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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 135 points 2 months ago (17 children)

Every time they get education, they keep moving to the left! 😭😭😭

Is like... "Man falsely get arrested, becomes a rAdICaL anarchist"

hmm... wonder why... 🤔

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Doesn't everybody?

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[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 80 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It costs money, has long term effects, and helps people so that’s a no go.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

It's not even that. It makes people less blindly compliant to authority, and that's absolutely unacceptable to Republicans.

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 74 points 2 months ago (16 children)

An educated citizenry is required for a well functioning democracy that benefits that citizenry. That is not in the interest of republican politicians and their benefactors.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We can't hire Americans **because they expect to be paid properly

[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also the beauty of H1B visa people is that because they have to leave the country (or find another job) in 30 days in the even that they get fired, it means they are perfect for assholes like that billionaire. "Agree to do this or go back to that shit hole"

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

I sort of remember for Trump’s first term, one of his campaign promises was to set a salary minimum for H1B workers. Out of a thoroughly insane agenda, that was the one policy I liked, because it returned that program to its intent - hiring specialized experts that can’t be found here.

Of course, he didn’t follow through and do it.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 months ago

"We can't educate Americans if we want to keep winning elections"

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

It's the government's job to educate the masses! But not like that! And not with my money!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"What do you need an education for anyway? I didn't have an education and look at me now; I'm president of the United States!"

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They want what's best for them, not what's best for us. Cheap, loyal labor from countries worse, off than ours is ideal.

Let the Americans eat paste.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And we hate immigrants, but we need all these H1B visas because we don’t want to educate our own citizens to do the jobs that support the middle class. Then we will scapegoat those people and accuse them of being the problem.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

Or, god forbid, give people citizenship after a year or two.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

if you need a school you've already lost (Elon Musk)

Yet he's the richest man on Earth.

He'a the best argument against capitalism as a meritocratic system.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

That’s because the money goes into billionaire’s pockets instead, who would rather just import dirt cheap labor and face less wage pressure.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If only they knew what the E in DEI stood for.

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

That would assume two things... and both of those require education. As trump famously said last goddamn time... he loves the uneducated.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

votes for the Republican anyways

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

To be fair, the MAGA crowd does not want to take the required schooling for those jobs. What can you do...

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

The continuation of the piss poor US income distribution and 3rd World working conditions.

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