I hate to rain on y'all's parade, but the US measure of literacy is much more stringent than China's. America is counting literacy as the ability to use print materials like brochures and manuals fluently, the rest of the world just bases literacy on the ability to read a handful of test sentences in a controlled testing context. That's the reason that America appears to have gone down as well, they switched literacy measures. The 79% measure is people who are "at or below level 1 literacy", meaning it counts people who met level 1, people who didn't meet level 1, and people who couldn't even take the test at all because of a language barrier or disability. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179.pdf

I'm all for dunking on America but the apples to apples here would be comparing America's 96% (just excluding those below level 1) to China's 97%. Historical materialism requires a true material basis to work.

well, if you're willing to blow $250K on a submarine joyride when people are dying of malaria and would survive with $10 of medication, you deserve every 🦀 you get. RIP BOZOS.

hey, why'd you use the r-word there?

Remember, the 13th Amendment didn't illegalize slavery, it just required you to go through the song and dance of securing a bullshit contrived criminal conviction for your slaves before you use them.

love how the author chose to illustrate the "Europe" ship as 100% white passengers and with a ton of extra open space on it. Really drives it home what they're doing here.

Jews were able to make the world remember [the Holocaust], and the whole world bows to them, being afraid of saying one wrong word to them

~ Alexander Lukashenko

The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad. German order evolved over the centuries and attained its peak under Hitler. This corresponds with our understanding of a presidential republic and the role of a president in it

~ Also Alexander Lukashenko

Doesn't really have anything to do with his policies, just make sure you factor in that he's a raging antisemite if you're deciding whether he's "based" or not

And then literally every company in the middle has a controlling share of it held by Blackrock, Vanguard, or State Street

not gonna lie comrade, this seems extremely unbalanced, I'm not even half way through and we've already hit the population crisis smears, atrocity propaganda, "Chinese companies are poisoning baby food for profit", China waging a "war on terror", somehow criticizing China for being a hyper-authoritarian hellscape and the wild west at the same time, and then some. I'm gonna finish it out but unless this was all a big gotcha this is basically straight from US official propaganda

Start infights. Identify ideological differences that are relatively close to fifty-fifty in support and inflammatory in nature, and pick a side and be really loud about it, especially detracting from the opponents. DeSantis/Trump would be a good one. Maybe "Russia is better than America" from the right would get some bites

Or, y'know, you have to be a kid who's been spoonfed propaganda about the Heroes in Blue their whole life

the hyper-abridged version:

Each "instance" (beehaw, lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, etc) is like its own small self-enclosed Reddit. "Federation" is the process that allows the instances to talk to each other - like for example, users registered at the beehaw instance can go and comment on posts from the lemmy.ml instance. This allows each instance to keep its own culture while granting the breadth of community of having every user able to interact with every other user. Some communities "defederate", which basically means an instance decides that for whatever reason they don't want their users interacting with users from another instance. So the network isn't fully connected, but instead forms a distributed network. Totally down to answer more quetsions despite my account only being like an hour old lol

Redwoods absorb water through their foliage because they're too tall to efficiently carry water all the way up from the ground and I think that's based as fuck

also new acc what up comrades I'm here to hang out from hexbear ✌️