I hope you are a young person. Over time you will learn that understanding a field takes time and that you need to spend months to get the required minimum knowledge for it. I suggest to you to actually speak with people who work in the field and do research in the field, then you will have done a short cut and can judge whether you want to help fix the problem, the structures or help individuals or if you just wanted to be right online, no matter the real life consequences for people around you.

In any case you are currently lacking the knowledge to differentiate terms, how they are used and how certain numbers are generated. Instead of trying to become an expert I recommend to you again: Speak with the experts, it is a great shortcut.

Besides that you haven’t demonstrated that you are willing to discuss, learn or do your work, which means that you aren’t really a person to be argued with online.

Should we always assume that the person to initiate a claim is more credible than lower a commenter? I agree armchair conjectures (by me) arent very helpful but it was more my intention to highlight the questionable lack of support for a claim like America doing a poor job educating people.

That claim is not at all questionable!

However even if the US would do a good job, liberal economic professor Robert Reich does present in this course good reasons that the inhomogenity of the results and who profits from what is a problem in its own that ought to be solved in terms of schooling etc.

Thanks for your comment. However that it sits in the high negative numbers (with 3 times the downvotes) shows that this instance is actually a problem. It is quite actively destroying principles of decentralized federated networks. Some very online super posters seem to participate in that.

Again it would be interesting to see who was it that downvoted your post.

The Feds had people on 100 user big BBSes.
If you followed the studies about so called “extremism” (which often ignores the extremism of the center) then lemmy played a role in that, so it is more unlikely than likely that Feds wouldn’t be on several lemmy servers.

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At the current place in time 15 people thought it was a good idea to downvote that post. That is also showing quite an obvious anti-left potential anti-liberal and US centric bias, which others for example BIPoCs would not share. Or whistleblowers.

The admins have access to that information btw. who upvotes and downvotes what. This means that closer connection to the FBI also makes it more easy for them to access the 100k+ users preferences, political leanings etc. as well as private messages. Other agencies wouldn’t even need to be involved with warrants to get that data, since the servers are harboring enough international communication that you ought to act as if intelligence agencies might have access to what you write, post and how you vote.

Decentralized lemmy verse are definitely something to aim for. It is essential for the concepts and ensures diverse communities which aren’t dominated by admin ideas and regional bias.

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and those troll-websites (and culture) is well known to retaliate in the form of DDOS attacks.

Which ones? Cause it seems you are kinda inventing a new reality unless you mean 4chan or alike (which do not have lemmy instances though right wing exploding heads would be close).

I hate to extrapolate data as an idiotic internetter but being born in the US and being illiterate could also be because

The thing is that so often people who have no clue about things and the real living situations of people do talk down on people who are experts about those questions or affected. Effectively a lot of what you did was muddying the water and thus implicitly justifying that there might be good or acceptable reasons.

You were nationalist and you were racist with that and you were also ignorant of your own history and by being that ignorant you again actively(!) marginalized the BIPoC people in the US, as well as muddied class. In your other answers you were ableist and not kind either. You could’ve been kind, but you weren’t.

Lol damn you don’t have to call me a racist

Well then don’t act like one. Don’t try to defend faults of your country, try to help the people affected by the faults. Listen to affected people and listen to experts. This is a chance to grow for you. You can be kind and you can create a welcoming place for others. To do that you would need some collective work though and maybe read How To Become an Anti-Racist (and you could also watch the liberal lecture series by Robert Reich to get more how red lining works).

Were you adding context though? Does it justify the situation if a percentage of people are migrants (who often are fluent in a language above the given literacy btw.)?

For real literacy skills in the US are a huge problem, it is a systemic problem of which the burden is heavily placed on individuals that are marginalized. Neolibs might quote:

It is estimated that these negative social and economic outcomes cost the United States $362.49 billion annually.

I say watch the whole Parenti lecture if you can: https://twitter.com/a_lutacontinua/status/936363027502391298?lang=de

“Yellow” Parenti lecture

Parenti’s questions:

• What happens to the people that can’t read in the US?
• What happens to the children (who don’t have food) in the US?
• What happens to the people without houses in the US?

Edit The fascists mentioned for example were the right wing Nicaraguan death squads, you can find more about them in the Jakarta method

Which illustrates her point well. 2/3 were born inside the US then.

Please add a /s to your comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Languages_cp-02.svg

You don’t have to compare atrocities of the scale of Nazi regimes or the Fascist Imperial Japanese regime.

The good old: “Actually people supporting trans are doing the right a service!”

Pity that hexbear is a bastion of trans posters, which means you are effectively saying: “Trans people are (used by) right wing people as ammunition!” which is right, but right wingers do weaponize everything. There is no way to behave nice enough to complacence them.

I have yet to find a post in your profile in which you do write public support for our trans comrades 🏳️‍⚧️. I doubt you will, but even if you do it it will remain performative unless you repeat it online, amplify trans voices and start to support your LGBTQ community in your meat space. However since you have no positive comment in the last month it is clear that you are objectively not supporting trans rights, since your only mention is how a group you disagree with - which itself does support trans rights - is hurting trans folk. to the audience Raise your hands if that does sound transphobe to you.

The X are poison is a very common fascist talking point that is actually a verbatim quote of not only that, but Nazi propaganda.

That isn’t literally what the person said, though. The modlog and profile on hexbear does show that they did also argue to post less about trans support, argued for people showing less support and did not accept when other, trans!, people explained their view and why he ought to chill out at least.

The ban in the mod log is also for 1 day, not eternal. Don’t trust random people when it aligns with your bias.

Wasn’t it basically trying to push IP rights and extra judicial arbiters on the other nations?

I don’t talk with unfunny liars.