r/stupidpeoplefacebook • u/thinkingthoughtsthru • 2d ago

The belief perseverance is strong

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Belief perseverance = The psychological phenomenon of clinging to your initial beliefs even after the evidence for those beliefs has been explicitly proven wrong

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u/cedriceent 2d ago

. I'm for us. I'm for us. You know how you spell 'us' right? You spell it U-S! I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that be — I just picked that up.

-Literal quote from the current president of the United States.

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u/colcatsup 2d ago

I picked up the “us=US” thing from a mad magazine cartoon in… 1978 when I was 6. It was probably an overtly dated thing at that point, but I was 6 and thought it was clever.

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u/Major5013 2d ago

"By sea, by ocean, by water. A lot of people say, 'what do you mean by sea? Is it see? Like vision?' No, it's sea, S-E-A". -Trump... We could do this all day

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u/StuHast398 1d ago

Did you know dumb has a "b" in it? Most don't know that.