• yggstyle@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    They probably wouldn’t have had to if the school system hadn’t dropped language arts from most curriculums ages ago. Students now are getting a markedly shitter education and don’t even know they’re being fucked over.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s by design, the politicians only need 28% to win, easier to scrape those votes off the bottom of the barrel of knowledge

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        11 hours ago

        What really stings is watching groups and communities which historically have been supportive of each other getting fragmented by overt social media operations. It’s asinine and just makes it easier to marginalize and oppress the people that most frequently need a voice.

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          8 hours ago

          Our country is now run by Twitter and Truth Social, and too many people are already lost to social media disinformation campaigns (counter-intelligence)