A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is a saying...

Make a mistake once and you can call it learning, make a mistake twice and you are eh... not so smart

Americans need education.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Didn't dubya say it best?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. A fool me can't get fooled again.

Shakespearean.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Something, something won't get fooled again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Go blank at the podium? Why not just randomly quote The Who?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

And you hit the nail on the head - Americans absolutely need better education. Unfortunately, it's not a priority, nor is it funded adequately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Americans absolutely need better education. Unfortunately, it's not a priority, nor is it funded adequately.

In related news:

Trump wants to shut down the Department of Education. Here’s what that could mean (cnn.com, Sept. 2024)

“We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth with all sorts of things that you don’t want to have our youth hearing,” Trump said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And you know what? They will probably get less of that now. Yay!