I just don’t see the point in calling ourselves a united nation if we aren’t going to produce a minimum standard of educated workers across the board. Why not just Balkanize at that point?
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And the US government banned words related to climate change from any future studies. If your grant proposal includes those keywords, it’ll get denied automatically without a human even looking at it.
Anthropogenic climate change is real, whether you believe in it or not.
You know who believes in climate change? Fossil fuel companies, insurance companies, the military industrial complex, and every single politician talking about buying or taking Greenland by force. All the very same people who have spent the past half century publicly denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change. Not only do they believe in it, but they are designing their profit models around it at our expense.
I’m not saying some states are “too dumb”. I’m saying some states are too poor, and the poor shouldn’t be left to suffer compounding negative results because their citizens can’t shoulder the burden of higher state taxes. Because I promise you that federal taxes will not go down. Once the government has gotten used to milking you for X amount, they aren’t going to give up that cash flow. All that will happen is that poor states will just get worse and worse as education falls and they fail to produce a workforce qualified for anything other than menial labor.
We are too dumb to set our own standards!
It’s not about being “too dumb”. It’s about having skills that transfer across state lines. There’s a reason we don’t let doctors and lawyers from other countries just set up a shop and start practicing in the US without meeting American standards first. Now imagine that happening from one state to the next. In your naive attempt to reduce the size of government, you’ve actually increased government bureaucracy and red tape by orders of magnitude.
And again, where are states going to make up that 15% of funding provided by the federal government?
The problem with this is that there ends up being no national education standard. You take a state like Alabama, which ranks dead last in so many education metrics, and remove those federal standards. Now Alabama can just change their state standards, and suddenly they have a 100% graduation rate with all straight A students. Guess what happens when Cletus the Alabama valedictorian tries to get a job in the medical field or the tech sector.
And that’s before we ever even talk about funding. States get about 15% of their K-12 funding from the federal government. Where are the states going to make up that difference? Higher state taxes? Higher property taxes? Or are they just going to let already struggling schools go to shit? Guess who that affects the most?
You really haven’t put a lot of thought into this beyond “federal gubmint bad”.
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•34,000! Largest rally that Bernie or AOC have ever hadEnglish362·4 months agoThe 99% Party. It’s a slick way of calling it a worker’s party without sounding like a communist party.
Does this unelected twat even have security clearance?
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas CityEnglish4·4 months agoZACHARY, La. (BRPROUD) – The Zachary Police Department says they arrested a former student after Zachary High School was tagged with graffiti.
Police say that Shyron White was arrested at his home in Livingston Parish for drawing a triangle with a symbol in it on the exterior doors. Graffiti was found in several locations around the building, and police were alerted on Tuesday.
“It’s always important to not damage someone else’s property. It costs money and time to, you know, to actually fix,” Zachary Police Department Chief Daryl Lawrence said. “And then you’ll have people like us out looking for you.”
Lawrence said an incident like this is not common for the Zachary community. White is booked in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, charged with terrorism, criminal damage to property, aggravated assault and criminal trespassing.
This is the Orwellian shit you’re advocating when you start classifying vandalism as terrorism.
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas CityEnglish4·4 months agoIt’s property damage that was done specifically to avoid hurting people. By that interpretation, Banksy could also be classified as a terrorist.
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US asks countries to help lower soaring prices of eggsEnglish16·4 months agoDenmark: Did you say “please” even once?
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EUEnglish21·4 months agoThe only moral
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Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EUEnglish6·4 months agoAs George Carlin once said, “you don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.”
The Heritage Foundation and the GOP have no love for Putin and he has no love for them. They all just want the same thing in regards to the EU and NATO, but they all want it for different reasons.
Trump is too stupid to be part of a major international conspiracy. He’s a useful idiot who thinks he can financially benefit from all this chaos, and that’s as deep as his thought process goes. Heritage wants the EU and NATO gone because it would give the US more leverage on the world stage, and because western Europe is a Godless Liberal society where religion is dwindling and brown people are moving in. Putin wants the EU and NATO gone because it would give Russia more leverage and make it easier to expand his borders and rebuild his glorious Russian Empire.
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EUEnglish61·4 months agoхет-трик or “khet trik” is a common Russian phrase, borrowed from the English “hat trick”, to describe three consecutive successes.
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto Memes@lemmy.ml•Don't blame Satan if things don't work out. It's God's plan right?40·4 months agoIf you read the Bible with a purely objective mind and come away thinking God is the good guy in the story, I have some serious questions about your morality and ethics.
Many years ago I was doing carpentry in a mansion on Kiawah Island, and the owner had brought back these huge clam shells from Greece that he turned into bathroom sinks.
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto Reddit@lemmy.world•This is apparently a threat of violence on Reddit1·4 months agoProbably both.
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.worldto Reddit@lemmy.world•This is apparently a threat of violence on Reddit1·4 months agoThe question mark won’t matter. It detected the word “fight” and that’s all the removal was based on.
I’d rather lead a life that leaves fascists dead after I die. But I’ll take seething as a consolation prize.