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  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
    42·
    9 hours ago

    The [Trump] administration claims to be pro-family, but is screwing a lot of people over – including ones with families, including ones who want to build a family

    Yes, that is the point. This administration honestly believes there isn’t enough stupid people who will work for pennies in a factory. This is literally according to plan for them. This to them IS IN FACT being pro-family. This is literally how they see it.

    You work a back breaking job, so you have to have a couple who work it just to survive, you have children who won’t go to school but instead will work in the factory as well. All your family forever working back breaking work. That’s what pro-family means to these people.

    Like I grew up on a farm. I had to pull hands of tobacco, I had to pick blackberries, I had to setup cows for milking, I did things that I’m surprised I lived through. And my family honestly believes that all made me a better person and they didn’t like the fact that I left all nonsense when I could. They honest believe I’m a worse person now because I’m not having my third heat stroke like everyone ought to be at my age.

    THIS IS WHAT PRO-FAMILY MEANS TO THEM. Suffering IS pro-family. Being under thumb and never being able to get ahead IS pro-family to them. It’s wild I know, but somewhere in their brains this is how you show you really, really, really love someone and care for them. By making them suffer.

    This administration is indeed being exactly their version of pro-family. This is what they define as being pro-family. It’s insanity to say the least, but this is honest to goodness what they see as helping people. That “screwing a lot of people over” that is exactly what Trump and his voters see as being helpful, kind, caring, loving, and pro-family as it comes to them.

    Screwing people over, fucking their lives up, and being completely shit, is this weird “tough love” mindset. Suffering is love to them. I don’t know how much clearer I can make it for people. But there are folks who honest to goodness believe that you have to suffer your entire life to know love. That, that suffering IS LOVE.

    And those people are the ones running this place.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    9 hours ago

    That’s what the Nat-C’s voted for. To go backwards.

    That is the whole point. Many of them deeply resent education, even if it is other people getting the education. Maybe especially if it is others.

    In any case, they don’t want an educated populace, and if people do get educated, they don’t want to make it easy; they want to have them punished for it.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
    311·
    10 hours ago

    The same asshole who is waging a war on science is also conducting a war on education.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        8 hours ago

        They have been like this forever. I remember being slated to go into college prep, and I remember snide comments from adults. From the guy driving the bus, for Pete’s sake. It increased as I took the PSAT and SAT, was accepted to a university, and was getting ready to head out to university. It wasn’t like I was the only kid heading off to university, but people, again, including adults who should be encouraging all kids to better themselves, but they sure acted like it was some kind of freak occurrence.

        Things like “college boy”, and so on make it clear that they thought you thought you were better than them (often confused by using terms like “elitist” even though my family was not even close to counting as “elitist” by the normal definition of that term, and in my view, “elitist” doesn’t mean people interested in education, it means the scandalously rich).

        I’ve seen people lambaste this kind of attitude about inner cities (read - among Blacks) but I often don’t see too many talk about how this bucket-of-crabs mentality is pervasive in white rural ares. I cannot speak for Black inner city life, I didn’t grow up there.

        • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Yep, your post reminded me of something Isaac Asimov wrote in 1980,

          There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”