Yeah, I had some teachers when I was in school that would just hand you a paper, hand you a book, and that was it.
I legitimately asked why we couldn’t just do this from home if he was just going to put on earphones and watch a portable tv.
I was told “because then we wouldn’t know if you’re cheating”.
I said “cheating how?” (The internet wasn’t a thing yet)
And he said “by looking up the information in another book”
So I said “First of all, what even is the difference between looking it up in a different book as opposed to look it up in this book? And secondly, if you think I’m too lazy to study with THIS book, what makes you think I’d study with a different book??? It’s the same process!”
I had some teachers when I was in school that would just hand you a paper, hand you a book, and that was it.
Couldn’t do that if I even tried. I’d be so bored, I’d have to teach just to pass the time quicker lol
I was educated in Australia for quite some time and we kind of formed friendships with our teachers. Always ceremonious thank yous, gifts, and hugs from the class as we’d finish up the year and move onto new teachers.
Will never forget Mr Schwartz, Mr Hornby, and Ms Chamberlain. Teachers that lit up our worlds and had massive respect from all the kids.
I don’t know. Is this poll representative of the entire voting-eligible population of America? Is it just NYT readers who responded? How do we know the poll results aren’t just made the fuck up? This is far from believable, let alone conclusive.
The survey was conducted among 1,625 registered voters nationwide from Jan. 12 to 17, 2026.
This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, 98 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphone.
Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and region. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 188,000 calls or texts to more than 86,000 voters.
To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the page, under “Composition of the Sample.”
The margin of sampling error among registered voters is about plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error.
To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents
That’s better than I thought, assuming those stats can be believed. NYT has a nasty habit of sanewashing or outright supporting the insane shit this administration does. Thanks for providing the info!
I’m reading 32% as “Actually I’m loving this fascism, it’s great” and the remaining 19% as “When you’re at the bottom of the well it’s hard to go lower”.
I mean, all of what one might construe as benefits of fascism would be better served otherwise: strengthening your country, a sense of belonging, public order…
You’ll experience a much stronger sense of belonging if you don’t push your neighbors to hate you because you’ve arbitrarily decided to hate them and support doing bad things to them.
Letting armed thugs arbitrarily arrest people is not public order, quite the opposite.
Countries which have fully embraced fascism never stayed strong for very long and lost quite a lot in the process. This is when they were ever strong in the first place.
And I’m not even going to talk about the even more blatant lies (family values, moral righteousness, upholding traditions…)
I am reminded about many of the black folks around here and their reaction to Trump being reelected: nothing. “It was bad before and it’s gonna continue being bad.” When I was in a workshop with BIPOC folks last year, they were like “white folks are catching onto the reality we’ve been living in for decades.”
A mix of “I drink the Kool Aid and it’s good stuff” and “shit sucked before and continues to suck with no change” explains it. There’s also the small psychopath percentage who actually like the cruelty. It’s clarified when looking at the causes and better explains what’s happening than lump it all together as “stupid”.
That’s true of all humanity. Stop being a divisive shit. Fascism can (and is) rising elsewhere, so to even imply it’s a uniquely US problem is all of ignorant, wrong, and ignoring the basic tendencies of humans to seek easy answers.
So, 51% of the Americans are utterly stupid.
This is why America deserves this.
51% voted for Trump, and would do so again.
🌎🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
56% of them are partially illiterate or worse.
Got word from an American teacher just the other day. ‘Some of these [high school] kids don’t seem to know how to spell their own name.’
Another from an American adult, ‘I learned more from Ms. Frizzle than my teachers.’ Ms. Frizzle is the teacher from an educational cartoon.
Yeah, I had some teachers when I was in school that would just hand you a paper, hand you a book, and that was it.
I legitimately asked why we couldn’t just do this from home if he was just going to put on earphones and watch a portable tv.
I was told “because then we wouldn’t know if you’re cheating”.
I said “cheating how?” (The internet wasn’t a thing yet)
And he said “by looking up the information in another book”
So I said “First of all, what even is the difference between looking it up in a different book as opposed to look it up in this book? And secondly, if you think I’m too lazy to study with THIS book, what makes you think I’d study with a different book??? It’s the same process!”
And thats how I got detention.
Couldn’t do that if I even tried. I’d be so bored, I’d have to teach just to pass the time quicker lol
I was educated in Australia for quite some time and we kind of formed friendships with our teachers. Always ceremonious thank yous, gifts, and hugs from the class as we’d finish up the year and move onto new teachers.
Will never forget Mr Schwartz, Mr Hornby, and Ms Chamberlain. Teachers that lit up our worlds and had massive respect from all the kids.
I don’t know. Is this poll representative of the entire voting-eligible population of America? Is it just NYT readers who responded? How do we know the poll results aren’t just made the fuck up? This is far from believable, let alone conclusive.
“By telephone” - that there shows the bias in the survey. Younger and more informed people ignore unknown calls due to the risk of social engineers.
I think they thought of that
1,625 is hardly representative of a data set containing tens of millions
Do you have math on the statistics that would suggest the error rate would be higher than 2.8%?
That’s better than I thought, assuming those stats can be believed. NYT has a nasty habit of sanewashing or outright supporting the insane shit this administration does. Thanks for providing the info!
I’m reading 32% as “Actually I’m loving this fascism, it’s great” and the remaining 19% as “When you’re at the bottom of the well it’s hard to go lower”.
Neither seem stupid.
That 19 percent doesn’t know or care what’s going on because it hasn’t personally affected them yet.
Fascism is stupid.
I mean, all of what one might construe as benefits of fascism would be better served otherwise: strengthening your country, a sense of belonging, public order…
You’ll experience a much stronger sense of belonging if you don’t push your neighbors to hate you because you’ve arbitrarily decided to hate them and support doing bad things to them.
Letting armed thugs arbitrarily arrest people is not public order, quite the opposite.
Countries which have fully embraced fascism never stayed strong for very long and lost quite a lot in the process. This is when they were ever strong in the first place.
And I’m not even going to talk about the even more blatant lies (family values, moral righteousness, upholding traditions…)
Most of them are clueless idiots who couldn’t even tell you what’s going on. Stupidity is the biggest factor.
You can say that about the 49% as well.
Fascism does seem kinda stupid though.
When you’re under the bootheel, sure. But when it’s your bootheel it seems so much better… at least until it’s your turn on the other side.
Hence the stupid.
I am reminded about many of the black folks around here and their reaction to Trump being reelected: nothing. “It was bad before and it’s gonna continue being bad.” When I was in a workshop with BIPOC folks last year, they were like “white folks are catching onto the reality we’ve been living in for decades.”
“The man on the tv told me it’s better so it must be better”
A mix of “I drink the Kool Aid and it’s good stuff” and “shit sucked before and continues to suck with no change” explains it. There’s also the small psychopath percentage who actually like the cruelty. It’s clarified when looking at the causes and better explains what’s happening than lump it all together as “stupid”.
Probably a bit more than that I’d say.
I mean, over 20 years ago we had a popular tv show called “are you smarter than a 6th grader”.
They’d bring on adults, ask them questions from 6th grade level tests, and see if the contestants could pass. It was a game show.
In an actual educated society, that sounds like the worst idea for a game show. It wouldn’t be challenging, and everyone would win.
Everyone did NOT win.
I think it was 5th graders, ol’ Jeff Foxworthy at the helm.
A broken watch is right twice a day. I think by now it’s fair to say that much more than just 51% of Americans are utterly stupid.
That’s true of all humanity. Stop being a divisive shit. Fascism can (and is) rising elsewhere, so to even imply it’s a uniquely US problem is all of ignorant, wrong, and ignoring the basic tendencies of humans to seek easy answers.
Which you are clearly also succeptible to, BTW.
Oh yes, nothing indicating america is worse than anywhere else!!! Stop pointing fingers!!
Get your shit in order. Some of us are at least trying to provide free education and healthcare.