30 Things People Said That Gave Away That They Are Not The Brightest Crayon In The Box

I've been in the mental hospital before. there was someone in there for trying to commit unalive who would spit out the meds they were given saying "those meds can fûck you up."

My mother reacts very badly to the vaccine. She still gets it. She got COVID this year and thankfully it wasn't too bad.

I'm sorry it hit you so hard. One of my instructors was frustrated by it being mandatory because due to undafe working conditions her immune system was wrecked. The covid hit her extremly bad, apparently amputation was considered. Ultimately she was fine but it wasnt a pleasant exoirwnce. While I do think doctors should have been able to issue exempts for immune compromised; she was genuinely stunned when i informed her "atleast you didn't get the real thing. That could have killed you." Idk if she agrred buy she informed me that she never thought abkut it like that, so hopefully she was less frustrated over it.

Just about any illness I get will result in an acute flare of pancreatitis. So did the Covid vaccine. I still get them because the flares from the vaccine are still smaller than if I got sick.

It CAN protect you from C-19 if you smoke enough to die before the Corona-Virus hits you, so....

Ironically, if those men got friends and hobbies, they would probably chill out, be happier, spread more good vibes, and get more attention from women!

It's almost as though it's a free market and the market is deciding, which many incels support

Not "sadly" but FINALLY!

While I don't understand how loneliness can be the fault of one gender. In my country there has been increasing discussion about a loneliness epidemic as a society (not gender specific). This has been linked to isolation during COVID, and then as labor dynamics forced people to relocate, they lost their social networks. At least in my country, men are more likely to relocate to new cities to provide income, and families get left behind. Perhaps this accounts for a "male" loneliness epidemic, I do not know, this isn't my field of study. I do know that suicide rates for men globally are about 4-5 times higher than for women, but that has been the case for decades. I am a bit shocked that showing zero empathy for 50% of the population is not only acceptable, but seems to be a popular opinion. When I hear about a school shooting in the US I don't think "aww, poor americans maybe they shouldn't have so many guns, haha". No, I think, "those poor families lost their children"

Two-way street...look into it.

You think things are bad now, just wait until companion robots come along.

But, but, you all have that thing! What are we supposed to do? Oh, wait, nevermind.

They become politicians

Modern medicine, safe food, clear water and LOTS of warning labels on every single dangerous thing no matter how minor the danger is

Their mothers are wiping their asses. Lol.

We vote for them

Because they're the alpha obviously.

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Statistics. Do you know the commercials where they said cleaning detergent will kill 99% of bacteria? They are the 1%.

Vaccines.

Antibiotics

Warning labels.

They only watched cartoons.

WAY TOO MANY DO

In a pride the male lies around while the females hunt. They spent even part of the hunting team.

And the treatment of the Indigenous peoples from day one onward....

I used to think it was some weird generational guilt. But then I realized: It isn't about the past. It's about legacy systems and current actions that are used to oppress people. That's why the privileged want to pretend our country has never been racist... so it can continue to BE racist.

Though from Australia, I can't say anything else.

Before there were black slaves, we killed the Native Americans.

I used to think it was just America and a handful of other nations. Honestly slavery has been a black mark EVERYWHERE. Pretending it never was doesn't make it go away. Can't change what you don't acknowledge

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No, it wasn't. Slavery, was the norm the world over for 5000 years before Europeans set foot on what would become north america. Every single "race" of people has played both slaver and slave. But we no one likes to talk about the Africans who were selling off their own people to Europeans...or that those they sold were often already slaves. Not many people know of Queen Njinga, who sold off 200,000 of her own people to the Portuguese....(and now Jada Pinkett is the latest to try and paint her as a "savior" who was protecting her people. No one mentions the barbary pirates (largely Muslims from the ottoman empire) who kidnapped 1.25 million Europeans and sold them into slavery in North Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Vikings, between the 8th and 11th centuries routinely rounded up Irish, french and Italians to sell off to Muslim traders for Arab silver. The Japanese had an official slave system that lasted for 1300 years.

That is FAR from the only one. Genocide of indigenous people is right up there... but that too is not exclusive to the good 'ol USofA

China didn't abolish slavery on paper until 1910 (though the practice continued until 1949) We can all agree that slavery was a deplorable practice....what we cannot do is pretend that it was unique to Americans, or white people. Of the 12.5 million Africans sold into slavery during the 400 years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, 380,000 ended up in the american colonies....and while so many people are content to engage in big shows of declaring their guilt and shame over something no one alive today had anything to do with, there are currently 45 million people living in slavery today....primarily throughout North Korea, Eritrea, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Afghanistan Kuwait...and 11 million of them are in India, with 6 million more spread across China. That seems like a more pressing issue than this constant rehashing of the past.

If only this could be a uniquely American problem. It is not. My country was among the first to bring African slaves (1530s), and the last to outlaw slavery (1888). And racism is certainly something that persists today. I have never heard anybody deny this about our history, but I don't know everybody in the country, and we have some ignorant people

The same can be said for 95% of all civilizations in recorded history. Do some research, if you know how.

Do you feel that way about all countries since all have had slavery at some point in their history (barring a small few exceptions)?

I am not American but as I have heard it, the USA was born after a civil war against slavery was fought.

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Here's a canny question for y'all... "name a country that has never, in all of history, had slaves..." [exits stage left, thinking hard...]

I fear for your sanity when you learn about the native people who happened to be on the British Empires land before they got there.

Sadly, the monster of racism is still alive and well in the USA.

You make it sound like USA invented slavery. Might want to go do some actual research

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And the veeps family owned slaves.

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Every time a white boomer dies, seize that house and give it to a Millennial or GenZ Black person. That should start making up for it.