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Common sense, despite its name, is really not that common at all. The world is a big and complicated place, so one shouldn’t expect everyone to have an intricate and nuanced understanding, however, there are always some people who have decided to reject what we do know and instead fully subscribe to fantasy.

People online share the dumbest beliefs they’ve encountered in real people. From the idea that the literal sun is a government invention, to using public funds to control the weather, get comfortable as you read through, upvote the most unhinged ideas and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences below.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe People who believe that covid wasn’t real. Funeral service workers including myself know how real it was having to build makeshift morgues for all the bodies we couldn’t get to cemeteries/crematories because they were so backed up. Healthcare workers too, obviously. It was an insane time and I could not believe the amount of people that believed it was fake.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Qanon is evil and I hope they all rot for the harm they have done..

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe I can’t wrap my head around the fact that some people believe that vaccines cause more harm than good. We have mountains of research showing how effective and safe they are, yet the misinformation still spreads like wildfire. It's baffling how easily people can fall for such unfounded claims!

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That people think that cats can be vegan.

They're carnivores! If you try to make a cat eat an all-veggie diet, they will starve. Their digestive tracts aren't suited for it.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just cats. Any animal that is naturally omnivorous will eventually suffer from some sort of health issue

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe I was laughing with my sister today that some people believe democrats used off shore windmills to “aim” hurricane helene to hit the Republican counties. My sister admitted it was unlikely but that we do have the ability to affect the paths of hurricanes.

She’s also anti-vaxx so I really should have known better.

OSUJillyBean , Matteo del Piano / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you believe your opponent can aim hurricanes you should just give up.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe That Conversion therapy can change an individual's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual.

SuvenPan , Ron Lach / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 40+ years old. When I was at pubity age, I noticed I was gay. I hated it, I hid in the closet (until my late 20's) I battled depression and self harm.. I HATE when people say; it's a choice or you can change your sexuality.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe That people willingly donate their life f*****g savings to churches who are obviously just stealing their money. Like small town churches that recieve absolutely no funding because the town has a pop of 45? Makes sense to need to take donations but those 10000 member plus mega churches are straight up grifters. I can't see how people could do that.

iwanttodie411banana , Matt Botsford / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"And many will come saying there He is, or He is here. Do not believe them, they are wolves in sheep's clothing". I think about that a lot! The troubling thing is those who demand a "Christian Nation" think their God is orange and who repeatedly goes against that which is written. Same thing with many of the "Godly men".

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe A guy told me this (flat earther).
The last eclipse we had was a fake.
Simply just a distraction so that the government could replace the sun to better control people.
Not kidding.

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Scientology is basically someone's s****y Sci-fi premise turned into a religion somehow.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yep. baffled me when I first learned about how Scientology came to be. funnily enough, I learned it from f*cking South park. I thought it was BS, but then I researched it and it was absolutely true.

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Holocaust deniers. Jewish Space Laser.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe That global warming isn’t real.

Routine-Professor-40 , Brendan O'Donnell / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely amazing that deniers exist. But to be honest I'm more concern about the larger group climate inactive people, (the mayority) people who believe climate change is real, but do not do anything about it, either because they don't believe is "that bad" or because they believe their efforts to be futile.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Covid vaccinations had microchips or whatever used to track people. Unbelievable...

EquivalentUnable5468 , Hakan Nural / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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Aliens build it. Like the pyramids or the old temples or the Easter Island thing. Sure these all seem hard but jeez have some faith in your ancestors. They had the same brain! We are the same species! They probably had way more time back then to do these stuff too.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, the non-existing pyramids in Bosnia used to charge alien space ship batteries.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe People that unironically believe the Earth is flat.

Relative-Cause-9564 , Towarzysz Przewodniczący / wikicommons (not the actual photo) Report

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People donating to televangelists.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe A coworker some year back had said that the people and kids involved in the school shootings were actors and not real people. Basically saying that it was all a hoax.

anon , Avel Chuklanov / unspalsh (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, does this co-worker have millions of dollars? Alex Jones found he was criminally incorrect.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Moon landing deniers. Seriously. It's the second most debunked conspiracy behind flat earth.

ILoatheNickCage , Pixabay / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My favorite quote by Apollo 16 LM Pilot Charlie Duke (paraphrased): if we were gonna fake the moon landing, why would we do it 7 times? And fail one?!

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe People earnestly believing that there's a magic supernatural entity willing to endlessly torture you if you deviate from the weird rules "they" set up or don't worship them enough. It's all bollocks. It's bollocks designed to control you. Step into the light of rationalism!

snapper1971 , RDNE Stock project / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Invisible Sky Daddy! ( give us health and wealth if you real yo)

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Astrology's hold on people is baffling.

Aycheeeleloh , Nastya Dulhiier / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe People who bought toilet paper because of the port strike when 90% of toilet paper is made domestically in the US.

Classic_Menu7280 , Colourblind Kevin / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I run out of toilet roll, I switch to lettuce leaves... and that's the tip of the iceberg

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People who think that 9/11 was fake. Like literally they believe the broadcast is edited.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When the generation that witnessed and live through 9/11 passes, I fear for the rubbish that will be put out there about it.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Chemtrails from airplanes - The government or other parties are involved in a secret program to add toxic chemicals to the atmosphere via contrails from airplanes. Various different trainings are applied for chemtrail such as sterilization, lowering life expectancy, mind control or weather control.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Churches that allow venomous snakes to bite them to show their faith in the Lord... dude, no!!

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And then they refuse treatment is they’re bitten. Several of them die every year. Natural selection.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is a cult disguised as a church to swindle money from attenders.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe That people actually believe birds aren't real and that certain events in history were fake. The fact there are people out there that truely believe millions of people are paid "crisis actors" blows my mind.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do these ppl live in an underground bunker??? Birds arent real, Birds Are Not Real WHAT????!!!!!!

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe I knew a woman who believed that there are high-end resorts on the moon that rich people are vacationing at. She was shocked and confused when I told her that I didn't also believe this.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe she thought Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was real. I mean it would be great.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe That people into crypto honestly think it's "next generation technology."

They all know it's a scam. But they need "greater fools" to buy into it in order to get their exit liquidity.

AmericanScream , Crypto Crow / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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That Russian elections are not rigged.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife: "Why don't they vote him (Putin) out?" "Ummm...maybe because any opposition he faces he just poisons or meets a fatal accident?" I don't have patience to explain his former career as head of the E German KGB, who may not have invented torture, but certainly refined it.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Wearing different gemstones has different effects on your personality and life, as per your zodiac sign. It's a common belief in India.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would like to test theory. Who is supplying the jewels for the study??!!!

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It's crazy to me that anyone actually thinks we are alone in the universe.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe People joining MLMs.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did this once in college, not realizing what it was. After 3 months of only family and my best friend buying tote bags to support me, it all clicked.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe That there is a government website where people can donate to reduce the national debt. It’s at $35 trillion as of today.

wowza6969420 , Kaitlyn Baker / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, that makes perfect sense....since we (gov't) can't balance our books, would you guys give us additional money on top of your taxes, to help us pay down our debt. Yeah...how about you start by not paying $500 toilet seat, or give more staff funding to medicare to stop insurers from abusing medicare (medicare "parts", anyone). Better yet, why not directly ask this countries billionaires to directly chip in, eh???? /rant over

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#31

30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Heard some guy say "Florida doesn't exist, the government made it up". He wasn't joking.

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Headlines: Florida man claims Florida is not real while running around naked

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe That some people unironically eat chicken “medium rare”, and also that they DON’T GET SICK?

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe There're people who think countries like Italy, New Zealand or Australia are made up.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on doors and convincing a handful of people to join the cult.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a guy I went to school with show up one day with a fellow adherent, who happened to be black. He read a passage from HIS book that said, "and his name shall be Jehovah". "Great! You call him Jehovah I call him God, this mans brother's call him Allah". Never came back.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe All these AI companies actually convincing people they are going to create AGI.

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There's 3 types of AI:
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) or what we would call AI right now
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) which would be par with human intelligence
Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) which is the kind that will either make us immortal or kill us all.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe People thinking hen's eggs are her periods🙄🙄 man i questioned their common sense in biology.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro here in Brazil uses public money to finance mystics to make rituals to change the weather so it doesn't rain in events like Rock in Rio.

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30 Dumb Things That Some People Unironically Believe I know somebody who enters their house backwards after midnight to "trick the ghosts."

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Given that any time of day is technically "after midnight", at what point do they stop? 🤔

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The people worshipping their idols.

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People somehow keep expecting quality content from developers under greedy shareholders in big video game companies like Ubisoft or EA games. It’s completely absurd to me that those companies keep making money with so few amount of work behind every game. And the fact that people still buy those games is always gonna surprise me. Thoe poor developpers, that can’t be pushed to greatness due to release dates and quotas….

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What exactly is amazing? the fact that we expect quality? the fact that developer's are exploited? the fact that there is no quality? also I don't think this is exclusively a big industry issue, Indy devs also produce lazy, uncreative stuff, by numbers I would say indy devs make more garbage, not that is fair to compare. But I think the issue is that creating truly new, truly committed work in the entertainment industries is just hard and rare, 95% of everything made is derivative and half assed.

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