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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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[โ€“] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, if it makes science fun, maybe we will be less maligned in spite of MAGA.

[โ€“] MotoAsh@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

lol no. That's not how fascists think. Intelligence itself is what they hate. They hate anyone smarter than them, espwcially ones that don't immediately reinforce their shitty world views. They're petulant children who happened to become adults, jealous of a happy world because they're incapable of it themselves.

They hate science because it proves there is an objective world out there that doesn't and will never agree with them.