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Look, I get you’re (hopefully) joking. But there are people that take these jokes seriously. Please stop.
Those people can eat dicks. if you're dumb enough to believe things lime that from random pictures on the internet in places like Lemmy, then the social cost of keeping them 'safe' from this info is greater than the social cost of just letting those troglodytes breed themselves distinct enough as to be out of our gene pool.
I would counter that it’s this kind of hubris that allow these stupid people to gain footholds in our basic institutions. Take a look at anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, American republicans; to name a few. Misinformation, regardless of intent and/or “obviousness”, is still misinformation. As for our gene pool, it’s rife with bad actors and ill-informed “troglodytes”. In other words, they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
I think you have too pessimistic a view of the actual breakdown in number of idiots versus 'normal' folks. I've never met a real anti vaxxer, I've never met a real flat farther, my dad is an American Republican but he's just Christian and really gives a shit about abortion I guess. Those groups don't exist on that grand a scale and the average person is not being affected by these kinds of jokes.
Those that are, that tiny minority, have existed for all time. There are less idiots born today than ever before due to better access to education, Healthcare, and basic resources that breed the inequity required for that level of selfish thinking. They exist, for sure, but not in any numbers we should be concerned about, except maybe MAGA Republicans, that population group is larger than I'd like and bigger than I originally assumed, but they're still not the average republican I talk to.