Some people really are as thick as mince...

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So far today I've seen 3 posts on 3 different local FB groups from people convinced that the reason they haven't received their polling cards for tomorrow's elections is some sort of deliberate conspiracy.

The real reason, however, is that there is no election happening in our area.

You'd think they'd a) have noticed the complete lack of electioneering/canvassing/posters in front gardens etc locally, b) have realised their polling cards hadn't arrived and done something about it before today if they were that invested in voting, or even c) spent 30 seconds checking online before spaffing such nonsense....

They clearly haven't even tried to find out who the local candidates are, because if they had they'd have found out there are no local candidates because there are no local elections here [doh]

They would probably vote Greens. 😂😂

The voice of the people. Nothing sinister just interviewing people in the street kind of thing.

No, they weren't. We had a builder once who told us that the VAT inspector had said that they had a special name for people like him who were chronically disorganised but they were pretty sure were not trying to fiddle their tax - 'honest muddlers'. I would say this pair fell into that category. They were at least in their 60s.

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We’re not supposed to call people stupid. It’s rude, it upsets them and it reinforces their opinions rather than changing them. None of that stops it being TRUE, though.

I don't know. It's subjective isn't it? Every time I read one of the threads on here about 'things you didn't know until recently', I'm amazed at some people's stupidity, but also find things I didn't know myself. Also having to bear in mind that knowledge isn't the same as intelligence of course.

As Gilbert and Sullivan said of the House of Lords; "They did nothing in particular, but they did it very well."

Maybe keep necessary comments to yourself? Costs nothing to be kind.

I will not #BeKind🙄 to the willfully ignorant people destroying the UK. I do not care about the hurty feelz of fuckwits so stupid that they vote for a lying, incompetent traitor.

Oh dear. I rest my case.

What is/was your case?

We’ve had that on our local Facebook this time round: remember to take your own pens everyone 🤣

So, who will?

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Hear hear!

I feel no compunction to be kind to people who vote for a party some of whose candidates would have my daughter, and possibly my grandchildren, deported for the colour of their skin.

Another thread of "everyone who votes differently to me is stupid"

By people who only vote for parties that say that men can become women

Another thread of "everyone who votes differently to me is stupid"

Is it ?

Is that what you read ?

It's more nuanced than that.

Except none of the people I referred to in the OP were in fact voting 😂 that was kind of the point!

The problem is, as you descend the IQ tree, you run the risk of breathing the heavier air of paranoia and persecution that dogs the dim.

This thread is really about people who make decisions based on false premises and then never reevaluate them in the light of changing data.

It's not that they are necessarily any less "intelligent" (whatever that means) than others. More of a case that they clearly don't use the intelligence they have.

Stupid is as stupid does.

It really isn't, I'm afraid.

For someone who thinks themselves cleverer than a significant proportion of the population, you come across as fairly obtuse.

Absolutely! No tropical weather round these parts unfortunately. But you can sharpen a pencil in Basildon or the Bahamas!

OP was reporting people moaning that there was a conspiracy to prevent them voting by not delivering their polling cards. There was no conspiracy because there was no election in their areas. Even if there had been, you don't need a polling card to vote. Please explain how falling for this ill-informed fearmongering nonsense is a sign of being intelligent. (This has nothing to do with how the moaners would have voted. There are thick people of every political persuasion.)

I don't think myself "cleverer than a significant proportion of the population". I'm well aware there are many people much better educated and knowledgeable than I am on all sorts of subjects.

I do, however, think myself cleverer than the small proportion of the population who are too dense to realise why their polling cards haven't arrived and decide it must be a conspiracy to prevent them from voting when there isn't even an election taking place where they live.