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      4012 days ago

      I’m sure your question was rhetorical, but for those listening from the back: Decades of intentionally under-funding public education, for a start.

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        1512 days ago

        And go back even further, exposure to lead fumes from leaded gas in cars made an entire generation incapable of complex logical thought.

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          712 days ago

          True. I literally think of that most days when I see older folks irrationally freak out at the smallest inconvenience. Not that this happens to most old folks, it’s just really remarkable when you do witness it. It’s really sad that they can’t control it, just too bad about the ones who gained power and used it to fuck everyone else over.

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          112 days ago

          Is this actually proven? I know lead has harmful effects, but do we actually know how it affected that generation?

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      1612 days ago

      They were registered as “Republican” for the primary, so they draw from the two-digit IQ crowd already.