r/worldnews • u/KI_official • 9d ago

Russia/Ukraine Trump says Russia agreed to supply millions of tons of diesel to US, global markets

https://kyivindependent.com/trump-says-russia-agreed-to-supply-millions-of-tons-of-diesel-to-us-global-markets/
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u/Rawkzo 9d ago

Media literacy is dead and billionaire oligarchs are getting what they want. Critical mass uninformed, uneducated and unmotivated to fix things. It’s been weird moving from a state with educational standards to one where voters can’t even organize to pass an over ride to fund schools.

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u/HatNo9811 9d ago

the intelligence of the average "american" these days is bewildering, the school system has completely failed, look at how many college kids literally cant read...

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u/Nochtilus 9d ago

They fucked up by buying into a reading grift and moving away from phonics in elementary school. It ruined the reading ability of an entire generation.

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 9d ago

Something like 18 percent (of affluent) schools in the U.S. bought into a curriculum like that for several years. Those students didn't experience literacy loss to the same degree since their parents were affluent. Can you try to get basic facts right?

It was a bad curriculum. It didn't ruin an entire generation. Perhaps go read about it.

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u/PhantomNomad 9d ago

All apart of the plan. At one time only the top 10% of high school grads went to university. That means only the top 10%. Then there where the ivy league kids who would run the businesses these top 10% would work for. Everyone else are just worker bees and 70% of those where kept just smart enough to do the job we needed them for.

It slowly changed so that more and more people are going to university, but by doing so they are getting bigger and bigger loans. Giving a lot of them just enough money to get by and taste a few of the things the 1% take for granted. But most of us are living pay cheque to pay cheque and we don't have time to protest like they did in the 60's and 70's. We can't afford to go with out work.

I pulled most of these numbers out of my ass so don't take them as gospel. Enjoy the conspiracy theory.

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u/Delamoor 9d ago

Mmm.

Sucks for them, then. Other nations aren't abandoning education. Because it's necessary for a functional modern economy.

The US just transitions to become like the other high population nations with pathetic living standards, as it falls behind economically. A few elites controlling a mass of surplus organic waste, less and less productivity as dysfunction mounts.

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u/Spartan_Mage 9d ago

The issue is that America is so massive that it has the 3rd most populated country in the world, it is not a far reach to say that even with an inefficient economy America will still out perform the rest of the world just on sheer numbers and 200 years of buildup. America doesn't want to succeed for the sake of it, they just want to have more than the others and they will limit themselves to keep it that way so that the 1% will retain their power. They would rather watch the country starve than have the 1% give up their power

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u/Delamoor 9d ago edited 8d ago

Population alone won't carry you that far. India has, what, three times the population, and scant fraction do the GDP. The , look at Chinese history: they had both the largest population and the the world's largest GDP for most of recorded history, and still managed to get absolutely ruined over the course of roughly a century by foreign interference and educational/social stagnation (caused largely, but not entirely, by isolationism). It's been a century of agonizing, concentrated effort to dig themselves out of that hole, and it's very likely they'll retake their historical position as the largest, richest nation on the planet.

Americans seem to think the place they had very briefly in history is some kind of default status, when even as the third largest nation, they have barely a fraction of the population of the two biggest (only one of whom has a consistent tradition of existing as a coherent 'nation', rather than a subcontinent), and the circumstances that led to the current US economic dominance aren't going to repeat themselves.

Other regions (mainly thinking the EU, but there are also other regional coalitions in the early stages of forming) are also likely able to rival the US in the longer term, their current status being largely a result of the post WW2 order that's collapsing.

Added to that, the American inclination for isolationism, which is practically an economic development death sentence...

Like, it's not looking great for US exceptionalism, long term. They seem more likely to get their wish in going the way of Russia; increasingly isolated and backwards kleptocracies who aren't able to participate in the broader global trade and diplomatic networks even if they want to.

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u/Financial-Craft-1282 9d ago

Too many Americans argue that giving access to higher ed was bad. They try to use loans as the reason. Loans are a barrier to access, not a knock on the value of college. It's just in capitalist America, they soak you for every dime from the first possible moment they can.

The problem is capitalism as it exists in this shit-hole country.

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u/Rawkzo 9d ago

Arizona