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I mean yeah but I assumed the person who asked the question is probably not a lib (unless we're acknowledging that I'm the OTL- One True Leftist - and the rest of Hexbear is full of libs ).

Bits aside, from an educator's perspective, I would agree with the idea that cheating needs to be stamped out. However, from the cheatee perspective, the idea that cheating, in general, defeats the point of doing the thing is something I disagree with as there are plenty of purposes that can be attained using it in a way that is not self-undermining.

Actually, even if you want to learn I can still see incentives to cheat now that I have thought about it. If someone is interested in a topic, but has other obstacles (tragedy, mental illness, episode, etc.) near an evaluation, they may cheat as they feel it unfair for them to be assessed when they are in a compromised state or were studying/learning in a compromised state depending on when it occurred in the timeline. I know of at least one person who has cheated in such a circumstance and then did fine at a higher-level version of the course without cheating.

That's assuming that your goal in doing the thing aligns with what that thing is. If that isn't the case I would disagree. I know plenty of people that cheated at some point in education and it's usually because their goal wasn't education but meeting some criteria. It's also why I heard way fewer reports of cheating outside of STEM in academia; people taking my majors usually did it out of interest instead of getting the piece of paper.

Similar thing for when I see cheating in games etc. The goal they have isn't to improve it's the social capital they get from reaching some arbitrary milestone or some monetary goal associated with that milestone. In school, it is the degree, diploma, etc. In games, it's ranked clout or selling the account. I knew a guy who had someone boost his account in league because he wanted the seasonal gold skin but wasn't good enough to get it, he didn't care about getting better, just the reward that people who are better would get. It's the power of secondary incentives overriding a system's main incentives.

I hate this entire comment section and am worse off for having read it.

The U.S. going to war against an idea has never gone wrong!

Classic:

Citizen: I'm poor and lack social mobility

Enlightened individual: Have you considered helping kill members of the Global South?

They just need to convince the feds to admit it since due to the logic presented anyone who is a witness could just be paid off by Hasan so the only trustworthy witnesses would be the feds themself.

Edit: Just saw an article on it below, saying they at least admitted to an inspection but again, that doesn't verify the majority of his claims so they would be looking for the feds to admit to political intimidation to prove it.

I mean, if he is using wokes to attack libs I'm almost inclined to agree considering how they've been using that to attack leftists for ages now but I know the maga types can't tell any of us apart so there is zero shot they mean that lmao

Though in all seriousness, what are they drumming up sentiment for, I've been hearing MTG sit here talking about how Isreal is pissing away burgerbucks, there has been a heel turn in a lot of news lately too against the genocide. I do not see the goal unless it's to maybe use the genocide as an excuse to ramp up anti-semitism but even then I still don't see what for.

I haven't slept though so I'll think about it again tomorrow when I can sleep.

New bit idea: Tell liberals we just need to push DJT to the left!

As a USian we've been outsourcing our thinking for years. I actually find myself enjoying conversations with batshit conspiracy theorists sometimes as many people don't think about their assumptions in any capacity and would outsource their assumptions too if they had a chance to. Many don't like having to think in any capacity.

No, it's not possible to edit someone else's post on Lemmy as a platform. We can't even mark a post as NSFW for content warning tags.

The Lemmy devs were very adamant that they never want that as a thing during their AMA earlier this year, just uninformed users being uninformed and jumping to weird conclusions for some reason