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George Carlin - It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It! (youtu.be)

submitted 2 days ago by Maeve@kbin.earth to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hardly qualifies as news. Ill upvote anyways.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

Acknowledge. Adjacent. Media literacy is something most of us should hone daily.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This clip skips his reactionary bit on education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUaqFzZLxU

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

About 4:31. But... How is it reactionary?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He implies that putting more resources into education wouldn’t make education suck less, when the reason it sucks more is that we took resources away from it.

[–] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The US doesn't have an education program. It has a propaganda program that has whitewashed our history and only trains the working class on how to sell their labor and not educate them to stand for themselves.

The decline in US literacy started way before cuts to education

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

Bingo

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True. But regardless of funding, it sucks because it's "revised" history, eg, lies, lies, more lies. Or national mythology, however one says it.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah, there are definitely some problems with our education that money won’t solve.