• jason@discuss.online
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    12 days ago

    Holy non sequitur. That argument might make some sense if he was an engineer or something. You don’t need any education to be a podcaster. Just start yapping.

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      12 days ago

      he washed out of college, and made money being a grifter of people stupider than he is, and on occaision doing Shapiro specials, of “gotcha moments on the left”

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      13 days ago

      Hot take: random citizens should be awarded state-sponsored vacations to random countries every year.

      “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

      — Mark Twain

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      13 days ago

      But it will make them more resistant to it. It will make them mindful. It will make them resistant to bullshit and finally, good citizens.

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        13 days ago

        Have you seen how many Republicans went to law school? Education is ineffective in many people, it just makes them smarter asshats

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      12 days ago

      I semi-disagree. I think lack of exposure (or exposure to falsehoods and stereotypes) is behind the racism and bigotry of a great many people. If someone is 75 and has been a horrible bigot their entire life, it’s going to take something massive to change that, sure. But if someone is 20 and raised by magas in a small wyoming town, learning all the stuff you don’t learn from magas in a small wyoming town is likely to make a difference, IMO.

      Speaking for myself, I can look at a bunch of areas where my biases were challenged effectively and continuously just by exposure to folks from whatever group I was biased about in the workplace or school.

      I’m pretty sure that’s the real reason why racists have always been so pro-segregation. It’s pretty tough to convince your kid all the black folks are lazy and stupid if the smartest student is his class is a black kid or he’s got a strong crush on that pretty black girl who sits by him in science lab, or his best friend at school is a black kid.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    ah, yes, a shining example

    don’t go to college, because if you don’t, you’ll definitely become a mouthpiece for fascists making millions of dollars until you’re publicly assassinated because somebody got sick of your hateful shit and stopped you from spreading it

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    13 days ago

    Laura apparently wants her supporters to end up like Charlie Kirk.

    These arguments always remind me of this quote from The West Wing: “Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense. That’s my position.”

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      look whats happening to teachers right now: getting fired for quesitoning Charlie kirk, and then theres the disrespect from students and parents forcing them to leave education forever. The pay is just adding insult to injury. I occasionally go on the r/teacher sub, and almost every post is they cant handle school anymore.

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        How do you think I made it thru the first term.

        Try The Newsroom too if you haven’t yet seen it. Another Sorkin gem.

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          12 days ago

          I remember Newsroom, and it was alright. Kind of mad they didn’t get to do a little more with it. Personally, I’ll probably watch Sports Night again, too.

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            Yeah, it was a pretty abrupt wrap up wasn’t it. It was there and then… gone. Be interesting to see how Sorkin handled the trump White House in that context but he’s probably been apoplectic through it all, also not sure how much he enjoys writing absurdist scenarios (even if they’re taken directly from real life)

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    13 days ago

    My favorite example is Tim Pool. Dumb ass dropped out of elementary school. It was a light-bulb moment for me and helped explain this dumbass backwards “logic”

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        13 days ago

        Sometimes kids get held back.

        Other times the kid is so stupid with such incredibly stupid parents that it’s just not worth the tax payer money spent on flavorless square pizza.

        Yes Tim Pool dropped out at the age of 14. It’s the reason why his arguments have the strength of wet toilet paper.