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More than half of USAmericans can't read to a sixth grade level, what does this actually mean? (hexbear.net)

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

I legit think the only way to save these people is to very carefully word socialist theory in a way that they can understand through facebook level memes. But then you have to worry about the authority figures that actually can read seeing through it. curious-marx I don't know that re-education is actually possible in this case, tbh.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

I legit think the only way to save these people is to very carefully word socialist theory in a way that they can understand through facebook level memes

Impossible, leftist memes must have multiple paragraphs of text at minimum

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The issue is also that these people actively do not want to learn, because learning actual history means learning that they are the bad guys. I think real re-education can only take place in a Chinese-style re-education camp (depicted wonderfully in one of my favorite movies, The Last Emperor).

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