Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
The East India Company (EIC) had a monopoly on the tea trade. The colonials had no choice but to pay the price for tea set by the EIC. Imagine having a corporation with it's own military, you know, a cartel, telling a whole city that they have to buy tea at an outrageous price like $100 a pound. The colonists had to pay much more than the tea was really worth which meant giving up more of their own locally produced goods. On top of that, the King imposed an additional tax on the exchange. Refusing to buy the tea wasn't an option. If you don't buy it, the EIC will blockade the port with war ships. The EIC demanded that the tea be unloaded before they would drop the blockade. So, the colonists unloaded it, into the harbor.
Ah, thanks. I know the Boston Tea Party started the American revolution and that people threw boxes with tea from ships, but I never quite understood why.
Quite the opposite, the tea party was organised by Boston ~~smugglers~~ businessmen who saw their ~~price gouging~~ totally legal profit margins slashed by a shipment of tariff free tea from India. They destroyed the tea and burned a ship or two down to ensure locals got the message.
The Revolutionary leadership were so embarrassed by this they demanded the organisers apologise.
Really wish more people understood the American Revolution was the American bourgeoisie deceiving American proletariats into fighting for the bourgeoisie's right to make more money. There's all this talk of a mythical "rebel American spirit" which is just pure bullshit. People here like the boot on their neck.
Quite the opposite
How is any of what you said the opposite of what claims are being made?
People upvote and accept anything off Lemmy, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, etc. The more it is anonymous source and no-identity bullshit, the more they throw-away sound education in favor of the latest freshest hot garbage to consume. A clown population of media consumers who clowns around and avoids providing citations and fact-checking.
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“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening the spiritual basis of the American Creed. That is how Jefferson understood it, how Horace Mann understood it, how John Dewey understood it, and in fact, there is no other way to understand it. The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public imbued with confidence, a sense of purpose, a respect for learning, and tolerance? The answer to this question has nothing whatever to do with computers, with testing, with teacher accountability, with class size, and with the other details of managing schools. The right answer depends on two things, and two things alone: the existence of shared narratives and the capacity of such narratives to provide an inspired reason for schooling.”
― Neil Postman, The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School, September 1995