• courageousstep@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    I was initially really confused by this meme because Neanderthals were actually creative and rather culturally rich, unlike this administration.

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      7 hours ago

      Neanderthals were a lot like homosapiens (in fact they could breed, and they did) They could paint cave walls. They had culture and social structures. They were destroyed by violent invaders.

      • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        i think you’ve got to consider the audience. roughly 1 in 5 americans are ILLITERATE. about 1 in 2 americans read at a 6th grade level. it’s easier to manipulate these people than a bunch of preschool kids.

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            10 hours ago

            our schools have become child warehouses thanks to Bush’s dedication to standardized testing, Obama’s dedication to fixing the standardized testing problem not by saying “this didn’t work” but instead focusing on getting more kids into charter schools, Trump’s dedication to just simply ruining the whole thing by defunding and deregulating, and then Biden’s inability to address any of the things that really mattered, instead focusing on traditional economic indicators.

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            12 hours ago

            They’re comparing the current administration, which is canceling all research and progress such as the invention of the wheel (or other scientific development), to the Neanderthals, who are in pop culture stupid and backward people.

            But it falls flat because Neanderthals were smarter than Trump and Elon combined.