Who do you think taught America to be dumb AF?
The British are the Americans of Europe, so this tracks.
I mean, it makes total sense, that’s where our founders came from.
You, dumbass!
I taught you to be dumbasses, not to be dumb as fuck.
Bold of you to assume I’m American
I’m a dumbass, what did ya expect?
Don’t worry, the American public is also wrong about nearly everything.
Yeah, living in the UK I’m not surprised.
Right wing lies are spread non-stop to blame people on benefits, immigrants or the EU for problems caused by poor policy decisions, usually those made in service of people who are already rich.
I’ve personally met people who think that benefit cheats (people who are getting “too much” financial support from tej government) are a huge problem, when they make up only a tiny amount of our costs compared to wage theft, military spending and tax breaks.
And this is because 99% of our press is explicitly right-wing and has a somewhat fuzzy relationship with truth.
Thanks, Murdoch!
Capitalists should not be allowed to own media. Or really have any say whatsoever over how society functions. Why would any society allow someone whose sole interest is themselves to have power over anyone else?
In france companies gets 279 BILLION euros of help every year (of course no verification is done, and it’s hidden in “lower charges/taxes” instead of “handouts”). Thats 900€ per working person.
Per month.
And we’re supposed to be angry at poor people just trying to get by? I wonder why /s
And they haven’t got any righter since that headline was written in 2013.
Disagree. They’re even further right.
Yeah, it’s the Murdockification of GB. Look at the US.
Rupert Murdock needs be banned from owning media outlets.
Anyone should be banned from owning media outlets
Media outlets should be sponsored by independent non profits which in turn are government sponsored. These independent outlets can then pay independent news outlets on the condition that they bring independent and neutral news, just the facts, and all the facts.
Anyone steps out of line and let’s a little too much bias flow will see their payments reduced until they become neutral again
The trouble with that is the government of the day decides what is neutral and factual.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The ghoul is a big part of a reason the world is the way it is today.
He and his heirs need lined up against a wall.
“The greatest argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter”
I suggest you read La Haine de la démocratie from Jacques Rancière. It shows that the people are actually not retarded, and the narrative pushed against democracy has no practical foundation
it’s probably because “Britain has had enough of experts”
This doesn’t seem right!
What else could you expect from a country whose main tradition is seeing how many Cadbury’s Creme Eggs one can fit up one’s bum.
So: propaganda works as it “should”
Or they don’t really understand percentages.
Danielle Navarro recently wrote an amazing blog post about this phenomenon. It’s long and detailed so my favourite kind. It even shows the code.
And I realise now that other people are different from me. So the essence is: people may struggle with exact percentages but generally they can put things in order from more rare to more common, sometimes people really don’t know and they guess which gives a big difference when the true answer is very close to 0% or 100%, and finally… I don’t know, I forgot.
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-09-21_probability-judgement/
This is such an interesting read. Thank you for posting it.
Thanks for the read!
Trump recently claimed he has lowered drug prices by 1500%. That’s mathematically impossible.
That’s also from the worst brain on the planet. I’m up for shitting on the British any day of the week but I think that comparison is going too far.
30% of USAmericans voted for that worst brain and many (most?) of them lap up such bs from him unquestionably.
I was backing up your claim…
they don’t really understand percentages.
They being the Anglosphere IMO (am definitely counting fellow Australians).
Lmfaooooooo
British
publicwrong about nearly everythingFTFY :D
To be honest, the public isn’t wrong. The leaders live in a fantasy land
The general public believe whatever racist shit the newspapers print about how we’re all poor because of some war-fleeing immigrant (who has No Recourse to Public Funds because of course boats are only legal ways to cross the channel if rich people own them), instead of the money grabbing corporations who give all the public subsidies to the shareholders before doubling our bills, or who treble their profits in three years blaming the war in Ukraine for their CEO’s need for a twelfth superyacht and a new helicopter.
If I saw a bunch of military age men sailing towards the coast of my country, aware that they are not locals, I’d label them as foreign invaders instead of refugees.
Refugees have to follow civilized procedures.
The public can be wrong about facts which is what the article is talking about.
Innit?
