Closest I could find for UK

https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-literacy/

This is for the US only, unfortunately, but it substantiates my claim, according to this article 54% read below 6th grade level but the “average” American reads at 7-8th grade level

The oldest of the wwii vets have all but passed away, and with them, the reality of fascism has passed from living memory. Kind of the same way we are living through the rise of aristocracy during a new gilded age

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I could have also added a /s tag and I just forgot - thank you :)

Sometimes my satire is a bit too dry, apologies. I was doing my best “idiot hot take” à la Philomena Cunk or Ali G

That’ll be $28,000 please

Most Americans read at or below a 6th grade level

Homie thirsts for the crown lol

This should still shock all of us

The thing that I think most people don’t realize, is that American media is 100% in support of the government being “fascist” or whatever they’re doing in DC right now. And the media landscape will only become MORE divisive with the recent round of mergers featuring the Oracle people. Cause at the end of the day, the media just wants us all to hate each other. If we’re too busy hating each other; we won’t have the desire to actually organize a G strike

I wonder if they are out of touch because they are CEOs, or whether being out of touch helps them become CEOs, real chicken and egg problem there

Zero percent chance he actually wrote this one.

Also, he’s a fucking madman and has to be stopped!

Except this is exactly how billionaires operate

Until we live in Iain Bank’s imagination, that is. I should have clarified

Concentrating human populations into cities, apartment living, etc is the healthiest thing for our planet.

At what point do people just start sabotaging these things? Datacenters and AI may represent things that only exist virtually but they must exist in our physical world as well

The legend of Kyrandia or something

The AP article says the democrats “forced” a shutdown over the issue

Subtle but that’s how we know all media is fascist

The us government hands much of our taxes directly to the rich every year. Directly like oil and gas and farm subsidies and contracts to the defense industry… or indirectly like food stamps for wal mart workers. The rich don’t want to pay taxes cause they’re the ones who GET most of the tax money. (Yes I know Medicare and entitlements are a large portion of federal spending.)