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Summary
The White House is drafting an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, aligning with Trump’s long-standing pledge.
However, Congress must approve the agency’s abolition, making its passage unlikely despite GOP control. Critics, including the National Education Association, warn this move would harm students, increase costs, and weaken protections.
GOP lawmakers have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the department since its 1979 founding.
Trump also recently signed an order expanding school choice, reinforcing the Republican agenda of decentralizing education policy.
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US Healthcare system is the worst in the world by any measure from cost to outcomes
Republicans: lets do the same to the education system.
Education is Fascisms biggest enemy. That’s why.
Ignorance is Strength
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
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I’m so sorry, Americans. I’m not sure who is even able to liberate your country. You and the Russians liberated the camps in Europe at the end of WW2, but who’s there for you? I think you might need to liberate yourself. Again. I’m sorry. Good luck
There isn’t anyone. Do everything you can to protect your country from us!
perhaps Germany will fight against the Nazis this time around?
Germany has behaved as a lapdog since WW2, are you kidding?
Could make for one hell of a redemption arc lol /s
It might be worth mentioning that Andrew Johnson signed the Department of Education into law in 1867. It was elevated to a cabinet position in 1979 by Carter from it’s previous position within the Department of Health, Education, And Welfare.
The idea that the government has a constitutional interest in fostering the education of the public is NOT a new thing contrary to what conservatives would have you believe. An educated populace is an essential function of a representative democracy.
They want feudalism
But I can’t figure out why. A society with severe brain drain would lead to reduced quality of life for them as well. Are they just banking on AI to do everything while everyone dies in rebellions and counter-rebellions? Shit, that’s probably it.
Yeah, I also don’t understand why they’re aiming for this kind of society. Eventually they’ll cut so much that the actual pie will shrink, so they’ll end up getting less while being surrounded by slums.
Yeah, but at least a black person didn’t get something they didn’t.
More white people on food stamps than black.
I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know that it doesn’t feel true, and therefore I will choose to ignore it.
(please tell me I don’t need the /s)
They measure their quality of life by their ability to dominate others. On top of the desire for feudalism for many of them is a desire for theocracy. For them politics peaked at the divine right of kings.
Neura-starlink, first on prisoners, then on everyone else and apparently the op paperclip people in conjunction with USA make the thousand year reign a reality.
Fascists aren’t particularly smart. They tend to lose in the long run because they just cannot comprehend anything complex. All their philosophy is wishful thinking and simple heuristics that follow their preconceived notions about the superiority of their in group.
They want feudalism because they can’t stand anyone having power other than the people who deserve to rule. They can’t stand that non elites can vote, demand decent wages, etc. so they want feudalism without understanding the downstream effects of that.
They are just fucking dumb. And that is why, if we get enough time, we will win against them. Climate change might get us. But we will fucking destroy these no knowing fuck wits.
If everything is going to shit, getting a slightly less shit deal even if it means everyone else gets a whole lot more shit is a deal people will take just about 10/10 times across an electorate.
But an educated populace is anathema to the ruling class.
In a democracy the people are the ruling class.
Show me a single democracy where there is only one social class.
Show me any government where there is only one social class.
Not when there’s only two parties available: the fascist party and the party of drinking tea while watching the fascists burn the world, voting to confirm henchmen between sips.
The US is no longer a democracy.
Never has been
Is this better or worse then him packing the Department of Education with ideologues?
the federal department does some very important assistance to state departments and students, but it is worth noting that states do basically all of the actual control and management of schools
DoE gets in the way of funneling the money to the churches.
DoE gets in the way of funneling the money to the
churchescorporations.Let’s not kid ourselves, the churches will get some money for taking the poor kids, but the goal is to privatize education so that corporations can profit from schooling even more than they already have.
I’m just warning you that education is seen as an “investment”, they are already on the capitalist pigs pathway and well with so many fat pigs I think dirty pork would be best to feed the population.
Give the power back to the states but create a credentialing system to weed out ‘unpatriotic’ teachers. Shall that be left to the states too?
Smart voters are just no good.
If the Federal Government doesn’t want to be responsible for anything, why even be a country? Each state be their own I guess /s
Also are they going to reduce taxes for all the cuts? Doubt it, but states would have to make increases to cover all the new work.
we live in the dumbest timeline.
Literally what the fuck are we paying taxes for, they are dismantling every bit of representation of the people possible. Well only have ruch fucks and bombs left to pay for.
Legitimately considering calling my HR and changing my tax status so I don’t pay any tax on my paychecks. I won’t be filing. Why in the actual fuck would I continue to pay taxes. I cant even tell what it would go towards at this point. Can someone honestly tell me? Where are the taxes taken off my next paycheck going to go? I could just buy a blue checkmark if I wanted to enrich elon directly.
Literally DONT pay taxes.
Unless they do away with the IRS altogether, they’ll still use it as a cudgel against the poors, and political foes. I would not count on there being no enforcement there.
Their audit rate even on the poor was awful before they decided to duck up the IRS. I don’t think they could handle one or even two cycles if enough people did this.
Right, but do away with the federal income tax, and good luck ever getting it back. That would be the final nail in the coffin, and the end of the United States of America.
The US is already over mate.
It’s not over until we have surrendered or they have killed us.
Dude, the US is already cooked. I’m not seeing a way back from this.
The collective “we” voted to give all of our money over to Trump I just council of billionaires.
Literally what the fuck are we paying taxes for
To provide funds that will be funnelled into the pockets of Trump, Musk and their cronies.
You laugh, this is literally Curtis Yarvin’s (one of Elon’s mentors) vision of America. A patchwork of corporatocratic fiefdoms, technically beholden to a federal government that basically only exists to be the arm of violence. The whole “no authority higher than a county sheriff” thing? Came out of his books. The idea of being “educated” will only be for the vaunted manager-class. All of us not lucky enough to be in the millionaire’s club, or one of their trusted lackeys, will be lucky to know how to read beyond a 3rd-grade level, or do math beyond simple arithmetic.
So, neofeudalism.
Yep. The Endarkenment.
Welcome to Elon’s Brave New World!
This CollegeHumor video was 8 years ahead of its time: If the Other Party Wins
I couldn’t even imagine what even dumber Americans would look like.
I refer you to the documentary films “Idiocracy” and “Don’t Look Up”
Unfortunately, reality has surpassed the referenced films.
Idiocracy have aged like fine wine, it’s like someone made it in the future and send it back in the time masheen at costco
Ever been to Florida?
If NBC thinks he needs an act of Congress then they haven’t been paying paying attention to USAID.
Who the fuck am I kidding, they know damn well what’s going on and refuse to print it.
Keep people dumb. Write their own history to “educate” the dumb. Sounds about right.
For this reason, if you have anything with at least 32 GB of RAM and a GPU, you should get a copy of Ollama and test it out running a local copy of Deepseek. That’s going to soon become the best 0 new dollars tool for access to education.
