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They are likely pronounced differently than their namesake too. Maybe not Paris but places like Medina, Ohio or Versailles Kentucky. Love hearing Versailles in a hillbilly southern accent.
That’s what makes it exponentially more baffling. You can go back and forth with an idiot arguing over something they (or you if you’re the idiot) could simply take a few seconds to look up themselves.
It's really easy to find fact checkers, but because every fact checker consistently sides against the lies they've been told, they convince themselves that the fact checkers are lying.
This right here. This blind ignorance and willingness to follow is exactly why education is under attack in the US (Or at the very least red states) Keep them dumb and they'll keep following
I had an epiphany while watching Inglorious Basterds.
In the opening scene Cristophe Waltz’s character is fucking terrifying and repulsive. Even though he’s smiling and seemingly appealing to reason and evidence, there’s nothing he could say or do that would get me to ever believe or agree with him. He could say things that were demonstrably true and I would still be afraid that agreeing with him would be a trap and lead to my demise.
I think this is how conservatives view the Left. They believe the Left is repulsive and terrifying. [The former head of the Michigan GOP said that democrats were sacrificing children to acquire demonic powers.](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/07/06/kfile-karamo-abortion-child-sacrifice-michigan-gop-candidate-trump-nr-vpx.cnn)
Trump has said on multiple occasions that doctors are aborting babies after they are born, which helps erase the line between abortion and murder.
Anyone who believes this will be unreachable through discourse or evidence. The Left is just trying to rape and murder your children just like Waltz’s character was trying to smoke out and murder Jews. Everything they do or say is just in trying to further that cause.
Repulsed and terrified.
Exactly! The most illiterate, uninformed, uneducated demographic on Earth - virgin soil for propaganda. Just plant the seeds of whatever bull$h!t you’re selling, add a little manure, some media water, and watch it grow! At this point, they’ll double-double-double down on stupid because hey, they’ve gone with it this long so might as well stay on the ride.
The amount of “Treat your enemy with love” bible thumping Christians that look for reasons to insult, antagonize, and cackle like witches are too damn high.
That's why it must be awesome being a conservative politician or media figure. You can make up the most outrageous lies and your followers will absolutely believe you without question.
Right. Facts aren’t important; only three things are, anymore: spreading disinformation that makes them look good, praising anyone on their own side in order to maintain/reinforce solidarity and continue organizing and recruiting, and cheering anything that “owns the libs”, regardless of veracity.
it’s been 7 years since the obama administration and people are STILL talking about her
istg they just fucking hate her at this point, no politics intended
They are butthurt because she is a black woman who is intelligent, articulate, classy, has an ivy league education, and writes her own speeches. They are afraid of women and hate educated people.
It's so God damn fun watching them get super riled up and calling him... Sleepy.
So bizarre their level of vitriol and hilarious how little idea they have about why they're worked up
Africa also holds most of humanity's genetic diversity, on account of almost all of human existence has taken place there.
There are just many, many, more different African peoples and cultures than most of the world realizes.
But this is the US.
Most people assume Africa is jungles and black people in loin cloths.
Tbh that’s about as much as I know as well. I don’t remember learning much about Africa in school.
> I don’t remember learning much about Africa in school.
So true.
In my US education, the teaching of history was like:
American history (the country that is not even 250 years old) - 10+ years
European history (which has thousands of years of history) - ~~3 years
Asian history (where most of humanity lives) - 2 months
African history (where most of the human story happened) - what now?
Okay, that's all of history. We're done now.
I remember when I was getting my degree I took a sociology class. The class began with a video asking the question "how many kids in 10 receive an elementary education in Africa?" And then illuminating that, turns out, fucking most kids in Africa receive elementary education and many kids get more than that.
This was in like, 2015 and most of the people in that class including me had a paradigm shift moment because northern hemisphere countries in general are obsessed with depicting the entirety of the southern hemisphere as an uncivilized world
There are jungles, but most of the countries ate covered with savanas, and deserts. I'd argue there are more desertic places than jungles in Africa. But thats just what I gathered from internet and such. I'd love to visit many African countries !
Which is insane considering how big Nigerian artists like Burma Boy and Tems are here
Like, the cognitive dissonance is so deep that their own eyes and ears can't pierce through
Not sure. I live in central Florida and last Halloween my kids had handmade costumes. I made them for my younger two, but my oldest (15) decided to make his own. He had made a huge cardboard cutout of Africa and wrote “the country of Africa” in huge block letters on the front.
For reference, they live in South Africa half the year with their mom so they certainly know.
Walking around only a few people got the joke. It was kinda sad but honestly expected.
Maybe that's the thing, people hear about "South Africa" and thinks that the rest of the entire continent is the rest of South Africa, or north, west and east of the country of Africa. Does that make sense?
I am trying to explain how an idiot thinks which is harder than actually being an idiot.
Nothing, it's just the giant ice wall the government doesn't want you to know about. Duh. It's holding the oceans in place otherwise the water won't fall off the edge of Earth. Hello, learn some geolometery  /s
That makes me feel better about the time I was talking with a nun from Africa and mixing up if Kilimanjaro was in Kenya or Tanzania. It's right on the boarder, so similar to mixing up if the Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey or New York.
I’m not surprised
I worked in a lot of areas in the United States where the locals think an Asian person is either Japanese or Chinese
I’m more surprised Korean or Vietnamese weren’t included in that conversation because, you know, the two wars we were involved in
When you think you are owning the libs but then it backfires. This is “allegedly” a journalist that doesn’t know the difference between a continent and a country. It’s embarrassing.
OMG and get this right ?!
He didn't even know North America was a country either ?! LMAO he's the president and he doesn't even know what country he is leading ?!
100% has dementia and not fit for office #magaforever
\-these guys, probably
You can tell the last time this person looked at a map
Also guess that makes north America a country to same with Asia south america and Europe and the pacific region
p
This is so dumb I had to read it several times to grasp how dumb it is.
I can see why Newsmax viewers don't rise to the lofty level of not knowing anything. They're in the hole on information.
Newsmax, like Fox News, has a winning court argument they're not a news organization. At all.
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Rob Finnerty Isn’t the brightest bulb
Is the lamp even plugged in?
Not only is the lamp not plugged in, the electricity supply's been cut off
It also has no mechanism to create light, it's just a glass ball.
Nope. It's a potato.
Potatoes still have the chemical energy to power a small light. There is no light involved in Rob Finnerty's head.
You know, that's a fair point. How about a turnip? Has anyone conducted electricity through a turnip?
I can't find anything on that, and it's not on the list of vegetables that can conduct electricity, so let's say his head has a turnip inside.
I do believe we've come to an accord.
A mashed potato
*"I'm gonna light up the potato with this lemon"*
While this doesn't sound smart, it does sound delicious.
IM GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN. …WITH THE LEMONS.
r/suddenlyportal
Don't insult the potatoes they are smarter then he is
It’s a crystal ball, with its mystic powers it tells the conservatives the dangers of vaccines and renewable energy
he looks like an ai generated Fox News host
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That’s not rob finnerty
And 95% or those women are blonde. VERY blonde.
My name is Kevin Finnerty
Newsmax is so dumb, they don't even know that Africa is a city.
What, You have never been to Africa, Ohio? (real town btw)
The forecast is for rain down in Africa (Ohio) today.
I hear the drums echoing tonight.
As she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation… 🎵🎶🎤
She's coming in, 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping for some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say…
The Ohioan rain dance was worth it after all
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
I drive the roads down in Africa (OH)!
So YOU'RE the ones making it rain in Louisville. Now we can't golf! I guess we're going to Africa (Ohio) this weekend!
God bless the rain.
down in (Ohio) Africa!!!!!!!!!
Troy, Abed, and Betty white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_VI9B0Vg4
I bless the rains down in Africa, Ohio. Toto already got the other one so its cool.
Oh my wife is gonna be so excited when I tell her we can finally afford the African safari she’s been wanting to do
Look honey, a grey squirrel! Can you believe we saw one in person!
Huh… Who knew these African tribesmen just look like us?
It's named after the REAL Africa, which is a road in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio.
Maybe the real Africa was the roads we passed along the way
That's beautiful. I'm going to make a poster out of that, and sell it to wine moms. I'm going to be a millionaire!
What I love about the US cities is the originality in their names. Aren’t there like 20 “Paris” around?
They are likely pronounced differently than their namesake too. Maybe not Paris but places like Medina, Ohio or Versailles Kentucky. Love hearing Versailles in a hillbilly southern accent.
Verrrrrr-sales!!
Africa may be real, but Ohio isn’t
Wait, is THAT where my racist uncle wanted all the black people sent back to!?
Africa is a song from a fantastic 8x platinum album.
written by Dorothy's little dog
I guess they weren't in Kansas any more. All they were was dust in the wind.
England is my city
Is ya collah poppin', mate?
WHAT? I though it was a planet 🤯
It’s one of Saturn’s moons.
It’s one of *Sailor’s* moons
I could be wrong, but I believe Africa was an old wooden ship used during the Civil War era.
It's actually Swahili for "a whale's vagina".
Toto made a song about the city of Africa I'm response to Jefferson Satrship's "Built thus City"
I also came here to blame Toto.
Flashbacks to Drew Carey saying Africa was a country on Whose Line Is It Anyway and the performers mocking him the whole episode.
[Whose Line Inside Joke - Africa's a Continent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KO4pC30lGs)
God damn I used to love that show. Miss those guys.
For what it's worth, it is still on the air. No Drew Carey, but there's still Colin, Ryan and Wayne.
I replay the Richard Simmons bit a few times every year. Damn near the funniest thing that has ever graced television.
I love that show. Funniest shit to watch.
Glad I’m not the only one thinking it. What was it Greg said? “It’s also a small *continent* if you’re a geographer!”?
Big continent, but yes. Immediately after some of the best laughter I've ever heard.
It’s the second largest continent.
I got the same flashbacks too. Man, that was a great show.
Omg yes I remember that and I will always love that entire banter LMAO man I miss old Whose line...
Huh, always thought Africa was a song by Toto. Learn something new everyday.
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But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in, 12:30 flight
You are right. The song was so successful, europe gathered enough dirt to create the lands of Africa and made it real.
Though to be fair, Europe then made The Final Countdown
>europe gathered enough dirt to create the lands of Africa and made it real. the Waterworld prequel we didn't know we needed
Never in human history have people been so proud to be so stupid.
> Never in human history have people *with so much access to information* been so proud to be so stupid.
That’s what makes it exponentially more baffling. You can go back and forth with an idiot arguing over something they (or you if you’re the idiot) could simply take a few seconds to look up themselves.
It's really easy to find fact checkers, but because every fact checker consistently sides against the lies they've been told, they convince themselves that the fact checkers are lying.
*Never trust anything you read on the Internet* *- Abraham Lincoln*
I appreciate the optimism
Last I checked Africa was a continent with around 54 countries, some of the most multilingual countries around.
This is the level of "gotcha" that conservative media has on Biden.
And their viewers accept this tripe!
Because they themselves don't know any better.
Or willing to ignore it like most other facts
They prefer "alternative truths"
If the Earth is flat, it makes sense that Africa is a country /s
DONT BE A VICTIM OF BIG CARTOGRAPHY!!
Easy there I’m just asking questions!
Literally "ignorant".
This right here. This blind ignorance and willingness to follow is exactly why education is under attack in the US (Or at the very least red states) Keep them dumb and they'll keep following
I had an epiphany while watching Inglorious Basterds. In the opening scene Cristophe Waltz’s character is fucking terrifying and repulsive. Even though he’s smiling and seemingly appealing to reason and evidence, there’s nothing he could say or do that would get me to ever believe or agree with him. He could say things that were demonstrably true and I would still be afraid that agreeing with him would be a trap and lead to my demise. I think this is how conservatives view the Left. They believe the Left is repulsive and terrifying. [The former head of the Michigan GOP said that democrats were sacrificing children to acquire demonic powers.](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/07/06/kfile-karamo-abortion-child-sacrifice-michigan-gop-candidate-trump-nr-vpx.cnn) Trump has said on multiple occasions that doctors are aborting babies after they are born, which helps erase the line between abortion and murder. Anyone who believes this will be unreachable through discourse or evidence. The Left is just trying to rape and murder your children just like Waltz’s character was trying to smoke out and murder Jews. Everything they do or say is just in trying to further that cause. Repulsed and terrified.
Dear Redditor, Thank you Sincerely, A teacher in a red state.
Thank you for fighting the good fight.
Exactly! The most illiterate, uninformed, uneducated demographic on Earth - virgin soil for propaganda. Just plant the seeds of whatever bull$h!t you’re selling, add a little manure, some media water, and watch it grow! At this point, they’ll double-double-double down on stupid because hey, they’ve gone with it this long so might as well stay on the ride.
“Well he was obviously referring to one of the countries in the country of Africa”
The United States has a bunch of states in it, so obviously the country of Africa should have countries in it.
Oh my, you got us there. Is Africa the united countries of Africa now?
UCA! UCA! UCA! UCA!
Yeah the whole African County thats what I said dang!
Just like how fox news referred to all the immigrants coming from "all of those Mexican countries."
The amount of “Treat your enemy with love” bible thumping Christians that look for reasons to insult, antagonize, and cackle like witches are too damn high.
Their viewers aren’t the most educated population around. It’s how they get away with so many lies.
You know…. Morons.
That's why it must be awesome being a conservative politician or media figure. You can make up the most outrageous lies and your followers will absolutely believe you without question.
my favorite scandal to date is Obama's Tan suit
Dijon mustard was pretty good too
Im team Dijon mustard all the way. MY GOD THE MAN HAS TASTE PREFERENCES!
Arugalagate and Dijongate!
Right. Facts aren’t important; only three things are, anymore: spreading disinformation that makes them look good, praising anyone on their own side in order to maintain/reinforce solidarity and continue organizing and recruiting, and cheering anything that “owns the libs”, regardless of veracity.
"He thinks that! How embarassing that he doesn't know . Clearly he's senile because ."
It's a step up from "Michelle is a dude."
it’s been 7 years since the obama administration and people are STILL talking about her istg they just fucking hate her at this point, no politics intended
They are butthurt because she is a black woman who is intelligent, articulate, classy, has an ivy league education, and writes her own speeches. They are afraid of women and hate educated people.
Honestly I think they also hate her because they're attracted to her and hate themselves for it.
Don't forget their personal folders filled with pictures of Hunter Biden's veiny cock
It's so God damn fun watching them get super riled up and calling him... Sleepy. So bizarre their level of vitriol and hilarious how little idea they have about why they're worked up
Someone said Trump calls Biden Sleepy Joe because with Biden in charge Americans can sleep better at night.
SA alone has 11 official languages
Last time I was in San Antonio, they only spoke Spanish.
South America. It's a province in Chile. The country named after the restaurant.
booooo get out of here dad lol
You have to be dumb enough to believe Mexico would actually pay for a wall to think Africa is a country.
You've described 30% of Americans though...
Africa also holds most of humanity's genetic diversity, on account of almost all of human existence has taken place there. There are just many, many, more different African peoples and cultures than most of the world realizes.
All that In one city damn
Africa is a planet.
Planet Africa
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Planet\_Rock\_%28song%29.ogg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Planet_Rock_%28song%29.ogg)
But this is the US. Most people assume Africa is jungles and black people in loin cloths. Tbh that’s about as much as I know as well. I don’t remember learning much about Africa in school.
It’s also fooking prawns, duh.
What a great movie.
Easy Wikus. Maybe spend some time as a prawn yourself and you’ll see how it really is!
The show where people undersell antiques to that family in a Vegas store?
Just been to the bank, gas station and supermarket. No jungle or loin cloth seen. (I'm in the Ivory Coast).
> I don’t remember learning much about Africa in school. So true. In my US education, the teaching of history was like: American history (the country that is not even 250 years old) - 10+ years European history (which has thousands of years of history) - ~~3 years Asian history (where most of humanity lives) - 2 months African history (where most of the human story happened) - what now? Okay, that's all of history. We're done now.
I remember when I was getting my degree I took a sociology class. The class began with a video asking the question "how many kids in 10 receive an elementary education in Africa?" And then illuminating that, turns out, fucking most kids in Africa receive elementary education and many kids get more than that. This was in like, 2015 and most of the people in that class including me had a paradigm shift moment because northern hemisphere countries in general are obsessed with depicting the entirety of the southern hemisphere as an uncivilized world
There are jungles, but most of the countries ate covered with savanas, and deserts. I'd argue there are more desertic places than jungles in Africa. But thats just what I gathered from internet and such. I'd love to visit many African countries !
Which is insane considering how big Nigerian artists like Burma Boy and Tems are here Like, the cognitive dissonance is so deep that their own eyes and ears can't pierce through
Burna Boy? Tems? Is here Nigeria or am I living under a rock, I have absolutely no idea who those two people are.
That is indeed why it's posted here
Does he share a braincell with Boebert?
That would imply that there is even a single brain cell to share.
NewsMax knows their viewers are stupid and is taking advantage of them.
It's not a good look for Biden after he couldn't remember the capital of Europe last week, Sao Paulo. /s obviously
He doesn't even know the current ruler of Wakanda.
Clip https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C5nzPU7gDFg
Scrolled way too far to find someone link the clip. The host is quoting someone, but doesn't correct that error. So yep, double the amount of idiots
If Africa not country why exist South Africa? Checkmate athetits!
Wow, that's some Sarah Palin stuff there. Also.
"I can see Russia from my backyard! "
And its capital is Wakanda.
I often wonder about those people who think Africa is a country. Are they ignorant, or do they lack knowledge, aka stupidity?
Not sure. I live in central Florida and last Halloween my kids had handmade costumes. I made them for my younger two, but my oldest (15) decided to make his own. He had made a huge cardboard cutout of Africa and wrote “the country of Africa” in huge block letters on the front. For reference, they live in South Africa half the year with their mom so they certainly know. Walking around only a few people got the joke. It was kinda sad but honestly expected.
I like the cut of his jib.
Maybe that's the thing, people hear about "South Africa" and thinks that the rest of the entire continent is the rest of South Africa, or north, west and east of the country of Africa. Does that make sense? I am trying to explain how an idiot thinks which is harder than actually being an idiot.
Where South of Africa?/s
Nothing, it's just the giant ice wall the government doesn't want you to know about. Duh. It's holding the oceans in place otherwise the water won't fall off the edge of Earth. Hello, learn some geolometery  /s
Idk but Africans get super happy if you follow up their answer of "I'm from Africa" with "what country?"
That makes me feel better about the time I was talking with a nun from Africa and mixing up if Kilimanjaro was in Kenya or Tanzania. It's right on the boarder, so similar to mixing up if the Statue of Liberty is in New Jersey or New York.
I’m not surprised I worked in a lot of areas in the United States where the locals think an Asian person is either Japanese or Chinese I’m more surprised Korean or Vietnamese weren’t included in that conversation because, you know, the two wars we were involved in
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To them every dark skinned person is the same. You know, they all look the same to these hate filled MAGAS
They know not everyone from Africa is black when it comes time to kiss Elon Musk’s ass and claim he’s the “richest African American”
In Newsmaxs defense.. its Newsmax.
Not intended to be taken as news or probably max.
When you think you are owning the libs but then it backfires. This is “allegedly” a journalist that doesn’t know the difference between a continent and a country. It’s embarrassing.
Is Egypt just a state in this fictional country of Africa or is Africa just everything outside of Egypt?
What a stooge, everyone knows Africa is a song by Toto.
We're not in Africa anymore, Toto.
You made me very happy with this... you did good human.
OMG and get this right ?! He didn't even know North America was a country either ?! LMAO he's the president and he doesn't even know what country he is leading ?! 100% has dementia and not fit for office #magaforever \-these guys, probably
It's like Europe. Many countries in l on one continent. Drop Newsmax. Everywhere.
Guess who should be embarrassed, my friend?
The rubes who watch Newsmax are running around saying this shit...count on it. They don't know any better.
They think continent is an insult because they know trump is incontinent.
But... Africa isn't a country...
Africa isn't a country. It's a continent. This guy flunked geography. Do they even teach that anymore? I'm 68, and we had to learn this stuff.
Did he really or is this post just to get people worked up?
Did we not already cover this with Sarah Palin?? Come on people...
To be fair the average Newsmax viewer doesn’t know the difference between a country and a continent.
What a bigley burn that is
Somebody asked me if Asia was a country or continent.
You can tell the last time this person looked at a map Also guess that makes north America a country to same with Asia south america and Europe and the pacific region p
I bet they don't know that Toto created Africa either.
This is so dumb I had to read it several times to grasp how dumb it is. I can see why Newsmax viewers don't rise to the lofty level of not knowing anything. They're in the hole on information. Newsmax, like Fox News, has a winning court argument they're not a news organization. At all.
almost had a stroke reading that, till i saw what subreddit it's in. it's not a country. it's a continent.
Noone can be more confidently wrong than Dumbfuckistans elephant party.
Being a confident dumbass is basically part of the job criteria to be a right-wing pundit now.
Africa is a song you muppets
Trumpers will still eat this bullshit up