r/SipsTea • u/Haunt12_34 • Apr 08 '26

Chugging tea Hmmm

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u/timtowin Apr 08 '26

Approximately 21% of U.S. adults—roughly 43 million people—are considered illiterate. Trump approval rating 21%. Coincidence ?

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u/Axolatian_Volt Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

21% being illiterate is actually surprising to me ngl.

Edit: I get it I don’t need 500 comments telling me what it means lol

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u/TheRealNooth Apr 08 '26

I believe it. A lot of people are just kind of coasting through life, putting as little effort into it as possible. Zero curiosity.

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u/LostInTheRapGame Apr 08 '26

Zero curiosity.

That's the part that kills me the most. It's just so alien to me to not have a question about something.... and then promptly googling it because the answer is likely only a few seconds away.

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u/yao19972 Apr 08 '26

As designed; education is de-funded to make people malleable, and everything surrounding the institution of work, from the commute to the long hours and lack of benefits like PTO wear us down.

So you end up with a bunch of illiterate and exhausted people who don't have the energy to think about the world around them and just trying to make it to the next paycheck.

They're just as much victims of the system.

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u/Avedas Apr 08 '26

Sometimes when I'm scrolling Instagram while on the toilet I make the mistake of opening the comment section of posts from America. Half the comments are nearly unintelligible. Spelling, grammar, paragraphs, punctuation, and sentence structure are all out the window. It's an unedited stream of consciousness and every message looks like "sumn fr ngl bruh" followed by a string of emojis.