So you’re telling me the New York Times had incriminating evidence on Donald Trump from direct email correspondences with Jeffrey Epstein in 2015and suppressed it.
21% of the US is transgender (the actual number is between 0.5% and 1.6%)
30% are gay or lesbian (3%) and an additional 30% are bisexual (4%), meaning the average American thinks that only around 19% of them are cisgender heterosexuals. The actual number of cisgender heterosexuals is around 90% of the population.
30% Muslim (1%) and 30% Jewish (2%), however contradictory to this they also think 58% are Christian, equaling 118% of Americans are of the abrahamic religions to the average American or some people are both Jewish or Muslim and Christian.
33% atheist (3%), meaning the abrahamic religions+ atheism is 141% of the US population.
41% black (12%), 27% (1%) native American, 29% asian (6%), and 39% Hispanic (17%), but also 59% white (64% actual)
30% live in NYC (3%), 30% live in Texas (9%), and 32% live in California (12%), meaning only 8% live in the rest of the country (actual 76%).
And lastly the average American believe only 62% of us have a high school education, actual number is 89%.
People vastly overestimate the general knowledge of the average American, let alone political knowledge and critical thinking skills. We live in the consequences of the children left behind.
We don’t talk enough about America’s permanent ongoing saturation of “Stranger Danger” hysteria. It’s like this country’s whole social ecosystem teaches full grown adults to perceive an invisible army of rabid bogeymen lurking around every fucking corner. And it’s everywhere. Absolutely fucking everywhere, top to bottom, from true crime media and urban legends like the old Poison Halloween Candy thing to our sadistically rage-fueled, revenge-based justice system and immigration policies. The NRA and the war on drugs and post 9/11 airport security and mccarthyism and satanic panic and just E V E R Y T H I N G in America, everything that has defined its history for 100+ years is constantly nothing but this fucking FEAR TERROR FEAR TERROR for positively no reason. None.
Reasons I have found strangers in my yard at night (I’m not American):
Homeless woman, after a backyard party, starving and looking for any food we might’ve forgotten to take inside. We gave her some food.
Drunk man at wrong house. Not aggressive, just confused.
Lost guy trying to find the house of a family member he was supposed to be staying with. He was a few houses down.
Man with four tiny kittens who had escaped into my yard. He’d knocked on my door but I hadn’t heard him. Couldn’t leave the kittens in a stranger’s yard all night so he slipped through the side gate to look for them. I helped him and we found the kittens.
The idea of responding to strangers at your house with gunfire is bonkers.
