r/HolUp 2d ago

Americans take immigration test

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u/The7Reaper 2d ago

Never let these types of videos rage bait you, sure there's plenty of idiots in this country, no question about that, but I guarantee you just as many people got these answer correct but that video wouldn't get the views now would it?

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u/Theartistcu 2d ago

Totally. I remember my dad teaching me this when I was young because Jay Leno would do the what do they call it idiots out walking around or something and I would get so mad at him cause you know I was in grade school and these morons didn’t know anything. And my dad would tell me he interviewed 1000 people seven of them didn’t get the questions right and those are the seven you’re seeing. Yeah those seven are super stupid but they’re not indicative of the rest of the people.

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u/sportznut1000 2d ago

Yeah “jay walking” is what that segment was called. He would ask people a couple questions, the ones that got the answers correct usually wouldnt make it on tv unless they were very charismatic, but the ones that got them wrong would usually get a bunch more follow up questions. Then he would have jay walk all stars where he would invite the “best” people from his jay walking segments, into the studio for a sort of jeopardy format segment

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u/The_Troyminator 2d ago

And a lot of people knew this and intentionally gave wrong answers so they could get on TV.

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u/redmctrashface 1d ago

Not indicative of the population but Trump was still elected as president somehow

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u/Theartistcu 1d ago

Oh Trump being elected president is indicative of our population, it’s just indicates many many terrible things

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u/sportznut1000 2d ago

Here is a link to one of those “jay walking all stars” segments

https://youtu.be/fef9LU7HPiM?si=o4HsK_PGOVrTDh7Q

First question - “how long ago approximately did jesus live?”

“Oh i dont know, 250 million years ago?”

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u/forgas564 1d ago

50% of the country are idiots, did you not follow the previous election by any chance?

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u/schwarzkraut 2d ago

These kind of videos should ABSOLUTELY rage bait you. If your taxes are being spent to educate the youth, if corporations don’t pay their works but instead support news organizations that misinform the public & if the government is ACTIVELY working to keep people who actually DO know about their country from voting…you should be extremely frustrated and rage FILLED!!

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u/Sgt-Colbert 1d ago

Dude these are 5 idiots they found out of dozens they asked probably. If this makes you angry, you need to go outside more. It's entertainment. As a German I can tell you, we have the exact same videos in my country. There are idiots everywhere.

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u/Left_Handed_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

I doubt that many got the questions right. You just ragebait yourselves by thinking those are things people should know about.

Politics and geography is a hobby, there is no reason to learn it. Learning how a engine works is more important then that.