ExtantHuman

If it's still dark out and you haven't yet gone to sleep, it's still night.

I think they bumped up to 5th recently

Or, better idea, no parties like the founders intended

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Why do so many people on the Internet default to a completely unnuanced worldview? Like there's more than two diametrically opposed options that can be taken.

Everything done with skill is art. From Citizen Kane to the design of a candy wrapper.

By having the resources to create and distribute a product with polish.

Acting like you're smarter than the people you're talking to while missing the very obvious point that we're not starting from nothing. Being pedantic about me referring to piracy by what it's called now doesn't change how impractical it would be to have no ownership at all of ideas. Why would anyone pay for content at all?

Your "solution" means no one can make a living doing creative things. The current system has flaws that can be fixed. "No system at all" is worse for literally everyone involved, both creators and consumers of said content.

You should stop publicly felating yourself over how unshackled your mind is, since this idea is so incredibly stupid.

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.