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  • stupid people vote Republican

    That’s not true, though. Partisanship is far more tied up with local industry than individual intelligence or educational attainment.

    People who earn money in Republican friendly industries vote Republican. What the GOP has done to capture the nation is to seed big swing states with a petrochemical industry and tell people “if you vote Democrat, they’re going to Green the economy and you’ll lose your cushy jobs”


  • I’ve heard this argument before. It seems to neglect how much modern libertarian ideology is packed into the modern school curriculum.

    Conservatives scream about education being Marxist and Woke. Thousands of teachers are purged. Curriculum gets ratcheted further to the right. And by the time your own kids are going to school, they’re asking why history textbooks are venerating Newt Gingrich, bio textbooks include disclaimers decrying evolution and germ theory, and math class is just 8 hours a week of long division exercises the whole semester.

    But you can’t just pretend we’re living in a Shepard Tone of a society, because we’re here now in spite of “superior” education we received a generation or two ago.

    We can’t just blame this on “schools make you smart/dumb” because so much of your modem understanding of the world is formed after you’ve graduated.



















  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldChoose wisely!
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    The thing about Anarchy is that, for many people, the cashless society where you own nothing and are fully removed from the machine of industry is already here. Its just called “poverty”.

    The problem is that this kind of poverty isn’t equally distributed. You’ve still got this large, heavily armed occupying force that preserves money, capital, and the painful prodding of induced productivity for everyone else.