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[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 243 points 2 months ago

A broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 98 points 2 months ago

I would suggest it's the conservative ideologies that are toxic, education is the antidote.

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago

I’d posit both statements are true and fundamentally complimentary.

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[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Conservatism is about favoring tradition and supporting the status quo. Going this wild about a common grammatical construct because it reminds you of people you hate for existing isn't conservative, it's something far worse.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 months ago

Conservatism is about favoring tradition and supporting the status quo.

That's just what Conservatism claims to be about, but it has always been regressive

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

Conservatism is about favoring tradition and supporting the status quo.

No, that's a lie conservatives tell to make their ideology seem less abhorrent.

What conservatism is actually about is perpetuating hierarchy.

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[-] Jinfox@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

One could argue that so called "traditions" they are holding so much dearly in their heart never was fully a thing and is just the product of past idealizations and marketing propaganda. "The perfect suburban american trad family" from the 60s is a construct made by marketing people to sell fridges, diamond and beautiful car.

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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 130 points 2 months ago

George does not like pronouns. George tries to keep George’s temper under George’s control when the (plural) people George interacts with use pronouns.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

The plural form is clearly peopleses.

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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 129 points 2 months ago

Imagine being so scared of pronouns that you tear up a little kid's English homework. Like, can you really be that dense? What's next, Adjectives?!

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago

Modern conservatism is mental illness - it's not a case of being dense - it's a case of being genuinely disabled.

Ironic for a political ideology grounded in and returning to eugenics.

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[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

They'd probably burn the science books purely based on the fact it's science.

But when they learn about homosapiens theyll lose their shit about a gay agenda

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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago

That's a well radicalised obedient party soldier who will stop at nothing once you point at an inconvenient target and say the right buzzwords. Real Jan6 material, just as planned and executed for decades.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

I mean, it's a Reddit story, so grain of salt.

But it is a very funny story

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah this is peak reddit story telling. I can even see the top comment: this is MORE than mildly infuriating. That's why it's posted there, engagement farming

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago

Holy shit, wait, what if we convince them that gender is a liberal hoax?

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

Your flaw in logic and reasoning is applying logic and reasoning.

Dude doesn't even remember elementary school English lessons.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, we convince them that having sex is woke.

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 74 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well I know what my mom would do. She'd kick that bf in the nuts for getting mad at her kid like that, lol.

I am not being hyperbolic.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 months ago

Yeah, my mom would dropped that like it was hot. I was home schooled because we moved so much (poor, not military). When we got to the science module of the school books when I was ± 8 years old, she realized just how much fundamentalist bullshit was in them. She has spent basically everything on those books, and we never used them again. Went to the local library and got all the science books she could, and taught actual science to me. The books they had sent literally had drawings on humans wearing leopard skins foraging for berries while a dinosaur drank water in the background.

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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 months ago

On one hand, this is obviously fake

On the other hand, there's 7 billion people on the planet and the odds that one of them would do this is very high

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 95 points 2 months ago

The year was 1991.
My roommate decides to eat hot dogs.
We keep breads in the freezer so they last. Toaster is broken.
I tell this to my roommate before I go to the toilet.
I come out and I see a pot of boiling water with hot dogs and hot dog buns in it.
My roommate decided to boil bread to warm it up.

People can be far stupider than you could possibly ever imagine.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago

I had a friend that liked to put butter and honey on his bread before he put it in a two slice toaster. He did this every morning for years.

Each time the toaster broke or caught fire, he would put it out and get a new toaster and repeat the process. He may still be doing it to this day.

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[-] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wonder if this is real or just ragebait, really can't be sure in the current day lmao

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

I saw a meme yesterday that references this phenomenon:

"the saying used to be 'it's too good to be true' has morphed into 'it's too horrid to be false.'"

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago

On reddit it's usually best to just assume something is for attention

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago

This is how extremism works. If they get rid of knowledge they then control the knowledge and how it’s interpreted. Especially how people are educated.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 55 points 2 months ago

Any person who freaks out over grammar lessons and destroys a child's homework is completely unhinged and seriously needs some mental health care interventions.

That lack of impulse control and rage has no place in a family setting.... or anywhere really.

I guess these are the family values conservatives are pushing these days. Grown men ripping up a kid's homework assignments. I guess book burning wasn't enough.

[-] bricklove@midwest.social 55 points 2 months ago

Seems like everything is a pronoun these days. Anything can be a pronoun too. Could I even be one?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Mr. Rogers says you can do anything you want if you use your imagination.

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[-] badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 2 months ago

That guy is voting. Probably for the Nazi.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

I wish, with every fiber of my being, that this is not real

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago

That’s far more than mildly infuriating. I’d consider this child abuse.

I hope this kid escapes this clearly toxic situation.

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[-] Zexks@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sounds like a call to CPS is needed. Maybe a game of ‘shot to the chin’ every time he uses one.

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[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Anti-intellectualism is a cancer growing in today's societies

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago

There are pronouns in the fucking bible

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago
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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure pronouns didnt exist for him in school because he dropped out before they taught it to him

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Pronouns are a basic part of language. Getting rid of them makes communication way harder. Unless you speak Spanish, I guess.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

Do you think we don't use pronouns in Spanish? Because we absolutely do.

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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

That guy failed English literacy. Though... Honestly... Not surprising for a right wing American.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Someone needs a Schoolhouse Rock, preferably dropped on their head from a great height.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

That bf would get clocked if they intimidated my siblings like that and spewed that nonsense in my house.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I fully expect JD Vance to use an elementary school pronoun worksheet to suggest drag queens are grooming children.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

dads a moron-n. derog. subj.

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