Damn, it crazy how our current enemies are responsible for every single bad thing happening in the country right now.
That's wild bro.
The malevolent outside forces lurking in every shadow are making my sweet baby son a conspiracy theorist!
the majority of americans aren't literate according to the department of education
if they were literate, this wouldn't work nearly as well
“Literacy” was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. If you are not literate you can’t be fed communist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-communist I knew in my childhood was my maternal grandfather who was illiterate. Communist propaganda did not reach him
I used to work for a municipal literacy program and the number we had on file was an 87% for "functional literacy" as in an ability to do basic tasks and write one's own name, not necessarily the ability to read a full paragraph and understand the information. I've seen wildly varying rates from other studies. America is pretty touchy about simply announcing a standardized, formal literacy rate, I've noticed.
I remember checking this out recently, it's a fun one (although I don't remember if America actually was significantly worse than other developed countries):
4% of Americans are nonliterate. Most can identify 1 piece of information on a familiar paper.
14% are below-basic. They can identify which candidate earned the fewest votes from a simple table identifying three candidates and the number of votes they received.
34% have basic literacy levels. (7/8th grade reading level.) Most can count the number of countries in which the generic drug market accounts for 10% or more of drug sales from two paragraphs and a chart of generic drug use in 15 countries.
36% have intermediate literacy levels, most can identify the link leading to the organization’s phone number from a website with several links, including “contact us” and “FAQ.”
12% are proficiently literate and can click to the second page of search results from a library website to identify the author of a book called Ecomyth.
2% can review search results from a library website to identify a book suggesting that the claims made both for and against genetically modified foods are unreliable.
Where is this particular study from? It's got an interesting way of framing the data. I like it.
Also, having a 4% nonliterate rate automatically places America behind most developed nations and behind more than a few developing ones.
People thought it would be like any other cold, resolved in months or even weeks. But the months turned into years, the cold ravaged the landscapes in an unprecedented way. A whole generation was massacred or left crippled, and most hegemonic powers involved were destroyed.
My aunt always says that the future fuel shortages will kill people mostly because of cold.
Report: America is perfect, it is the foreigners who corrupt us. More after the commerical break.
No, no, no. Falun Gong are a persecuted minority. And the Epoch Times is :freeze-peach:
But China is trying to undermine our precious soul and steal our bodily fluids.
The Epoch times straight up ran a story saying communism is a satanic plot to make people gay environmentalists
communism is a satanic plot to make people gay environmentalists
:yes-chad:
the evidence provided was Marx said spectre which sounds pretty spooky
The thing about QAnon is that - like all great propaganda - it hews very closely to the truth.
There IS a massive pedophile ring at the highest eschalons of power. Our government IS complicit in atrocities and WILL cover up these vulgar abuses of power. The media IS gaslighting us, diverting our attention, and turning us against one another. And we SHOULD be storming our capitol in protest.
But the folks leading the QAnon movement aren't the deep-state turncoats and perennial civilian victims - the Snowdens and Mannings and BLM activists, and guerrilla journalists - who are witnessing abuses on the front lines. They're just another layer of media gaslighters and political grifters and sexual predators.
In some sense, QAnon is self-evidentiary. It's a theory of a conspiracy to protect the government from accountability which metastasized into that very conspiracy.
If there are any foreign intelligence agencies spreading Qanon it is 100% to grift money and/or personal data out of gullible Americans
If this true it would be hilarious, you could create the most inane conspiracy and a number of americans would believe it
Yeah, that's my feeling any time I read garbage about nefarious outside propagandists twisting the minds of poor innocent Americans. If the laziest, most batshit conspiracy theories infect like 20% of Americans then maybe we have our own problems and we've just been rightfully owned.
we’ve just been rightfully owned.
The US is just the dril corncob tweet if it was a country.
Imagine how depressed this must make the guys who worked hard on last cold war's propaganda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
American politics has always been powered by dumb-guy shit.
Could it be that a popular conspiracy theory arose out of a combination of antisemitism, already existing apocalyptic Protestant theories, and nascent American confusion and alienation? No. The foreigners are to blame.
God damn, those stupid QAnon idiots will believe anything told to them by a trusted source. Anyone else excited for Biden to nuke Russia?
It's so sad how easily manipulated people are by the media. You'd think that after the Iraq War they'd be a little bit skeptical, but no.
