have that population, but Europe, generally speaking, it does. That was my mistake.

      Edit: yikes, a lot of crazy people disagree with me

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          10 hours ago

          I was thinking of the population of all of Europe, not just the EU. And I tend to use Europe and EU interchangeably. I probably shouldn’t do that.

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            10 hours ago

            Not your fault. Both are valid abbreviations for each other. Only E.U. would actually be concrete, but…

            Saying the EU should be the European Union. Whereas just EU should signify Europe as you wouldnt say the Europe.

            The context here made it obvious you meant Europe though, dont know how people missed that.

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              10 hours ago

              I think the EU is a beautiful thing, and sometimes I forget that not all of Europe agrees with me.

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              9 hours ago

              I assumed OP either did a typo or wasn’t a native English speaker

              I have not encountered anyone referring to geographical Europe as “EU” before, that would be confusing!

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        Crazy vs. uneducated. Two different things. Not being able to read or not knowing how vaccines work is not a crazy person thing, it’s an uneducated person thing.

        The education in the EU is better AND it’s free. That’s why there are less dumb people who are anti-vaxers and can’t read.

        They are not more discreet. They actually just have better educated people.

        Being better education also helps deal with mental health issues in addition to having free healthcare (although it’s lacking in the mental health department), so less people are actually going crazy and doing things like school shootings or voting for a rapist in the presidential elections.

        It’s all education.

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          10 hours ago

          Less, but still dumb and crazy enough that fascism is allowed to get a foothold again.

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          10 hours ago

          I feel that you may be correlating untreated mental illness with a lack of education, and those are not the same things.

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            The initial commenter talked about not being able to read and thinking dogs can get autism.

            You said this is a crazy people thing and Europe has just as many if them, but they are just more “quiet”.

            I corrected you that this is an education thing and that is why Europe has less people who can’t read or think that dogs can get autism.

            I also linked education and healthcare to having more mentally stable people.

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            I feel that you may be correlating untreated mental illness with a lack of education

            And the USA has more of both. More mentally ill people AND more uneducated people.

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              10 hours ago

              I suggest you get a dictionary and look up the word “nuance”

              Edit: apparently, Europeans are just as capable of xenophobia and bigotry as Americans are. We have so much in common!

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        Education makes a tremendous difference. Americans have mentally ill people probably at the same rate as EU, but also has ignorant people and that’s where the difference is made up. If you travel 3 hrs in USA, you’ll find the same culture. If you travel 3 hrs in Europe, you’ll be in a different culture altogether.

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          clicks on post

          “hmm this is interesting wonder what people have to say about this”

          scrolls

          the people

          “y’know people are crazy y’all don’t know how to read your pronouncation is wrong that’s the wrong word that’s not right there’s like 4586k people there how about being mental huh we’re just quiet Americans suck”

          sighs

          “how did this even come to this bro…?!”

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          6 hours ago

          Culture doesn’t have anything to do with intelligence. Also, no, driving 3 hours in the US will definitely get you to a different culture, likely a different accent even. It takes 3.5 hours to get from NYC to Boston…