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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 1 week ago (33 children)

Hardly surprising coming from a nation where a third of you think dogs can get autism and about half can't read good

[–] watson@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 children)

The difference between the US and Europe in this regard is that Europeans are a bit more discreet with their crazy people. EU have 3 times the population as the United States does, obviously they’re gonna have ~3 times more crazy people than we do. They just don’t talk much about it, while, in the US, the crazy people refuse to shut the fuck up

Edit: I mistakingly used EU instead of Europe when referring to a population of around 750 million. The EU does not have that population, but Europe, generally speaking, it does. That was my mistake.

Edit: yikes, a lot of crazy people disagree with me

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Education makes a tremendous difference. Americans have mentally ill people probably at the same rate as EU, but also has ignorant people and that’s where the difference is made up. If you travel 3 hrs in USA, you’ll find the same culture. If you travel 3 hrs in Europe, you’ll be in a different culture altogether.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

clicks on post

"hmm this is interesting wonder what people have to say about this"

scrolls

the people

"y'know people are crazy y'all don't know how to read your pronouncation is wrong that's the wrong word that's not right there's like 4586k people there how about being mental huh we're just quiet Americans suck"

sighs

"how did this even come to this bro..?!"

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago

Culture doesn’t have anything to do with intelligence. Also, no, driving 3 hours in the US will definitely get you to a different culture, likely a different accent even. It takes 3.5 hours to get from NYC to Boston…

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