I feel like 27% of America is irredeemable
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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That’s generally the percentage of humans who lack empathy and/or abstract reasoning skills.
Like charlie kirk
I think a certain set of people just don't have the bandwidth to deal with the complexity of the modern world so just accept the simplest loudest solution. Its not neccesarily lack of empathy so much as a perception of protecting their tribe.
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Some may go as far as to call them deplorable
Nazis
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.
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.
That phrase has been forever tainted, no matter the gravity of the topic I can't not think of those fucking bean people
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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.
You don't always have to look at our past for comparisons, you had stuff like that in the past too.
We need more community defense classes now more than ever. Seriously!
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How literate do you have to be to understand murder is wrong? 🤔
Level 2, apparently.
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This is insulting to illiterate people.
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Wait no, I'm dumb.
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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.
25% also has an IQ lower than 90.
Yeah, but I know some pretty smart dumb people and some pretty dumb smart people. I don’t think it’s IQ thing, at least alone (don’t event really buy the whole IQ thing).
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it's basically our wolfman constant, only with wildly dangerous results
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.
Man the pandemic already opened my eyes to this.
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What do you mean by 'only'!?
So what are the 73% going to do about it?
Create a Batman meme.
What they should do is organize, rebuild community support for local issues and better representation, volunteer and create more connections so that the highest levels of federal government have less power and so that the minority doesn't have all the power simply by being armed, nationalististic and dumb, such as the grassroots campaigns that have helped openly progressive and socialist local leaders take power recently.
What they will likely do is keep working 6 days a week to afford basic necessities, and feel so overwhelmed and stressed by the world outside of their immediate needs for survival that they only get their political information from memes on facebook when they browse social media for 45 minutes on a Sunday night after putting the kids to bed, and as a result will vote in the next person who says "I'm good at politic, please elect me."
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.
Not sure if it's the original but a search led me to this National University:49 Adult Literacy Statistics and Facts for 2026
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.
Similar to the percentage of dedicated Trump bootlickers on both counts
Add a couple more percentage points and you have all the trump voters. NOT.SHOCKED.
That's way too fucking high.
I know someone who can barely read and still knows this is wrong.
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.
On the other interpretation: 27% are so dumb or uninfomed that they still believe what the federal government says.
What happened in Minnesota was NOT even justified - some person got killed in cold blood for no reason whatsoever, and that's terrible. Seriously!
Those numbers are ungodly close......sigh I honestly expected them to be higher tho....still don't feel better about it
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