It absolutely blows my mind how many conspiracy theorists, antivaxxers, and other far right retards there are in America. I always knew that the Republican party and flyover states have way more power than they should, but I never really understood that like half of the country are illiterate, fearmongering conspiracy theorists that could single handedly lead our country to literal collapse during a pandemic.

Even on this board, which is supposed to be dedicated to science, there is a good portion of the population who thinks they know more about medicine and biology than actual doctors. I dont understand how we are going to build modern civilization and overcome climate change, epidemics, religious fundamentalism, inequality, etc. if half of Americans are illiterate rednecks that don't even believe in that stuff, let alone care about it. The great filter is here. Ideological extremism, nationalism, conspiracy theorists, etc. are the great filter. This is how it all ends. A bunch of retards bitching about 'muh freedom' and 'muh microchips' and 'muh globalism' as literally millions upon millions of people are getting infected with a deadly virus.