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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really though, who cares? What does being able to ID him as an astronaut do to benefit your life? [/quote]

It matters because it is just another example of the average American's lack of education and engagement in the world, which causes us to make decisions that are bad for our country, bad for our democracy, and bad for our world.  It's not this one fact alone that matters, sure. But as a people, we forget our history so we keep doing the same dumb shit over and over again.  We lack a basic understanding of science so we deny climate change and don't vaccinate our kids against the measles.  We can't identify Iraq on a map or tell you the first thing about it but we are cool with sending thousands of young men and women over there to die.  We shrug when Trump calls the Pakistani and Taiwanese leaders and says stuff that makes our career diplomats stroke out because we have no idea what he just did.  Our ignorance and anti-intellectual nature is an embarrassment and we are losing status in the world as the result of it.

What exactly DO you think a reasonably educated person should know about? [/quote]

OMG, you are an incredibly pompous arse.[/quote]

Not the PP but she has a point.  You seem to be a very self-absorbed close-minded human being.  [/quote]

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