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[–] [email protected] 134 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

13% = ~4.2mill Americans think it’s fake and it is highly likely everyone reading this thread has met someone who believes it’s fake.

I swear to christ our #1 export in the US is tinfoil hats.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was racism

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Its racists in tinfoil hats.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

For some reason I just had a flash of the scene from Rick and Morty where the president goes “You're only Vice President because I need 10% of the white vote” lmao I don’t know why

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

England seems to have you guys beat if the past couple of days are anything to go by.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

like little hershey's kisses filled with turd nuggets

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Nah that’s in a lot of places regardless lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well, someone who believes it was faked is crediting his side with that 13%. You're gonna trust the numbers of someone who thinks the moon landing was faked?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

This is also true

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I know someone working in a pharmaceutical lab that believed climate change was fake because the atmosphere on Mars was mostly CO2 and it wasn't hot there.

God save us from the kakistocracy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jfc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You'd be surprised how conspiratorial scientists are - especially if it's outside their domain.

You'd think more deference to experts would be the default mode.... just because I took one physics class does not make me an expert on climatology or the green house effect

[–] RandomVideos 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Couldnt he percentage just be false?

Also, where did you get the 4.2 million US citizens from? Im pretty sure 13% is much higher

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I’m an idiot. I put it as .013 because my brain clocked it at a far more reasonable rate.

It’s actually 42,900,000 which is way worse 🫠

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

did you know that 74% of statistics are made up on the spot?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

~~Iirc that's also the percentage of Americans who are functionally illiterate~~

Looked it up, it's worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it doesn't actually matter whether it happened, but whether the technology to do it existed at that time. And they surely did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

To build on this: The technology to fake it didn't exist back then.