50 Facepalm-Worthy Moments Where People's Stupidity Was So Absurd It Just Had To Be Shared
Whether you're new to the Internet or you're a certified veteran of the world wide web, you're surely no stranger to the reality that presents itself constantly online (and in real life.) People are stupid.
The thing about the stupidity that's especially inexplicable (difficult to explain, if not totally impossible) is that even people who are otherwise intelligent are perfectly capable of displaying such jaw-dropping, facepalm-worthy moments of ignorance. Sure, we know that nobody is perfect, but the stupidity that people proudly display for the world to gawk at is really shocking at times.
Naturally, it only makes sense that in our modern times when people are documenting everything they do and see, people would document these astounding moments of inexplicable stupidity to share with the world. Not only that but there are entire spaces online dedicated to collecting and sharing such examples in order for as many people as possible to share in the experience.
One space, in particular, that's better than others at collecting and sharing the best of the worst is the subreddit r/facepalm. A simultaneously dark and hilarious place where you can find smart and dumb alike on display making fools of themselves.
1. Right, notorious athiests and their relentless hegemony over everything. 99% of the time if they're telling you, it's because you tried to proseltyze to them.
r/facepalm2. "Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute." - Robert Jordan
r/facepalm3. SMH, Florida.
r/facepalm4. Anything but modern science!!
r/facepalm5. Historian Joseph Crespino said, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its main character, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."
r/facepalm6. Will y'all please stop exposing the lions to your shenanigans??
r/facepalm7. The battle between 'Muricans with their guns and, well, every one else... it's a lot more amusing for everyone else.
r/facepalm8. At this point, it's seriously depressing that people don't understand income inequality. Especially considering both people in this conversation are probably closer to each other in their income brackets than either one of them are (or will be in their lifetime) with even the poorest billionaire.
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9. Fun Fact: There's a loophole in the 13th ammendment that allows "forcible work" as punishment for crimes.
Andrea Armstrong, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans told History:
"What we see after the passage of the 13th Amendment is a couple of different things converging. irst, the 13th Amendment text allows for involuntary servitude where convicted of a crime. At the same time, “black codes” in the south created “new types of offenses, especially attitudinal offenses—not showing proper respect, those types of things."You can read more about that here.
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10. was the worst year on record for mass shootings, but 2022 is on pace to keep up with that record, if not surpass it.
There were a total of 692 mass shootings in 2021.
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11. "ScReEnS aRe BaD"
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12. Whew, the misogyny is a bit much.
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13. Foot meet mouth. But don't worry, Cawthorn thought Hitler's vacation house was pretty cool so anyone who has high expectations for this nitwit is already losing in life.
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14. A couple of quick Google searches could have prevented this embarassing mistake, but would it kill people to do a little research instead of repeating whatever their news source of preference fed into their brain?
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15. "My light is a human right!"
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16. Teachers are over-worked, under-appreciated, and definitely under-paid. It's unacceptable.
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17. Nobody sees more stupid people than the IT person.
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18. We're a collective of disappointment.
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19. Anyway, enjoy feeling OLD now.
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20. For crying out loud, please think before you procreate.
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21. It's called "bilingual" if they know TWO whole languages.
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22. "Epilepsy? Have you tried medidating and not eating garbage? LOL." Signed, IDIOTS.
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23. I would like to make money napping, thanks.
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24. I strongly discourage people from taking political advice from anyone who does *gestures vaguely* this:
However, I do recommend shopping at Trader Joe's.
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25. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the *checks notes* Buffalo Bills? Uh, okay.
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26. Baked Cookie Dough? Sounds like fake news.
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27. Never trust a landlord.
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28. Critical thinking and religious zealotry don't really go hand in hand, lol.
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29. She's the hero we both need and deserve.
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30. Per Wikipedia: "An articulated bus, also referred to as a bendy bus, tandem bus, vestibule bus, wiggle wagon, stretch bus, or an accordion bus, (either a motor bus or trolleybus) is an articulated vehicle used in public transportation."
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31. It's discouraging that some things bear repeating.
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32. Cue the Unsolved Mysteries theme music, thanks.
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33. Ah, yes, socialism is to blame. Definitely not corporate greed, captialism, and one of the most pathetic and disproprotionate pay to expectations ratio in an industrialized nation!
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34. Washing Machines are the new bananas.
Sometimes we just need humans for scale, too.
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35. What if it's funny but not funny enough to laugh? Would an IRL emoji be acceptable then? No?
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36. Math is hard, okay.
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37. Using "numerous" a little loosely these days.
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38. Can we get an F in the chat?
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39. And that name would be...?
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40. Y I K E S
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41. "Fellas, is feeding literal children spoiling them? Can't they just starve like we used to?"
SMH, kids today are so coddled with their food and water.
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42. It's not a pyramid scheme, it's a reverse funnel system!
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43. I've seen this episode of The Simpsons.
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44. Being a police officer in the United States is not even one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, but those cry babies would try to convince you otherwise while they refuse to protect children being murdered.
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45. I would like to be under the rest, thanks.
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46. Sure, most rich people don't deck themselves out in visible brands to impress other people or brag but don't be fooled into believing they wear "cheap" clothes. Simple and unassuming does not equal cheap.
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47. Sigh.
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48. "We ordered a grill, got 300 iPads."
Someone is definitely getting fired for this whoopsie.
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49. Don't even get me started on the lie that is the diamond industry, lol.
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50. They... they glued themselves to the counter? Okay. Okay.
Almost as stupid as the time they disrespected Steve Irwin.
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Alright, I'd like all of the brain cells that I fried reading about these morons returned promptly. What did we ever do to deserve this kind of ignorance running rampant in the world?
Oh, right, we cut education and gave tax breaks to the wealthy. Cool, cool.
Maybe we should rethink that strategy and hope for more intelligent people in the near future. We can hope...
