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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mamdami is forcing children to participate in a heinous Islamic ritual called Al-gebra. It’s like, demonic spells or something.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And teaching them how to do Islamic ablutions, like using mouthwash and washing their hands. And showering! Heinous!

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    • BambiDiego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He probably uses Islamic inventions like H’ard So’ap and Bi-nominal functions!! SINCE WHEN DO NUMBERS NEED TO HAVE SEXUAL PREFERENCES?!

      They even drink the Muslim Beverage C’off We!

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      nah, do the french ablutions

      BIDETS FOR NEW YORK

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the practice of “Kâpit Al-Isim.”

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  • mattyroses@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re solving for X, which is slang for MDMA and also what porn is rated. Obviously they’re indoctrinating kids into child rape cults.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, no, the child rape cult was Trump.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone dumb enough to be concerned would definitely also think a basic equation looked like stygian summoners runes

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t laugh! As the Islamic Golden Age was pivoting towards religious extremism, algebra was labeled as sorcery and turned into a capital crime.

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• FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I made it myself!

      I could not believe that I was the first

      Please use it to piss off conservatives

      You have not only my blessing, but an enthusiastic endorsement

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My only regret about hus death is that he got to die doing what he loved: deflecting questions about gun violence with racist dog whistles so overused they’ve become bullhorns

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly it was so fuckin poetic I can’t even be upset about it. Charlie wouldn’t either, because white people shootings don’t even count to him.

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Best use of nickelback possible?

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  After 2016 I spent a lot of tine on reddit talking to Trump voters to understand why.

  Overwhelmingly they believe things that aren’t true. Basic misconceptions of the world cascading in on one another culminating into the stupidest vote of their life.

  One guy thought Obama was a vain man because he named his healthcare plan Obamacare. When I told him the healthcare plan was called the Affordable Care Act, and that Republicans and the media called it Obamacare as a way to hurt it, gis brain couldn’t process it because why would the media parrot Republican talking points if they were all biased towards Democrats?

  You can understand how this individual would make this mistake. He pays just enough attention to be misinformed. Three generations of right-wing propaganda, the world’s most disciplined messaging machine repeating the same lies and half-truths have absolutely run roughshod over this type of person.

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  • toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    meanwhile they voted for a man who puts his name on everything

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    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, because he tells them that they are righteous in their hatred of everything they fear

      They’ll forgive him anything, so long as they can hate freely and feel good about it

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  • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would they call themselves DemonRats if they weren’t actually demonic rats? Checkmate.

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  • DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a lot of “Heal the political divide” being said to mean “meet them halfway” when what it should mean is the ignorant and prejudiced learn and the media machine dismantled, like how “Heal the healthcare class divide” means “Help poor people see doctors affordably”.

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reddit post of a MAGA explaining they’re all in on Trump, don’t care, never will, stop trying to argue with them in their own words.

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• hayvan@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of my favourite conspiracies is that academic spaces are overwhelmingly left-leaning.

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  • Obituarykidney@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a reason the right is constantly seeking to make schools worse and good education harder to access (elitism/expensive private schools etc)

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    • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s actually something that has been done pretty much by anyone in power in the past who was trying to consolidate their position without actually giving the people what they want.

      Hitler’s regime started by rounding up scientists and scholars purely to make sure nobody got any ideas that were detrimental to his power.

      It’s just sad that the voters for (extremist) right people don’t see that the endgame is just for a select group, not for all, and they see themselves as part of that select group whilst they’re actually part of the other.

      So MAGA folk think they’re part of that elite group that will benefit from right wing dismantling of social programs and not part of poor immigrants whilst they’re actually economically closer to those poor immigrants. Not just America, though, Germany is going in that direction as well right now and in Europe more and more of these voices are being heard.

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They don’t want competition, and they especially don’t want people that are immune to bullshit.

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One of mine is that the truth tends to always lean left.

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• LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Years ago a German satire show interviewed random people on the street. They asked them what they think about the fact that “children are now forced to learn arabic numbers in German Schools”. They flawlessly baited a bunch of idiots into exposing their mindless xenophobia on TV

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I refuse arabic numbers What the fuck is 2? 7? 9??? These are all made up concepts invented to corrupt the mind of people.

  Look at how elegant these look instead: 10, 111, 1001.

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  • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dont care if i have to say it X times, roman numerals are superior

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IV/V Romans agree…

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are letters tho.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why use many digits when few digits do trick?

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  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the way. Embrace binary numbers. Reject everything that is nonbinary.

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    • tektite@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah, we’re keeping the NBs.

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  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they have played us for absolute fools

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  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    those are still arabic numerals youre just writing binary with them

    express binary as ^-. ^^^, ^–^ or smth

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• brambc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  O bet he’s not even talking about the real classical symbols but the new woke version!

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  • MolochHorridus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Woke, if not even DEI!

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  • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was honestly surprised when I visited Egypt for the first time and discovered they have different symbols for numbers in Arabic. Also, they look kind of the same as the one used with Latin alphabet, but there are some tricks like ٥ is 5 and ٦ is 6, so yeah … you have to learned them, you can’t just guess.

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    • brambc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I discovered when changing my standby background on my iPhone, and here been using them ever since.

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• limer@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Excuse me… all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.

  Thank you for your attention to this matter

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  • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn “woke ass” numbers

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• Klear@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought she was talking about Polymarket posting this as a serious matter. Then I noticed who she is…

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know right wingers in general a thick, but Americans really do seem to take it to a new level the dull witted.

  I’m sure that IC% of them wouldn’t even recognise the joke.

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have to spend a lot of time in 'Murica, unfortunately

    It’s amazing how stupidity isn’t just accepted, it’s celebrated

    I know so many extremely intelligent yanks, but the average punter on the street is as thick as pigshit

    The worst thing is that this isn’t their fault

    It began in the eighties, and has been done deliberately

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    • TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It began a lot further back than that. Mel Brooks was making fun of this stuff in the 60s.

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  • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Trust me, the german right wingers are just as dumb and they are not even creativ. They just carbon copy the republicans.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:

  AKA dumb people believe more lies.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump’s political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.

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• Stolas@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I need a hug. We live in such a depressing world sometimes.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🫂

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh no. Instead of writing out the numbers like one, two, three they will have to write them out like 1, 2, 3. The horror! 😱

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• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I saw this joke at least XV times already…

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• someone@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is she being ironic or really didn’t actually know? It’s hard to know if attention-economy people do gimmicky things for attention or really are that… uh… unaware of things?

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  • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Laura Loomer is a reactionary asshole with early winter ground level intelligence. She doesn’t know and would argue you’re lying to not look stupid.

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    • phtheven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can you explain what you mean about winter ground level intelligence?

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  • dreamy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    She really didn’t know. A few minutes after she made this comment she deleted it and made another comment that made it look like she knew what was going on all along.

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  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, I hadn’t heard of her, when I first read this I read it as her being sane and Polymarket being the one misunderstanding what Arabic numerals are

    So the “dear god” would be directed at Polymarket and not Mamdani

    Idk if i’m explaining this well

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Polymarket is a betting website, clearly someone made a bet that Zoran Mamdani would mandate teaching arabic numerals knowing that idiots would bet against it.

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• goodboyjojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In all seriousness thank God for the Arabic number system. It would be a nightmare to use Roman numerals for math

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And a second shoutout to the Hindu invention of the concept of 0.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can’t be properly depicted in Base-10.

    If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.

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    • jambudz@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All number systems are base 10. It’s just that we define the 1 in 10 as meaning x x x x x x x x x x quantity. Binary is base 10 with 10 equating to 2 in the decimal base.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ERIKA has been celebrating everyday how rich she is becoming.

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• JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jesus. What an idiot.

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• bequirtle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  well… it is real…

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• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just an FYI, it originated in India. It’s called Arabic because it was introduced to Europe via the Arabs, however, both of the numeral system that are widely used in the Arab world came from India.

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• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyday, Veep becomes more accurate.

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So all elementary school students to learn basic math.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If these people are so dumb and easily manipulated, why dont you misinformation them to do the right thing?

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• peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ive always wanted to share these on facebook as a way to call people stupid.

  But then I realized they wouldn’t understand it at all.

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• bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Arab Numerals joke is old. I heard this over two decades ago in the wake of 9/11 and I’m sure it’s not the first iteration.

  It’s funny because the anti muslims are ignorant of the contributions muslims made to society and language, and are unaware those are the numerals we use.

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• heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My only gripe is that we can’t determine whether it’s Arabic numerals or Hindu numerals. It’s more correct to say Arabic-Hindu numerals.

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• Arctic_monkey@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How did you reach the conclusion that they’re “heavily correlated”? From the studies you posted, I’m seeing effect sizes of r ≈ 0.2, which is usually considered a weak correlation. A change in one variable explains only about 4% of variance in the other.

  An effect of this magnitude is, I suspect, consistent with left wing beliefs/ideology being transmitted at universities, whose population has already passed a selection filter on intelligence.

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is always how it starts, then these terrorist camps will teach children how to READ. Can you imagine a society full of these people? The end is nigh, please save us president Trump.

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• Mahmoud_2000@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i’m not a leftist nor rightist, but i know the difference between a man and a woman, this is science too.

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• Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is kill for a legitimate 3rd option.

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