• MdRuckus @lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I feel sad for those stuck there. Those who graduate from college there will have less work options. Non-Maga states will be hesitant to hire them because of their lack of actual knowledge due to indoctrination.

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      Tons of the country are dumb people who live in red counties.

      Actually if you teleported to a random location in the country, the odds are that you’d land in a red county most of the time.

      They’ll find jobs from conservative business owners who believe the same wrong stuff they do.

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        But people aren’t uniformly distributed across the land; they’re disproportionately concentrated in cities. So the average person holds very different views form the average location.

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        Even conservative business owners want engineers from Berkeley and doctors from Harvard. It’s no coincidence that the strongest economies are all blue states with great universities. The only red states that can compete are petro-states. Conservatism is bad for the economy.

        I think that the teleportation thought experiment shouldn’t be reassuring to a conservative. Statistically, you’ll end up in rural Alaska, given its massive surface area. A lot of rural red areas have sky high unemployment and low wages. If you actually go to where the jobs are, getting a bad conservative education puts you at a disadvantage.

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          yeah, if you adjusted the randomness to land you in the front door of a person you’re more likely to be on the doorstep of a liberal’s home than a conservative’s. liberals get less of a vote because land gets a vote in America

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      Once again, the votes are rigged (gerrymandered). It’s some of the worst in the country on top of a conservative stronghold.

      More of a uniparty state than anything else, really.

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        we need to use economic pressure to force small red states to merge with one another. cut off all federal funding, boycotts, etc.

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    The silver lining right now is that teachers here are not forced to use the Prager material, and it’s currently being added as an option. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before that changes though. It mostly comes off as virtue signaling for all of the dumb righties.

    The real damage they’re doing right now though is the removal of gender and sexual orientation from everything. It’s rendering certain courses useless because they can no longer be approved to offer credit due to the removal of material that is pertinent to the subject.

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      10 months ago

      Unfortunately, in Florida, “optional” with material like this means “a bunch of teachers will actually use it”

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        People will be surprised just how smart and dumb some people can be at the same time.

        My “Magnetic Fields and waves” professor in a high end electrical engineering class. He knew his stuff, but would constantly go on about his love for Trump’s brand of conservatism and would become aggressive to people in class if he suspected them of being either a democrat, a socialist or Muslim.

        I imagine he is doing just well in Florida.

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          My astronomy professor was fired for being a massive anti-semite and general rightoid

          Shoulda seen it coming when he talked about the possibility of forests on Mars based on his own comparison of satellite photography

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        I’d be curious to see how many teachers actually go through with it and start adopting it into their curriculums. I’m sure Florida is eventually going to use that as a metric to see how “indoctrinated” schools are.

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    Why?

    And I don’t mean this as a rhetorical question. Can anyone please actually explain to me in a nuanced way why the fuck people want to go out of their way to pretend something very real doesn’t exist at all?