I am once again saying that Americans are not just illiterate, they engage in competitive illiteracy.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2025
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I can say with great certainty that Americans do as little reading as possible, by and large. If you present them with a paragraph they're gonna try to avoid reading all the sentences unless you force them to.
"The American people are not intellectual, to put it mildly."
Truer words were never spoken
It’s like that Phoebe teaches Joey meme, they can accurately understand each individual chunk of the passage, but put it all together and their ability to see the parts for the whole goes out the window.
You can’t just reference a meme and then not post it 😤
Stealing this
No there are educated Americans who do read and shit. It's just the Americans who are educated are all either capitalists or members of the petite bourgeois like lawyers or doctors.
My parents are petite bourgeois Americans and they each read over one big book a month. But they're also both very right wing and very educated.
We live in a society where the only people who engage in books and educating themselves are the elite of social, who in their class interests are going to side with capital.
It's the exact same way here in Ireland where I live now. Working class people don't read but the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeois do.
No there are educated Americans who do read and shit.
Yes, of course. I'm making a general statement on many Americans, I'm not (and couldn't be) making a serious analysis of everyone in America.
saw a good reply that went:
social media poster: in my post I used the Torment Nexus Metaphor to highlight how tech bros misunderstanding the Torment Nexus Metaphor will go on to build the Torment Nexus
social media network CTO: at long last, i have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor at the heart of the classic social media post "Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor"
Lmaooooooo
I have to admit that It never occurred to me. A tech bro might literally say the torment nexus is when you're being mean to me or my boss.
Well, I felt tormented
“La Nexusse, c’est moi” -King Louis XIII
the tweet is right in front of him. he grabbed it, retweeted it, and yet still clearly did not read it cuz that's not what the fucking tweet means.
I think he is saying there is a new trend of using that term to describe something and this is that term’s actual etymology. And he explains to us normie libs how the kids are using that term now.
Well, now it's my torment nexus...
but AD references aside, this has greatly improved my understanding for how/why all the AI shit is the way it is
How convenient that it is simply a negative experience of the social network, and not the entire existence of the social network.
yea no wonder they think chatgpt is magic lol these people have sub gpt level of reading comprehension
“Get told “no” more often in your life,” is what I want to scream at this dipshit whenever he has a flash of introspection and wonders why he has dogshit takes.
The great thing is that the Torment Nexus tweet is just straight-up "this group of people sucks". It couldn't be any simpler!
Someone told me no, so now i'm a member of the NDSAP