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Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance.
(www.propublica.org)
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Lol. I hate how much this is like 1984 because I dislike people using it as an example all of the time. But between this and the "America First" shit, wherein tariffs are being levied against everyone, the logical conclusion is that Trump wants to close down the US, go self-reliant, and have citizens be too placated by propaganda to do anything about it.
However, this is a shitty idea and it won't go to plan, so he'll just end up with stupid people who can't even work the factories needed to not have this culminate in a mass economic disaster. Anyone smart enough to care should leave the country ASAP because it won't get better. Other countries should be revamping their refugee programs to benefit from the brain drain.
Because 'anyone smart enough' has a bank account that would allow this and is able to jump the immigration hurdles set up by countries
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every country is either out of reach financially, or also swerving far right, or just doesn't want americans. or all the above
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Imagine being the richest person in history and going full Nazi instead of doing literally anything else with your billions.
If you ever needed proof that wealth and ease of life doesn't equate to happiness or satisfaction with yourself...
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Deployed the smoke grenade
This is domestic terrorism.
It's okay, as long as they're taught about Jesus and how to type prompts into an LLM's text box, what else do they need to learn?
New rules for homeschooling include mandatory 10 minute hate against the enemy of the day, pledge of allegiance to a photo of Trump, and a once a year field trip to throw rotten tomatoes at homeless people.
Should also be a visit to a cemetery to get a photo at a soldier's grave, and while there also disparage said soldiers as "suckers". Learn to commit white color crimes, which of course aren't crimes at all if your white/wealthy, and should be called out as "political witch hunts". And the most important item of all, is to learn to "deny everything!".
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Once a year?
The rest of the time, it's an elective. Some kids opt to eat the rotten tomatoes because there's no more free school lunches.
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