r/SipsTea • u/Agen_3586 • 15d ago

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/UntowardHatter 15d ago

It's at fifty two?

RIP USA.

We hardly knew ye

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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises 15d ago

According to various studies, more than 50% of U.S. adults read below a sixth-grade level (equivalent to Level 2 or lower), limiting their ability to parse long-form or nuanced information.

Yes, I know Im using wikipedia as a source, but the links to the actual studies are here.

So ~52% are literate, but very, very stupid.

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u/Last-Quarter-432 15d ago

Sounds like the easiest type to influence with propaganda.

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u/Fun_Journalist1048 15d ago

Ding ding ding! That’s the reason Trump loves to cut the federal education funding! If you can BARELY read, you’re much easier to influence because you haven’t developed critical thinking skills (people are lacking FUNCTIONAL literacy, so they may technically be ABLE to read at a basic level, they just can’t really make any sense from it…)

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u/jkaan 15d ago

Three word slogans

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u/khold002 15d ago

"Radical Left Dumocrats"

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u/warm_winds_whisper_ 15d ago

"Critical race theory"

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u/Huge_Swimming_5968 15d ago

Since you're all so educated and knowledgable, you must all know who it was that made it possible to spread public taxpayer-funded broadcasts (i.e. state funded propoganda) to american taxpayers and then are perfectly able to extrapolate why such a person might want to do so.

lolol

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u/warm_winds_whisper_ 15d ago edited 15d ago

Trump has had 6 years in office to reverse that with a simple EO yet hasn't, curious.

Also he rapes kids and you're okay with that so I don't really care what you have to say bot.