• triplenadir
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    18 days ago

    We’re doomed to see this comically bad take again and again unless and until by some miracle the US education system improves

    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.clubOP
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      18 days ago

      What do you mean? US has the most intellectual capital. Your top 100 universities in the world are mostly in the US.

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        17 days ago

        13% of adults are illiterate (124 other countries in the world with higher literacy rates).

        Almost half the population thinks humans aren’t contributing to climate change.

        40% of people believe the earth was created a few thousand years ago.

        42% of people think Russia is communist.

        And on average people in the US think 22% of the population is Muslim, where the real number is more like 1%.