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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 330 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fuck you, Musk. The Department of Education is approved and funded by Congress who we voted for! You're an unelected piece of shit Nazi fighting against literal knowledge.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The dumbass thinks getting a college degree means you are already failing or something.

He's suuuuuuch a dipshit, but also a complete asshole.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s simpler. They know that those with college degrees usually vote with the liberal bias that reality has.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These people are either stupid or evil. Or both. And so we have to oppose them. Does it really matter which it is?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes, it matters, because underestimating them because we think they're stupid instead of evil is a recipe for disaster.

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[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why burn a book when you can burn down the entire library?

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[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 242 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.

The days from the 80s to today, especially this recent event, are what lead to it. But sadly they’ll be so uneducated that even this they will not understand.

Like being in a prison whose walls you cannot see and whose bars you cannot feel. There is no greater wealth than education, no greater poverty than ignorance.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 2 weeks ago

Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.

That day has been here since the mid 2000s. More than half the country lives paycheck to paycheck with less than 1k saved, and will be stuck there working until they die.

[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

Ngl, this post kind of saddened me. I don’t want to believe it, but the possibility of what you’re saying being true is bleak to me.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

These same people will vote for qons even harder, assuming we even have free and fair elections. Why? I'm sure it will be for very stupid reasons, like seeing a trans women in sports somewhere, even if it's not even in this country. Or because they thought Hollywood "talked down to them" or whatever the fuck.

They might be forced to move out of their trailer and take up "urban camping". They and their kids may have no food, no clean water, and no health care, but by Zeus, they'll be ahead of those Blas and those trans and those Mexicans!

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Damn am I high af or is that last line just summing things up so beautifully..

I am glad to finally see people on social media actually pointing out how our education system has been systematically under attack for decades to make a more malleable gullible voter base and preparing future voters with propaganda early

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

It’s going to be worse than that. AI may take your job, automation will dramatically advance, and you will be left with little more than the virtual realities created by some corporation to fill your day with. Ready Player 1 may have the most realistic future.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 136 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Didn't he come here on a student visa?

What an ungrateful bastard

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

The man is backing a man who vows to end electric cars and increase our reliance on fossil fuels.

The man sells electric cars.

This man obviously doesn't have his head screwed on straight.

He did sell electric cars.

Now he sells space access and likely an AI built on all US government records soon.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn’t matter. He has his fingers in the treasury. He has all the money, what good are silly businesses to him now?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

He creates shareholder value. That's all that publically trades companies do. It's their goal.

Everything else is just ways they attempt to do that, and someone like Elon does it with hype, since the agencies that are supposed to prevent such nonsense abandoned their responsibilities a long time ago.

Tesla stocks are now a ponzi scheme. At some point, someone'll be left holding the bag.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

TSLA is just a front for securities fraud.

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[–] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“Got mine. Fuck you.” - Elmo

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t insult Elmo. Elon Musk would get his ass kicked off Sesame Street

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 104 points 1 week ago

A safe, healthy, and broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Well, if the one who holds my loans doesn't exist, I suppose I can just not pay them.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh, they'll be sure to sell off the loans to the highest bidder before finishing the job. Maybe Wells Fargo will buy them. Or maybe United Healthcare will diversify....

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Joe Biden canceled student debt by running for president again and getting Trump reelected so the department of education could be destroyed. /s

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand why anyone would pay anything government related in the US at this point..

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Seriously. I’m looking at my tax forms partially completed and I’m thinking to myself why am I doing this?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Heavily considering it. If the union is just meant to fuck us now why would I fund it?

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[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

No, they will make sure you pay

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

At what point is violence the correct response?

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 67 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1981, but better late than never

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 59 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] frezik@midwest.social 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

All that guy wanted was to fuck Jodie Foster. Killing Reagan was his plan to do that. In the end, he did not kill Reagan, and did not fuck Jodie Foster.

He also didn't miss. If they had gotten Reagan to the hospital a minute later, he probably would have bled out. Doubt Jodie would have fucked him either way.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

But at least Reagan got to fuck us.

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[–] WadeTheWizard@fedia.io 16 points 2 weeks ago

8 years ago

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago

yeah because the last thing America needs is an education

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

My right wing college prof was ecstatic about this. Wanted bibles in schools and paddles for spanking too.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Kinda weird for a teacher to want to be spanked but I'm not gonna yuck his yum

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eeewwwhh leave the sex stuff at home please. Sir this is a wendys

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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Comme on, Democrats, run someone in every fuckin district of every fuckin state and just run excerpts of this fucker on repeat, s maybe victory in the house and Senate in two years - is there still are elections by then - will be the only way these shitstains might be stopped

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

But then they might anger rich people:(

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[–] scripthook@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Great so now they can privatize student loans. I was going to go back to school at age 40 and get my bachelors degree

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope this is /s

The interest rate on those private loans are going to be much higher and more difficult to obtain than the government backed ones

[–] scripthook@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly I wonder how much higher they’ll be and if they will basically make college only affordable for those who are super rich and needs loans and I’m sure there will be a sharp decline in college admissions which is what the super rich want. Keep the poor and middle class uneducated and fighting with each other

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The cons in that sub believe the department should be gone as it steals money and indoctrinates kids. They say test scores haven’t gone up so what’s the point.

They also say America went to the moon in 69 and the doe was invented in the 70s. Therefore it’s not needed.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny, because their website is still up and looks normal.

Maybe he means "won't exist for much longer"? But if that's the case then describing it as "no longer exists" shows either a poor grasp of language or a deeply flawed understanding of the past, present, and future.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

His brain is probably fucked from the amount of ketamine he has used. When rich bastards like musk use drugs its never a normal amount of too much its usually a how the fuck are you still alive amount.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

He should use more. Parts of his brain are still encouraging him to move around and do harmful things. He needs to be more comatose.

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