If those 28% could read they would be very upset right now.
This is insulting to illiterate people.
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Wait no, I’m dumb.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you could poll a thousand random Americans and get about 25% in favor of eating light bulbs and severing diplomatic relations with the magical land of Oz.
It may or may not always be the same group of people across the same demographics, but about one in four Americans have got some real serious problems.
Thank you for bringing some humor to these dark times.
On the other interpretation: 27% are so dumb or uninfomed that they still believe what the federal government says.
ICE is a terrorist organization
What’s the source on the quote? As far as I’m aware PIAAC doesn’t make any statements about difficulty like that, since it doesn’t particularly track with the description of Level 1 reading comprehension.
Not sure if it’s the original but a search led me to this National University:49 Adult Literacy Statistics and Facts for 2026
I know someone who can barely read and still knows this is wrong.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there’.
It’s good, 1% learned somethiing!
So what are the 73% going to do about it?
What they should do is organize, rebuild community support for local issues and better representation, volunteer and create more connections so that the highest levels of federal government have less power and so that the minority doesn’t have all the power simply by being armed, nationalististic and dumb, such as the grassroots campaigns that have helped openly progressive and socialist local leaders take power recently.
What they will likely do is keep working 6 days a week to afford basic necessities, and feel so overwhelmed and stressed by the world outside of their immediate needs for survival that they only get their political information from memes on facebook when they browse social media for 45 minutes on a Sunday night after putting the kids to bed, and as a result will vote in the next person who says “I’m good at politic, please elect me.”
Create a Batman meme.
Those numbers are ungodly close…sigh I honestly expected them to be higher tho…still don’t feel better about it
I feel like 27% of America is irredeemable
Some may go as far as to call them deplorable
Nazis
Humanity*
That’s generally the percentage of humans who lack empathy and/or abstract reasoning skills.
That’s not fair to humanity. This is a Western problem, and America is the West on crack (fent?). People make mistakes everywhere, but in America/much of the West even the concept of objective rights and wrongs are debatable, which allows for even more amoral excesses. This is why their discourse revolves around whether things are “constitutional” or “legal”, because objective morality is not in their psyche, so saying right and wrong doesn’t come naturally to them.
I guess that dude was heading right for that tank…
He walked towards it, and talked to the operator, lol. They only show you the other picture for spin reasons. In America you used to get casually pepper sprayed, now you get casually murdered. 😔
What a bunch of absolute nonsensical shit to type out.
Mmmh. Okay, sure. Give it some time, eventually even the West will open their eyes to the obvious truth. 🤷
The other day he assured me that I molest children because it’s just in my nature. I don’t ever recall diddling a kid, but he must be right because who am I to argue against nature.
Do you mind posting that here? I kinda doubt I said “you diddle kids”. Are you sure this is not just confusion coming from lacking reading skills?
You think it’s my first day on the internet? I don’t feed trolls. You remember calling me that, and if you don’t, you post too much.
Memory is not infallible.
Dude, you’re everywhere making low-effort bad takes about everything. I get that you like to start arguments, but I really wish you’d put more effort and skill into it. Then at least arguing with you would be interesting.
Sure.
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I mean, yes, monotheists like Moses and Jesus also spoke about objective truths, rights and wrongs (“thou shalt not kill” etc etc). Of course it sounds like nonsense to you, lol, if it didn’t we wouldn’t be where we are!
I think a certain set of people just don’t have the bandwidth to deal with the complexity of the modern world so just accept the simplest loudest solution. Its not neccesarily lack of empathy so much as a perception of protecting their tribe.
Like charlie kirk
It’s the 27% Crazification Factor. I read this years ago and it never seems to fail.
25% also has an IQ lower than 90.
Yeah, but I know some pretty smart dumb people and some pretty dumb smart people. I don’t think it’s IQ thing, at least alone (don’t event really buy the whole IQ thing).
Sure IQ has been misused a lot but IQ can still be used to estimate the demographic distribution of a population on one axis. Since it’s sort of normally distributed. Like BMI it should not be applied to individuals. It just shows how many people of a population deviate from the mean. And yes it’s not IQ alone, but still telling that those numbers are close.
There is different types of intelligence people use. Those who are technically intelligent, but not…let’s say emotionally intelligent are why we see this happen.
Wish I had more upvotes to give, spot on.
it’s basically our wolfman constant, only with wildly dangerous results
This whole ordeal has been illuminating when it comes to seeing some people’s morals and integrity. We have way too many evil bastards living among us.
That phrase has been forever tainted, no matter the gravity of the topic I can’t not think of those fucking bean people
I’ve been yapping about it for a while now, maybe now people will listen. It’s too late to fix American society IMO but maybe they could emigrate and start new lives elsewhere without being dangerous pariahs. 🤷
