• BillCheddar@lemmy.world
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    I never understood why they burned witches but now I see how that would be a satisfying conclusion to some events.

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      Why? They were well-read women, aka “woke women” so they “sent a message” (don’t mess with the patriarchy). Also, King James, his Witch General Finders, and the “demonologists” were all men, and they found women an easier target to do bad things too. They argued that “their feminine wiles” misled many men; therefore, they’re in cahoots with the dark side.

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    They’ve done the decades of work to turn people against unions, convincing MAGAts that unions are proto-communist organizations that extort unfair wages though dishonest practices while sitting around not working. They have people looking over at them saying “how come you get paid so much?” Instead of “I should get paid that much too.”

    People are dumb. Whatcha gonna do.

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      It’s by design.

      Once upon a time, the USA had a strong middle class. Billionaires got taxed heavily, and our public schools were the envy of the world. Well funded and produced a lot of great students.

      But educated people are difficult to control and even harder to dupe. The GOP realized that if they can gut public education, the masses will become malleable again. Meanwhile, the children of the rich can continue to go to expensive private institutions for their own education. So the rich stay educated, and the poor’s go in the gutter.

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        Only problem with that is that a society like that becomes very unsuccessful, lowering the standard of living for everyone, including the rich.

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        It should also be noted that they must be malleable beneath the threshold of the GOPs competence. So to effectively manipulate, the GOP needs a population more ignorant than the DNC does. The left can afford smarter ppl because the leadership itself is more competent, it ain’t like education isn’t being gutted in blue states as well

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    Reminder that the Republican party are traitors to the United States of America who work tirelessly to weaken our nation and harm our populace.

    And that makes anyone who still supports them traitors too. Ignorance isn’t an excuse.

    Smart people don’t vote Republican. That is why they are destroying our educational system.

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    Conservatives hate teachers because teachers don’t need to work when kids aren’t in school for the summer. That’s the only complaint I’ve ever truly heard from them. Meanwhile, those same teachers are up stupid early, on time every fucking day, dealing with over-filled classes of every type of child, and then doing even more labour in the evenings as they aren’t officially given much of any time to create plans or mark work.

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      Conservatives hate teachers because they educate the masses and an educated populace doesn’t vote Republican.

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      They also do work during the summer, making lesson plans, teaching summer school, working a second job, etc.

      But if Republicans made policy decisions based on reality they wouldn’t be Republicans.

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        They’re not detached from reality; they work on behalf of the Epstein class the most aggressively to keep the working class desperate and divided.

        They just don’t care about “reality,” they want to inflict maximum pain.

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      There’s plenty more that they complain about with teachers. They complain that they are ineffective, promote progressive ideals, target their children’s shitty behavior, aren’t held accountable, and the whole “those who can’t do, teach” bullshit.

      I used to be a teacher. I’ve seen it all, heard it all.

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      Their pay is insanely low as well, and they can either not get paid for summer, or take their pay even lower per month to cover summer too

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      Since COVID some Conservative people I know have become like those animals that can’t comprehend things that didn’t happen right in front of them.

      My kid is a teacher (in Canada so they are paid really well). But its solely on them to develop all the lessons and gather everything needed. They are working to do this after hours and weekends.

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        In the USA we’re indoctrinated in schools. Faje history and other b.s. Im not maga or republican but I also cant side with more bullshit from schools that dont actually teach. Glad you guys up north get it. Teachers matter even if they are doing the work of multiple people. At least you get paid.

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      Also plenty of blue collar professions that conservatives profess to respect… also work seasonally.

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    My conservative civics teacher once said that all unions, with the exception of Teacher Unions were obsolete. I wonder how he’s feeling right now.

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      “All unions are bad except my union” is the much more consistent application of inherently hypocritical conservative values, compared to what they can say to a broad audience through right wing media. Hilarious.