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The Dumbing Down of America

The Dumbing Down of America

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@AverageJoe1 said
Tell us in your own words how is leaving children behind. I don’t study depths like you fellers, too busy, just touch on standard subjects for entertainment, like “See The Half Boy Hamf Girl!!” heavy politics, when I was not in the room in such decisions of education were made, would make me unequiipped on this
Yeah, whatever. We know whose posts to skip.


@moonbus

At the end of 2025, I think China is winning. As you and some others might know, the PRC recently introduced legislation in support of what had already been a decades-long interest in increasing national literacy. There are a few articles (with some overlap in content) on SCMP (South China Morning Post) for any who might be interested.

As for me, I am not Han in this life and only know about 160 words in simplified Chinese, plus I don't have enough money even just to visit China for a few weeks to see some of its libraries and book stores, modern towers and ancient canal towns, to enjoy the cuisine, and even just to be in China.

This causes a different but similarly strong pang in my heart that the Mars we know about is not the Mars of former dreams and magazine fiction.

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@Suzianne said
Why do you hate America?
Had you already established that AJ1 really does hate America?

And it seems that it has been a day and a few hours since this post of yours -- so, just busy or traveling, or do the rest of us really get to enjoy your well-deserved and long-awaited time-out this holiday season? 😉


@sonhouse said
Trump MUCH prefers his followers to be dumb and dumber, that way they believe every word he pukes out of his mouth daily.
like 25 MILLION alien invaders.
Is that you son house?


@Metal-Brain said
"Are you saying a foreign coup just automatically is evidence of eliminating critical thinking?"

No. Why would you even ask such a silly question? They suppress history. They don't want many people knowing they overthrow democracies and replace them with brutal dictatorships. Their subjects are supposed to believe they are bringing democracy to the world when the overt ...[text shortened]... ause it would expose their propaganda lies. That is why. Are you too immature to accept the obvious?
I don’t know all of the stuff that you and sonhouse seem to know, so I cannot say what is true or what is false. But I can say that you are saying flat out that they “overthrow overghrow democracies and replace them with brutal dictatorships.”. Well, let me see, I hearby say that Joe Biden received $15 million from China two years ago.
Now everybody pick which of us , or both of us, that they want to believe, or not believe. Notice all is unfounded.

You, like Suzanne, are so naïve. She said recently that decisions to do whatever the government does need to all be approved by the people. You are saying the same thing. You’re like two children..
My best example of how bad it would be to have the people , including Sue and Shavixmir decide whether to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb would not have been dropped, and many of your great uncles would have been slaughtered in the jungles.
So why don’t you all go hang out at your local pub and let the government which we elected make these big time secret decisions. What if Trump had told all of us …(sorry I just laughed with myself 😆) that he was going to hit the nuke factory in Iran🤣🤣🤣🤣,

Truly, you are all so naïve and waste our time with your silly liberal faerie posts.


@AverageJoe1
Amazing!!!! I just saw a news flash that Trump has decided that on December 31 he is going to lay waste to Chadlandia!!!! Using the B-3! But he is so smart, he will not disclose the route that the plane will take.

You all are correct, he needs to let us know these things. Suzanne is onto something.


@Metal-Brain said
Nope. I like George Carlin. I don't watch Kimmel or Colbert.
Nope what? You are the worst , no offense.
And no offense, but no one cares if you like Carlin or not, or if you like camel or Colbert or who likes them or who does it.
And once again, you totally evade the issue. The issue is not about whether you like him, it is that you brought him up, then you asked me why I brought him up, and I responded that you brought him up. You liberals certainly can give us a headache. You really do waste your time with your naivety.


@AverageJoe1 said
I don’t know all of the stuff that you and sonhouse seem to know, so I cannot say what is true or what is false. But I can say that you are saying flat out that they “overthrow overghrow democracies and replace them with brutal dictatorships.”. Well, let me see, I hearby say that Joe Biden received $15 million from China two years ago.
Now everybody pick which of ...[text shortened]... ran🤣🤣🤣🤣,

Truly, you are all so naïve and waste our time with your silly liberal faerie posts.
Not unfounded. Easily proven.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/newly-revealed-documents-show-nixon-kissinger-plotted-allende-overthrow-from-day-one/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pinochet-chile-coup/


@AverageJoe1 said
Nope what? You are the worst , no offense.
And no offense, but no one cares if you like Carlin or not, or if you like camel or Colbert or who likes them or who does it.
And once again, you totally evade the issue. The issue is not about whether you like him, it is that you brought him up, then you asked me why I brought him up, and I responded that you brought him up. You liberals certainly can give us a headache. You really do waste your time with your naivety.
Preferring one comedian over others makes me naive? LOL
I like Jerry Seinfeld too. I must be really gullible. LOL


@AverageJoe1 said
You really do waste your time with your naivety.
How much time do you have left, Joe, and are you spending it wisely?


@AverageJoe1 said
Here is a relevant answer. Marauder and others have suggested in the past that there be no actual winners everybody gets a trophy. Do you remember that. So today I go to a church basketball game maybe 100 kids all set out into different teams play in their hearts out. There were winners and they were losers. I think that you and marauder want that to change. Or tell me , ...[text shortened]... nd losers. Do you like winners and losers …..another question a liberal does not know how to answer.
So no reason why you hate America?


@AverageJoe1 said
Nope what? You are the worst , no offense.
And no offense, but no one cares if you like Carlin or not, or if you like camel or Colbert or who likes them or who does it.
And once again, you totally evade the issue. The issue is not about whether you like him, it is that you brought him up, then you asked me why I brought him up, and I responded that you brought him up. You liberals certainly can give us a headache. You really do waste your time with your naivety.
It beats ignorance and arrogance.


@Arkturos said
Had you already established that AJ1 really does hate America?

And it seems that it has been a day and a few hours since this post of yours -- so, just busy or traveling, or do the rest of us really get to enjoy your well-deserved and long-awaited time-out this holiday season? 😉
Of course he hates America.

Notice that I didn't say anything that invites your comment.


@AverageJoe1 said
Tell us in your own words how is leaving children behind. I don’t study depths like you fellers, too busy, just touch on standard subjects for entertainment, like “See The Half Boy Hamf Girl!!” heavy politics, when I was not in the room in such decisions of education were made, would make me unequiipped on this
You're unequipped alright.

Learn to spell, for one.

Learn critical thinking, for another.


@Suzianne said

Notice that I didn't say anything that invites your comment.
It's a public forum.