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.

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.

Someone must have thrown a fish to a penguin there once, giving US a 100% trade deficit…

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

The entities with the established distribution networks will make the money, not the little guy who makes their own little story.

If I write a little seld published novel, under your system, Hollywood can just take that story and make a movie of it without my permission. How is that better? You think more people pirating will take down these mega corps? Your system is chaos that’s even worse than the current model.

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

The rich people will buy up these stocks and become even more proportionally wealthy than the poor because of it.

25 hours of “we must resist this fascist takeover” only to immediately have multiple Democrats roll over and help confirm said fascist’s appointment nominee… Really kinda cuts out the knees from any hope that speech may have inspired.

“You need to resist, because we won’t”

Excuse me, I want 10 digit precision on this measurement

At least there’s some glitter on this turd.

Worm’s got his tongue

Thank you for not besmirching kool-aid’s good name with more lies