Dang did not know this would hit this many people.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    Education is frowned upon - has been since the 80s. It used to be that intelligent, educated people drew respect. Now the school heroes are the football players, and the math-heads and other nerds either pretend to be dumb to avoid trouble, or they get trouble.

    And that’s why you have Donald Trump as president, who has the vocabulary of a child: he speaks the language of the ignoramus class.

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      Because education has been used as a class discriminator since forever.

      You want people to stop preferring football over books? Then make schools fair and equal, instead of favouring dominant classes and money.

      The reason Trump got elected is because he used fascism as a tool (the same kind that you’re using actually, “make America great again” doesn’t convince people who think everything is perfect), not because of education. And it’s not like education prevents propaganda from working (it often helps it actually) so this is just bullshit.

      If you want people to be smart, first stop this moronic class discrimination.

      • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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        It’s 2026, you have Google. There are free apps that teach another language. You can watch a youtube video series that explains accurate molecular biology. The sum of human knowledge is at your fingertips.

        When I was living at a homeless shelter, they had a piano. So I taught Myself to play it using the internet on My phone. What’s your excuse for being uneducated?