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    The books will be withheld until academic performance improves.

    same backwards insanity as No Child Left Behind;

    “We will penalize the under-performing schools by taking their funding and giving it to the schools that are already performing well. This will improve the situation, trust us.”

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      no-oil

      “We will penalize the under-performing schools by taking their funding and giving it to the schools that are already performing well. This will improve the situation, trust us.”

      obama-socialism

      “Uhh, let me do the above, but make it worse by tying it even more to the standardized test industry which incentivizes making kids give up and fail because that means even more privatization.”

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        :the-republican: new, horrible and unpopular policy

        :the-democrat: horrible and unpopular policy, expanded and refined, given the rubber stamp of ‘progressive’ legitimacy

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          This Reddit post yesterday is an example of this. Instead of just legalizing weed, there has to be this whole “review process” spectacle to prove how measured and reasonable the Democrats are. It’s just fucking weed man, it wasn’t a problem before it was criminalized and it still isn’t. Stop giving the question legitimacy with these sober analyses.

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      I have bad news for 12 year old lib me who heard about this and called it “educational communism”

      Because guess what? The economic system where incompetent idiots hold you back is good 'ol capitalism.

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        Lazy ass student won’t get off the floor and clean up the mess after being shot only 27 times. The entitlement is unbelievable. “I should be transported to the hospital by OTHER people.” Must be the avocado toast

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          I heard a boomer talk about how easy kids have it these days. These people need to shut the fuck up.

          Kids now have it so fucking hard. They’re watching people get murdered in HD, including other kids, because you can’t scrub that completely off of the internet. They’re still watching loved ones get sick and die from a once-manageable virus after having spent years of school on Zoom. They’re witnessing the devastation of climate change. They’re facing a future that seems to be growing bleaker by the day.

          In short, they’re forced to reap what previous generations have sown. Adults who claimed to care about the well-being of children stole their future for profit and kicked out the ladder, knowing full well they won’t have to see the worst of what they set into motion. But yeah, kids these days have it easy because they have phones and physical abuse is slightly regulated.

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            Remember when people said trump was the boomers last “fuck you” before they head out?

            Well, almost ten years since trump entered politics and they’re still here in all of their lead-poisoned glory, also ensuring they do their very best to make the earth uninhabitable

            (Not all boomers but certainly your average one)

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    The raging hate-boner that grillman has for children and the fetish that they have for “disciplining” children chills my blood and speaks of their hidden pathology. libertarian-alert

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        Nobody is more obsessed with kids than right wingers who dont have any

        Right wingers that have kids often abuse them, up to and including being estranged from their kids and deserving it. If you dare to peek into QAnon cult shit, a lot of it is a magical power fantasy of “and then all of our illnesses will be cured by medbeds, our debts will be wiped away by a MAGA jubilee, and our kids will beg our forgiveness or die.” grill-broke

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          Yeah a lot of Qanon mythology rests on the idea that the uninformed will all en masse admit they were wrong, renounce leftism, and become ardent Trump supporters

          It really reminds me of Mormonism or the Millerites. I think home grown American religious movements only have one trick.

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            It really reminds me of Mormonism or the Millerites. I think home grown American religious movements only have one trick.

            It’s pure frontierism ideology.

            “My frustrations with civilization will be solved if I strike out on my own and start my own mini civilization where I make the rules and the masses will crawl to me someday!”

            “Galt’s Gulch” in Ayn Rand garbage fiction was exactly that. We even see that shit with techbros fantasizing about conquering space. my-hero

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          “My grandkids will come up to me and say ‘I’m sorry grandpa, you were right about everything, please cure us of our vaccine microchips. We’ll do anything!’”

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            Yes.

            By “medbed” I mean the belief in alien technology that is supposedly held back by the deep state that cures everything imaginable and that trump-moist will totally release it for free to the MAGA believers.

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              My dear friend’s brother believed that shit before covid. “They have all the cures they just refuse to release them.” Then MAGA came along and he totally detached from reality.

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                If they had a cure for everything then you’d think they would have found a way to fix our DNA like lobsters to mitigate aging for the ghouls at the very top of the food chain

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        It’s like their ideological foot soldiers (no pun on my name) showing up to school board meetings to punish children from learning about actual stuff, and these people don’t even have kids in the school district.

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      I know that you made this observation before, and I couldn’t agree more. Right-wing parents see their children as accessories, and I think they intentionally sabotaged the job and housing market to maximize their children’s dependency on them for as long as possible.

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      George Lakoff, an important linguist and cognitive scientist, wrote an interesting take on this in his book Moral Politics. Basically, the “strict father” model of language and communicating actions – and eventually doing them – really speaks to the ideals of their generation: “moral strength” and “moral obedience” being the biggest ones where weakness of any sort is immoral. Rewards and punishments are what keep this morality going, so failure to uphold this sense of morality – here doing your homework and getting good grades – needs punishment.

      Carried into the political realm, this moral system – which puts strength at the top of the list of values – leads to the belief that “your poverty or your drug habit or your illegitimate children can be explained only as moral weakness, and any discussion of social causes cannot be relevant,” Lakoff explained.

      He’s not a marxist, so I’d take some of the political conclusions with a grain of salt, but he knows how people interpret and use metaphor to navigate language and existence (His co-written book Metaphors to Live By is widely used in linguistics and cognitive studies).

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        Carried into the political realm, this moral system – which puts strength at the top of the list of values – leads to the belief that “your poverty or your drug habit or your illegitimate children can be explained only as moral weakness, and any discussion of social causes cannot be relevant,”

        Calvinism. Not even once. jesus-cleanse

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      grillman:

      “We need to cut education and critical thinking and instead focus on discipline”

      “The one context we should be lenient about is bullying. It helps teach the wimps to be more normal!”

      “Of course we should cut history and science first, only nerds could possibly care about that stuff anyways!”

      “While we’re at it, we should use those funds to add a surveillance system to look for any queers!”

      “…after all, the last thing we want is to make anyone (me) UNCOMFORTABLE!”

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        “The one context we should be lenient about is bullying. It helps teach the wimps to be more normal!”

        Also helps identify future slave catchers (pigs) and plantation guards.

        Libraries were the only way I survived my youth.

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    Part of this is happening because the state of Texas seized control over the school district from the city, I’ve been guessing because it’s the most populated in the state and one of the least white

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      I’d guess it’s because of them there big city liberals with their radical ideas like “basic equality”. Of course the Nazi party want to re-educate their kids

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    I swear to God we’re gonna get to the point , if we haven’t already (I’m thinking of that obama-socialism quote where he describes trying fuck that bi girl at college by flexing his Foucault learns) where all the administrators and managers are reading Foucault and treating it as a manual.

  • Find the policy psychos responsible and [redacted… Like really fucking redacted]. Sooner or later there’s going to be some kids who “graduate” from said system with nothing to lose… Maybe with all the easy access to [redacted] and it’ll eventually sort itself out. The free marketplace of ideas is such a bastion of innovation.

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      I am hereby calling on Joe Brandon and the Demoncrat party to drone strike every Republican the second they leave the country.