Lots of stupid people
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Monday 18 May 2009 17:28

It seems that when you live in a country for a long
time you gather a lot of information that you then
use to judge and ignore stupid people. So even if
someone from an organization that doesn't have a
retarded religious or naive stoner label in it's
name says something, you know they fall into the
retarded religious naive stoner category and you've
ignored them before you know it. When you move to
another country those filters aren't trained yet,
so it appears there are a lot more stupid people.
And combined with a different language, I often
notice myself reading some article on dnews twice
or more times because I can't believe someone is
actually saying such incredible stupid things.

'Petition einer Minderheit'. Duh. A petition isn't
a referendum. Even if it was just one guy with a
convincing objection against some plan, that
doesn't mean his objection gets less convincing.
The majority doesn't and doesn't need to know how
stuff works, but that shouldn't be a reason for
those who got elected by them to be ignorant about
how stuff works also. And if you can agree with
something that is sinnvol and wirksam and
apparently only the wirksam part is disputed, it's
still sinnvol? And just because I can beton
something that doesn't make it true. Is it even
legal to set up polls like this?

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/dull/2009/05/18/lots-of-stupid-people/