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It’s always entertaining to me when someone says Americans are dumb. These people have clearly never spent time in americas elite circles. The top Americans outcompete everyone on earth in every category. It’s not even close.

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mastering egoism, missing apathy and being so out of touch with normal people helps outcompete everyone else! i feel like american elites don’t provide any meaningful value for the rest of the world. imo they are just the most parasitic group of people ever existed in my lifetime. in terms of humanity and moral they surely don’t outcompete nearly nobody
America’s dumb are just easier for the rest to see because they get paraded around by your media for everyone’s amusement. The Indians and the Chinese seem very smart because the ones ending up in the West are the smart ones. When you actually go there, you get to witness their dumb too. That being said, Trump going around boasting how he settled it between “Aberbaijan and Albania” doesn’t help.
Big yawn. 🥱 No one cares whether Americans are dumb, smart and everything in between - those of us who aren’t American don’t give a rats. Maybe you need to be American to give it some attention? Otherwise it’s just irelevant. 😏
If you are right, do these Americans aspire to greater ethics than our current elite, the top Jews? Then go ahead. Be awesome and smart. But, if you suffer from supremacy and want to enslave the rest with inflation and usury and God knows what… Then. That is dumb. Ignorant to a future where all could thrive. Startrek utopia.
Idk, India and China crush in mathematic domains. Also the beauracracy of American could be considered a reflection of the people and it’s so bad in some places that we look 3rd world compared to what they are doing in China. There are brilliant people all over the world.
We don't mean the elite of Americans when we talk about stupid Americans. However, average Americans aren't dumber than the world average; they're just louder, so it's hard not to notice their stupidity.
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I've watched mainly three esports over the years. Warcraft 3, starcraft 2 and counter-strike. Best player ever in wc3 is Happy(Russian), sc2 is Serral(Finnish), cs2 is Astralis(all danish team). USA does seem to have solid players in many things but in the things ive watched its always Europeans that can match or sometimes exceed Koreans where USA doesnt seem to be able. Americans seem to be good at speedrunning games though which takes high intelligence.
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EU/Russia has been the most dominant in multiplayer FPS gaming since the beginning. I'm talking about the shareware release of Quake in the mid 90s on dial-up. These guys are on the level of the extreme top of that esport. I wrote earlier about Rapha still being able to defeat these guys at times but the pure community, rivalvry and sheer talent these guys in Europe display is incredible imho. I only mention Quake as it's the highest skill ceiling game in the world to me besides something like Chess. It's *the* definitive First Person Shooter and is simply known as a game you will spend 5-10 years just to get anywhere. Europe though purely because of low ping times, has an amazing competitive scene within esports. It's a known fact that 90% of chat will support EU in a "EU vs NA" match purely because of past stats. But don't get me wrong that American's aren't the best, because Rapha is a freak of nature and also represents the esport so hard I would consider him ambassador of Quake if such a thing existed 😂
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Maybe we thought education and principles were enough. But today, it's not about who's right , it's about who moves.
America acts, even if it looks dumb.
Europe reflects, even if it leads nowhere.
I’m adapting, and others will too...not to fit in, but to stay in motion.
In the long run, human clarity wins , because this world still runs on people, not just performance.
All the docile people stayed in europe All the unstable geniuses came here. Case and point: my great grandfather at 14 shot a guy came here alone knowing zero english and became a millionaire with 5 gas stations. Every generation since then has been a stream of lunatic entrepreneurs with high IQs. My dad got arrested at 13 with his brother for stealing cars. Psych eval revealed they were IQ 180 and 151 respectively. Europoors cope to the max because they got no juice. Theyre content to be brokies and subjects of the king/dictator like those that came before them.
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I have to kinda agree. I was brought up American even though I'm British and Australian. People regard me as a genius. The reality is I'm an idiot. But I guess it depends on the circles. I wouldn't go as far to say Americans outcompete everyone on Earth in every category. In most categories, yep. But *every* !? What I find interesting is that the hardest Multiplayer Video Game imo (Quake Series), has been dominated by an American player since the early 2000s. What's interesting though is that he doesn't get proper training or education for his upcoming tournaments from NA players. So he moved to Luxembourg where low ping times across so many nations put him in the "elite circle", through ping time and also social connections with other hardcore players.
Rapha (gamer) - Wikipedia
 The top Americans in my eyes definitely roll with the best of em, but outcompete? I dunno. They get real fucking far that's for sure but blanket win is laughable imo. Love to see Americans play some Soccer/Football one day. Like actual Americans, not David Beckham paid for by L.A. Galaxy. Where is this rant going? Not sure sorry, past midnight n I need to sleep. Apologies OP 😂😂
It's not necessarily pure, native intelligence at work. America has a risk-tolerant culture and massive internal market, with the world's most-powerful currency and biggest stock market, and an unparalleled venture capital system. That makes it easier to advance and finance novel ideas or niche specialties. People with good ideas tend to move to the USA, so there's a universal brain-drain effect. Only a few regions, such as Bavaria, can even attempt to keep up and retain talent and entrepreneurs. Whoever has the reserve currency ends up being That Country, so if the USD falls, someone else will get passed the Smarty-pants Baton. Or we all just use Bitcoin and can live wherever we want.
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What the reserve currency allows is wanton investment: Invest $2 million in 10 startups each, and if even one succeeds, you make back your money 10x through an IPO or ICO. Bavaria has been slowly building up the same financial infrastructure, and profiting from it, but the economic downturn is making it harder because we can't effectively "print money", like California can. Only California can throw billions of dollars around, like it doesn't even matter, because they have so many companies whose shares are effectively "same as cash". Nvidia, Apple, Google, Kaiser Permanente, Disney, OpenAI, etc. etc. Even Microsoft and Tesla used to be from there. Damn near everything is from California. So, USA dominance is effectively Californian dominance. It's not Idaho or Kentucky dominance, after all. Even Texas and New York can't keep up.
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But, I agree with you that the American advantage isn't merely financial. There's also the fact that start-ups there aren't burdened by onerous labor-protection laws that make it impossible to lay off expensive, high-tech workers, if the business doesn't work out. It's ridiculous that someone making six figures should receive the same legal protections as common laborers, as they should be expected to build up their own private savings. But that might soon change.
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The US is home to a large number of highly intelligent individuals, but it also has a significant portion of people who are less informed or educated, with the majority falling somewhere in between in the middle class. It’s largely the highly intelligent individuals who are driving the country’s progress and keeping things moving forward. However, there’s a growing concern that both the intelligent and middle-class Americans are bearing the burden of supporting a growing population of people who are less informed or productive. It's unfortunate, because many of the world's brightest minds often move to the U.S. in search of better opportunities, leaving other countries with fewer people at the top of the intellectual spectrum.