I feel like 27% of America is irredeemable

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.

https://m.xkcd.com/552/

This whole ordeal has been illuminating when it comes to seeing some people's morals and integrity. We have way too many evil bastards living among us.

27% of USians think this is justified. Let that sink in. You don’t need to be able to read or write to watch the videos.

27% of USians are subhuman predators.

How literate do you have to be to understand murder is wrong? 🤔

This is insulting to illiterate people.

If those 28% could read they would be very upset right now.

It is nauseating that such a high number approve. I just can't accept that. Is this thing broken? Is it even on?

It’s the 27% Crazification Factor. I read this years ago and it never seems to fail.

So literacy is improving; Up to 73% from 72% 3 years ago!

#SilverLining #Sarcasm

Americans realising things about other Americans that the rest of the world already knew.

So what are the 73% going to do about it?

What do you mean by 'only'!?

What's the source on the quote? As far as I'm aware PIAAC doesn't make any statements about difficulty like that, since it doesn't particularly track with the description of Level 1 reading comprehension.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: you could poll a thousand random Americans and get about 25% in favor of eating light bulbs and severing diplomatic relations with the magical land of Oz.

It may or may not always be the same group of people across the same demographics, but about one in four Americans have got some real serious problems.

I know someone who can barely read and still knows this is wrong.

That's way too fucking high.

Add a couple more percentage points and you have all the trump voters. NOT.SHOCKED.

I think these polls are interesting but tell us more way more about the media landscape than the people being polled.

For starters, about 3-5% of the population has ASPD or borderline symptoms. About 1/4 of the general population suffers from a mental illness and 35-50% of extreme cases go untreated in high income countries.

So right there we would expect probably ~10% of the population completely disconnected from normal social function. In the USA those numbers are probably a bit inflated because conservatives have consistently gutted any programs that might target those issues and keep people functioning in society.

Of course that's not to say everyone suffering from an untreated mental illness is automatically a fascist. What's interesting is how the GOP (and Heritage Foundation and Koch brothers, et al.) have accomplished is a near total capture of that population.

When was the last time you interacted with someone completely unhinged (*in real life) who wasn't spouting fascist propaganda? Gone are the halcyon days of off-putting, but relatively benign, alien/bigfoot conspiracies. Those vulnerable groups have been co-opted and put into lock-step with fascism via targeted disinformation.

Amplify that skepticism into the mainstream and suddenly you'll have another 10% or more who find its palatable and convenient to accept simple and ugly regressive answers to their problems ("Mad about healthcare? You're smart enough to know that's not a lizard people conspiracy, it's brown people taking your taxes!"). Believe it or not, people can be racists or asshole without automatically licking fascist boots and signing up for ethnic cleansing.

Then take that solid 20% and astroturf a bunch of hateful fascist narratives online and another apathetic chunk will just go along with it ("Well I didn't look too closely but 15 RealAmericanPatriot accounts said it was self defense, they can't all be wrong")

All this to say if you see 80% in a US poll that is universal support from the general population that exists in the same universe as you. If you see more than 80%, then the fascist base actually cracking. From that perspective these polls are mostly rage bait because you won't see a change in polling until the change is really obvious in real life.

Thank you for bringing some humor to these dark times.

What happened in Minnesota was NOT even justified - some person got killed in cold blood for no reason whatsoever, and that's terrible. Seriously!

On the other interpretation: 27% are so dumb or uninfomed that they still believe what the federal government says.