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Modern society tortures <110 IQs by forcing them to pretend to be literate
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Date: September 15th, 2016 7:56 PM Author: insecure base anyone who has had to work with poors and even the working poor knows that most of them aren't functionally literate and even those that are are incapable of reading and processing written information like people everyone here would consider dumb
the written word robbed them of oral culture and in its place we have an entire society built around tasks they can't perform leaving them permanently stressed and bewildered |
Date: September 15th, 2016 7:57 PM Author: crystalline locus sandwich I don't think these people find it torturous. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31416937) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 7:57 PM Author: yapping set community account (15 percenter) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31416941) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 7:58 PM Author: crystalline locus sandwich Youtube, facebook never seem to run out of barely literate people willing to comment on things. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31416949) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:26 PM Author: insecure base those illiterate youtube commenters are almost certainly above median IQ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417180) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:35 PM Author: supple stock car principal's office disagree but they're almost certainly in the top 2/3 and most are above median (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417247) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:00 PM Author: insecure base try sitting down with some poor helping her navigate some multipage document, they express this stress generally by being either completely subservient or rude and aggressive, but stupid people are generally angry and have poor impulse control so this shouldn't be surprising (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31416965) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:23 PM Author: Cerise Rambunctious Plaza Idea He Suggested i'm highly literate with test scores in the top 99th percentile, but even i find legal documents to be stressful and bewildering to read. i just want to rip them up and curse whoever wrote them most of the time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417522) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:30 PM Author: insecure base A program I worked for wisely didn't require any reading or paperwork from clients. Generally Reptiles are against this because we want to shame people or make getting gibs difficult, but if you're actually interested in helping the vulnerable in some small, practical ways doing it like that is more efficient for everyone involved and thus better. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417573) |
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Date: September 8th, 2018 3:34 AM Author: fuchsia stage they don't know what torturous means (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#36768277) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 7:57 PM Author: unholy curious business firm liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31416938) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 7:59 PM Author: Federal ultramarine boltzmann roast beef "the written word robbed them of oral culture and in its place we have an entire society built around tasks they can't perform leaving them permanently stressed and bewildered"
fuck, this is probably true. no wonder they like TV so much. |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:01 PM Author: racy ivory kitchen coffee pot I took a class at a community college years ago and had to "peer review" some papers. They were atrocious beyond belief. We're surrounded by people who can barely read or write. Oh, but they know all about UFC and fantasy football, believe me! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31416974) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:02 PM Author: crystalline locus sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31416977) |
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Date: September 7th, 2018 4:21 PM Author: iridescent passionate institution potus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#36765212) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 11:59 AM Author: Metal ebony market background story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980546) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:23 PM Author: vigorous pozpig stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986483) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:03 PM Author: insecure base 180 & relevant Coomaraswamy essay, which I think about whenever this comes to mind: http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=The_Bugbear_of_Literacy_by_Ananda_Coomaraswamy.pdf
The anthropologist Paul Radin points out that “the distortion in our whole psychic life and in our whole apperception of the exter nal realities produced by the invention of the alphabet, the whole tendency of which has been to elevate thought and thinking to the rank of the exclusive proof of all verities, never occurred among primitive peoples,” adding that “it must be explicitly recognized that in temperament and in capacity for logical and symbolical thought, there is no difference between civilized and primitive man,” and as to “progress,” that none in ethnology will ever be achieved “until scholars rid themselves, once and for all, of the curi ous notion that everything possesses an evolutionary history; until they realize that certain ideas and certain concepts are as ultimate for man” as his physical constitution. “The distinction of peoples in a state of nature from civilized peoples can no longer be maintained.” |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 10:08 AM Author: transparent coiffed fat ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38979980) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:09 PM Author: insecure base it's true that most poors & dumbs are uncurious and I'd say some of that is IQ, some of that is conditioning, some of that is genetic/cultural, but there are very curious persons who aren't necessarily very verbal and there's no outlet for them to have access to learning any more so they generally eat up the closest thing to "informative" programming that's offered to them by TV, Ancient Aliens and stuff like that. (No one thinks to aim actual historical programming in a fashion that would capture their eyes, but Ancient Aliens is actually really hook-laden.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417021) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:18 PM Author: insecure base libs will never create a just society for all people until they admit their favored forms of society are only suited to an abstraction-loving cognitive elite
forms of society which reduce abstraction should be favored even if they provide fewer opportunities for making money out of thin air |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:38 PM Author: topaz gay wizard the unexamined life is not worth living
but good look on your reptile utopia |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:01 PM Author: insecure base ljl that you think the examined life requires literacy
there's a reason socrates was skeptical of writing, nigga |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:03 PM Author: topaz gay wizard OP was arguing for anti-abstraction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417387) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:05 PM Author: insecure base there's nothing abstract about self-knowledge
casino money, debt, paperwork otoh |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:10 PM Author: insecure base anyhow it's not even clear that literacy is as much of an aid to philosophical abstraction as we tend to assume
formal logic can't exist pre-literacy but its actual utility to philosophy is still an open question (considering that analytic philosophy is basically worming its way back to ancient thinkers in the past couple decades)
and in any case the problem isn't literacy, it's presuming your society on it when most persons are not capable of even superficial literacy, much less the sort of thing we meant when we called men literate centuries ago (read the Coomaraswamy essay brother) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:12 PM Author: topaz gay wizard fair enough (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417437) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:47 PM Author: blathering tank travel guidebook literacy is an unconscionable burden (xo poa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417299) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:00 PM Author: Irradiated Cocky Lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417376) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 9:01 PM Author: insecure base u seem low iq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417383) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 8:48 PM Author: Garnet Balding Home Windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31417306) |
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Date: September 15th, 2016 10:27 PM Author: insecure base (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#31418079) |
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Date: September 7th, 2018 4:27 PM Author: Canary bossy location boiling water this OP is supremely CR, my feelings exactly. smart people dont understand how STRESSFUL and SCARY the modern world is for smaller brained people. there is an expectation for everyone to stay up to date on everything happening around them and to understand the complexities of the world in depth, but normal people don't have the physiological capability to do this, and so they end up just feeling lost and frightened and confused
this is one of the reasons why mainstream media brainwash and gaslighting is so effective. many normies *know* that they're not getting the real story from the media, but they don't know where else to turn. how could they ever tell who is telling them the truth and who is lying to them? |
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Date: September 7th, 2018 4:29 PM Author: comical garrison cr they get all discombobulated and start buying crypto (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#36765280) |
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Date: September 7th, 2018 4:33 PM Author: Canary bossy location boiling water you joke, but i know some people like this, and then they lost all their money because they wouldn't listen to my advice to sell while it was high. their rationale included:
"it's not technically worth anything anyway" (????) "i might as well just hold onto it until the end, since if i sell now i would just be losing money" (jfc) "once it gets low enough, it has to start going back up again"
crypto ended up just being yet another resource-extracting scam on dumb people. i don't even know why it's legal for people under 120 IQ to purchase investment products. well, i know why, but....yeah |
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Date: September 8th, 2018 3:20 AM Author: comical garrison I wasn't joking, crypto investing is one of many examples of certain people suffering fundamental cognitive confusion caused by modernity. And I'm bullish on BTC long-term but most people can't handle it in the short run.
In a way, the SEC does try to prevent people with less than 120 IQ from investing in anything other than vanilla investments via things like accredited investor requirements and stringent regulations on brokers. Crypto happens to be unregulated and decentralized so normies get the chance to go buckwild. |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:20 PM Author: electric mint tattoo *swalllows duffel bag of fentanyl* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986474) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 2:06 PM Author: Garnet Balding Home Windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986668) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 2:13 PM Author: internet-worthy karate i read the poast above yours and was about to type in "did you hear that luis, you caveman negro?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986709) |
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Date: September 7th, 2018 4:29 PM Author: know-it-all theater hmmm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#36765284) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 9:55 AM Author: Canary bossy location boiling water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38979930) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 11:42 AM Author: floppy geriatric whorehouse nowag then we operate under a legal fiction that every adult understands every document given to them, even 10 page contracts written in 8 point font, and specifically assents to each and every word.
we go along with this even though everyone admits that NOBODY reads these things. |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 8:14 AM Author: insecure base ancients saw the written world almost like a form of possession— to the degree dumbs read, it*is* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38979719) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 12:27 PM Author: Canary bossy location boiling water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980679) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 11:43 AM Author: floppy geriatric whorehouse nowag I recently read that, somewhere in the past 5 years or so, we've likely hit a turning point where the *majority* of person to person communication is via the written word, not the spoken word, something that would've been completely unthinkable throughout human history (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980462) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 11:47 AM Author: insecure base we are doomed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980479) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 11:50 AM Author: Canary bossy location boiling water jfc absolutely devastating (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980487) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 12:05 PM Author: abusive chartreuse wrinkle patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980569) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 12:14 PM Author: laughsome state just look at how xo looks down at someone with a 150 lsat. That score is inconceivable to 95% of people in this country. For most families if you got a 150 on the lsat you would be the smartest person in that family's history. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980604) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 12:16 PM Author: floppy geriatric whorehouse nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980617) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 12:21 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38980652) |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 12:26 PM Author: Canary bossy location boiling water yeah but if you get a 150 on the LSAT you are still waaayyy too dumb to be worrying about abstractions or to be entrusted with societal power and responsibility based on the manipulation of abstractions to reach conclusions about the world and extrapolating the future based on those conclusions
that's the whole point of this thread. somebody who gets a 150 on the LSAT has no way of knowing or understanding this. if they did, they'd be getting a lot better than 150 on the LSAT |
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Date: October 15th, 2019 11:12 PM Author: insecure base yeah, the point is "literacy" in terms of basic functional literacy is only achievable by a minority, and actual literacy/abstract thought is a tiny minority of that minority
premising society on everyone being the former is insane, but we manage to do it on the latter as well |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 12:48 PM Author: floppy geriatric whorehouse nowag it's hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986289) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2020 10:27 PM Author: Metal ebony market background story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#40476607) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 12:48 PM Author: Trip Bbw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986292) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:10 PM Author: electric mint tattoo thread made me depressed about being a retard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986403) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:12 PM Author: floppy geriatric whorehouse nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986420) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:13 PM Author: frisky shaky friendly grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986425) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:20 PM Author: electric mint tattoo not flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986468) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:29 PM Author: Garnet Balding Home Windowlicker No (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986508) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 1:21 PM Author: buff incel degenerate some truth to that, but the real purpose of forcing education on everyone is to mold young minds with the propaganda of the elite (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986478) |
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Date: October 16th, 2019 2:06 PM Author: insecure base (John Taylor Gatto) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#38986667) |
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Date: June 21st, 2020 5:45 AM Author: floppy geriatric whorehouse nowag Tremendously important thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#40465089) |
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Date: June 21st, 2020 8:16 AM Author: stirring brindle library scourge upon the earth xo dweebs vastly overrate the importance of intelligence
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Date: June 22nd, 2020 10:22 PM Author: insecure base so we shouldn't base society on its general distribution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#40476572) |
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Date: December 29th, 2023 1:14 AM Author: insecure base (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#47225459) |
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Date: December 29th, 2023 2:27 AM Author: supple stock car principal's office there are more of these people than there are autistics yet the burdens placed on the latter feel more unjust to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#47225539) |
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Date: December 29th, 2023 7:39 AM Author: salmon fiercely-loyal crackhouse antidepressant drug Credited, Scumbags are always confused and angry when they have to deal with things now. The world is too complicated. Just look at cars, like 20 years ago you just needed “Scumbag know how” to fix one, now it’s impossible with all the computers and shit.
The shit modern world has on the other hand created a fairly literate population of Redditor-type Losers who can write fairly well (Reddit poasts usually have good spelling/grammar/etc.) but are complete NPCs with their views. Even when the modern shit world pumps out people smart enough to read and write, they are too dumb to think. Loser Clique is expert at not seeing the forest for the trees. |
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Date: December 29th, 2023 7:45 AM Author: Very tactful onyx resort pisswyrm Excellent post, number 14. Yeah I mean it seems like with boomers the dumb ones write like idiots or in all caps but there really are a lot of “educated” millennials who can poast coherently but are dumb as hell. Reddit is a haven for them. |
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Date: December 29th, 2023 7:43 AM Author: Very tactful onyx resort pisswyrm I feel like society tortures karlstack by forcing him to try to write (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3352857&forum_id=2#47225787) |
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Date: May 21st, 2025 4:51 PM Author: insecure base https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read
relevant reading |