21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics

Illiteracy is a huge and intentional crisis in America and is a major reason we're in the mess we're in now. American education has been steadily hollowed out since public schools were integrated and now those chickens are coming home to roost. We are in for a long, bad time of rebuilding I'm afraid.

Sorry idr if this from source article or one linked in it:

Training was slashed from 16 weeks to six, with sit-ups eliminated because recruits couldn't handle them.

These nazis are so fucking pathetic in every conceivable way lol

it would be so much funnier if they weren't destroying lives and killing people

So we fired hundreds of thousands of competent civil servants, including highly specialized scientists and doctors, and hired these stupid fucking losers?

Awesome. Glad that waste, fraud, and abuse is gone I guess.

The shooter is a 10+ year veteran of the agency. ICE has always been bad and filled with violent nationalists.

Also, this is far more damning of our education system. It should be difficult to find and recruit that many illiterate people.

"The explosive Daily Mail report..."

Not to defend ICE or nothin', but Daily Fail isn't exactly known for accurate journalism...

All I could think of

They offered lots of money to join ICE to the worst people. Why is this surprising? They wanted thugs, they got thugs, not Harvard grads.

"This isn't the department of baking cookies," one source said. "This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country. And we're now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces”

And giving them firearms…

I mean, if you can read and write, you can probably get a real job.

Being a pedophile protector isn't a real job. It's a temporary job where you either get killed, arrested, or commit suicide.

Damn, if only they were qualified, surely things would be better. Sorry, seriously who gives a shit at this point, these people are all nazi scum, i don't care if they are fat and cannot read, the issue is what they are doing and what they believe.

To boot, sex harassment accusations emerged, with a source describing to the Daily Mail predatory behavior during training.

I went to nazi boot camp and they guys there were all nazis

shocker

USA recreating Hitlers SA "Brownshirts"

"Hitler also relied on terror to achieve his goals. Lured by the wages, a feeling of comradeship, and the striking uniforms, tens of thousands of young jobless men put on the brown shirts and high leather boots of the Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilungen). Called the SA, these auxiliary policemen took to the streets to beat up and kill some opponents of the Nazi regime. "

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These ICE thugs and their direct leaders should also turn a few more pages in a history book to find out what Hitler did to the SA brownshirts:

"Night of the Long Knives, in German history, purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler on June 30, 1934. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Röhm. Also killed that night were hundreds of other perceived opponents of Hitler."

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I never in my life would have imagined that Idiocracy Movie would be used as a playbook to USA politics.

The trigger men for the killing fields of Cambodia and the Tiananmen Square Massacre were illiterate peasants from rural areas...

Why is that a bombshell? Most of these recruits probably came from terrorist cells like the Proud Boys, the Oathkeepers and other Nazi groups.

That's hardly an argument in case of US. Afteral folks out there aren't sharpest pencils...

On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024.

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics

Sounds like the target audience of MAGA

So they couldn't graduate from 6th grade?

Well doesn't this all sound like 1932 all over again.

high school grads who can "barely read or write"

'Merica.

Looks like the decades-long reputation of educational institutions is finally crumbling and Americans will at last be forced to suffer through the same "Back in my country, I was doctor. But since my degree is considered no good here, now we run a convenience store" cliche.

So educated people AREN'T looking for jobs that egregiously violate everything law enforcement is supposed to be? Color me surprised.

I mean... a good chunk of the US (and apparently also at least Western Europe) can't read or write. That is a sadly normal problem at this point. And the rest? We actively teach kids to pattern match and "guess" what the other words are from the ones they recognize. Think about that the next time it is painfully obvious that someone replying to you didn't read what you actually said.

A friend who teaches middle school has come to accept that a good chunk of why their students (and presumably the adult populace) flock to "AI Assistants" is that it is literally giving them text to speech and putting things into a format they understand. Which... combined with the tendency towards hallucination and overly praising the user is fucking horrifying.

They're not sending their best...

We are so fucked.

But they can eat.