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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago

Personally, I blame chan culture becoming more and more mainstream, so it's "cool" to be stupid.

It's absurd to act like channers are responsible for rather than another product of America's long-running anti-intellectual tradition, which you can pretty easily date back over a century with philistine panderers like Theodore Roosevelt through to Ronald Reagan and now Trump.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Theodore Roosevelt.

Man, liberal me was in for a rude awakening when I learned the truth about him.

bloomer: "Oh wow, an environmentalist who calls himself a progressive and is also both the nerd and the jock at the same time? Based!"

One radicalization later

doomjak: "Oh..."

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, this is the result of decades of work by right-wing groups to destroy public education and sell the "cure" in charter/private schools. The countries with the best education systems, unsurprisingly, have extremely rigorous standards set by the government and in many cases the methods and materials are produced by the governments, as well. The US's public/private brainworms destroys everything it touches. Which, critical support and all for destroying America, but millions of kids are absolutely fucked by no fault of their own because capitalists wanted a dumb, complacent army of labor.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Which, critical support and all for destroying America, but millions of kids are absolutely fucked by no fault of their own

Personally speaking, I'll reserve my critical support for adventurists and religious zealots who happen to pick good targets, rather than the masters of the state fucking themselves over in a long-term fashion for medium-term profit.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that's a bad take from me. It does seem like the capitalists are really trying to accelerate the decline of the US empire, though. Guess they feel like they looted all they could out of the global south and now it's time to go for the imperial core.

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