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Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’ (www.irishstar.com)

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Self-professed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate believes reading is for people with “slow brains,” according to a recent resurfaced clip of him on X. In the video, Tate is seen bragging that his brain is too advanced for reading and that he’d rather be in constant chaos.

“I’m too smart to read. I know you’re sitting there going ‘smart people read’... no. I need action. I need constant chaos in my life to feel content. I need to be driving a supercar and f—ing fighting, f—ing a bunch of hoes and champagne… going crazy.”

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

MIddle school level is a very generous on the current generation in grade school. MATH is equally as bad english, 9-10th grade level at best as a hs graduate. alot of the problems with english and math in k-12 it is never enforced to learn, they expect you to know those skills at those level some how when you reach particular grade.

[–] karashta@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't use algebra, calculus etc. in my daily life, but I sure speak and read English every single day regardless of what I am doing.

Not sure why you'd expect everyone to know high level math when we don't use it.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Algebra is far from high-level math.

[–] karashta@piefed.social 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I was listing types of math I was forced to learn that I never really use

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You should really try using algebra, it's quite handy.

[–] karashta@piefed.social -1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's quite handy... When you have a need for it. Which I do not in my daily life.

I'm not an anti-math Luddite or something. I just don't often have a need to solve for an unknown term in a math problem in my life in the day to day.

Just because my life doesn't require it every day doesn't mean I wouldn't know when to use it.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

You never budget for a grocery store trip? You never walk into a store with $10 and think about how many cokes or whatever you can buy?

Just because someone’s not handing you an algebra worksheet, doesn’t mean you aren’t doing algebra.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

Price comparisons while grocery shopping would be a basic everyday use.