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Priorities (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by FlyingSquid to c/politicalmemes

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 164 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

Oh fuck off. “Cosmos” was never meant to be an ongoing series. Sagan didn’t intend for it to be more than one season. And there were two follow- up seasons with Neil deGrasse Tyson later on.

Also, there are 51 (and counting) seasons of “NOVA.” Not all Americans are stupid.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

And yet this is the man who is a hair's breadth from the White House a second time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0

Edit: Because I'm enjoying the hate and I'm enjoying looking this stuff up, here's the last ignorant Americans fact until another person angrily suggests that Americans are so way into Carl Sagan stuff!

More than one in five (22%) of those taking the test said astronomy was “the study of how the positions of stars and planets can influence human behavior.” The answer they should have given was astrology.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-science-quiz-americans-pew-20150909-story.html

While a growing share of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, there is one belief that appears to unite a significant share of them: astrology. YouGov’s latest poll finds that a little more than one-quarter of Americans (27%) – including 37% of adults under 30 – say that they believe in astrology, or that the position of the stars and planets influences people’s lives. About half of Americans (51%) say they don't believe in astrology and 22% are unsure.

https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/42292-one-four-americans-say-they-believe-astrology

51 percent of people in a new AP/GFK poll said they were "not too confident" or "not at all confident" that the statement "the universe began 13.8 billion years ago with a big bang" was correct.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-majority-of-americans-question-the-science-of-the-big-bang/360976/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-design.aspx

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yet he’s never won the popular vote. The majority of Americans don’t like him. His backers are just good at manipulating the rubes and gaming the system.

[–] FlyingSquid -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Never won the popular vote" isn't saying much considering our low voter turnout.

Which is another thing which supports the idea that America is a pretty anti-intellectual country.

I'm not sure why you're trying to pretend otherwise.

Edit: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/nearly-7-in-10-u-s-adults-believe-in-angels-ap-norc-poll-finds

[–] ABCDE 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was the highest turnout last election, no?

Universities are not unpopular.

[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 3 weeks ago

Universities are not unpopular because it's hard to get a decent-paying job without a degree unless you want to do something like be a plumber or electrician.

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