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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Elon's latest crusade against the Department of Education plays like a Silicon Valley remix of Atlas Shrugged – all disruption theater masking a fundamental disdain for public infrastructure. Dissolving federal oversight would turbocharge the existing educational caste system, where zip codes determine destiny and critical thinking gets outsourced to charter school grifters.

The student loan rage reeks of survivorship bias from someone who cashed out an emerald mine privilege card. Decrying "bureaucracy" while building rocket empires on government contracts is peak hypercapitalist cognitive dissonance. Local control sounds quaint until you realize which local oligarchs get to rewrite history textbooks.

This isn't innovation – it's demolition derby governance. The rubble left behind would make great feedstock for AI training data, though.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

My right wing college prof was ecstatic about this. Wanted bibles in schools and paddles for spanking too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Oklahoma just introduced a bill to ban corporal punishment for children on IEPs. It’s currently entirely legal to paddle any child - disabled or not.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Kinda weird for a teacher to want to be spanked but I'm not gonna yuck his yum

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

...

Something tells me he hasn't looked at how his college pays the bills.

Or who runs student loans.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eeewwwhh leave the sex stuff at home please. Sir this is a wendys

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sir, this is a Weimar.

(Pronunciation makes the meme not work as well as it should.)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

yeah because the last thing America needs is an education

[–] [email protected] 334 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck you, Musk. The Department of Education is approved and funded by Congress who we voted for! You're an unelected piece of shit Nazi fighting against literal knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why burn a book when you can burn down the entire library?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I walk past the rubble that used to be a library only bring to mind cemetery now

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The dumbass thinks getting a college degree means you are already failing or something.

He's suuuuuuch a dipshit, but also a complete asshole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I don't understand. Does he think that people can somehow learn a lot of shit by reading part-time for a year? That is fucking impossible. I went to university to learn accounting and it was the most grueling thing I have ever done academically. I never got my accounting job, but I did prove I can survive through very hard and demanding work.

This fucker just can't do shit.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It’s simpler. They know that those with college degrees usually vote with the liberal bias that reality has.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 242 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.

The days from the 80s to today, especially this recent event, are what lead to it. But sadly they’ll be so uneducated that even this they will not understand.

Like being in a prison whose walls you cannot see and whose bars you cannot feel. There is no greater wealth than education, no greater poverty than ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago

Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.

That day has been here since the mid 2000s. More than half the country lives paycheck to paycheck with less than 1k saved, and will be stuck there working until they die.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn am I high af or is that last line just summing things up so beautifully..

I am glad to finally see people on social media actually pointing out how our education system has been systematically under attack for decades to make a more malleable gullible voter base and preparing future voters with propaganda early

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Ngl, this post kind of saddened me. I don’t want to believe it, but the possibility of what you’re saying being true is bleak to me.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Didn't he come here on a student visa?

What an ungrateful bastard

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The man is backing a man who vows to end electric cars and increase our reliance on fossil fuels.

The man sells electric cars.

This man obviously doesn't have his head screwed on straight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hasn’t been selling that many cars lately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Tesla primarily sells dreams to their investors... Cars are just a by product.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago

He did sell electric cars.

Now he sells space access and likely an AI built on all US government records soon.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“Got mine. Fuck you.” - Elmo

[–] hddsx 30 points 2 days ago

Don’t insult Elmo. Elon Musk would get his ass kicked off Sesame Street

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The cons in that sub believe the department should be gone as it steals money and indoctrinates kids. They say test scores haven’t gone up so what’s the point.

They also say America went to the moon in 69 and the doe was invented in the 70s. Therefore it’s not needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They never really say this exactly but I believe they are fine with getting the money but want it no strings attached. This is an old objection, such as from Title IX and the ADA.

You should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and walk right in even if you’re mobility impaired. Only boys want to play sports: why waste money on girls? Our priority is a new stadium at this top school: why do we have to put money into this failing school? Why can’t we use education money for religious indoctrination and just leave us public school for the poors? /s

Then you’ll see some sort of contorted logic about divisive inclusiveness and unfair equity

Or at least this new attempt to destroy Education looks a lot like those older complaints

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"They also say America went to the moon in 69 and the doe was invented in the 70s. Therefore it’s not needed."

Maybe if they were actually educated, they'd realize an anecdote aint worth shit 🤷‍♀️

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Well, if the one who holds my loans doesn't exist, I suppose I can just not pay them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oh, they'll be sure to sell off the loans to the highest bidder before finishing the job. Maybe Wells Fargo will buy them. Or maybe United Healthcare will diversify....

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (7 children)

At what point is violence the correct response?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

1981, but better late than never

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Comme on, Democrats, run someone in every fuckin district of every fuckin state and just run excerpts of this fucker on repeat, s maybe victory in the house and Senate in two years - is there still are elections by then - will be the only way these shitstains might be stopped

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Great so now they can privatize student loans. I was going to go back to school at age 40 and get my bachelors degree

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