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I was in a group conversation with near-strangers recently and the topic of the US presidential election came up (we're in Norway, this was in Norwegian) (hexbear.net)

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I mentioned that I voted, and they naturally asked me who I voted for. I said, "De la Cruz. Third party."

"Sorry, I didn't quite catch that?", one of them said, and the whole group looked at me a bit puzzled — so I reiterated, "De la Cruz, a third-party candidate."

"...Wait, there's a *THIRD* party?"

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the main thing with the Euro mindset towards American i-voted is similar to American electoralism: theatre.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It was a pretty painfully liberal conversation all around, so I mostly stayed out of it. I feel like it was probably enough to just make clear who I voted for instead of aggressively going after every single bit of nonsense they said.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Incidentally, yesterday I watched the Boondocks episode "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" and plus ça fuckin change I tell you hwat

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

Great episode

"This child's indifference was so great, it made me want to take a razor and slit my own throat"

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm certain a huge percentage of Americans don't know there are third parties. And I bet a sizeable number of Americans think Bernie is "third party". More than 50% of Americans read below a 6th-grade level. And - of course - Americans who can read at higher level usually don't. We aren't nation of readers either.

I was going to quote the literacy in the United States Wikipedia page but I decided not to. I noticed two things that are funny together.

I assume the text is intentionally written to be obtuse, annoying, and unclear because it damages so much of the American mythos. The text is even worse than when I visited the page ~6 months ago.
The average American would never, ever read more than a paragraph of that or similar crap because they can't.

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Snopes is a very American site and can take forever to get to the point but they did answer their main question simply.

Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level?

Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below a 6th-Grade Level?

This claim is true

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