A picture of three consecutive articles posted to various Lemmy communities. 
The first article, posted to feddit.uk's BuyEuropean community, describes Denmark's plan to abolish VAT (value-added tax) on books to promote reading.
The second article, posted to Lemmy.world's News community, discusses a 20-year study's findings of a 40% drop in reading for pleasure amongst Americans.
The third article, posted Lemmy.world's World News community, describes the deployment of United States warships to Venezuela; an action that some people fear marks an escalation of the United States' threatening of Venezuelan sovereignity.
The juxtaposition of Denmark's willingness to forgo taxes to encourage reading while the United States spends tens of millions (if not hundreds) of dollars on warmongering leads this poster further down the path of radicalization.
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[โ€“] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That makes sense, thank you for the insight! That makes Denmark's policy largely performative then?

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