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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell it would be a SHAME for this graphic to be shared widely to the Interwebs.
So let's just keep it to ourselves.
Or, save image and share and/or use the url...
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)are lacking common sense. The real smart and clever people are the ones with common sense.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Most people I know who talk about common sense are those most likely to believe in what we used to call "old wives tales". I find myself frequently explaining to them that what they consider to be obvious or common sense is actually not true.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)Wearing a mask in a pandemic is common sense.
But many won't.
So there's some people with no damn common sense.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)means believing what they do, largely magical thinking or as you say old wives tales.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Social norms, common practice, these are all ways people tend to make choices. And they construct reasons upon why those choices are "correct". They share these reasons and they become "truth".
DBoon
(22,395 posts)Common sense to many uneducated and unthinking people consists of lies, unfounded conspiracy theories and bigotry
An "old wives tale" is folklore which may or may not have a basis in reality. The rest are deliberately false and malicious propaganda.
Ohiya
(2,238 posts)Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)corporate-owned media has been pushing the idiotic conspiracy theory that the uneducated and the incompetent are actually smarter than all these "elitists" with their "liberal" educations and experience and "fuzzy-thinking" intelligence, who "oppress" them.
sop
(10,230 posts)Blue Owl
(50,486 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)machI
(1,285 posts)PNW-Dem
(244 posts)Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Richard D
(8,761 posts). . . that the porno-bot filters don't delete it.
keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)niyad
(113,526 posts)William Seger
(10,779 posts)... that the doctors said, "That's an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did," and of course Trump assumed they meant he aced a very tough test.
soldierant
(6,905 posts)I got the impression that I did identify the lion and the camel, but called the rhinoceros and elephant.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)except with a few million others on social media.
The dotard can go fuck himself. Without paying, who else would?
VA_Jill
(9,994 posts)I wouldn't share that......oh yes I would!
OldFriend
(12 posts)If we called it COVID-45, he wouldn't know why.
Grins
(7,227 posts)...Id have: Had Joe Shapiro take his SATs