I actually wanted to post this to clarify how points about it ought to be made, it’s pretty old and people know about it. Education resources in the USA are really unfairly distributed. It’s not that Americans are so evil because they’re stupid, it’s part of their de facto apartheid state’s continuation. Americans support bloodthirsty imperialism in order to hoard the education funding via property taxes in little enclaves. You’re not going to educate them out of killing you. They don’t care if you watch One Piece, and many don’t recognize this deal won’t be doled out to new generations on the same level, and will always get worse.

Of course, the educated and wealthy Americans are unusually stupid, globally, but I don’t think anyone is doubting that right now.

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    16 hours ago

    I know this to be true at some level, because it can be measured, and there are laws around it. Government publications have to be written for a certain grade level. I know military manuals are 8th grade.