I feel like this joke would be a lot funnier without any of the bumper stickers, just playing on the Subaru meme. Or maybe just a single pride flag.

As it is, each bumper sticker seems like an additional layer of desperation from the artist to make sure you get their joke. Which isn’t particularly clever or funny to begin with tbh…

Vintage dank maymay

A ONE-TIME tax is still too much for them! Incredible. Meanwhile there are people who expect to discharge 5% of their money on a one-time expense such as needing chemotherapy, or paying their phone bills. Market gains would likely recoup the entire 5% for the billionaires after about 12-18 months. But even this is just unacceptable for them.

The fact that even the vast, legendary popularity of Star Wars hasn’t helped in that regard kind of makes me question the ability of fiction to make an impact in society’s way of thinking, sad as that is to consider

Wow, even with everything going on these days it’s been a long time since I’ve seen this fella. I can’t believe I’m getting a nostalgia wave over god damn Pedobear of all things

Is he still around or did I finally just block him? I truly don’t remember. Oh yeah NVM I blocked him.

They all wanna be the guy to go through the door and say “clear!” Lol

I downvoted it because it’s pseudo-scientific nonsense

Signed, fit man who has hours of le sexy sex with 3d girls and also watches porn and ejaculates average once a day

So what now? I suppose I’m an outlier? Or just lying perhaps? Oh wait I’ve got one! If I didn’t watch porn I’d have triple sexier sex, right?

Mrw my coworker tells me they have to use the bathroom during a meeting and I start violently vomiting from the visceral images and imagined scent of their shit and piss. And then everyone acts like I’M the weird one

No disrespect, but I believe you have missed my point - I understood that you’re pointing out that only looking at English literacy is shortsighted. I’m suggesting that English literacy is by far the only significant metric when it comes to someone’s ability to function, especially with poltical wisdom, in the United States. It doesn’t really matter if half the population is fluent in Vietnamese when all the political debates are in English. This forces them to rely on third-party (questionable) commentary and interpretation for all their news and understanding of the political environment.

If we were talking about a country like Switzerland, where signage, documents, and official material is easily accessible in multiple languages, and where political discussion widely occurs im multiple languages, then I would agree that measuring only German literacy is misleading and not meaningful. But the United States is not that type of country, so it is specifically English literacy that matters, especially when we’re talking about being politically informed.

TLDR; if I speak fluent Latin, but no other languages, and I live in Kentucky, it is pretty fair to describe me as illiterate. The literacy I do possess functionally does not exist.

It looks like around one third of the illiterate group was not born in the U.S, so I would guess it’s somewhere around there. That still means over half of the illiterate group was born and raised in the U.S, which to me can only be a fault of education whether they’re fluent in other languages or not.

On the other hand, if even the Daily Mail with their pretty prominent right leaning bias is putting out this report, I find that more alarming than the same report coming from, say NYT.

I feel ya, but the practical reality is that almost all news, all social media, all politics, all technical information, all medical information, and all official documents are presented primarily or only in English.

Yes America doesn’t have an official language, but if you had to pick between living here with fluent Spanish and no English, vs. fluent English but no Spanish, which do you think is gonna give you an easier time by far?

I don’t find 21% illiteracy hard to believe. I went to a particularly good high school, and even there about 1/5 kids could only read books aloud in a painfully halting, word-by-word manner. And they could either read aloud or understand what they read, not both. And again this was a top-rated high school in the area by far. And just look at the social media trend of flashing words one by one as captions - people pretend it’s for those with sound down or hearing difficulties, but the truth is it makes the content vastly more digestible for people who can’t pay attention to words but get overwhelmed by the sight of full sentences. So even the people who can read are fantastically bad at it.

Ah I see the Palantir + Flock + Instagram license plate to demographic cross-referencing system must be up and running. (Joking but worth realizing that there is no technical barrier to the existence of such a thing)

Jokes aside, this hits close to home. RIP Renee Good :c

They do matter. Because the fact that nobody took those critiques seriously is what caused people not to vote for her. The fact that nobody took those critiques seriously 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30, even 40 years ago - is how the United States entered the situation that it is now. Half a century of “barely good enough” on the “representatives” of the left and we wonder why America is the way it is.

And ultimately, she lost, because people didn’t vote. And those people clearly stated why. In advance. For years. Yet the Democrats still insisted that everyone do as they’re told.

Think about it, if the line had been drawn 40 years ago, and voters said “No, we won’t vote for someone who is merely not as bad as the other guy. We only will vote for someone we actually WANT to vote for”. Then maybe that election we would have got some shitty right winger due to low dem turnout. But the next election, the Democrats might have run someone who was actually more left leaning. But voters didn’t do that, and instead they get shitty half-left democrats, and this moves the window to the right. One day that window is far enough to the right to make room for Trump. That’s not only the responsibility of the Republicans dragging the window the right, that’s the responsibility of Democrats refusing to ever drag the window back to the left. And that’s a direct result of Democrat voters repeatedly sucking it up and voting for someone they don’t really like.

I truly believe that if Kamala had been elected, the same process would repeat, the window would move further right, and the next time a Republican won it would a Trump 3.0 type figure as a result. So as bad as it is that Trump is president, given that our option was lancing the infected boil now or letting it balloon some more and get even more infected, only to be lanced in a more disastrous way later. This was the decision in the minds of those who did not support Harris - even if you think they had the wrong idea, can you at least respect their reasoning and see how it is not the sort of petty revenge that you mistakenly imagine it to be?

Realize that electing Harris would only have prolonged the inevitable. The movement Trump fostered was and is growing and will continue growing after he dies. There is a deep systemic problem of which Trump is a symptom, not a cause. Remember when Biden got elected? And what good has that done us now? Kamala would have simply been another delay of the reckoning that is occurring now. She would not have made actual PROGRESS in defusing the time bomb. You can say it’s still better to have delayed it, but why? No lives would be saved, it would just be different lives impacted.

Try to at least engage with people who are also on the left, mind you, in an honest way rather than making strawman jokes about them. I understand why you think people should have voted for Harris, and although I disagree with your reasoning, I’m not posting thought-terminating jokes about your view, but instead trying to express a nuanced reason for why people think slightly differently. This is the kind of unity that the left must exhibit if we want any positive change to happen. I understand you’re mad at people for making what you see as a bad decision, but what good comes from making fun of them for it now? It only creates division.

I must not try to change the morons.

Changing the morons is the time-killer.

Changing the morons is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face the stupidity of the morons.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the morons have gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.