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"There was a survey done in America asking people if they could remember year that 9/11 took place. And get this, 30% of the people polled couldn't remember that it was 2001. "
-The Chasers

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Come to Indiana hon, I'm sure I know some of those people! Or Kentucky

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
This is all entertaining, but it's a hoax. I just tried to find said teens.

The "people are getting stupider" is on the list of MSM/NWO/TPTB conspiracy propaganda myths being broadcast for a long time. I would think that PN would be on to that one by now.

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Originally posted by two:

Did all these people go directly from being babies to adults without passing years and years in school? Are there 60,000,000 Jane & Jayne Cobbs in the USA?

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Um... Take any reports from Detroit with a grain of salt. It's a proud city, but parts of it are more like the Gaza strip with gunfire instead of IEDs. Kids in the really bad areas are assumed criminal, and so either thrown in jail as a matter of course or locked up in the maximum security... schooling system.

They're not going to be able to learn much while essentially at gun point. Also, we're probably not looking at a Jayne Cobb demographic here. We're looking at inner city kids living in extreme urban decay. Also watch out for the hefty dose of racism from the normally white city officials.

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Haven't heard as much about Houston politics, so that might be legitimate. Looking at a quick comparison of literacy by city, several Texas cities are in the bottom ten. But the national trend for literacy appears to be upward. http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp] "In the US, adults with a high level of literacy are at 19%, a low level of literacy are at 49.6% and a moderate level of literacy at 31.4%." - www.caliteracy.org/rates/

Using that 49.6% rate gives the USA 150,000,000 Jane and Jayne Cobbs. The more you look, the worse it seems - perhaps half the USA knows not who Osama is. And feel no need to know.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Considering the goal here was to prove people are dumb, And they have 200 million twitter accounts to draw from, and they searched on deliberately things, this is a pretty poor showing to support the argument.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:

The "people are getting stupider" is on the list of MSM/NWO/TPTB conspiracy propaganda myths being broadcast for a long time.

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