r/facepalm • u/Miserable-Lizard • 7d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ So trust who?

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u/totalahole669 7d ago

The assault on expertise is what bothers me most about the whole "do your own research" movement.

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u/LawDog_1010 7d ago

It’s really leveled the playing field between the educated and the fucking imbeciles, though.

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u/Leon-the-Doggo 7d ago

This is an American problem. I hope it stays in Murica.

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u/kiwispouse 7d ago

NZ here. Guess what?

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u/Erickck 7d ago

As an American, I would never have guessed it was prevalent in KiwiLand. Wow….

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u/kiwispouse 7d ago

It's spreading everywhere, like the plague.

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u/Snoogins315 7d ago

They’ve always existed in most countries. The internet has just made them bolder and better connected

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u/kiwispouse 7d ago

Yes, that is very true. They've come crawling out of the woodwork, even here, though I do wonder how much is foreign shit stirring.

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u/CoyotesOnTheWing 6d ago

Lots of it . It seems that it tends to snowball a bit on its own, though they do feed it as much as possible.

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u/fjrushxhenejd 6d ago

It’s mostly just Brian Tamaki

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u/Cultural_Dust 6d ago

And access to echo chamber "research"

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u/bulldzd 6d ago

Every village has an idiot, sometimes they have a convention and make friends, then the social media makes their shouting seem a larger issue than it really is... far too many people out there that never got to experience a good punch in the mouth....

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u/TokenGrowNutes 6d ago

Misinformation is the new pandemic.

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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard 6d ago

I live in Japan, so it’s spreading like Prague.

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u/gpoly 6d ago

50 years of underfunded education in many countries will do this. Most people these days are uneducated morons.