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    6 days ago

    Understood. Let it be known the ANY family without the means to fund their education is a terroist cell. Let’s see how that affects voting

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Private and public? So just schools in general? Or is home schooling ok? Oh, but I’m sure you want some books burned first.

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        11 days ago

        It’s amazing how much damage Bin Laden did to America by killing what traffic does in a few weeks (or toddlers with guns in a decade). Trillions in debt, scared shitless and divided like never before.

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          10 days ago

          That was his entire goal. He was very smart and knew those attacks would trigger the mania it spawned, pushing American culture down the path it ultimately took.

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      10 days ago

      When I was young, an age ago, the word terrorist had a specific meaning, which was someone committing shocking acts to strike fear and hysteria into the general public and thereby influence society and policy.

      Then 9/11 happened and although the 19 attackers were most definitely terrorists by the old definition, somehow the definition drifted until it meant “inhuman opponent against whom we are justified to suspend the rules and respond in any way we want to.”

      Ironically, this usage itself is designed to inspire fear and keep people from looking too closely at what’s happening. “Oh no! Terrorists! Fine! Just kill them! Keep us safe!” Using people’s fear to justify whatever our military and government want to do comes ominously close to the old definition of terrorism.

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      9 days ago

      His blood alcohol level is dropping below 1%, somebody get this man some malt liquor

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    11 days ago

    I live in Oklahoma and what they are doing with the public school system is terrifying. Our kids are already at a disadvantage and now they are adding Christian bs and getting rid of books. The next generation of kids to come out of Oklahomas public schools are going to be indoctrinated on a terrifying level

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    10 days ago

    Was wondering when they were going to start closing down universities for being “communist”. Looks like we’re heading to that stage now.

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      10 days ago

      Given that their distractions have increasingly become as destructive if not even moreso than the thing they’re distracting from, it’s possible.

      More likely that’s it’s just culture war bombast designed to reinforce the whole “everyone except us are evil and dangerous” groupthink that they’re using for cohesion, though, IMO.

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        10 days ago

        I consider that culture war bombast to also be distraction so people don’t fight back against them billionaires.

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          Well yeah. That’s what I mean by ensuring cohesion: make them think that every vulnerable and persecuted population group is destroying their lives so that they don’t notice that the least vulnerable and most privileged of all people are the ones ACTUALLY doing so.

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    11 days ago

    If I was one of the few humans in the USA that was a bigger piece of shit than Charlie Kirk, I’d probably be keeping my fucking mouth shut right now.

    And I sure wish his fucking liver would hurry the fuck up.

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    11 days ago

    All schooling? Sounds like Steve Bannon wants to ban home schooling and wants to make Sunday school illegal.