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If only there were some way to record previous events, and then maybe (just maybe) have people learn this in a structured environment where they are allowed to ask questions. 🧐
For those that don't get the joke here...
This is an iconic scene that is intentionally designed to portray a very, very boring lecture from a teacher, which none of the kids want to pay attention to, that they are right to percieve this as boredom-torture.
The motherfucking actual literal topic of the lecture is how the Smoot Hawley tariffs of the 1930s massively worsened the Great Depression.
... god, Damnit.
Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Actor: former Nixon speech writer Ben Stein
My entire generation literally sleeping on this.
It’s important to have the audio for the full effect.
Voodoo Economics
Anyone...anyone..
But that would be... an academic pursuit!!! Oh the horror!! Can't have the unwashed masses being all 'edumacated' and questioning authority!
The unwashed masses choose to remain unwashed.
Yes, a lot of them do. But quite a few others are having their critical thinking skills and understanding of the world deliberately starved by conniving politicians (usually in red states) who want to keep them as dumb as possible.
I'm sorry but if you're a dumb adult in 2025 and you don't have a physiological impairment that's on you. There's more free educational information on the internet today than you could find in the library at Harvard or Princeton 50 years ago. Choosing not to look at any of it isn't someone else's fault no matter how much they may benefit from you continuing on in your dumb ways.
We are their impairment
Source
That has to be the stupidest, most ignorant, and outright idiotic things I’ve ever read on the internet. Ironic.
Found one of the dumb ones
Put the mirror down.
Time to hose them down against their will then. They stink too much!
Unwashed asses
well obviously! education turns people woke!
I believe that is now called "DEI"
You mean social media?
People wrote down Trump abusing tariffs in 2016 and there are analyses about how they damaged the economy. But nobody on lemmy knows about it. People will point out economic theory for why tariffs are bad because they seemingly don't remember the tariffs failing in the real world. Memes forgot 2016. There's even articles about politicians/billionaires selling stock using insider knowledge because "how else would they know about the tariffs?"
It's not like I read the entire fediverse but whenever tariffs are brought up I'm confused why people ignore 2016. It's not trivia, it's extremely relevant to what people are discussing.
Then this meme would have to acknowledge that the 1930's depression already started in 1929