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Should be a wild four years.

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On direct orders from President Trump: After the attack outside the Jewish Museum, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will make a quick visit to Israel this evening.


Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will visit Israel on Sunday following the murder of Israeli embassy employees in Washington, per the instructions of US President Donald Trump.

Noem is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and will arrive at the Western Wall on Sunday.
 
Why would heaven need a stock market?
Even fucking Hazbin Hotel managed to mostly get this right. For as much as that series fucks around with theology to appeal to the creator's fetish for gay ships, it still portrays Heaven as an objectively appealing place that people in Hell want to get to.
Too bad all the fans are so Reddit-brained that they assume since the main character is a demon chick it automatically makes Heaven a worse place by default.
 
Since I've seen a few posts and rambling this and that's discussing in detail that a shocking amount of humanity regardless of race is walking around being functionality illiterate.
Are we sure this is a humanity problem and not just a standard 'Burger education is woefully inadequate' problem? Because I'm English and I could understand that passage perfectly well. I think a lot of English people could understand that passage perfectly well. I suppose I might be generous and say the problem is that American English and British English have evolved so separately that older examples of British English are incomprehensible to younger Americans, but there's no way I see only 15% of British readers being functionally incapable of understanding that passage.
 
You failed to read:

but please continue to have an autistic pants-filling fit over the clear fact these people cannot read at the level that they are supposed to be at for a collegiate English course.

Yes, they absolutely should not be having reactions where they think the section about 'big whiskers' is referring to a fucking cat, or that Dickens was describing ambulatory fossils slouching uphill like some necromancer was at work.

You're being retarded.
I'll write down in my notes, "Subject did not manage to verbalize a single line of the text in the allotted time period. Subject got angry and hurled insults for the duration of the allotted test period instead. Subject indicated more time would be appropriate, but failed to offer any indication they would do anything with the additional time besides continuing the same pattern. Subject insisted he was way smarter than people who made more progress on the test than he did because they made some errors along the way, but his total 0% completion rate renders such claims ridiculous.

Subject also failed basic literacy test as regards a simple modern English sentence, parsing:
Listen, we can quibble about some details here but at the end of the day the idea that this study proves they can't read is obviously not true. It's sensationalized journo-science.
as:
Listen, we can quibble about some details here but at the end of the day the idea that this study proves these people cannot read at the level that they are supposed to be at for a collegiate English course is obviously not true.
Alternatively, subject is simply aware the original statement was obviously true and decided to shift the goalposts because he is in an angry insult hurling mood and wishes to avoid being seen as a person who hurls insults and calls people stupid when he is in fact the one who is wrong on the internet."
 
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They've already been shouting "We're not gonna take it anymore" after not being able to lurk in the women's bathrooms, so they're already half the way there.
In this case, what troons actually mean is that they're "not gonna take it anymore (up the ass)" with dragon dildos. No guarantee they won't cease the practice altogether; ideally, they should stick to taking it only with power drills from here on out.
 
Subject did not manage to verbalize a single line of the text in the allotted time period.

Students read each sentence out loud and then interpreted the meaning in their own words

they are asked to read and then paraphrase

Because we wanted to see how well students could read a complex text on their own, we told the facilitators not to help the subjects interpret the text. Instead, facilitators were there to record how subjects were understanding the material and to stop them every few sentences to request an interpretation.

additionally

Each taped reading test began with a brief questionnaire in which subjects were asked to give authors and titles of specific nineteenth-century American and British literary works and to explain briefly what they knew about nineteenth-century American and British history and culture. The purpose of these questions was to see how much literary and/or cultural knowledge the subjects possessed. According to Wolfgang Iser in The Act of Reading, one’s ability to read complex literature is partly dependent on one’s knowledge of what he calls the “repertoire” of the text, “the form of references to earlier works, or to social and historical norms, or to the whole culture from which the text has emerged” (69). With Bleak House, this knowledge is crucial.

The results from the questionnaire revealed that most of these subjects could not rely on previous knowledge to help them with Bleak House; in fact, they could not remember much of what they had studied in previous or current English classes. When we asked our subjects to name British and American authors and/or works of the nineteenth-century, 48 percent of those from KRU2 and 52 percent of those from KRU1 could recall at most only one author or title on their own. The majority also could not [End Page 4] access any detail on the information they recalled; they could mention the Industrial Revolution, for example, but could not define what it was. These results suggest that the majority of the subjects in our study were not transferring the literary texts or information from previous classes into their long-term memories.
 
From a random Facebook post:

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A brief rundown, Harvard University is one of THE prestigious Ivy League schools in the country. And here's a brief list of US government officials that attended Harvard. If you care, Harvard was known to be home for the Boston Elite's education. Bankers, politicians, business owners. Interesting.

I'm pressing X to Doubt that Harvard is considered an "underdog" in this fight.
 
I live in possibly the worst state for gun control, so all I can do is cry. My AG-turned Governor literally makes it up as she goes along and no one sues.
God that sucks. Where I’m at, the only law on the book still that isn’t federal is you can’t shoot a deer with a machine gun.
 
autistic sperging
You're completely ignoring the fact that:
they absolutely should not be having reactions where they think the section about 'big whiskers' is referring to a fucking cat, or that Dickens was describing ambulatory fossils slouching uphill like some necromancer was at work.
which is not excused by time pressure or having to verbalize the work they've been given.

The only logical conclusion is you had difficulty parsing it yourself and are insecure about people viewing difficulty in reading materials that used to be given out as junior-level high school reading assignments, as a form of illiteracy. I can think of no other reason for you being so personally invested - and assblasted - about this topic.

It's fine if you're not an English major. A person studying to be an English major having such reactions to a section from a Dickensian work, however, isn't and is well below what I or any rational person would expect from someone who has spent two years in college studying the written word. Your hysterics won't change that.
 
From a random Facebook post:

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A brief rundown, Harvard University is one of THE prestigious Ivy League schools in the country. And here's a brief list of US government officials that attended Harvard. If you care, Harvard was known to be home for the Boston Elite's education. Bankers, politicians, business owners. Interesting.

I'm pressing X to Doubt that Harvard is considered an "underdog" in this fight.
So basically they're initiating entire college courses on why they're a bunch of sore losers
 
You're completely ignoring the fact that:

which is not excused by time pressure or having to verbalize the work they've been given.

The only logical conclusion is you had difficulty parsing it yourself and are insecure about people viewing difficulty in reading materials that used to be given out as junior-level high school reading assignments, as illiteracy. I can think of no other reason for you being so personally invested - and assblasted - about this topic.
Addendum: Subject loitered outside of test area hurling insults at test giver and insisting he could in fact pass the test and was smarter than all the people who did better than him on it.
 
So basically they're initiating entire college courses on why they're a bunch of sore losers
To their credit, I was able to look up free courses from Harvard's website. Searching "constitution" netted me three free results.

Free college courses...for actual college credit? Or just free information which you can already get from a million other sources?
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It doesn't even make sense in this context. What does -making sure a foreigner is sent back to their country- even have to do with being a virgin?

So -making sure justice is upheld- is now on the same category as being an incel? That's on the same level of retardation as -being successful in life- being a white supremacist only thing
It's like an animal hissing at a predator, it's a desperate last move to try and look like you're unbothered when you are, in fact, quite bothered.
 
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