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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's more that, as it turns out, guns can't protect you against Fox News and Facebook feeds.

If Biden were president in this exact situation, there would be some guns out.

[–] hellequin67@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sorry to say this but if the population is so easily brainwashed then maybe they can't be trusted with gun ownership.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are they so brainwashed though? Because the government doesn't help with education? 🤷‍♂️ (Serious question.)

[–] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Public education in the US is a system of propaganda-loaded indoctrination designed to stifle critical thinking.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I like how someone downvoted this when it is objectively true. Your comment butt hurt them right in the patriotism.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

There you go. 😕

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

and cannon fodder for defense contractors, aka the MIC.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because it is implemented state by state. The basics of the 3Rs are universal, and not state determined. The Federal government should be overseeing the public education curriculum, not the individual states. Those who whine about liberal indoctrination are just pissed because THEY wanted to be doing the indoctrinating.

In reality, schools aren't interested in liberal or conservative indoctrination, they want to teach Critical Thinking Skills. That should be a bipartisan position, but conservatives have come to despise Critical Thinking Skills because it turns out that CTS are the best defense to the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

Child of two public educators. I’m going to disagree to an extent. There are radical teachers. They push back against standards based education because they see how it pushes an agenda from the top, rather than cater needs to the local community and individual students. There’s a lot more of these teacher than you think, and they are honestly heroes. It is thankless, low paying, emotionally and physically draining work. Like I can understand the ways they kind of messed up raising me when I think about the hundreds, maybe thousands, of other kids lives they improved, and in some cases saved.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hate the excuse "people are stupid."

That's both a truism and misleading. We've always had monkey brains. The issue is that humans are psycologically vulnerable to technologically enhanced attention-grabbing feeds; regulating that is on business and government, and it has little to do with the education system or gun laws.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Us liberals are too nice