The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The U.S. is unloved.
      • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        We’re pretty dumb and ignorant. Our education system is awful and incredibly inequitable (funded by local property tax so only nice areas have adequately funded schools). I recently read that like half the country reads below a 6th grade level. And we have an overwhelming level of right wing disinformation coming from “news” outlets like FOX, OAN, etc.

        Even with all that, about 1/3 of the country loves Trump like he’s a god, 1/3 hates him like he’s the devil and 1/3 is completely tuned out of politics. Shit is about to get real bad here and no one will be able to ignore the economic disaster so I think those numbers will change in the next few months.

        • lemmyseikai@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Half of adults read at or below the 6th grade level.

          That doesn’t mean they don’t have an expansive vocabulary, it means they can infer but not abstract.

          So, it’s bad if my daughter suffers they may infer from their own suffering, but women in general and possibly ways their daughter may suffer elude them.

          • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
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            12 days ago

            The trans vaccines leave chemtrails on your autistic activist judges who are reinventing the constitution by sticking to constitutional precedent and allowing billions of brown people to flood in from mexico.

            We’ve got to build a wall to keep QAnon alive because hunter biden’s laptop autopen’d Project 2025 which has created the agenda which says state’s rights are important, except only when it is incongruent with the heritage foundation’s agenda.

            Everything I have said is true, signed, DumpyJTrumpetbooty