• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I bet every one of the ghouls doing this were shitkids in school and resent teachers because they tried to do their fucking jobs

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    11 hours ago

    I already support unions (in one) and adore teachers because I pretty much worship at the church of education. They have one of the most important jobs in society. It’s kinda hard to make me more sympathetic to their plight, but hey, you did it.

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    9 hours ago

    "I love the poorly educated! " - trump

    They’re just so much easier to fool into voting against their own best interests

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    I’d take that job and sabotage the shit out of their efforts. Anyone in the position actually get on that team should do the same.

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    They’ve done the decades of work to turn people against unions, convincing MAGAts that unions are proto-communist organizations that extort unfair wages though dishonest practices while sitting around not working. They have people looking over at them saying “how come you get paid so much?” Instead of “I should get paid that much too.”

    People are dumb. Whatcha gonna do.

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    15 hours ago

    I never understood why they burned witches but now I see how that would be a satisfying conclusion to some events.

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      Why? They were well-read women, aka “woke women” so they “sent a message” (don’t mess with the patriarchy). Also, King James, his Witch General Finders, and the “demonologists” were all men, and they found women an easier target to do bad things too. They argued that “their feminine wiles” misled many men; therefore, they’re in cahoots with the dark side.

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        Are you complaining that it wouldn’t be politically correct? What method of tortuous execution better fits with your morals?

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      It’s by design.

      Once upon a time, the USA had a strong middle class. Billionaires got taxed heavily, and our public schools were the envy of the world. Well funded and produced a lot of great students.

      But educated people are difficult to control and even harder to dupe. The GOP realized that if they can gut public education, the masses will become malleable again. Meanwhile, the children of the rich can continue to go to expensive private institutions for their own education. So the rich stay educated, and the poor’s go in the gutter.

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        Also cutting education now has no effect for about 25 years or so(in their view. Its approximately right but not completely true…) Their short term brainrot is so bad they would abolish education entirely in a heart beat and coast on those miniscule savings for a few decades until the world rips itself apart…

        Also, my pet conspiracy is they all know the world is going to devolve into chaos due to global heating and climate destabilization anyways so why should they care about education when its not going to produce anything worthwhile when the chaos hits… from what I’m seeing 2040 is where things get dicey and most things have inflected negative. 2050 is where things break down genuinely. Too many bad things happen at once…

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        Only problem with that is that a society like that becomes very unsuccessful, lowering the standard of living for everyone, including the rich.

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        It should also be noted that they must be malleable beneath the threshold of the GOPs competence. So to effectively manipulate, the GOP needs a population more ignorant than the DNC does. The left can afford smarter ppl because the leadership itself is more competent, it ain’t like education isn’t being gutted in blue states as well

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    They should ask Matt Bevin how things went when he tried to mess with the Kentucky teachers’ unions.

    Spoiler: We got Andy Beshear as governor.

    (Yes, it’s more nuanced than that. He was screwing with more public servants than just the teachers. But the teachers’ not-legally-a-strike was highly effective, and I personally knew Republican teachers who actively campaigned against Bevin.)