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FirstLight

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3. The dumbing down continues

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Mar 23, 2025, 04:53 PM

Mar 2025

I think I read here the other day that something like 2/3 of Americans read at a sixth grade level. Things like museums and libraries will be in the history books... oh wait history books won't exist either

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Trump cuts could starve nations' museums, libraries [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 OP

The goal is to destroy American culture. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #1

Well since he's living in the 70s-90s SARose Mar 2025 #2

The dumbing down continues FirstLight Mar 2025 #3

I wonder when he will close the Smithsonian museums and especially the African American and Native American ones. kimbutgar Mar 2025 #4