Stolen:

Imperial core is where the citizens don't know empires exist beyond movies.

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Lol. I guess he thinks 'colonizers' and 'alien invaders' are just old scifi stories also. How fucked is our education system that you can graduate highschool with such a shit reading level.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Half of U.S. adults can't read a book written at the 8th-grade level, according to the OECD. The average American reads at the 7th- to 8th-grade level, according to The Literacy Project.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I legit can't believe this, this must be fake

        like I hate Burgeroids as much as anyone else but I can't fucking believe it, even though my experience of highschool does lend some credibility to this idea

        i mean like 8th grade books are BASIC

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          between 14% and 21% of American adults (1 in 7 to 1 in 5) are illiterate (depending on the study)

          • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            i have to wonder if almost everyone in this country is deeply stupid compared to functional countries

            like I grew up during the No Child Left Behind era and it feels like I'm permanently hobbled compared to people I meet who went to school in like, 50's-60's-70's

            all the Europeans I've met online just seem a bit sharper than most Bhürgers

            • ssjmarx [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              The best part is that, because private schools/public schools in rich counties can be decent, the political will to fix schools in general can't materialize!

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      There are two kinds of alien invaders:

      • Ugly extraterrestial life forms that want to eat / enslave us

      • Sexy extraterrestial life forms that want to eat / enslave us