• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    19 days ago

    lots of sensitive fee fees in here LOL

    ok, i’ll join in: americans are stupid

    and it’s by design. remember when al franken asked betsy devos a simple question and it was made abundantly clear that she didn’t know the first goddamn thing about education? but she bought her seat, so she became the secretary of education, saying we need guns in schools for “potential grizzlies.” i’m not fucking making that up

    not only do 1%ers (the people who are calling the shots on public education) not give a fuck about public education, but they actively despise it, as that is money going to poor people instead of themselves AND an educated populace is bad for the aristocracy. so yes, there is a MAJOR anti-intellectual bent to all of american culture thanks entirely to republicans from the top all the way down to the mayor level, and spoiler alert: it’s not getting any better, since every attempt to improve education is blocked. by people who watch duck dynasty

    edit: i need to add: to the people who insist on arguing against the painfully obviously hyperbolic statement “all americans are stupid” without taking 2 seconds to consider “maybe the core claim is that way too many americans are stupid, not literally every single american”-- you are reinforcing a side of the debate, just not the side you think you are

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      17 days ago

      edit: i need to add: to the people who insist on arguing against the painfully obviously hyperbolic statement “all americans are stupid” without taking 2 seconds to consider “maybe the core claim is that way too many americans are stupid, not literally every single american”-- you are reinforcing a side of the debate, just not the side you think you are

      Hah! You claim to be against anti intellectualism yet you move your own goal posts when people prove you wrong via a counter example!?

      spoiler

      /s /s /s

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      17 days ago

      as that is money going to poor people instead of themselves

      You need to look no further than the GOP obsession with cutting government programs to back this up. The “money going to” is in fact taxes and so if government programs are cut Republicans can also further reduce taxation on themselves and the ultra wealthy without hurting the deficit as much. They couldn’t possibly care less about government assistance programs because they don’t need them, it’s just the “poors” that do and we all know the Republicans mindset on that: get good or die, loser. Let the church do charity, but don’t “force me” to care about you.