Having tried this, no, it does not. People are anti-intellectual because they willfully choose to be ignorant. They're like that for several different reasons, but their choices are the same.

What actually matters is not allowing people like you to shame the rest of us who do value knowledge into submitting to the will of people like that out of a misguided notion that judging them for their stupidity is wrong or bad. It's not. It's called holding people accountable for their actions and choices, and it's a thing we have been doing far too little of in society.

Hold people accountable for not knowing basic shit and refusing to learn it. Grown adults have no excuse, barring some learning disability, for not having decent reading comprehension, or not being able to do basic math, or not having critical thinking skills. We're trying to run a democracy here and that requires having an educated public. And that means the public has to be willing to educate themselves.

For fuck's sake. I don't know everything either but if there's something I don't know, I learn it. I at least try.

You're part of the problem defending them by shaming us. You're part of the reason why anti-intellectualism is such a problem: you enable irresponsibility, indolence, and selfishness by protecting people who refuse to learn from consequences.

He should have come back with winning lottery ticket numbers and sports outcomes

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No no no, we're watching what's happening and we think you and your chief enabler up there are both very much entitled douchebags who think you are above criticism, correction and reproach -- because your egos are too sensitive to deal with it.

Be an adult, you whiny, entitled, spoiled brat.

Insisting that no one be corrected on mistakes is what's actually privileged.

And so is blatantly misusing the word pretentious, which makes it even more evident you are just some overly offended blowhard who doesn't know what the hell you're talking about.

You hurt the people around you by enabling shitty people and their bad behavior in such a manner. Grow the fuck up.

Welp that's horrifying

And then it says "No one cares about downvotes" or "downvotes don't matter" when you argue they actually do matter or that they need to be changed in some way.

Stop trying to push off your responsibilities onto others and do your damn job. You see rape apologia, you delete rape apologia. That's your job as a mod. If you can't be assed, find someone else to be a mod.

But don't come to me with a bunch of excuses to not do what you're supposed to be doing. Grow the fuck up and do it.

No no fam, they're omnivorous. They evolved to eat a starch-rich diet because they were domesticated by us for 15,000 years. They can eat other veggies besides grass -- carrots are actually good for them.

Source: I live in a house with a dog :P

You forgot the rum. You need shit-tons of rum.

My bad fam, I misread you

Hahaha and people look at them as if they're a country to be emulated

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's serious flaw of federation #19865438736 that'll go ignored even when innocent instance admins end up getting jailed over it

“Not having all the Moomins in Moomin Valley”

That's totally something we'll use. Thanks :D Also I'm stealing that. I'm stealing that insult and Americanizing it and you can't stop me

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