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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

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.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago

Those public school teachers have had it too good for too long.

[–] el_twitto@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 hours ago

That is a sack of shit in a blue coat. He can fuck right off.

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 6 points 2 hours ago

is this real? or just rage bait?

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, it's from "Team Epstein" so there's more evil, if you look at the JE releases.

[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Fuckfaced cunt

[–] Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 36 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Great so teachers have no support, and people wonder why we have a shortage of teachers

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 30 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The uber rich in India are doing ok. It’ll probably be like that. A caste based society

[–] serendepity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Are they though? What about the air pollution? The rich have to breathe the same air. For now, anyway.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] WudgieLore@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

So we might get less or more fake history?

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

The slow march back into slavery...

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 66 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 39 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] moustachio@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] PissMissile@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 8 hours ago

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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[–] Initech_vs_Initrode@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 hours ago

Narrow shoulders, wide hips, and short pants. Weird choices.

[–] PissMissile@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That guy beats his wife and kids, I guarantee it.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago

Probably rapes them too

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 36 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Anyone that doesn't like unions is very stupid, or very rich.

[–] bejergalbam@lemmy.world 46 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] Squirrelknight@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

A more concise and universal description of conservative values is: "Fuck you, got mine."

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