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[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 135 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

13% = ~4.2mill Americans think it’s fake and it is highly likely everyone reading this thread has met someone who believes it’s fake.

I swear to christ our #1 export in the US is tinfoil hats.

[-] shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 month ago
[-] norimee@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago
[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

For some reason I just had a flash of the scene from Rick and Morty where the president goes “You're only Vice President because I need 10% of the white vote” lmao I don’t know why

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

England seems to have you guys beat if the past couple of days are anything to go by.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

like little hershey's kisses filled with turd nuggets

Nah that’s in a lot of places regardless lol

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, someone who believes it was faked is crediting his side with that 13%. You're gonna trust the numbers of someone who thinks the moon landing was faked?

[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

This is also true

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 18 points 1 month ago

I know someone working in a pharmaceutical lab that believed climate change was fake because the atmosphere on Mars was mostly CO2 and it wasn't hot there.

God save us from the kakistocracy.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

You'd be surprised how conspiratorial scientists are - especially if it's outside their domain.

You'd think more deference to experts would be the default mode.... just because I took one physics class does not make me an expert on climatology or the green house effect

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Couldnt he percentage just be false?

Also, where did you get the 4.2 million US citizens from? Im pretty sure 13% is much higher

[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m an idiot. I put it as .013 because my brain clocked it at a far more reasonable rate.

It’s actually 42,900,000 which is way worse 🫠

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

did you know that 74% of statistics are made up on the spot?

[-] shani66@ani.social 11 points 1 month ago

~~Iirc that's also the percentage of Americans who are functionally illiterate~~

Looked it up, it's worse.

I think it doesn't actually matter whether it happened, but whether the technology to do it existed at that time. And they surely did.

[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

To build on this: The technology to fake it didn't exist back then.

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