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> It's not achievable in the USA because a very large chunk of our population is literally retarded. 70 mil voted for Trump for some reason.

I am not an American citizen so I cannot feel offended by this sentence, but I think it doesn't help to call people stupid.

What you describe looks like a failure of the education system, which have been defective for decades in the US, from what I've heard. This may very well take 100 years (4 generations is even slightly optimistic) to escape this downward spiral.

Meanwhile, a possible strategy is to do like the others: get a popular politician who makes empty promises, while doing the opposite, or whatever they want actually, when in charge. They can inject massive amounts of money in the public school system even though they promised to make private schools more accessible in their programme, and distract people's from this obvious lie with a wrestling showmatch against Putin.

Certainly, if you are smarter than them, you can trick them.


Measured by international tests, USA was somewhere in the middle of OECD. Not the top, not terrible.

What he describes is result of different value system, intentional radicalisation and propaganda. Education won't counteract it and especially not since above people are in charge of it.


Yes, it is a failure of the education system, by design, for decades.

The way they are trying to takeover the public school system is by "vouchers" where private schools end up getting funded by tax dollars to create a regime sanctioned and funded private school system.


Is it weird that I get more worked up about the misuse of "literally" than your use of a slur?


I don't know, what do you call a full grown adult that reads at a 6th grade level and can't interpret a basic graph? 60% of America.


What’s the misuse here?


It depends on which definition of the word is being used. For the informal one, "very foolish or stupid", it's literally true.


I’m still not sure what the misuse is. “Literally” is now commonly used as an intensifier, like how “awesome “ used to mean inspiring awe, including if you were scared of something, and now is mostly an intensifier. Awesome, dude!


C'mon ... you know what "misuse" refers to, even if it's no longer considered to literally be a misuse.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally


Haha nice meta-usage of literally there


Maybe Osho was right


It's not achievable because a disappointingly large chunk of your population believes this about "the other guys"


It's not achievable because you have something like 5.3 people in the middle wtfing in all directions.


If you're not from here, I don't think you understand how completely wrong the right is about literally everything. The president and his staff lie to the country every day and his base eat it up. I'm not taking about misrepresenting facts or misleading graphs. Flat out, easily debunked, fabricated lies, 24/7.




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