[economicslol]

Is it really on the same scale though? It's quite hard getting a sense of what's normal from Social Media sites since they are so US-centric. It certainly seems like a large portion of the population here misunderstand basic science, statistics, biology, economics, etc. Having been educated in the US public school system it's not that surprising that people are so poorly informed.

[dawnerd]

I'm not sure, like you said it's kind of hard to tell with the US bias social media and the media in general.

From recently memory though, I don't think there was cases of this in the States https://apnews.com/4ac3679b6f39e8bd2561c1c8eeafd855

(But we're definitely more radical in other areas like protesters with guns).