Also maybe we should try to stop seeing everything as a binary issue and deciding whether to put a black hat or white hat on everybody. I know oversimplification is a good way to process memes, but it’s really not good enough for dealing with real issues and real people who aren’t cartoons.
Cartoonically ICE wants to send me to death camps. Do I go?
We cant even agree on what truth vs lies is, or what either of them mean. a lie is okay as long as its convenient ,truth must be hidden if it hurts us
In a world where truth is now fluid, we need to learn some Russian, just one word, a loanword “Vranyo” Literally it mean lies. but its used in the context “Im lying, you know Im lying, I know that you know Im lying, but you aren’t going to do shit, and I dont care even if you did”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranyo
Vranyo has infected western society Its how government operates, its how gangsters operate. convenientley, a lot of the governments and gangsters are now one in the same.
Nice link and info, ty
Edit essentially it’s what the “fell out a window” is. Everyone knows what it actually is
I’m quite miffed that the order of the comparisons in the second panel vary…
- Bad vs good
- Good vs bad
- Good vs bad
- Good vs bad
- Bad vs good
I think that’s intentional. It’s swapped in the first panel too. It appears more impartial this way.
No it doesn’t
For anyone sad enough to buy anything these muppets say, Google ‘cognitive priming’
It’s intended to
No it isn’t
edit again, cognitive priming
Live footage of you coming up with these responses
Idk man, I’m just refuting you “nuh-uh, totally opposite” logic.
“I think it’s intentionally wrong so it appears more impartial”
It’s sickeningly OBVIOUS that it’s very much partial. It’s putting “authoritarianism” and “corrupt” on the side that it’s established moral things are on
You guys are dipshits, but it’s no wonder with your education and national infra :D
This is just sad, I can’t even be bothered to be insulted. You’re wrong bro, go figure it out yourself.
We can’t even agree on what most of these words mean, much less get the majority of people to care about whether we adhere to them. I know multiple people who think the entirety of science is wrong, and that hispanic people don’t have the human right of safe housing, even when legal citizens.
Your point is that the terms on the first panel are more clear?
Well, either way, calling xenophobia as “barbarism” is a nice ironical way for the language to evolve.
My point is that the time when we might have found the right words to fix things is almost certainly over. It’s now time to start fighting against injustice with real action.
I think the point here is less about actually throwing these terms around and more about the absurdity that it’s basically already like this and folks ain’t being honest about it
Yah, we shouldn’t hold our breath since every media organization are commercial entities and owned by people with agendas towards profit and holding particular narratives. Media is not only complicit in our current state of American decline, they’re largely the instigators.
Network news. Social media. Youtube pundits and streamers. Movies and television. Magazines and print media. Radio and podcasts.
These are all tools to deliver propaganda and the ones with the most money have the most stake in maintaining their profit margins and relationships with other corporations.
Also, we do not have an “opposition party” anymore, if we ever did at all. It’s all WWE spectacle to hook viewers on drama and narratives.
Jen doesn’t comprehend the problem:
Now w/fixed link!
It’s always been illiterates vs us.
plus math skills are only 9th grade for HSgraduate, and my math prof was being generous like 15years ago, and my english professor said 10th grade level of essay writing at best, around the same time. i think its alot worst now, since there less emphasis on many subjects. when i was IN CC, people were still struggling with remedial math, not even fancy algebra which i find easier to do.
Reading is the metric, but the implications are so much worse.
This isn’t about if someone can read articles and get facts, even literate people don’t do that.
The problem is that reading comprehension is directly tied to one’s ability to comprehend, manage and categorize information in one’s brain. When you learn to read, you teach your brain to take complex ideas information and organize them into manageable sets and abstractions using language.
When you don’t have this “enhancement” to your internal dialogue and cognition, you don’t have a rich inner-voice if any at all, and you just go along with whatever you feel and whatever story is provided to you.
Make no mistake, the destruction of our education was deliberate and planned and it’s working exactly as intended. If we try to organize and even get budgets passed to increase our education capacity, our teacher’s pay, our textbooks and schools and so on, we will still be fighting far more wealthy organizations and corporations who want a population that stares transfixed at shows about people buying things.
If folks comprehended they are 1) oppressed 2) by rich folks 3) stealing from them 4) as a pleasure, we’d be on the communist utopia a century ago.
But no. I live in the psychopath utopia
Is the last one in absolute numbers or as a percentage or something?
Ratios. Anglo 🇺🇲 make up the highest illiterate race when compared to the rest. While everyone else means out, some know multiple languages, including natives.
The link gives “404 this page isn’t available” for me. I did an internet search for it and just found this Wikipedia mention
Dunno if it’s different criteria or what’s up
My editor removed “-” in between the years, and the strings. Link fixed.
2019 is 6 years ago.
I found that earlier when searching on the site but didn’t see any statistics about race on it. Where is it on the page?
2019 is 6 years ago
I’m not sure this sort of stats change very quickly but more recent is of course better
I pressume it’s the accessory source.
I can’t find such info anywhere behind that link. I’m on mobile so it could be that
Lol… highschool…
High. School. High school.
(Criticizing the picture, not you 🙃)
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Pff, reading…what are you, some kind of NERD!?
Since 🇺🇲s are banned from watching this clip, I’m mirroring it here! Bill Hicks - Why are you reading for? (anti intellectualism)
I hate the term “pseudo-science”. Call it what it is: quackery.
I was under the impression that quackery was specific to medicine.
I think you’re right and that is how the word is most often used, but at least merriam-webster gives a broader definition, as the “practices or pretensions of a quack”, which it then says is the same as a charlatan, so I guess it would be acceptable. I’m not a native speaker, however… :)
Yeah, fuck them barbers!
barbarbar bar barbar
