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zoux posted:The fact that they didn't try to call it Super Tuesday 4 is the height of journalistic restraint.
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Uranium Phoenix posted:I would guess most people have no idea about that, because Americans have no idea about most of our foreign policy. I mean is knowing where Afghanistan really all that important? like big whoop people don't know where Afghanistan is they got more important poo poo to deal with. The not knowing where New York is thing is more surprising but eh it's not like you absolutely need to know where it is, Geography isn't really important in a world where you can just use GPS to get everywhere
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zoux posted:The fact that they didn't try to call it Super Tuesday 4 is the height of journalistic restraint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8I9pYCl9AQ&t=6s 
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mandatory lesbian posted:I mean is knowing where Afghanistan really all that important? like big whoop people don't know where Afghanistan is they got more important poo poo to deal with. I wonder how much money we could save by abolishing math classes and issuing cheapo calculators to students.
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Gravel Gravy posted:I wonder how much money we could save by abolishing math classes and issuing cheapo calculators to students. Auto correct for writing too.
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Of course Rubio out before we can make "Go Western Tuesday, Lil' Marco" jokes.
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Trump back in the day https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/711919433200082944
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mandatory lesbian posted:I mean is knowing where Afghanistan really all that important? like big whoop people don't know where Afghanistan is they got more important poo poo to deal with. While I'll give you Afghanistan, you absolutely should be able to locate the major cities of each state if you're an American kid. That's just sad.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/BKcolin/status/711896154087227392 It's 3/21. That's Countdown Monday.
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Stretch Marx posted:While I'll give you Afghanistan, you absolutely should be able to locate the major cities of each state if you're an American kid. That's just sad. okay but is it the kids fault if they didn't get educated on it? i took a geography class once way back in high school, i can see someone forgetting poo poo like that very easily if that's all they got. i think knowing american cities is significantly more important then countries if you live here but i'm not blaming the kid if they don't know
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US pol I have a dumb question that's been bothering me If Clinton picks Julian Castro as her VP does Joaquin also get secret service protection due to being an identical twin?
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Grapplejack posted:US pol I have a dumb question that's been bothering me He might get protection as a result of being immediate family.
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Grapplejack posted:US pol I have a dumb question that's been bothering me Have you recently watched Kagemusha?
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Grapplejack posted:US pol I have a dumb question that's been bothering me The better question is if the brothers would swap places every once in a while to mess with Hillary.
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Grapplejack posted:US pol I have a dumb question that's been bothering me Sadly real life is not Sister Sister
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smg77 posted:The better question is if the brothers would swap places every once in a while to mess with Hillary. How could you not? 
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Alligator Horse posted:Have you recently watched Kagemusha? No but I should, it sounds like a good movie Tatum Girlparts posted:Sadly real life is not Sister Sister For security reasons, I mean. What if someone attacks him thinking he's the VP?
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Sadly real life is not Sister Sister http://www.chron.com/news/bizarre/article/San-Antonio-candidate-s-twin-a-parade-stand-in-1953987.php quote:SAN ANTONIO - Mayoral hopeful Julian Castro acknowledged Wednesday that his twin brother took his place in a parade this week, waving at onlookers who mistook the stand-in for the candidate.
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Mitt Romney posted:http://www.chron.com/news/bizarre/article/San-Antonio-candidate-s-twin-a-parade-stand-in-1953987.php owns Grapplejack posted:No but I should, it sounds like a good movie It means you don't have to look as hard for a body double to protect the VP?
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Mitt Romney posted:http://www.chron.com/news/bizarre/article/San-Antonio-candidate-s-twin-a-parade-stand-in-1953987.php Two VP's for the price of one!
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mandatory lesbian posted:okay but is it the kids fault if they didn't get educated on it? i took a geography class once way back in high school, i can see someone forgetting poo poo like that very easily if that's all they got. Schools don't teach that curiosity, either, and that might be even worse. Not to mention American culture itself hardly reinforces it. Even your response to the fact is a good example of that: kids didn't learn where New York is in school, so how can we expect them to know it?
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My opinion is that if someone is like "hell, I say bomb 'em all to the stone age" they should at least be able to pick out the country on a map.
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shrike82 posted:Trump back in the day As a Buffalonian, I can sadly report that this would play well here. Zubaz are still considered acceptable attire today, though only in red and royal blue.
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dr_rat posted:Two VP's for the price of one! Does that mean they get two votes for a tie breaker, and the tie break threshold is 49? Sure it requires a tortured rationalization of dubious legitimacy, but that seems to be par for the course in the Senate now.
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Gravel Gravy posted:I wonder how much money we could save by abolishing math classes and issuing cheapo calculators to students. Calculators help but math is so much more complex than that. My history professor said it best when he said memorizing dates isn't important because you can easily look up when something happened in a book.
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shrike82 posted:Trump back in the day I feel like this falls just shy of amazing.
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One or both of them need to start shadowing Biden now on how to be a proper veep
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nor will a good math professor dock many points if you make an arithmatic error in a complex proof that is otherwise sound
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mandatory lesbian posted:I mean is knowing where Afghanistan really all that important? like big whoop people don't know where Afghanistan is they got more important poo poo to deal with. Too many people without childhoods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOFKmk7ytU
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I can say where all the countries are except when you start to get into west Africa :/
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Kilroy posted:If nothing else it shows a surprising (or rather, depressingly ordinary) lack of curiousness. Even if you're completely ignorant, I'd hope that when you hear about or read a story about a state e.g. New York, part of the loving country you live in, and it occurs to you that you don't even know where the hell it is, that you would just naturally at least find out where it exists in physical space. schools where i grew up definitely are all about learning material and not really caring about it beyond the next test, or at least they were like that 6 years ago. i doubt they've changed much in teaching approach tho. unfortunately i don't know what to say about adults who don't care to learn stuff, i'm not sure if school has always been like that or what.
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zoux posted:I can say where all the countries are except when you start to get into west Africa :/ racist 
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blackguy32 posted:My history professor said it best when he said memorizing dates isn't important because you can easily look up when something happened in a book. Yeah you'd think, you can look up where Afghanistan is too, but apparently only 17% of the people surveyed ever did.
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for what it's worth i don't think being ignorant is good it's just when you're living paycheck to paycheck i can see where knowledge of the outside world becomes insanely less important to you
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blackguy32 posted:My history professor said it best when he said memorizing dates isn't important because you can easily look up when something happened in a book. I used to think dates weren't important but then I realized that dates help immensely when trying to build a chronology of events to remember what happened in the past, and why. Causes and effects are important.
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/711937287559360512 "Hello, I'm Mitt Romney and it wasn't supposed to be like this"
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mandatory lesbian posted:okay but is it the kids fault if they didn't get educated on it? i took a geography class once way back in high school, i can see someone forgetting poo poo like that very easily if that's all they got. A child, no. An adult, yes.
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What I wouldn't give to go back in time and tell myself in Early 2015 that Mitt Romney was going to be hard stumping for loving Ted Cruz.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/711937287559360512 Lol. I wonder if he has to take a break after every spot to go to the men's room and cry.
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We live in crazy times. An outsider Republican candidate as TV reality show star "steals" the nomination by being too popular, so establishment seek to derail the election by running as a third party against their own party.  What a world.If you tried to sell that story to a publisher as fiction, it'd be laughed out the door as too far-fetched.
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