ExtantHuman

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think they bumped up to 5th recently

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Or, better idea, no parties like the founders intended

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Breadlines ? That's socialism. Can't have that...

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Your ideas got us here. With democracy hanging by a thread because both the corporate Democrats and Republicans spent decades weakening the lower classes to enrich themselves. How many 70-80% approval rating policy idea have the Democrats spurned over the years because it would mildly inconvenience their mega donors in the short term?

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush's ~~no child left behind~~ Pass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what these numbers are measuring, but it looks like less than 85% of schools in the US reported their data, could be a sampling bias there. Also, this is maybe at age 15, when many of the worst readers have already dropped out of school.

It looks like most countries have shitty literary levels, then. I was unaware other countries were just as bad. A quick Google showed a few results not quite in agreement saying the average for adults was 7th-8th grade in the US, or that half were below 6th.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

No, the uniformed idiotic women hating fake rationalization you can see continuing throughout this very thread may have been spread to the Andrew Tate following incel crowd to further stoke their anger. But that's them capitalizing on their gullibility and refusal to speak to actual women about why they feel that way.

You probably said this thing was STARTED as a racist othering campaign. That's very different from someone trying to CHANGE an already existing narrative to suit their own ends. And none of those narratives were ever about race, it was always a gender thing.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Having been permabanned myself from reddit after 14 years, I've never seen that text used as anything other than a mocking tone for the thing being said.

You may have been reading it wrong this entire time.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

My money's on: this movie is so bad they were hoping to trick people into thinking they'd be seeing the Batman film again in theaters.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

I remember him claiming to have spoken to the president of PR, when was the island thing?

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This is very tinfoil hatty

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes, that is factual. There's a reason newspapers are written to a 4-5th grade level, because adults need it like that.

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