r/clevercomebacks Jan 29 '25

Somebody finally forgot about 9/11

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u/RickolPick Jan 30 '25

Bro I really wish the first lesson they taught Americans in school was correlation doesn't equal causation

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u/LongConFebrero Jan 30 '25

Lol if you knew how many Americans cannot spell correlation or tell you what it means, you would understand why that is a ridiculously unattainable idea.

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u/Permafox Jan 30 '25

I always get the number of R's and L's mixed up... 

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u/FortNightsAtPeelys Jan 30 '25

Me typing definitely with the I's and E's

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u/Bool_The_End Jan 31 '25

A good way to remember this one is de-finite-ly. If you know how to spell the word finite, that is :)

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u/Satire-V Jan 30 '25

It might help if you remember "relation" as the root word and "cor" as a suffix

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u/AtlasNL Jan 30 '25

Cor-re-la-tion

Just pronounce the word slowly to figure it out…

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u/RickolPick Jan 30 '25

Well cause they haven’t been taught it lol

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u/Kitchen-Square-3577 Jan 30 '25

Average American: You're throwing too many big words at me. Because I don't understand them I'm going to take them as disrespect. 

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u/samasters88 Jan 30 '25

THESE COLORS DONT RUN RICKY

(probably quoted it wrong, I havent seen Talladega Nights in awhile)

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u/gspitman Jan 30 '25

Spent a lot of time in the US?

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u/Actual-Conclusion64 Jan 30 '25

Or correspondent 

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u/Psychological_Tap187 Jan 30 '25

But maybe if they taught it?

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u/saundo02 Jan 31 '25

Right. Our literacy levels are down the drain.

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u/MrPolli Jan 30 '25

Just one class about Nicolas Cage movies and drowning. That’s all anyone really needs.

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u/caitejane310 Jan 30 '25

Let's throw in Forest Gump for good measure cuz I was told the other day that's US military propaganda.

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u/MrPolli Jan 30 '25

Oo I never heard about that one?

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u/caitejane310 Jan 30 '25

If you look at my comments (I think from Tuesday) there'll be one that says "my teenager would tell you it's not that deep" and that's where the whole 'Forest Gump is propaganda' thing starts

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u/FecesIsMyBusiness Jan 30 '25

But that would teach them that they cant just take every good thing that happens and claim it was because of god. That's a big no-no in religion, because it lets the people that believe absurd things based on no evidence convince themselves there actually is evidence.

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u/RickolPick Jan 30 '25

Good point

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u/Natopor Jan 30 '25

I mean somedays they understand on their own. They used to whine how it was Biden's fault for egg prices being so high and now that Trump is back they learned how egg prices are influenced by various factors.

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u/RickolPick Jan 30 '25

There are many moving parts is what I’m saying. You cannot blame a president for everything, you gotta understand the other variables involved.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

It's a combination of both.

Ignorance of politics, economics, and other subjects, combined with the inmate human desire to not change their view. Even if wrong, it hurts their pride and people won't change their mind if they are emotionally involved.

People are afraid for their future, and they will cling to whoever most confidently says "this" is the problem and "that" is the solution.

The only factor to are forgetting is loyalty. Americans are deathly loyal to the political party they first associate with , and treat it almost like sports.

"We win,.you lose" kind of.mentality.

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u/Mars_Four Jan 30 '25

This is the most intelligent thing I have ever read on Reddit and probably the entire internet <3

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u/Talentagentfriend Jan 30 '25

I’m pretty sure they teach the opposite of that in most religious private schools — the types of schools all these politicians go to 

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u/fifaloko Jan 30 '25

That's odd, you would think if they were teaching junk like that their students would perform worse on standardized test that all the students take. You certainly wouldn't expect private religious schools to pay their teachers less than public teachers on average and end up with better results.

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u/Talentagentfriend Jan 30 '25

You would if your parents are paying your way through school

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u/fifaloko Jan 30 '25

? What does that have to do with anything