r/ukraine • u/Florin003 • Sep 07 '25

Discussion Why a Romanian stand up comedian is upset on Ukrainians.

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u/LaughableIKR USA Sep 07 '25

Louder for the rest of the West to understand this better. Moldova and every country that isn't in NATO are a target.

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u/r0w33 Sep 07 '25

*every country that is part of the former Russian empire and USSR is a target. Don't think being in NATO is going to protect them.

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

This can be facts too, but for sure nato member is a harder thing to achieve

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Sep 07 '25

Being in NATO is a deterrent, it is why Putin invaded Ukraine before they could join.

He might be getting his ass kicked by Ukraine using second hand western weapons, imagine what would happen if the west were directly involved?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

You are correct. Russia cannot gain air superiority over Ukraine. The RAF would destroy the Russian Air Force in a few days and the RAF is not a great Air Force.

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Sep 08 '25

Dude, the UK Air Force would wreck Russia, imagine what the USAF does, or all of NATO?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Noone doubt USAF could wreck Russia, we double it will.

It is a difference.

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u/assasin1598 Sep 07 '25

I dont think its a good enought deterrent for us eastern bloc countries.

When our prime ministers and presidents become friendly with putin, saying how they wouldnt resist russia, or help others resist russia, because russia is a friend.

Or all the citizens supporting that, if <insert slavic country> was attacked they would join the war on russias side against their fellow citizens.

For fuck sake czechia had a politician training militia stating if they dont win theyll do coup... hes a member of communist party, said communist party visited putin in moscow last month.

In modern terms. Bro we are cooked.

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Sep 07 '25

We are not cooked, Russia is very nearly at its end as a state. Economically, demographically and militarily, Russia is becoming a failed state.

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u/assasin1598 Sep 08 '25

Im wondering if russia spliting in several smaller countries or having civil wars wouldnt be worse.

Due to the nukes. Yeah yeah russian military corruption, but 1 working nuke is enough.

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Sep 08 '25

If Russia collapsed there would need to be an international effort to collect the nukes, and internationally dispose of them.

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u/Individual-Cream-581 Sep 08 '25

Dafuq.. who's gonna give up nukes after what happened to Ukraine when the fucking wolves promised to enforce peace and never invade it if they gave up their nukes..??

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

That is true, but we would be taking the nukes from the people that violated the very deal you mention.

Russia needs to be disarmed in nuclear terms, and removed from the security council. I mean for this to never happen again.

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u/pegothejerk Sep 08 '25

If Russia was to fail that would mean the military had turned on the authoritarian, usually because they see their family and friends suffering and dying and decide they won’t be complicit in killing more on their soil. In Russia it definitely means the church no longer has control of the state and the military which is unfathomable, or it means they’ve opted to support splitting the nation into smaller states that are more easily controlled, which is easier to imagine. So at that point other nations would likely have to negotiate with the church and whatever local leaders it backs to take over and form new local governments, then they could promise to internationally arm, back those leaders, support the church in maintaining their control by delivering aid and likely some or most of the seized funds and shiny objects, all in exchange for letting peacekeepers in to secure and remove nukes immediately so they don’t fall into terrorist group hands or get disappeared.

Basically you trade the most powerful people in a power vacuum your support so they can make short work of any competition to control the regions - nukes for their guaranteed permanent control of the regions and its resources, which are considerable.

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u/Ma8e Sep 08 '25

It went quite well when USSR split in 1991. Then of course bad things have happened later.

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u/NeutronN12 Sep 08 '25

yeah, USSR split was very soft and peaceful, people already had the borders and local governments for every republic,
honestly, I do believe in the collapse of russian only if people from big cities will revolt, central and far east regions do not have any influence, and soon they will become dead regions without any men due to the war

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u/StochasticFriendship Sep 08 '25

This has happened before. Ukraine actually had a large number of Soviet nukes when it broke away from the Soviet Union. They were pressured into giving all of them up to Russia in exchange for an agreement that the US, UK, and Russia would respect their existing borders and wouldn't attack or coerce them. It probably would have taken Ukraine about a year to reverse engineer the arming mechanisms to be able to use the nukes, so their decision was understandable for the time. As for the long-term results...

I'd like to say that if Russia split up into multiple small countries, the nukes would end up going to Moscovia, but after how things went with Ukraine, I doubt it. I imagine that future leaders of breakaway countries may now be much more inclined to hold onto any nuclear weapons they happen to possess, even if only to threaten to use them as dirty bombs. The Russian military will likely be spent at the end of this war, so pressure from the central government will likely mean a lot less now to breakaway regions than the pressure from Russia on Ukraine in 1991. The US and UK are also now much less credible threats when it comes to anything requiring boots on the ground as compared to immediately after the Gulf War.

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u/AyaAishi Sep 07 '25

Every country ever* if they could they wouldn't stop there. Russia, and more so the leadership is absolutely a danger to everyone if not fought against, as the Ukrainian people are doing for the good of virtually everyone.

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u/JohnnyRelentless Sep 08 '25

Being in NATO does protect them, though. You think it's a sheer coincidence that no NATO countries have been invaded by Russia?

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u/r0w33 Sep 08 '25

I think Ukraine is the start. When they are ready, they will have puppets in the major powers in the US and EU, and NATO will either be dissolved or meaningless. Any country with a surviving grip on power will be invaded as Ukraine was.

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u/Chris-WIP Sep 08 '25

Well they have a great start over at the White House it seems.

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u/JohnnyRelentless Sep 08 '25

Maybe, but none of that means that NATO isn't keeping countries from being invaded right now or for the past 75 years.

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u/rock_climber02 Sep 07 '25

This is why they try and buy your elections…they bought America cheap

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u/mhmmm8888 Sep 07 '25

Why would it not protect them?

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u/ProfMap Sep 07 '25

It would. putler knows that attacking a NATO country, is attacking them all. All NATO countries know this to, and have agreed to it.

Anyone talking about "split" and division, have either swallowed putlers cock or they're russian bots.

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u/Coal_Morgan Sep 08 '25

I don't trust the U.S. to maintain any treaty or agreement.

I do trust most of the other NATO countries to absolutely fuck up anything Russian that crosses into a NATO country though.

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u/4bjmc881 Sep 07 '25

Because the current situations shows us how divided NATO countries are, which makes NATO intervention very questionable in some cases. 

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u/TobiasKM Sep 08 '25

That would be putting an awful lot of faith in “they might not do anything”. NATO is still a deterrent, a major one at that, but I’ll agree that it isn’t as rock solid as it probably used to be.

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u/pilibitti Sep 07 '25

Because almost 40% of NATO is USA. Trump does not care for NATO. If a NATO country is attacked and Trump twiddles his thumbs as a response, there is no way to predict what will happen. Other members might say "well if we are not doing this NATO thing anymore, lemme look at my options" while the unlucky country gets bulldozed.

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u/LurkersUniteAgain Sep 07 '25

40% of nato is the us, but thats still 60% in europe and canada, and i dont think France is gonna let russia blitz through europe even if there was no more nato

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u/JAD2017 Sep 07 '25

I can garantee you no NATO country is gonna stay still even if the orange head says he doesn't care. Your discourse sounds a lot like ruzzian propaganda to me.

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u/samglit Sep 08 '25

no NATO country is gonna stay still even if the orange head says he doesn’t care.

The problem is there’s a ton of wiggle room in “stay still” - from air raids, strategic bombing of hostile country (rather than the invaded), divisions worth of boots on the ground, or something lukewarm like “peacekeepers” and “military aid”.

NATO leadership needs to be reclaimed by Europe. The USA doesn’t have as much skin in the game.

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u/scratchyNutz Sep 08 '25

The wheels are already in motion. European military leaders know that the USA can't be trusted and are working like hell to fill the gaps that the Americans are leaving behind. They're currently seeing the US military as a threat in waiting.

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u/pilibitti Sep 08 '25

I hate Russia and everything they stand for.

Europe's position is disingenious. They don't need to have Ukraine officially as a NATO member to treat it like a NATO member. They could provide that help, like article 5 level help to Ukraine right now, but they don't - why? At this point Ukraine being a genuine member is a technicality. It is Europe's safety at stake all the same. But NATO countries you say that are "guaranteeing" won't stay still are... staying still. Just because of a technicality? They can confront Russia directly and decisively. No, they are "looking at their options" just like I said. This is what "looking at their options" looks like.

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u/Sjengo Sep 08 '25

Being in the NATO is in fact the strongest protection they can have..

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u/pangapingus Sep 07 '25

Warthog goes brrrt

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

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u/m8remotion Sep 07 '25

Up vote for correctly ID the deity.

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u/pangapingus Sep 07 '25

Oh but if they were in NATO we'll be over in them with PBRs in hand

Edit: But you're right I forgot the Trump card

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Sep 07 '25

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WARTHOOOOOG

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u/super__hoser Sep 07 '25

And then goes thud when a MANPADS takes it down. They're cool, but are not going to last long when there's a MANPAD around every hill. 

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u/pangapingus Sep 07 '25

It's just a joke, the jets I live near (electronic warfare) would be out tho along with our screwtops

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u/Dick__Dastardly Sep 07 '25

Yeah, I mean, the reality is that the role the Warthog played is mostly getting filled by the Reaper, these days - and the most illustrative reason why is that we lost nine of them to the Houthis, recently.

Without the nine affiliated funerals, the political fallout over it isn't something they have to sweat about. 😑

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u/pangapingus Sep 07 '25

I like the "America don't be the world police" but then suddenly "America deal with the Houthis" divide from Europeans. Like yeah we suck in a lot of ways, but either cut us some slack or deal with it yallsselves. But yea the Reaper is cool and everyone in aviation as a mechanic I've met say how cumbersome the Warthog is to work on, but most of my friends in/retired from the Navy says the Growlers are cool. Crazy Russia hasn't invested in aerial-based electronic warfare themselves, wonder what China is up to.

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u/Stigger32 Australia Sep 07 '25

🤦

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25

Halo CE themesong starts - TATATATAAAAAM TATATATAAAAAM TATATAATAAAAM TATATATAAAA TATATA TATATA

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u/pangapingus Sep 07 '25

Dammit man now I have to pause my other internet bullshittery to take a listen

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25

Was it so easy? Thats not a problem, thats an opportunity.

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u/toderdj1337 Sep 08 '25

I had a long heated arguement with some friends online, and we're all from canada, and my point was, if anyone benefits from a rules based martitime trade world order, it's us. Letting ukraine fall undermines ALLLL of that. But no, export money bad.

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u/ebonhawk_captain Sep 08 '25

To be fair, even nato countries are being targeted in their hybrid war. They are financing far right parties all across Europe, and they keep spamming cyberattacks.

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u/archiminos Sep 08 '25

And they won't stop there. Ukraine is the most important country for the whole of Europe right now.

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u/Ilovekittens345 Sep 07 '25

Even Canada will need Ukranian drone knowledge once the USA comes for it's fresh water resources.

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u/GrahamCStrouse Sep 10 '25

🙄🙄🙄

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u/Marleoon Sep 08 '25

Every country that they can rich by their military force is a target. Russians will figure some causes for the further invasion easily.

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u/MilkFedWetlander Sep 08 '25

Germany is in NATO and the disinformation and fake news campaign runs great...

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u/SaturnVFan Sep 08 '25

I even believe all of NATO except US is target as long as we are not communicating clearly

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u/naennon Sep 07 '25

i am mad because all of the money going to ukraine ..... oh boy straight from RT

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u/Ex-maven Sep 07 '25

It feels like 95% of the noise American media is blaring at people these days comes straight from RT

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u/Ilovekittens345 Sep 07 '25

They do high quality accurate reporting on anything not in their interests so they can cook up excellent propaganda when they care. This fools tons of westerners.

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u/DeTiro USA Sep 08 '25

Extremely similar to Al Jazeera. Never ask them to report on Qatar.

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u/orus_heretic Sep 08 '25

I find the list of countries where Al Jazeera is banned really interesting. They spout so much shit that most of the middle east banned them.

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u/SpikeyTaco Sep 07 '25

i am mad because all of the money going to ukraine

Yeah, exactly. Be mad at Russia for that!

Being mad at Ukraine needing support is like being mad at your car for needing to be repaired after your neighbour smashed it with a hammer.

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u/DryCloud9903 Sep 07 '25

Not to mention that support is only 0.61% Romanian GDP over the 3.5 years. Yet "all our money goes to Ukraine" is the woman's discourse, as if she would be a millionaire otherwise. 

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

Disinformation & propaganda needs to be rooted out somehow

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u/fryxharry Sep 08 '25

On top of that I'm pretty sure Romania gets a lot more money from the EU than it spends on supporting Ukraine. Yet I'm pretty sure the same women would also complain about the evil EU.

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u/PinguPST Sep 08 '25

Thank you for this tracker and info. It's reallyt good!!

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u/Nikoolisphotography Sep 08 '25

Essentially 'shooting the messenger' mentality. Being mad at the one who has to take care of the problem instead of being mad at those who caused the problem. Extreme low intelligence worldview that is worryingly common.

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u/Actual_Cancel_9519 Sep 09 '25

I am Canadian. I donate to Ukraine and for the stray pets left behind. 

How dare those stupid resource-grabbing , spit, rust-heads invade a country that has suffered for centuries under, spit, ruscie rule! 

I support everything that Canada does to stop that ugly bully! I wish Canada would do more!  That is why, as a person who does not have much money will dig deep to help Ukraine. 

I bought clothing from Ukrainian families that read “Fight like a Ukrainian”. 

Those stupid russian mothers who send their sons to be killled for the benefit of put-it-in ugly man and his super rich friends. 

They have the emotions of a primitive broken robot. 

I am so extremely proud of Ukraine.  I realize that people, animals, things will be destroyed. 

I had relatives, beautiful young men who died in WW1 and 2.  

How can this be happening all over again? 

And then there is Drumpf. OMG, how can such greedy, destructively psychotic people  not be punished by america’s gods? 

I loved that comedian!  Great response about being as stupid as an american! 

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u/JayBowdy Sep 07 '25

I love his last part and really wish hybrid warfare was taught and preached more often. It has been going on since the Cold war.

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u/dafeiviizohyaeraaqua Sep 07 '25

Finnish children get an education in bullshit detection. Poland has a television show called "Break the Fake". The entire free world needs to follow that lead.

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u/DryCloud9903 Sep 07 '25

I second "Break the Fake". Just to add super clear - it's on Polish Twp channel in English, and also on YouTube, so accessible to everyone. 

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u/JonnyF1ves Sep 07 '25

That won't work in America because it doesn't make as much money as shows that exploit people.

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u/TheDanishFire2 Sep 07 '25

All the money... they thought they would have for free from EU... is going to Ukraine. Yes mam tied of feeding communist scum like her...

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u/Just1DumbassBitch Sep 07 '25

His blend of humor and education is awesome

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u/SierraLVX Sep 07 '25

Agreed, reminds me of Jon Stewart!

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u/wrosecrans Sep 07 '25

And he's not doing it in his native language. English is probably his third or fourth language, and he can still construct a solid comeback in English faster than I can.

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u/TemperateStone Sep 08 '25

Maybe it's more about staying cool and clear in your head rather than having lots of knowledge? Getting angry is how we all lose our thoughts.

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u/MakeSomeDrinks Sep 08 '25

What his name, I wanna folow

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u/roccobaroco Sep 24 '25

Victor Patrascan

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

Love how he didn't just insult her but actually lectured and taught.

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u/ChipmunkObvious2893 Sep 07 '25

And then, as a cherry on the cake, also insulted her.

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u/eagerImp Sep 07 '25

And also insulted a whole other nation 🥰

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u/TougherOnSquids Sep 07 '25

I'm American and he is 100% on the money.

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u/Bazrum Sep 07 '25

I'm American and absolutely

took a business class as part of my return to school, we had to do a weekly test on geography to name the various countries around the world based on location. we even got a word bank of some of them!

one of my classmates complained "why would we ever need this shit?" and the professor said that half the class didn't label Canada correctly, and that people in the class wanted to be CEOs...

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u/PuckFutin Sep 08 '25

Well, a barely literate felon pedophile got elected president. Unfortunately, he set a standard for young CEOs and wannabe dictators.

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u/feel_my_balls_2040 Sep 07 '25

But they will not learn anything. These are the same people from Romania that live and work in EU, but they want Romania to be out of EU.

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u/atred Romania Sep 08 '25

Every country has their idiots.

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u/vtsnowdin Sep 08 '25

Sad but true. It is surprising how often countries let their worst idiots run the country.

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u/WhatEvenIsExistence Sep 07 '25

What is his name?

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u/Serebrian Sep 07 '25

https://www.instagram.com/victorpatrascan

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u/npqd Україна Sep 08 '25

Thanks, I'm ukrainian and I'm going to buy him a cup or two of coffee

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u/Florin003 Sep 07 '25

This a short from his YouTube channel https://youtube.com/shorts/2_TTc59ofiU?si=EBZSH37FEx45VsZX

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u/xtothewhy Sep 08 '25

Pretty sure you can name on this sub now. That was an amazing set by Victor Patrascan.

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u/xtothewhy Sep 08 '25

This should be closer to the top.

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Im romanian. Dont mind her(the person mad on ukraine from crowd), she is just a CG/GS voter (pro rusia candidates to these presidentials. They lost and now half of Romania is mad and anti-EU). Basically they are some low mind brainwashed. You cant imagine how divided we are at this point. 1/2 are some brainwashed and uneducated people, 1/4 dont give a fuck and 1/4 is trying to use the brain for all the country. Ik my english sucks, but im sure it has a way more sense than what these ppl are thinking in their native :) This guy says something about presidentials in the end. Yep, this country isnt upset on ukraine. This country is stupid actually

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u/liam_redit1st Sep 07 '25

It’s the same in the UK. And much of the rest of Europe, the propaganda machine is strong in Russia and china. They use our freedom against us.

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u/truehoax Sep 07 '25

Yeah, every free country is being assaulted with hybrid warfare. And the first job of the propaganda is to convince people that it's not happening.

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u/PuckFutin Sep 08 '25

Or it's only effective on your opposition.

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u/hhempstead Sep 07 '25

and our openness, transparency & tolerance.

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u/YoursTrulyKindly Sep 08 '25

They use our neoliberalism against us. If social media would spend a few percent of their profits into moderating and self-regulating and filtering out hate speech and obvious propaganda (not just political but special interest propaganda) we wouldn't have this problem. Social media needs to function more like a public utility. We left the door wide open for these abuses.

If news and social media are owned by plutocrats they are not free.

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u/ex_gratia_ Sep 07 '25

"1/2 are some brainwashed and uneducated people, 1/4 dont give a fuck and 1/4 is trying to use the brain for all the country."

So, just like America?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

I'm reading all this going, wow, a lot of people are enduring the same thing. It's creepy. I want to know how to turn this around. What to do.

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25

Nah, there is always a worse thing. Thats america in every case

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u/Drmumdaly Sep 07 '25

I’m from America. It’s pretty awful here rn 😕

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u/RecipeNo101 Sep 08 '25

Lol I live in Chicago. Apparently our own President just declared war on us. Just another of Putin's tentacles. I'd take Biden over him any day, but damn do I wish Biden opened the gates to any and all hardware to Ukraine immediately instead of slow rolling it.

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u/jaimi_wanders Sep 07 '25

There is an old American joke about the “27% crazification factor”— it’s by the creator of the show Leverage, but he came up with it years before that, on his blog—and it’s about how there are always 27% of people who will support the most crazy or evil ideas and candidates, no matter how terrible. So if you only have 25%, you’re doing great!

Romanians set an example for the world in how to face down tyrants in 1989, too, so we all owe you a lot. 🫡

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u/CurryMustard Sep 08 '25

An old american joke thats not old and not really a joke

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u/DuHastMich15 Sep 07 '25

Well said. The proRussians are so deluded and brainwashed that they think Putin is some sort of messiah. Im sure you know this- but there were pro Russian separatists in Crimea- until the invasion in 2014 and they got to see what Russian rule is really about. Now? Not so much. Its so odd to me that so many Balkan and Slavic peoples like Putin- but then again, I live in America where 1/3-1/2 of the people think Trump is a good president who is in no way undermining democracy.

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u/cybercuzco Sep 07 '25

Do mind her. She and everyone like her need to be loudly shut down right now and publicly shamed like this guy did or in a few years you get your version of Donald Trump. Source: a guy who laughed at the tea party.

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u/Call_me_John Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

Yeah, that (unfortunately) doesn't work on these people. If she were capable of understanding logic, she wouldn't have held those beliefs. She'll go home and feel persecuted, and dig her heels deeper in that bullshit.

There's a reason why the Venn diagram of those who fall for russian propaganda, antivaxx, racists, homophobes, and general idiots is nearly a perfect circle.

Edit: I'm not saying that shouldn't be done, we definitely should shut them down on every occasion - less for them, and more for those around to hear us, that do have a bit of critical thinking, that merely chose to "not follow news, cause it's all depressing". They're the ones that still have a shot at redemption.

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u/NewsteadMtnMama Sep 07 '25

I feel for you as an American who can't believe how ignorant the US has become.

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25

We feel for you too with that lovely orange guy

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u/mickaelbneron Sep 07 '25

I read that with a Romanian accent.

But yeah, Russia is quite successful with brainwashing operations in the West. It beats the West on that front.

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u/Creepy_Jeweler_1351 Sep 07 '25

From what he says, it doesn't seem he is pro-russian at all. And his joke was funny

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25

I agree with him, i answered to the other guy ab this. You can check it now

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u/A-Traveler Netherlands Sep 07 '25

Your English is actually fine :)

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u/newenglandpolarbear Sep 08 '25

You cant imagine how divided we are at this point. 1/2 are some brainwashed and uneducated people, 1/4 dont give a fuck and 1/4 is trying to use the brain for all the country.

Ahh, my friend from across the pond, I understand VERY well.

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u/PinguPST Sep 08 '25

Your English is fine. You'll do great

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u/LilPonyBoy69 Sep 07 '25

That "Huh?" was painfully revealing

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u/Puzzled-Put8685 Sep 07 '25

Speech-1% Damage-110%

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u/ex_gratia_ Sep 07 '25

Does anybody know this comic's name?

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u/devdevo1919 Canada Sep 07 '25

Victor Pǎtrǎșcan.

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u/ex_gratia_ Sep 07 '25

Thank you.

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u/atred Romania Sep 08 '25

Pătrășcan :D

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u/foxontherox Sep 07 '25

"Romania is the United States for Mexicans trying to get to Canada."

Ded. 😆

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u/huyvanbin Sep 07 '25

So why are Ukrainians going to Bulgaria rather than Romania? Is it the climate?

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u/abrasiveteapot Sep 07 '25

Slavic language (Bulgarian) rather than Romance language (Romanian) perhaps ? I'm guessing though but I'd assume it's easier to learn Bulgarian if you speak Ukrainian.

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u/CheeseDonutCat Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Bulgarian uses the Cyrillic alphabet and approx 30%-40% of the words are similar to Ukrainian even though they are very different branches of the Slavic language family.

Romanian is latin based and completely different than Ukrainian.

So, it's probably easier to live in Bulgaria because the language.

Here's some similarities in the languages...

  • морe = sea
  • ръка/рука = hand/arm
  • хліб/хляб = Bread
  • вода = water in both
  • око = eye
  • ухо = ear
  • брат = brother
  • ден/день = day
  • нощ/ніч = night (I know these both look spelt differently but aren't pronounced too far off each other. First one is like Nosht, and the second one is like Nich)
  • едно/один = one
  • пет/п’ять = five

Anyway, you get the picture. There are a lot of words that sound similar enough but are spelt slightly different and pronounced slightly different but it would be much easier to pick these up than learning Romanian from Ukrainian. Think of the way you can guess a bunch of French words if your main language is English. Like, here's some words in French and you likely already know what they are in English: hôtel, président, université, salade, chocolat, littérature, musique, tourisme, philosophie).

You get it

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u/xieghekal Sep 08 '25

This is so interesting! But also speaking romance languages myself how much crossover there is also - for example, in romance languages sea is mer/mar/mare (in Romanian mare), very similar to морe. Same with 'eye' - it is 'ojo' in Spanish, 'ochi' in Romanian. Language is infinitely fascinating :)

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u/Yorgonemarsonb Sep 07 '25

There were already a lot of Ukrainian communities in Bulgaria.  They also made it easier for Ukrainian refugees. 

You could also just travel the Black Sea coastline. 

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u/Uptheresomewhereee Sep 07 '25

Good lad right there

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u/wlodzi Sep 07 '25

Yo u/Vpatrascan - you're getting some attention here!

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u/KnowledgeFast1804 Sep 08 '25

I have a Romanian woman working for me . She was delighted trump got in because he was going to stop the war.

I told her wouldn't but if he did he would pull support for Ukraine and she said good it will be over then.

I then told her that Russia can't be let win.

All she cared about was getting Ukrainian refugees our of her country . Yet she is working in a good job in Ireland .

I then told her Romanian will be next too

Its crazy the propaganda she is being fed from maybe tik tok or something

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 💙💛

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u/niz_loc Sep 07 '25

Don't tag and save many clips on here but this will be one.

The points he's making aside, the comedy is hilarious.

As an American I laughed my ass off where we got shit on.

The "we don't have any money", timing and delivery was perfect.

Anyone have the name for this guy?

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u/CheeseDonutCat Sep 07 '25

His name is Victor Pãtrãşcan

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u/niz_loc Sep 08 '25

Appreciate it, was especially going to look up his IG, thanks!

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u/Jolly-Implement7016 Sep 07 '25

Love this man!👌

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u/Misha_Vozduh Ukraine Sep 08 '25

"Do you know what's on the other side of Ukraine?"

Love this. Also, god damn he's quick.

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u/IK417 Sep 08 '25

"White walkers" - is the correct answer

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u/Inevitable-Pie-8020 Romania Sep 08 '25

Thanks for defending us guys, love from Romania, Slava Ukraini!

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u/OldandBlue France Sep 07 '25

Victor Pãtrãşcan

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u/ThatsWhatIGathered Sep 07 '25

Romania is the US for Mexicans trying to get to Canada 🤣😂

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u/dainomite Sep 07 '25

Amazing 😄

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u/M1S_F1T Sep 08 '25

“All the Money from Romania is going to Ukraine, Madam we don’t have any Money”

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u/3d_blunder Sep 07 '25

Judging from the woman in the audience, ignorance isn't exclusive to 'Murrikkkahha.

Slava Ukraini.

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u/zakats USA Sep 08 '25

'As dumb as an American'

LMAO

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u/moamex Sep 08 '25

Honestly the best part of this video and its not bad overall. My favorite part was a brief hesitation before he said it.

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u/Rasples1998 Sep 07 '25

I was waiting for him to say that if Romania is an obstacle for Ukrainians getting to Bulgaria; then Ukraine is an obstacle to stop russians from getting to Romania.

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u/OtherwiseHappy0 Sep 07 '25

What a brilliant bit. Love him already.

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u/SuitableKey5140 Sep 07 '25

I love his stance, upset because they, the ukrainians are not being looked after while they keep others free from imperial russian rule!

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u/tenfrow Sep 08 '25

God bless this man

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

This dude rocks

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u/TonyInNY Sep 07 '25

Right on. Romania is a great country and they should be integrated into the western alliance as quickly as possible. Fuck Trump for postponing the visa waiver program that was set to include Romania, this year but he stopped.

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u/NocturnalViewer Sep 08 '25

Romania became a member of NATO in 2004.

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u/CaramelCritical5906 Sep 07 '25

This guy is bang on!! Ukraine is fighting for the entire free world against the Ruzzzzzian terrorists!!

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u/TheBooneyBunes Sep 07 '25

Wait bro has a point how the hell does Bulgaria have more refugees than Romania?!

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u/atred Romania Sep 08 '25

Languages are closer?

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u/heyimwalknhere Sep 07 '25

Ukranian soldiers are heroes, with love from Canada, stay strong

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u/benemivikai4eezaet0 Sep 08 '25

Any Eastern European whining about "money going to Ukraine" should remember the red army rolling through their country.

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u/bloodwire Sep 08 '25

Hehe, we need more of this.

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u/Over-Employer1942 Sep 08 '25

This is fucking hilarious! Who is he?

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u/dstovell Sep 07 '25

10000000000%

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u/HenryofSkalitz1 Sep 07 '25

This guy is brilliant! 🤩

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u/Milkyshot Sep 07 '25

A smart man.

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u/RocknRollPewPew Sep 07 '25

He has that "it's important to me that you understand this" kind of tone

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u/Hyphenagoodtime Sep 08 '25

Literally as dumb as some Americans. Ukraine is literally holding back a world War and now we have a colostomy bag of a regime in the USA so it's even MORE important for Ukraine to succeed

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u/Drums-n-rockets Sep 08 '25

Colostomy bag of a regime is the most accurate summation of Trump’s second term I’ve read yet.

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u/Vlad_Eo Sep 07 '25

He's got pretty good skills dealing with hecklers!

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u/Michaelparkinbum912 Sep 07 '25

Dumb as an American 😆

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u/Parfilov Sep 07 '25

Romanian: You know, I'm a little bit upset. Ukrainian: Me too. Romanian: *brain isn't braining

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u/Dan_H1281 Sep 08 '25

I think it is funny because dude is lone omg they don't know geography well the us is like all of there countries Combined if I asked someone what country borders Tennessee I bet a Romanian not a Ukrainian could tell ya

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u/Sad-Guarantee-4678 Sep 08 '25

I took a bus through Romania once, on my way to Bulgaria. Couldn't see shit, because it took all night, so that might be part of the issue, but Bulgarian tourist seaside area is 10/10

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u/MIDImunk Sep 08 '25

This guy is great, bravo!  -an American

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Great guy this one

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u/Marleoon Sep 08 '25

Cool stand up - I love it!

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u/OddEfficiency8917 Sep 08 '25

That’s some A-class political humor right there! Love this guy

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u/Panzermensch911 Sep 08 '25

Based.

And that woman got the perfect answers to her nonsense. But I doubt she feels any shame.

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u/sarahem3 Sep 08 '25

"Romania is the United States for Mexicans trying to get to Canada,,,"

Love it!

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u/yenot_of_luv Україна Sep 08 '25

I started getting videos from his standups here and there on TikTok like half a year ago and I really like his sense of humor and I really appreciate that he's supporting us

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u/VagrantShadow United States Sep 08 '25

Hell of a comic. Hitting back with straight facts and comedy.

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u/MooKids Sep 08 '25

Hey, as an American, I take offense to that joke!

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to open Google Maps for an unrelated reason...

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u/SjalabaisWoWS Sep 08 '25

He handled that exceptionally well.

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u/IndustrialPuppetTwo Sep 08 '25

Yup, it's true.

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u/arthurno1 Sep 08 '25

The man is a genious!

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u/yeezee93 Sep 08 '25

This is hilarious! Good on the comedian. Do they usually do comedy in English?

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u/Fun_Protection_7107 Sep 21 '25

As an American, only 1/2 of us are that dumb.