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|u/Armantien - 1 month
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|“The school system failed you.” “I was home schooled!” Did… did he
|think that was a winning retort?
|u/Stoutyeoman - 1 month
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|Arguing with smart people is difficult. Arguing with stupid people is
|impossible.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|LOL. I love that one man. Just spot on. Trying to argue with a MAGA
|mouth breather is like banging your head against a brick wall. Its
|painful and pointless at the same time.
|u/Stoutyeoman - 1 month
|
|It took me years to learn this lesson. There's no point. If they
|were smart enough to know better they wouldn't be falling for this
|crap to begin with.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|LOL. Same here. I honestly used to try and have reasonable
|discussions with these people. And then I realized they don't
|want that. So I decided fine. I will just call them out on their
|bullshit and let them make fools of themselves. Makes it much
|more satisfying.
|u/Stoutyeoman - 1 month
|
|Unfortunately they're usually too stupid to realize they're
|making fools of themselves.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|LOL. You are absolutely right.
|u/Uddashin - 1 month
|
|Clearly, he has a ghost living in his head. It isn't the
|ghost of communism, though.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|LOL. Yes. A ghost that constantly scares away rational
|thinking.
|u/Copernicus_Brahe - 1 month
|
|Yeah, another clown unable to differentiate between
|communism/socialism and whatever other -isms he's heard
|but not researched.
|u/Sea_Response_9287 - 1 month
|
|Help me out guys..... why Harris over Trump?
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|Damn. That's easy to answer for myself. But I can't tell
|someone else how to feel bit here goes. Harris is
|intelligent. Former DA. Former Prosecutor. And current
|VP. She has policies that are already in play that
|actually help the people of this country. Pro union.
|Trying to strengthen the middle class. Good relations
|with our allies. Trump was already President and he was
|unfit for the job. He is also a convicted felon. Found
|liable for sexual assault. Indicted for treason. And has
|no policies that would actually help the people of this
|country. Those are my opinions. But also things that you
|can easily fact check. There is much more to both
|candidates but I don't think you want to read a novel.
|LOL. Hope this helps a little bit.
|u/Copernicus_Brahe - 1 month
|
|Nice job -there’s also the fact that Trump is running
|to attempt to stay out of jail for all of his other
|crimes
|u/helmepll - 1 month
|
|1. Anyone is better than Trump. 2. Harris is better
|than Biden. 3. I never have and never will vote for
|Trump. This is coming from someone who has frequently
|voted for Republicans in the past. Trump disqualified
|himself so many times that voting for him should not be
|an option for a rational person.
|u/ShinkenBrown - 1 month
|
|Doesn't matter, really. While this type of "there are
|\_\_\_\_\_ types of people" argument is always reductive,
|not everything has to be perfectly accurate and sometimes
|generalizing is okay, so, that acknowledged.... There are
|three types of people. People smart enough not to fall for
|Republican bullshit; people too stupid to ever see through
|it; and people not informed enough to see through it but not
|dumb enough to fall for it hook line and sinker, either. The
|third type can be swayed in either direction. We don't
|argue with them to convince them - as you said, "if they
|were smart enough to know better they wouldn't be falling
|for this crap to begin with." We argue with them so that we
|can make them look like the fools they are, and so they can
|reveal themselves to be so, to prevent the third type from
|falling for their bullshit. Arguing, especially on the
|internet, is rarely really about convincing the person
|you're arguing with. Far more often, it's really about
|convincing anyone on the fence who's listening.
|u/Menacek - 1 month
|
|That isn't the point. The point is to show how stupid they
|are to everyone reading or listening to the conversation.
|u/Fritzoidfigaro - 1 month
|
|Way more fun that way. I used to avoid the news completely.
|Now it is comedic entertainment.
|u/Boulderdrip - 1 month
|
|when Magats at the bar start trying to argue with me with
|something like “civil war wasn’t about slavery” i just
|respond with “well if the wealth of experts and historians
|can’t change your mind, then the drunk graphic designer at a
|bar sure isn’t. so there is no point in having this
|conversation”
|u/Strobooty4 - 1 month
|
|I like “Do you know what you prove when you argue with an idiot?
|That there’s two idiots.”
|u/GrumpyOctopod - 1 month
|
|Sometimes it takes a little arguing before you realize they're
|an idiot. I'm an idiot because I assume people are not.
|u/SobakaZony - 1 month
|
|There is nothing wrong with applying the Principle of
|Charity, or giving people the benefit of the doubt. That
|assumption doesn't make you an idiot; rather, that
|assumption makes you a good human. Thank you.
|u/GrumpyOctopod - 1 month
|
|That is very nice of you to say. Thank you :)
|u/Comfortable_Fill9081 - 1 month
|
|I tend to think they’re faking being that dumb. I have
|trouble accepting the reality that so many people *are* that
|dumb.
|u/grumblesmurf - 1 month
|
|I'd say they are partly really that dumb (you know which
|part of the population I mean by that), partly resignated
|because they've been betrayed so many times in the past
|that they just don't want to be a part of it anymore, and
|the biggest part just DGAF. Sadly, there's not much that
|can stop those idiots, especially when they're idiots with
|guns (which most of them are).
|u/GrumpyOctopod - 1 month
|
|I think it's a form of trolling for sure. If you
|completely miss the point of everything the other person
|says, you can piss them off and make them say stupid or
|inflammatory shit. A lot of them are totally baiting. A
|lot are also extremely stupid.
|u/Jaded_Daddy - 1 month
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|Many times this.
|u/kor34l - 1 month
|
|This saying kind of reminds me of those folks that see someone
|driving stupid and dangerous and get mad and instead of saying
|"you idiot!" and keeping a safe distance like most, they
|become an idiot themselves and try to fight the moron, in
|traffic
|u/thebearofwisdom - 1 month
|
|My fave is “never wrestle with pigs, you’ll get dirty and the
|pig likes it”
|u/Rokea-x - 1 month
|
|Same. Gotta ‘target’ their kids… it ‘might’ not be too late to
|redeem the younger ones. Older ones are write-offs
|u/PolygonMan - 1 month
|
|It's not just that, it's that they aren't capable of discussing
|the things they care about without feeling like their identity
|is being attacked. They would legitimately rather be ignorant
|and keep their faith (in Trump, a megachurch, or whatever) than
|strive for truth. Challenging their views and rebuilding their
|identity is too frightening and difficult compared to just
|sticking their heads in the sand.
|u/unicorn-field - 1 month
|
|"You can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic
|themselves into" (paraphrased) is a saying I've seen.
|u/tearsonurcheek - 1 month
|
|It's like playing chess with a pigeon. You won't win. They'll just
|knock over all the pieces and shit all over the board.
|u/nerfherder813 - 1 month
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|And then strut around like they won
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|LOL. That is a great way to put it. Love that one.
|u/keithfantastic - 1 month
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|That's why I don't engage with them. They have neither shame nor
|decency. They're just weirdos. I have no patience for such
|ignorance.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|I couldn't agree more.
|u/Additional_Cherry_51 - 1 month
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|Shit, you went high English with that last bit. Now I'm going to
|use that all week. Sir! I have no patience for such Ignorance.
|Begone!
|u/UnusedParadox - 1 month
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|>They're just weirdos Watch out, Musk will ban you from Twitter
|if you use that slur w\*irdos. /s weirdos is not a slur
|u/keithfantastic - 1 month
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|I deleted Twitter the day that weirdo bought it.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|Sadly that is true. And Reagan actually seemed to want be a good
|President. I don't agree with alot of his politicies. Especially
|the terrible trickle down economics policy that was a complete
|failure. Yet Republicans keep trying to push it. But he did want
|to govern. Trump on the other hand is just a buffoon. And this
|worship of a politician is just mind numbing to me. All I want
|from my elected officials is to do the damn job I voted them for
|them to do. Sorry to hear about your uncle. To many people out
|there go down that same depressing road. I will never understand
|it.
|u/clubnseals - 1 month
|
|I never argue with them one-on-one. But in a group setting it’s
|worth it, mostly to help and educate people who might be listening
|and isn’t in the cult.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|Good point. Even if you can get just some people to understand
|the reality of what is going on it's worth it. And I don't say
|that because I think I am smarter than everyone. But because
|facts and evidence are important. That's why the tin-foil hat
|wearing conspiracy nuts are so damn hard to talk to.
|u/DisturbedNocturne - 1 month
|
|That's become my approach as well. Maybe I'll never get someone
|to change their mind regardless of what facts and evidence I
|provide, but hopefully it'll be enough to keep someone else from
|falling for the same thing. It definitely helped my sanity some
|when I realized it wasn't about "winning" an argument, but just
|showing everyone else why they're wrong.
|u/Sunbeamsoffglass - 1 month
|
|Dunning-Kruger Effect They are too stupid to realize they are in
|fact, stupid, and not intelligent like they believe. Not worth
|the effort to debate them.
|u/MewlingRothbart - 1 month
|
|It's like hitting yourself in the face with a brick because it
|feels good when you stop. 🙃
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
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|LOL. Absolutely.
|u/lelarentaka - 1 month
|
|I've always wondered why Americans have to specify "brick wall".
|Apparently it's because their house walls are paper, and it
|doesn't actually hurt that much if you bang your head against
|that.
|u/usernameabc124 - 1 month
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|Yeah… so depressing when it’s family.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
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|Yes. I know that feeling well.
|u/Kincadium - 1 month
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|Just gonna slander brick walls like that? They have so many more
|uses than 90% of MAGA.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
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|LMFAO. That is awesome man.
|u/Kingerdvm - 1 month
|
|“Arguing with someone like that is like wrestling a pig. In the
|end, you’re both covered in shit, but the pig likes it”
|u/na-uh - 1 month
|
|Which is why you just laugh at them.
|u/Corporate-Shill406 - 1 month
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|Last time I did that, they told me I was a Karen and then they
|called the cops
|u/Comfortable_Hunt_684 - 1 month
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|Never argue with an idiot, they'll bring you down to their level
|and beat you with experience.
|u/Sushibowlz - 1 month
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|don’t throw shade on people with blocked sinuses. allergy season
|hits hard you know, no reason to conflate us mouth breathers with
|those maga dimwits
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
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|Sorry my man. I did not mean to compare you to those knuckle-
|draggers. LOL.
|u/Sushibowlz - 1 month
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|Apology accepted 😂
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|LOL. I appreciate that man. Thanks.
|u/goodsnpr - 1 month
|
|So wear a spiky hat and put spikes on the wall? Point will be
|driven home eventually.
|u/Suspicious_Bicycle - 1 month
|
|Though Jordan Klepper does make it enjoyable to watch.
|u/imfoneman - 1 month
|
|The same as playing chess against a pigeon. Just knocks over the
|pieces then struts around the board like it won.
|u/Graffy - 1 month
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|It’s like wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig
|enjoys it.
|u/AngryRedHerring - 1 month
|
|“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No
|matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board
|and strut around like it won anyway.” ― Shannon L. Alder
|u/hamoc10 - 1 month
|
|Because you care about truth, they care about how their beliefs
|make them *feel.*
|u/Icy_Comparison1442 - 1 month
|
|"Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level and
|then beat you with experience."
|u/PurpleOrchid07 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, we cannot reason with them, because they didn't use reason,
|logic or science to get into their warped opinions. They're a lost
|cause, all we can and must do is defeating them at the polls and
|other aspects of public life, to make sure they never have the
|power to change things the way they want to. Let them be miserable
|in their own homes and basements, but not out in society.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|Well said man. I almost feel sorry for people that bought into
|Trump's bullshit. But they are grown ass adults. They can choose
|to stop supporting this criminal. If they want to be miserable,
|like you said, there is nothing we can do about it. Just make
|sure we vote. And get rid of Trump and his MAGA minions for
|good.
|u/Throw-away17465 - 1 month
|
|I spent way too much time in dialogue this morning with somebody
|who kept insisting that the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park are real
|living animals, with verifiable niche behavioral traits, currently
|living today. He “knows” this because he read it in the novel.
|The NOVEL.
|u/SomewhereExisting755 - 1 month
|
|LOL.
|u/MakarovJAC - 1 month
|
|The brick wall might give away some bricks for a makeshift shelf.
|Or a hole to see through.
|u/AgamemnonNM - 1 month
|
|Well, duh! You keep banging your head against a wall because it
|feels soooooo good when you stop. 🙂
|u/Baal-84 - 1 month
|
|Or wrestle with a pig. Dirty, pointless, and he will enjoy it.
|u/ccdude14 - 1 month
|
|"Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level
|and beat you with experience." -Mark Twain Mark Twain and George
|Carlin would have a brain aneurysm seeing how dumb right wing
|pundits and politicians have become. It's not even just lopsided,
|they've taken the whole damn field of weird and sat in a pile of
|shit declaring themselves King.
|u/RinoaRita - 1 month
|
|You can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic
|themselves into.
|u/Madaghmire - 1 month
|
|Never argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their level and
|beat you with experience.
|u/InconvenientGambino - 1 month
|
|Questions. Asking the right questions to them in good faith. Those
|are the key. Asking them to explain, and that kills it. They would
|have to say out loud: - I don’t like minorities - I want to treat
|women like property - I hate the gays You know…MAGA stuff. Hasn’t
|failed me yet.
|u/InconvenientGambino - 1 month
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|That’s because they’re fucking weird 🥴
|u/OakLegs - 1 month
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|Explains my experience on reddit
|u/redthorne82 - 1 month
|
|Similarly, if you find yourself winning every argument, you're
|probably the idiot and people just aren't dealing with you anymore.
|😆
|u/varangian_guards - 1 month
|
|its actually super fun, minor shift in tactics needed but once you
|figure out a few ways to make them fall into silly traps they will
|blunder into every single one. exhibit A, the post we are
|commenting in has someone dropping the peoples elbow on a dumb guy.
|u/Stoutyeoman - 1 month
|
|Yeah but they're too dense to realize they've been schooled.
|u/varangian_guards - 1 month
|
|well they didnt notice their mom doing it either. you don't
|hunt for the deer's enjoyment.
|u/RegionPurple - 1 month
|
|Arguing with stupid people is like playing checkers with a pigeon;
|no matter what you do, they're gonna shit all over everything then
|strut around like they won.
|u/SteptimusHeap - 1 month
|
|"I fucked your mom last night" "No you didn't, *I* was fucking her
|last night"
|u/Mushrimps - 1 month
|
|Goddamnit lmao
|u/Ricky_Rollin - 1 month
|
|Well, he was homeschooled, so yes he actually did think that was a
|winning retort. And this is what we are up against folks. People who
|are proud of their ignorance.
|u/queen_of_potato - 1 month
|
|There was someone I saw earlier saying "all the incels agree with
|me" as if that was a good thing
|u/LinkleLinkle - 1 month
|
|My guess based on this short exchange and my experience with parents
|that home school for political reasons... My guess is mommy and
|daddy home schooled so he wouldn't learn about evolution and gay
|people but the reason he was constantly told was he was 'too smart
|for public school and the school system simply can't handle his
|level of genius'.
|u/Plus-Bluejay-2024 - 1 month
|
|"I have no real education AND zero social skills, so TAKE THAT."
|u/IMSLI - 1 month
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|“I love the poorly educated” —Donald Trump
|u/rygelicus - 1 month
|
|Mama said he was an excellent debater. And he passed her sex ed with
|flying colors.
|u/Zaku41k - 1 month
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|Sorry Happy Gilmore , but your mama is wrong!
|u/guinness_blaine - 1 month
|
|That’s Bobby Boucher
|u/Zaku41k - 1 month
|
|You’re probably right. They all blur into a single person at
|this point
|u/J0NICS - 1 month
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|No, Church's Fried Chicken youre wrong. Momma's right.
|u/Archercrash - 1 month
|
|"You kiss just like Daddy." "Mama says the same thing."
|u/TulleQK - 1 month
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|With both arms broken?
|u/shewy92 - 1 month
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|He was a master debater
|u/HeadyBunkShwag - 1 month
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|Imagine dunking on your parents like that and not even realize.
|u/SunWukong3456 - 1 month
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|In his mind probably yes, cause people like this think schools and
|universities are brainwashing facilities.
|u/anand_rishabh - 1 month
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|Obviously his school failed him, so yes
|u/valtboy23 - 1 month
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|I mean his mom would have given him an A for that
|u/Pseudo_Panda1 - 1 month
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|"Joke's on you: I never went to school!"
|u/Satanicjamnik - 1 month
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|I like how he resorted to using big words to show that he knows what
|he’s on about.
|u/-DaveDaDopefiend- - 1 month
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|And she didn’t even respond with any argument of substance
|u/Satanicjamnik - 1 month
|
|Of course. He panicked and hoped that if the word are long enough
|that no one will notice that he didn't actually say anything.
|u/JGG5 - 1 month
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|“Don’t blame the public schools for how stupid I am!”
|u/OneWholeSoul - 1 month
|
|"The school system failed you." "Nuh-uh - it was my parents, which
|is way worse!"
|u/MutantSquirrel23 - 1 month
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|Said exactly this before opening the comments
|u/as_per_danielle - 1 month
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|this is me!!
|u/patsully98 - 1 month
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|He still is a homeschooled dimwit.
|u/oldscotch - 1 month
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|You heard what he said.
|u/Unctuous_Mouthfeel - 1 month
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|I mean we could say his parents failed him but that's implied.
|u/Mortarion407 - 1 month
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|This "unschooling" trend is gonna be the death of America.
|u/The_Muznick - 1 month
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|Well we were already aware he was a gigantic moron. He just opened his
|mouth and removed all doubt.
|u/SpaceTimeRacoon - 1 month
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|"oh... You didn't even get a standard education".. If the education
|standards are bad, imagine boasting about being even lower than that
|u/rikashiku - 1 month
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|>Did… did he think that was a winning retort? It's amazing how many
|people think it is. "Oh you have a degree of being brainwashed. I WAS
|RAISED BY MY PARENTS!". One of my former coworkers was raised by Neo-
|nazi's. Another ex coworker grew up with Brethren. He had some
|amazingly outlandish point of views. Both guys tried to give worldly
|advice, while they themselves were raised in secluded compounds.
|u/RocketRaccoon666 - 1 month
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|"I went to the University of My Mom"
|u/csizzy04 - 1 month
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|I doubt he posesses the ablity to think...
|u/kinoki1984 - 1 month
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|That was the clever comback. He basicly owned himself so hard and
|proved the point so explicitly that he has no clue that he’s
|brainwashed.
|u/Ms74k_ten_c - 1 month
|
|Yes!! According to these idiots, they learnt a lot more at the school
|of life (and mom) than they could have learnt in a liberal,
|brainwashing public schools.
|u/MobileSeparate398 - 1 month
|
|"I think your shirt caught fire" "Nu uh, they are called EMBERS. Look
|it up."
|u/MyRegrettableUsernam - 1 month
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|Didn’t even let the school system fail him
|u/Baal-84 - 1 month
|
|"believe". He's not the kind who think.
|u/HopefulCynic24 - 1 month
|
|"You're barber sucks." "Jokes on you, I cut my own hair!"
|u/TheJedibugs - 1 month
|
|“I was homeschooled, dimwit” is the absolute worst comeback I’ve ever
|heard/read.
|u/Joes_wifes_husband - 1 month
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|That guy forgot the comma. Lol
|u/posthardcorejazz - 1 month
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|Maybe he forgot a letter? "I was a homeschooled dimwit"
|u/TheJedibugs - 1 month
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|In that case, he got the tense wrong, as well.
|u/Copernicus_Brahe - 1 month
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|No, I think he forgot the ‘a’
|u/SteelTerps - 1 month
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|"My mommy's smarter than your mommy"
|u/goranlepuz - 1 month
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|Actually, >I was homeschooled dimwit is worse - **and that's what
|they did!** # 😂😂😂
|u/Torrejulian37_ - 1 month
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|He forgot a a before homeschooled.
|u/Fluffy-kitten28 - 1 month
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|So the school system and his mom did fail him!!!!!
|u/WitchKingofBangmar - 1 month
|
|Hilariously, the wealthy LOVE wealth redistribution. Just not from the
|top down 🥰🥰🥰
|u/Non-Adhesive63 - 1 month
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|> Hilariously, the wealthy LOVE wealth redistribution. Just not from
|the top down 🥰🥰🥰 Exactly! Subsidies and tax breaks for the Rich,..
|Bootstraps and hard low wage work for the rest of us!
|u/Ah2k15 - 1 month
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|Socialism for the wealthy, rugged capitalism for the rest of us!
|u/FatWhiteLumpHill - 1 month
|
|PPP loan forgiveness, ‘yes, more of that.’ Student loan forgiveness
|‘SOCIALISM’
|u/the_bashful - 1 month
|
|What’s hilarious is that homeschooled said redistribute *power* from
|the wealthy, as though that’s where it naturally lies in a democracy .
|u/Bebopdavidson - 1 month
|
|Yeah he’s not even saying anything bad about Communism! They’ve just
|forgotten to talk about the bad parts at this point
|u/hangryhyax - 1 month
|
|“Publicly subsidized, privately profitable **|** The anthem of the
|upper-tier, puppeteer untouchable **|** Focus a moment, nod in
|approval, bury our heads in the bar-codes of these neo-Colonials”
|Edit: sad that song from 1996 is still so relevant
|u/boxinafox - 1 month
|
|They love to privatize their gains, but they also love to socialize
|their losses.
|u/27thgenericaccount - 1 month
|
|Wealth would trickle down eventually, sometime, Soon ...
|Eventually
|u/Sylveon72_06 - 1 month
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|at this rate itll evaporate before it reaches us 😭
|u/Kerensky97 - 1 month
|
|I like that he used that as a diss. Kamala is trying to shift power
|from the wealthy and give that power back to the majority! Cool.
|That's a good reason to vote for her. How can you be such a simp for
|the billionaires that you're thinking that's wrong?
|u/HolyGhost_AfterDark - 1 month
|
|Oh no stripping the power from the wealthy. How is that a bad thing.
|What happened to the power belongs to the people?
|u/fulldeckard - 1 month
|
|It's wonderful how the rich of America have successfully demonised and
|vilified socialism whilst enjoying their own little version of it at
|the top of the tree. Time to cut the tree down so everyone can nest
|in its branches.
|u/TheLandFanIn814 - 1 month
|
|Why are homeschooled people so weird? Also throwing in as many big
|words as possible doesn't make you smart.
|u/AverageSalt_Miner - 1 month
|
|People usually only homeschool their kids when they, themselves, have
|a weird belief system that would be undermined by formal education.
|u/Non-Adhesive63 - 1 month
|
|It’s not as common but it does occur that some people pull her kids
|out of those right wing ridiculous religious nutbag mega controlled
|schools to try and get them an actual honest education. But as I
|said it’s not nearly as common as the other way around,.. MAGAt
|moron parents, hoping their kids learn to be the same racist idiots
|they are
|u/liketrainslikestars - 1 month
|
|I know someone like this, and they are a wildly intelligent and
|well-rounded person. Homeschooling totally done right. I wish that
|was the norm.
|u/Houndfell - 1 month
|
|Seconding this. All else being equal, a smart, passionate,
|competent teacher is going to give a single/small handful of
|students a better education than a classroom of 30+. Not to
|mention schools below college level don't teach things like
|critical thinking, which is such an egregious oversight you
|might be tempted to wonder if it's by design. Your average
|school is, at best, at least partially designed to be a daycare
|center intended to babysit you so Mom and Dad can continue to be
|cogs until you yourself can be a cog. Problem is, when someone
|says they're "homeschooling" their kids, it's much less likely
|to be the scenario above, and more likely to be some loon
|raising a socially isolated child who is at best thrown a
|multiplication table and encouraged to read - in between rants
|about the evils of communism and the evil lizard people who want
|to bring about the destruction of the "traditional" family.
|u/BabySharkFinSoup - 1 month
|
|It’s absolutely by design, school was made to create workers,
|not thinkers.
|u/StNommers - 1 month
|
|I had the amazing benefit of incredibly dedicated teachers. My
|mom went above and beyond to do her best and that meant she
|often sought out a lot of external resources and information.
|I went to an independent charter school with amazingly hard
|working and caring teachers who gave us the best years of
|schooling I could ask for. But I know that that rare. We had a
|mix of students including some of the more religious parents
|who wanted to indoctrinate their kids. Unfortunately, they
|went to a very open minded school and many of those kids have
|renounced their religion and parents for their ideologies and
|behavior now that theyre in or graduated from college.
|Working in public education, I try to emulate everything my
|teachers did to engage with us and support us as best as I
|can. And I hope to instill not only core life skill but the
|love of learning and pursuit of knowledge.
|u/Ok-Cheesecake5292 - 1 month
|
|Also, someone with the resources to stay home and not work to
|educate their children definitely has money and that
|absolutely correlates with better outcomes in general. I'm
|sure a lot more people would homeschool their kids if it were
|within their means to do so
|u/czPsweIxbYk4U9N36TSE - 1 month
|
|In general, there are 3 types of homeschoolers: 1) (vast
|majority) Religious whack jobs who view that sending your kid to
|school is replacing God and worshipping the government. 2)
|Parents of neurodivergent children or who have other special needs
|who believe the school system will not be able to effectively
|educate their child 3) Parents who value education extremely
|highly and do not feel that the public (or private) education
|systems near them are able to provide an adequate education.
|Probably 75% are in group 1. Group 2 are homeschooled because
|they're weird, not the other way around. This leaves a tiny
|fraction in group 3. They also have less chances to socialize
|during their formative years, and thus are also slightly awkward.
|u/StNommers - 1 month
|
|It definitely happens and that falls on the parents as well as
|the available resources in their immediate area. Homeschooling
|in a large city/county has far more options, resources, and
|groups to help supplement. I had that benefit. I wasn’t perfect
|socially but it wasn’t hard to adapt. But, there are plenty of
|kids who go through the public education system and come out
|just as socially awkward or struggling. It’s not necessarily a
|“homeschooling causes social ineptitude” as much as kids
|personalities affecting the resources around them.
|u/worldspawn00 - 1 month
|
|Probably know which houses because he's delivering the teaching
|materials. These people usually subscribe to some church-based
|curriculum that sends them lessons and such on a schedule.
|u/Jack__Squat - 1 month
|
|He likely sees the kids home all day too.
|u/aka_jr91 - 1 month
|
|I was homeschooled myself, because my parents were Jehovah's
|Witnesses who thought public School would corrupt me. I'm still
|pretty awkward in a lot of social situations, but I've mostly
|adapted.
|u/_its_lunar_ - 1 month
|
|That must’ve been really rough. I’ve read a lot about how damaging
|it can be for homeschooled children to miss out on those key years
|of socialisation, it’s crazy how so much of being social is linked
|to our learned experience from early school years. I’m glad you’re
|managing though
|u/AdamZapple1 - 1 month
|
|just sending my kids to daycare and getting that head start of
|being around other people. they're more normal and sociable than
|i was/am growing up in a time where people were able to
|financially have a parent stay home all the time. daycare cost
|a metric fuckton of money. but in that way, its probably worth
|it.
|u/Jeanette_T - 1 month
|
|I have two friends who home schooled. One decided to after the
|principal sat her down and said if he were her, he'd medicate her
|child (who had been evaluated for ADHD and didn't have it). Why?
|Because he'd finish his work and get bored. He wasn't disruptive but
|he'd get up and do things like look at the fish. There were other
|issues but that was the one that finally made her snap. The other,
|her young daughter was TERRIFIED to go to school. It was to the
|point of trauma for the kid so they decided to home school. I know
|she had to follow certain state guidelines and her daughter had to
|pass a state test to graduate. Both kids ended up 'not weird' but
|both of their sets of parents were definitely also not right wing
|nutjobs. They are also definitely not the majority of home
|school parents.
|u/AverageSalt_Miner - 1 month
|
|Yeah, that's why I went with "usually." Most of the homeschooled
|kids I knew were from my time working at Chick Fil A as a
|teenager.
|u/Jeanette_T - 1 month
|
|That's why I added that they aren't the majority of home
|schooled parents. At least not the vocal ones. I imagine the
|really weird ones are the ones who are the loudest about what
|they ae doing, because those on the far right tend to be VERY
|loud. I imagine the more "normal" parents and kids just aren't
|talking about it much.
|u/maaarken - 1 month
|
|As Not-An-American, everything we hear about homeschooled kids
|is always because of vocal moms being all "my 15yo can't read
|yet, how bad is it? hihi" or "we don't believe in maths and
|the alphabet, we're teaching leadership to our children" It
|paints a very awful image of homeschooling, so it's always
|reassuring to see the stories of normal kids
|u/TulleQK - 1 month
|
|I had to do some research because I thought home schooling
|is not allowed where I live. It is, but it is _heavily_
|regulated and must be inline with what the values and
|principles for primary and secondary education set by the
|The Norwegian Directorate for Education. If not, the kid has
|to go to a public or private school. In short: not alot of
|wiggle room to fuck up your kid (at least this way)
|u/cejmp - 1 month
|
|Billie Eilish and Finneas have done moderately well for
|themselves.
|u/jeobleo - 1 month
|
|Mine's somewhat regulated. I have to show evidence that
|I'm teaching them 8 subjects with a portfolio twice a
|year. I also get them tested at the end of the year to
|make sure they're learning OK.
|u/Few-Finger2879 - 1 month
|
|You have your 2 main types of homeschooled kids: prodigies
|(musical usually) or your quack parents (religious usually,
|but now conservative types too). Then you have every other
|homeschooled kid inbetween. There's normal kids, too, but
|usually normal kids go to school.
|u/HispanicExmuslim - 1 month
|
|The majority of them are perfectly fine. I ended up getting
|my masters and was homeschooled till high school. Graduated
|a year early.
|u/december116 - 1 month
|
|My 8th grader is starting college classes as a
|homeschooler. He’s been taking coding classes for 5 years
|privately. He would never have the opportunity to do what
|he is doing in a public school. Government schools are not
|the answer for a lot of kids. I’m glad you are doing so
|well!
|u/_its_lunar_ - 1 month
|
|Wait I thought that was just a meme? I’ve heard stories about
|how the reason Chick Fil A employees are so nice because they
|were all homeschooled and this is their first real experience
|with socialisation and groups of people. Is there a real
|widespread phenomenon of home schooled kids disproportionately
|working at Chick Fil A? If so, why?
|u/AverageSalt_Miner - 1 month
|
|Christian organization. In this case, it was a lot of families
|that go to church with the manager. Their kids get to
|employable age, and they go talk to their friend who is the
|manager and he hires them on. I know that particular CFA was
|notorious for hiring almost everyone who applied and then just
|cutting hours if the new people didn't catch on quickly.
|u/eivindric - 1 month
|
|Tbh getting up and doing something during the class is the
|definition of disruptive. The kid may be just standing there and
|peacefully staring at the fish, but the rest of the class is now
|staring at him and discussing him instead of listening to the
|teacher. Also choosing to homeschool instead of correcting
|disruptive behaviour of your apparently healthy kid is really
|weird, the same applies to the teacher not being able to manage
|the classroom with 1 healthy bored kid acting out. This does not
|really sound like a full story…
|u/clarkeDeaper - 1 month
|
|You are able to finish your work within five minutes, now you
|have to wait for the rest of the hour, just forced to stare into
|nothingness. Not once a day, but for every subject. Even an
|adult would get bored after just a day of that. I had the same
|experience of being much faster than my classmates, but at least
|we were offered books we could keep in our desks and read if we
|would finish early. > >choosing to homeschool instead of
|correcting disruptive behaviour of your apparently healthy kid
|is really weird There's nothing to correct here. If a school
|teaches a kid to finish a task in no time, then go into zombie
|mode and just flip out of it... yeah sounds like the healthy
|thing to do is get your kid the hell away from it.
|u/queen_of_potato - 1 month
|
|A couple of my friends growing up were home schooled because they
|were always sailing around the world
|u/thesarc - 1 month
|
|My kid had a speech deficit, went to a pathologist for years, and so
|was quiet and didn't like to speak up at school... The only middle
|school available to him is on a Federal list of failing schools, and
|they don't let you know that when you send your kid there, you gotta
|find it out for yourself. Because of a lack of resources there, the
|teachers didn't give a quiet kid attention, and he got forgotten
|academically and socially. The school didn't even notice. We brought
|it to their attention, made the school aware, all that stuff.
|Nothing changed, nothing happened, just some platitudes from them
|about it being an inclusive space where everyone is cared for but
|picking up a 12 year old in tears everyday and watching them slip
|toward depression makes you reevaluate priorities like which comes
|first, their mental health or an education that is pretty meh in the
|first place. I chose his mental health and homeschooling.
|Generalizations like yours really fucking hurt, if I'm honest.
|u/LadyFax73 - 1 month
|
|I have 4 homeschooled Grandchildren. Their parents especially my
|SIL are super Trump fans. They go to a sub-set of a Joel Osteen type
|of church. I’ve been there 5 times and heard pastor talk about money
|first thing EVERY time. I’ve been twice for Easter to please my
|daughter and both Easters same pastor chose THAT day to talk about
|him and his girlfriend at the clinic for her to get their abortion.
|It was surreal. It’s like going to a feast given by the most Holy
|man the world has ever known and over talking him by telling about
|beating up an old man for kicks on the way there. Believe me I never
|heard this guy use this situation to show God’s mercy on us when we
|make hard choices. It. Was. Bizarre. This year when it was about
|45-50 degrees outside the two youngest had agreed to be baptized and
|were dunked in an outdoor water trough. After, I helped carry some
|of their two sets of clothes to their car. I thought we would all
|meet somewhere and get lunch together. I’d dressed and groomed for
|the occasion. But my daughter got in their car, beamed a smile at me
|and said thanks for coming as I handed out happy baptism gifts to
|the 7 and 9 year olds. Last week same daughter for the 3rd time
|told me I’m not welcome in her home and she doesn’t trust me around
|her children because she “doesn’t like the choices I’m making.”
|This is our third time out on that wagon train. I’ve been a critical
|care RN for 40 years. I can easily find many people who trust my
|decision making skills and who thank me for being there.
|u/Xogoth - 1 month
|
|I got homeschooling for a year or two because the local public
|school options were so abysmal. Apart from being at home, it didn't
|really feel much different. I still had the maths, book reports,
|etc. But less "homework" type stuff, more time to explore what I was
|interested in learning, and more time with the teacher to ask
|questions. It helps when your mother grew up in a German school
|system, and has a degree in teaching.
|u/Sinkinglifeboat - 1 month
|
|As a former homeschooler, I have a few explanations as to why: 1.) No
|outside world contact, due to the nature of schooling and lack of
|internet access 2.) Actively having everything that isn't involved
|with the church demonized and being convinced you're going to hell if
|you "stray" from the church narrative 3.) Follow up to #2, you are
|commonly taught that if it makes sense but disagrees with the church
|doctrine, it's the devil tempting you and lying to you. You're told if
|you believe in it you've let satan enter your heart. 4.) You are
|actively radicalized from birth to support the conservatism no matter
|what. In addition, the curriculum is not accurate and is extremely
|biased. It's essentially a conservative think tank 24/7 for 13 years
|of your life. 5.) You're taught everyone around you is stupid and
|you're privileged to be homeschooled away from the "dummies". You are
|taught to actively make fun of, demean, and mock anyone who is not in
|your personal circle.
|u/beta334201 - 1 month
|
|Yea, this is pretty much one for one with my experience being
|homeschooled. I'll also add not having a real education at all
|because my mom thought she could classically educate 3 children all
|at different grades without a degree in education lmao, the fucking
|arrogance.
|u/OneWholeSoul - 1 month
|
|It's because they think teachers don't do anything except recite
|from a text book and grade using answer keys.
|u/themocaw - 1 month
|
|To be fair, some of them don't. On the other hand, you come up
|with 6 hours of lesson plans everyday for 9 months.
|u/rif011412 - 1 month
|
|It also mirrors the political reason why cities are more
|liberal/progressive than rural communities.   When you don’t have
|regular contact with people outside your tribe or bubble, you are
|more likely to invent the ways in which strangers are terrible
|people.  Being in or around the city doesn’t make you a good person,
|but it raises people’s understanding that we all share the same
|struggles in life.
|u/AnonThrowawayProf - 1 month
|
|My son’s stepbrother is homeschooled. They are teens now. This
|really resonates with what I’ve heard from my son/witnessed myself.
|Son’s stepmom tried to convince my ex to let her homeschool our son
|when he was kindergartener (while also being a full time nurse). My
|ex 100% got into a whole argument with me about it and I put my foot
|down so hard, it’s still stuck in the Earth’s mantle to this very
|day. Thankfully, he never brought it up again but she homeschools
|all of her kids. My son’s stepbrother is only a year older than
|him, a young teen, and is a bully and a Trump supporter because his
|mom took him to Trump rallies since before the age of 10. My son
|repeatedly told me over the years that his stepmom “doesn’t believe
|in science”. Once, we did a joint birthday party for my son at a
|museum - my son wanted to watch one of those thematic movies but
|since it had “evolution” in it and “they don’t believe in
|evolution”, the kid didn’t get to watch the movie with his brother
|(she said this proudly and like she expected me to rebuke her, I
|just shrugged and said “okay! We will see you after the movie!”).
|The stepbrother also has looked at me with more and more hatred over
|the years. Now that he’s older and doesn’t have to go everywhere
|with his parents, I see him much less but on occasion we do cross
|paths, you can tell that my son’s brother just thinks I’m the
|absolute devil. My son is a deist, used to be an atheist. I’m an
|atheist and open about it, but not preachy. I’m all about inner
|spirituality, I get all connected with nature and I make my own
|religion. She tried to convert my son when he was little and she
|might have had a chance because I always told my son that “I don’t
|care what you believe, as long as your heart is good” but her brand
|of Christianity was unforgiving, full of unbelievable stuff, and was
|very brimstone and hellfire (my son was afraid to have to go to a
|“planet of fire if he was bad” when he was little, which is what he
|thought hell was in his little mind and it made him cry). My son
|has always tried to get close to her and I even saw a text exchange
|between them where she’s joking about Gen Z words, and he finally
|opens up and jokes “on god” and she snaps at him “you know better
|than to make those jokes at me” and he tells her “hey im into deism
|now” like he’s trying to get her approval while also not giving up
|his own convictions. It breaks my heart watching this his whole
|life because his dad is an atheist so it came as a surprise to me
|when he married someone so “devout”. I have a lot of religious
|trauma from my childhood myself and the fact that my son got mucked
|up in it is endlessly frustrating. It’s done nothing but damage his
|mental health and any chance they have at a real relationship.
|u/PhantasosX - 1 month
|
|like others had said , people usually homeschool their kids when they
|had some weird belief system themselves. Homeschooling is a system to
|be used on exceptional cases to people that can't really go to a
|proper school....then a bunch of weirdos tries to exploit that.
|u/cdin0303 - 1 month
|
|From what I can tell there are three main reasons why people home
|school. The third is probably the most common, and also the reason why
|they are so weird. 1. The student can't get the instruction they need
|at the available school. This is most often due to a disability.
|Sometimes because the kid is way above the available school and the
|parents have the ability to teach them at the level needed. 2. The
|student is not able to go to the school available school for some
|reason. Could be they've been kicked out for behavioral issues. Could
|be that school is a bad environment because of bullying or something
|like. I don't see this one much in my area, because most of these kids
|end up in online school rather than parent taught home school. 3.
|Finally the most common that I see, and the reason they are so weird.
|Their parents are dumb fucks that think they know better than the
|school. They keep their kids away from all that horrible science,
|history, and anything that encourages critical thinking. As a result
|of the indoctrination they end up stupid like the person in the OP
|screenshot.
|u/caribou16 - 1 month
|
|My mom ended up home schooling my younger brother for 2nd and third
|grade. This was the very early 90s and he had a very severe peanut
|allergy, the school's policy was "deal with it" even in the face of
|kids throwing and rubbing peanut products on him multiple times,
|putting him in the hospital twice. I guess enough other kids
|started getting them by then that the school was like "ok, we'll
|enforce a peanut free table in the cafeteria" so he was back for the
|rest of schooling. She took it super seriously though; 30 years
|later, when helping them clean out the house when they moved, we
|found boxes and boxes of giant binders she kept filled with all the
|work he did those two years. Didn't stop us from busting his balls
|about "getting As from mommy" though.
|u/OneWholeSoul - 1 month
|
|I'll never understand parents who are afraid of their kids becoming
|smarter than them, because that should be the goal and isn't a
|problem if you've also raised grounded, empathetic, loved and loving
|children who aren't going to randomly turn on you because they think
|you're beneath them, or something. Kids don't abandon parents
|because of differences in intelligence - it happens because of
|abuse, neglect, or fundamental differences in philosophy.
|They're not afraid of their kids becoming *smarter* than them or
|*wealthier* than them, they're afraid of them becoming *better* than
|them - unwilling to be around them because they know they have other
|options.
|u/cdin0303 - 1 month
|
|That’s not the problem. Dumb people think they’re smart and have
|all the answers. Smart people know that they know somethings, but
|also don’t know a lot of other things.
|u/OneWholeSoul - 1 month
|
|Yes, and dumb people like to play the "if you can't explain a
|complicated concept that I've been unable to understand myself
|up to this point in a couple sentences or less, then *you're*
|the dumb one and the concept probably isn't worth knowing" game.
|There can be more than one reason for something, though.
|u/SulkySideUp - 1 month
|
|But PoSt WaR cOnSeNsUs PoLiCy
|u/ShiningRedDwarf - 1 month
|
|> The promises included the national health service, and expansion
|of education, housing, and a number of welfare programmes. Yeah,
|post war consensus sounds pure evil. Health care for *everybody*??
|Roofs over peoples’ heads??? Satanic.
|u/the_sherwood_ - 1 month
|
|A lot of the social skills learned at school are about navigating a
|fairly cruel and abusive environment. Some of those skills are
|fairly counterproductive, particularly when you get out of that
|environment.
|u/skyfire-x - 1 month
|
|Home schooled: Jesus rode a dinosaur into the wilderness. Public
|schooled: Your mom is a dinosaur? LMAO Private schooled: My dad owns
|both of your moms.
|u/Abnormal_readings - 1 month
|
|Dumb people think using big words makes them sound more
|photosynthesis.
|u/MoreReputation8908 - 1 month
|
|Seems pretty…unctuous…to me!
|u/GravitiBass - 1 month
|
|My ex’s siblings were ‘homeschooled’. AFAIK one of the three being on
|the spectrum. Their mother would come home from work, and do nothing.
|Lay in bed alllllll day. Not exaggerating. Would get up touse the
|bathroom and straight back to bed. My ex would make shitty Family
|Dollar $1 burgers and some shitty $1 Mac and cheese for them.
|Sometimes had some actual food like eggs and chorizo or something. I
|spent a lot of time there and I never once saw the kids doing any type
|of schooling. Never had any questions about any of their ‘classes’ or
|anything, which I found strange bc who else are they going to ask for
|help? They essentially just stayed at home and watched YouTube or
|browsed the unfiltered internet all day. I remember one day pulling up
|to her house and her younger brother was outside, he came up to my
|window and his teeth were GREEN. These kids were left on their own and
|my ex was left to do what she could to help them. They’ve never been
|socialized with sports or club activities, they don’t go out to hang
|out with friends bc they don’t really know anyone in town (population
|9000). I was always under the assumption that there was a penalty if
|you’re kids couldn’t pass a certain test or didn’t do certain
|assignments via state laws for homeschooling, but I wasn’t
|homeschooled so what do I know. For the record the mother was a
|dispatcher and her husband/boyfriend at the time was an officer.
|Neither one of them checked in with the kids to see if they needed
|anything, never cooked for them, never cleaned. I feel really bad for
|those kids, this was like 8 years ago now, hope they’ve adjusted to
|the real world okay.
|u/Educational-Tea-6572 - 1 month
|
|Hey, I was homeschooled most of my elementary/middle school years, and
|I'm not weird!!! ... I take that back, actually, I *am* weird. Very
|weird. But I am also educated enough to know better than to just
|accept one side's inflammatory rhetoric, especially when the claims
|are inaccurate. My mom is a teacher, so she knew what she was doing
|when she taught me at home. That's probably what made the difference.
|u/cleepboywonder - 1 month
|
|There is such a thing as the Post-War consensus. It evaporated as
|Reagan and Thatcher took over. Harris is a third wave democrat who
|follows what was called in the 90s the Washington Consensus.
|u/OGBeege - 1 month
|
|That’s not what the Orange Turd say.
|u/Alive-Tomatillo5303 - 1 month
|
|Think of how big a difference in outlook and experience there is
|between people who go off to college, or to live in a city, vs those
|who stay in their small home towns. Home schooling is that same gap,
|but in the opposite direction. 
|u/TheLandFanIn814 - 1 month
|
|I feel like that's why people in rural areas are so conservative and
|to an extent racist, homophobic, etc. They live in a bubble and know
|nothing else. Some of us went to college to get degrees. But also
|met people from all over. We had friends that were different
|nationalities, races, sexual orientation and plenty of different
|backgrounds. We weren't brainwashed like conservatives believe. We
|just don't see people different from us as evil.
|u/atfricks - 1 month
|
|"collectivizing" lol
|u/beta334201 - 1 month
|
|Speaking as a weird homeschooled person myself, it's because
|homeschooling is abuse.
|u/Serrisen - 1 month
|
|Less social interactions. Public schools have both explicit and
|implicit curriculum. The explicit curriculum is just classwork, which
|you *can* get from homeschooling (some don't because their parents are
|weird. But I digress). Implicit curriculums are not as easily
|homeschooled. They're social norms and tactics for social
|interactions. They're not just what you say, but how you say it.
|They're the subtle nuances of how you present yourself. Some people
|struggle with implicit curriculums as it is (neurodivergent people in
|particular). But homeschooled kids just don't get a chance unless
|their parents *also* go above and beyond to find them social
|activities in the community, which isn't always possible
|u/dreadassassin616 - 1 month
|
|Being homeschooled is like being in a very small cult.
|u/guyrandom2020 - 1 month
|
|>Also throwing in as many big words as possible doesn't make you
|smart. its true; "post-war consensus" are the policies the tories
|begrudgingly compromised with the labor party because not having those
|would kill most of the country. it was literally used to restart their
|economy and country after it was butchered by ww2. it doesn't even
|describe american politics (it's a british term), but my main point is
|that it's about as communist as thinking amazon workers shouldn't have
|to piss in bottles (technically communist, but also like who tf
|cares). the rest of the word salad describes policies that have been
|around since modern america. there's "collectivizing power from
|wealthy and redistributing to everyone else": * i think he meant
|"collect", as if he meant "collectivize", "redistributing to everyone
|else" would be redundant. * thats just democracy lol. in order for
|power to be collected and redistributed you'd have to have an
|imbalance of power, which you redistribute evenly. * what he really
|means are income taxes or something, which 1) barely work because rich
|ppl just turn everything into assets and 2) has been around for a long
|time. btw these policies still aren't communist; it's like saying
|"individual freedom" makes you a communist because thats also what
|communism aims for.
|u/graffing - 1 month
|
|They’re weird because that first crush on their teacher is awkward.
|u/bort_bln - 1 month
|
|I have recently read somewhere that they didn’t learn to proper
|socialize and it made total sense
|u/slimboyslim9 - 1 month
|
|Collectivizing
|u/Specialist-Cookie-61 - 1 month
|
|Using big words in general, or this guy? Redistributing,
|collectivizing and explicitly making your head turn?
|u/Wachiavellee - 1 month
|
|Not just that, they clearly were using some of those big words
|incorrectly. 'Collectivizing' makes no sense in the context of that
|sentence.
|u/Monster-Leg - 1 month
|
|It’s a control thing: weird people homeschool to try and pass down
|their weird beliefs without any interference from normal. Source: was
|raised weird (am better now)
|u/Few-Finger2879 - 1 month
|
|Because its their weirdo parents keeping them from school because of
|weirdo ideas. Now, they don't have well developed social skills, poor
|education, and also are full of dumb ideas rubbed off from their quack
|parents.
|u/anrwlias - 1 month
|
|A lot of homeschooling is about preventing religious kids from coming
|in contact with secular ideas. Actually giving them a good education
|is a distant second in priority, especially since dogma is given
|greater weight than facts.
|u/ConsciousExcitement9 - 1 month
|
|Some woman posted a video on Facebook being excited that her kids were
|going back to school. Some weirdo was like “this isn’t the flex you
|think it is.” Then she started going off on homeschooling kids is
|better because why would you have kids if you are letting other people
|(teachers apparently) raise them. Lots of people were like “ok crazy”.
|I said that as a parent, I do what is best for my kids. And going to
|school with real teachers that have a good and solid background in
|what they are teaching is what is best for my kids. I don’t know
|enough trig or physics to be able to teach my kids those subjects, so
|I depend on people who specialize in stuff like that to do it for me.
|Crazy said that anyone can learn trig and physics in 90 days from
|YouTube and another woman raged that kids don’t learn trig or physics
|in school and I obviously have no idea what children are learning in
|school. Yeah, I took trig in high school. Had friends who took
|physics. The high schools in my area offer both as well as a variety
|of other math and science classes I’m not qualified to teach and don’t
|think I can become an expert on doing YouTube for 3 months. Bunch of
|weirdos.
|u/poopy_poophead - 1 month
|
|I mean, the guys not really wrong about progressive Democrats being
|fans of post-war consensus policies. The error is that he apparently
|believes that most European countries are "communist". That's the real
|problem with the far-right fundies. They look at any movement away
|from a purely capitalist, Christian nationalist authoritarian state to
|be akin to satanic communism. You want to just GIVE children a free
|education!? Next you'll want to give them a free lunch at school as
|well, you commie! I suppose we'll be teaching them about science? The
|globe earth is the image of Satan!! Fuckin oddballs, for sure
|u/TorpedoSandwich - 1 month
|
|I guarantee he doesn't even know what half those words actually mean.
|u/isleftisright - 1 month
|
|It's on purpose. Also why trump wants to get rid of the dept of
|education and support home schooling. Indoctrinate them from young
|u/Ahrensann - 1 month
|
|I've heard this from homeschooled people. They don't have to compare
|yourself to anyone. Their parents always glaze them. That's why they
|think they're the absolute smartest and the most talented.
|u/Special_Loan8725 - 1 month
|
|Their parents are probably weird, they’re learning from most likely a
|non certified teacher who the internet is probably where most of their
|info is from, and the time period when most people are socializing the
|most on a daily basis in school during development they spend with
|their parents or learning social interaction from the internet.
|u/Complete_Flounder771 - 1 month
|
|i am homeschooled, and i don’t know 😭 been homeschooled since eighth
|grade and almost every homeschooler i’ve encountered has been a
|religious nut/cultist, weird anti-social kid or mentally ill
|u/NoPolitiPosting - 1 month
|
|Oh no, not the wealthy!! Will nobody think of the wealthy!!!???
|u/flapjackboy - 1 month
|
|*sad music plays in the background* Little Jeff here is the owner of
|a multi billion dollar global company, but without your help, Jeff
|won't be able to afford a new superyacht this year. Hundreds of
|billionaires just like Jeff are struggling to afford even a new 26
|bedroom mega mansion this year. Just $2 a month can ensure that
|billionaires like Jeff can afford the pointlessly expensive status
|symbols they need to validate their existence. Don't wait, call now
|and donate just $2 a month and we can save these poor billionaires
|from having to live like the peasants they employ.
|u/Full_Western_1277 - 1 month
|
|*Video of Jeff weeping while writing a $ 0,21 cheque to the IRS for
|last year’s taxes*
|u/SinisterYear - 1 month
|
|In the arms of an Angel....
|u/bowtothehypnotoad - 1 month
|
|When you have multiple billions of dollars, there’s not much you
|can’t afford The desire to keep accumulating wealth at that point
|is honestly so fucked up. Like, congrats you got yours, might be
|time to consider giving back, you’re basically Smaug
|u/TheGrumpyre - 1 month
|
|And he doesn't even say anything about taking their money, he just
|says distributing *power*. Like, even if he's against taking money
|from the rich, does anyone seriously believe they deserve to have more
|*power* than everyone else?
|u/Povstnk - 1 month
|
|When I think of the poor wealthy I get so sad! Alexa, play a sad song
|on the world’s smallest violin.
|u/whyisthatathingdude - 1 month
|
|Homeschooled people who never had crime anywhere close to their radar
|growing up wondering why people do crime “I just don’t get it” Of
|course you don’t.
|u/nicholsz - 1 month
|
|the number of people I met in college that respond with something like
|"why should I care, they're criminals!?" when talking about criminal
|justice abuses in this country
|u/driftking428 - 1 month
|
|Depends on the crime. People need to realize we'd all steal before
|we'd starve or let our families starve. Most of us would join a gang
|if that was the best option as a kid to have money. There are many
|crimes we'd commit in the right circumstances. However, pedophiles
|can rot.
|u/JayTheSuspectedFurry - 1 month
|
|Real pedophiles can rot, but that’s hard to know for certain,
|especially with an imperfect criminal justice system. We can’t
|deem any type of person subhuman because that just leads the way
|to removing people’s rights. For example, pedophiles can rot may
|be a popular idea, but then that can be manipulated into “gays are
|pedophiles”, and now all gay people have lost their rights because
|we’ve falsely connected them to a type of people that have lost
|their rights
|u/Kooky-Onion9203 - 1 month
|
|It's also dangerously close to policing thought. Not that
|attraction to children is good or right in any sense, but there
|are many people who feel that way and never act on it; I don't
|think they're bad people for having bad thoughts. In fact,
|overly stigmatizing it in this way leads to people avoiding
|mental health treatment and indirectly causes more *actual*
|child abuse.
|u/what-even-am-i- - 1 month
|
|This is one of those things that it feels weird to agree with
|but is absolutely the right take
|u/Sylveon72_06 - 1 month
|
|Real *child abusers*. A lot of people who struggle with
|pedophilia are otherwise normal people who should be emboldened
|to seek therapy. It’s so stigmatized, which makes it hard to get
|help on top of feeling like the worst person due to unwanted
|pedophilic thoughts. On top of that, most child abusers aren’t
|actually into children, but are simply so weak the only person
|they can overpower is a literal child. Let’s call the *real*
|scum for what they are: child rapists.
|u/JoChiCat - 1 month
|
|Yep, it’s about access and control, not attraction. I really
|wish the conversation would shift to being about the power
|structures and social norms that enable all kinds of child
|abuse, rather than it being about how abusers and rapists
|contain some unique seed of evil, totally seperate from the
|rest of society, that can be wiped out through targeted
|violence.
|u/Kingsleyedge93 - 1 month
|
|Which has happened before and is slowly happening again.
|There's was a case connected to the satanic panic where a school
|teacher was discovered to be gay, which was enough to connect
|him the satanic ritual abuse of children hysteria that was
|signature thr time. He was found innocent but it basically
|ruined his life
|u/Organic-Survey-8845 - 1 month
|
|You're exposing conservative strategy. They're trying their best
|to bring back slavery without causing outright conflict. (Via
|slave labor in privatized prisons, for example) LGBT are one of
|the most misunderstood and marginalized groups in the u.s.
|they've been a pretty successful scapegoat for marketing social
|policy.
|u/siamkor - 1 month
|
|> They're trying their best to bring back slavery without
|causing outright conflict. (Via slave labor in privatized
|prisons, for example) They aren't trying to bring it back.
|It's been there since the inception.
|u/R3luctant - 1 month
|
|I apply that logic when discussing immigration. If you had the
|ability to greatly improve your family's quality of life and more
|importantly safety just by crossing a river, wouldn't you? 
|u/worldspawn00 - 1 month
|
|To be clear, most undocumented people in the US cross legally
|through normal border crossings and overstay a vacation or work
|visa, and are not crossing illegally. Immigrants (documented
|and undocumented) also commit all violent crimes at a rate lower
|than US born citizens.
|u/worldspawn00 - 1 month
|
|Most white collar crime is premeditated, perpetrated by people who
|don't need the proceeds of the crime to survive. IMHO white
|collar financial crimes should be punished much harsher than
|crimes of desperation like stealing food or money because you're
|so poor you can't afford basic needs.
|u/JanDillAttorneyAtLaw - 1 month
|
|Sure, fuck pedophiles and all that, but cops who plant evidence to
|try and get a pedophile convicted will plant evidence to get
|anyone convicted. Cops who rough up actual pedophiles are making
|it more likely that they'll get their case thrown out. Judicial
|corruption and abuse never ends well for society at large. We all
|pay for it, sometimes with our lives.
|u/whyisthatathingdude - 1 month
|
|Also I never understood why criminals beat up pedos in jail.
|Like Mr Father of the Year crack dealer (whose ruined more
|children’s lives than the pedo has mind you) suddenly has a
|moral high ground? So odd to me.
|u/bamburger - 1 month
|
|>People need to realize we'd all steal before we'd starve or let
|our families starve. What if my family doesn't like food? What if
|they like cigarettes?
|u/rrhunt28 - 1 month
|
|That is impossible I've been told that colleges are just for woke
|people and they will turn you into a liberal. /s
|u/toochaos - 1 month
|
|Yeah abuses start with its OK for them to do illegal search and
|seizure because their a criminal, which inevitable leads to cops
|busting down the wrong door and killing innocent people. The rules
|have to be followed to protect us from the cops not to protect the
|"criminals" from the cops.
|u/lifetake - 1 month
|
|This is actually a big thing. I didn’t get it as you said. Now in my
|adulthood I interact with a fair bit of low income people. So now
|while I still don’t condone it I get how people get to that point.
|u/geminiwave - 1 month
|
|That’s just anyone insulated. I was homeschooled and most of my life
|had no crime anywhere close to me and yet I didn’t wonder why people
|did crime. I understood it well. Actually quite bit better than the
|majority of voters in my city it seems…. A lot of people just get
|insulated and then go “well eff them they’re criminals!” It’s easier
|to just other people and treat them like animals than acknowledge
|societal strife and inequality.
|u/whyisthatathingdude - 1 month
|
|It’s what bugs me about conservatives the most. Like “they don’t
|want gay people around because they have kids” Like your kids are
|homeschooled and won’t see the internet till they leave the house.
|They’re gonna be fine, and even if a conservative’s kid made friends
|with the poor liberal parents’ child, they wouldn’t allow the
|friendship.
|u/nekosake2 - 1 month
|
|well yeah they say  “well eff them they’re criminals!” but for the
|wrinkly orange with 34 felonies "clearly the system is rigged"
|clear doublethink at work
|u/NotJohnLithgow - 1 month
|
|That and they interact with people poorly because many of them don’t
|get the large quantity interaction from schools so they never learn.
|u/thendisnigh111349 - 1 month
|
|Gotta love when they make it sound like not having massive wealth
|inequality would somehow be a bad thing.
|u/CarneDelGato - 1 month
|
|What do you want to live in a world where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
|_can’t_ start their own private space programs?! Do you want to live
|in a world where Mark Zuckerberg can’t monopolize internet service in
|the developing world?! ‘Cause I would be amenable to that.
|u/Striking_Witness1364 - 1 month
|
|Ah yes, homeschooling. The only kind of schooling worse than the US
|public education system.
|u/ErsatzHaderach - 1 month
|
|the system has problems galore, but I'm still grateful for my public
|school education. almost every day the skills it taught me prove
|relevant.
|u/Striking_Witness1364 - 1 month
|
|Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Why is this seared into
|my memory despite me never going to have anything to do with
|biology?
|u/Sylveon72_06 - 1 month
|
|honestly the only reason i remember that is bc of the memes,
|rather than bc of school drilling it in
|u/Draidann - 1 month
|
|Real answer? Because it's a bite of info that has become a meme.
|Do you actually remember any of the steps of the Krebs cycle?
|u/ErsatzHaderach - 1 month
|
|no, aber erinnere ich mich, daß "Krebs" auf deutsch "crab"
|bedeutet 🤔
|u/Mel_Melu - 1 month
|
|Our public education is as good as the people paying into it, I've
|to both under performing and over performing public schools. It's up
|to us as adults to fund the education we want to see in our
|communities.
|u/Jeanette_T - 1 month
|
|When my friend's daughter was homeschooled, she had to follow the
|state guidelines (they had some wiggle room) and she had to pass a
|state test. Homeschooling wasn't their first choice but when your
|child is terrified to go to school every day they did what they felt
|was best. She was also well socialized and went on to get a college
|degree and didn't struggle so I guess they did okay but, damn. I look
|at many former homeschooled kids and wonder how they can tie their
|shoes much less function in the real world.
|u/ErsatzHaderach - 1 month
|
|ya the issue isn't that homeschooling is intrinsically wrong;
|sometimes it's the best option, sometimes people do a great job of
|it. too many parents use it as a way to ensure their kids are
|never exposed to any part of the outside world that might question
|or weaken the parents' beliefs. in the US there is a strong
|sentiment that the right to do this supersedes children's rights to
|education and safety (because children are adults' property, to
|many).
|u/Wonderful-Leg-6626 - 1 month
|
|I also wanted to add that on top of that, certain horrible people
|start "homeschooling" when teachers report that there are signs
|someone in the home may be abusing the child. They remove the kid
|from school to isolate them and prevent mandated reporters from
|seeing the signs of abuse. There are so many instances of this
|happening shortly before a child is murdered by their own parents.
|We are actively failing children on multiple fronts. I believe
|that people should be allowed to homeschool their children, but we
|need more oversight and standards to be enacted.
|u/nanna_ii - 1 month
|
|Oh shit that just made me feel so sad. I absolutely think home
|schooling can be harmful for children and is a way to control,
|not protect, but this extent of it had never occurred to me.
|u/Jeanette_T - 1 month
|
|I know. There are homeschooling trends recently that are actively
|harming their children's ability to learn. "Unschooling" comes to
|mind.
|u/ErsatzHaderach - 1 month
|
|unschooling is pretty tame next to all the homeschoolers who
|bring religious zealotry into it, and that's not recent :(
|u/Striking_Witness1364 - 1 month
|
|Yeah it definitely depends on the one handling the curriculum and if
|they are being serious with someone’s education or if they are just
|conspiracy theory spreading.
|u/Zipper-is-awesome - 1 month
|
|And then there is unschooling if you want to go one level lower.
|u/Full_Western_1277 - 1 month
|
| “Redistribute power to everybody” That sounds dangerously close to
|democracy.
|u/Forkyou - 1 month
|
|Democracy is communism
|u/Affectionate_Step863 - 1 month
|
|Bro has no idea what communism is
|u/scarlettsarcasm - 1 month
|
|He thinks it was invented after WWII, so yeah
|u/mungonuts - 1 month
|
|By noted communist John Maynard Keynes. /s
|u/davossss - 1 month
|
|Bro also has no idea that the post-war consensus was firmly
|anticommunist.
|u/MrDywel - 1 month
|
|Most people don’t. They couldn’t tell you what communism is let alone
|socialism but they’re told they’re both bad even though in the US we
|already have many socialist-type policies in place. Policies that
|people have used throughout their life and currently use on a day to
|day basis. Though maybe over the last few decades a lot of it is just
|crony capitalism.
|u/alicehassecrets - 1 month
|
|Bro doesn't even know what the word 'explicit' means.
|u/GoddamnPeaceLily - 1 month
|
|"Communism" is "corporate-growth-above-all, free market. neoliberalism",
|folks Actual fucking brain rot. Explains why the right holds onto Ben
|Shapiro and Jordan Peterson as their intellectual powerhouses.
|u/350 - 1 month
|
|Also shows how absurdly fucked American politics can get. A fucking
|neoliberal is "too left" for the hogs.
|u/100percentish - 1 month
|
|I decided to never vote for another republican once I realized that we
|were being gaslit into believing that crony capitalism and essentially
|transitioning to an oligarchy was socialism or communism. Citizens
|United is the most un-American thing imaginable and all of these simple
|minded dumbasses that believe that billionaires are being cheated are
|f'ing aggravating. When I am paying more in a single month in taxes
|than Trump did for the entire year the redistribution of wealth is not
|how they think it is. Sure they have a higher tax rate on paper, but
|they have deductions and loopholes and access to a lot of shit that we
|don't. Why do they think that someone would donate $45MIL a month into
|a campaign? It's not because they love the working class...it's self
|f'ing serving.
|u/bjb406 - 1 month
|
|The American school system failed him by allowing his parents to deny
|him the opportunity to be educated.
|u/Rusty_Thermos - 1 month
|
|His definition and proof of communism is explicitly lacking
|u/zamander - 1 month
|
|Collectivizing power from the wealthy and giving it to everyone else.
|It's refreshing when they just say what they actually think and not try
|to couch it in some "money should concentrate in the hands of those who
|are most productive" or "giving money to someone starving will make them
|lazy". It is purely just that if it is not an oligarchy, it is wrong.
|u/Atypical_Mammal - 1 month
|
|Yeah it's wild for me that somebody can say that phrase and be like
|this is a bad thing.
|u/paarthurnax94 - 1 month
|
|You don't understand, he's just a temporarily embarrassed
|billionaire.
|u/Atypical_Mammal - 1 month
|
|The weirdest thing is they aren't even talking about money, they
|are specifically talking about POWER, and how it shouldn't be
|distributed to the masses. Didn't we do a whole revolution war
|thing about this back in the 1770s? Or should we just go back to
|having kings n shit? What's the plan here? (Yes, I know
|revolutionary war was nuanced and at first the US didn't let poor
|people vote, etc. But the general myth of America is kinda built
|on the whole democracy thing...)
|u/Ok_Star_4136 - 1 month
|
|Collectivizing money from the wealthy to use to benefit the majority
|of the population? Wait, you mean \*taxes\*!?
|u/S1M0666 - 1 month
|
|Ahah silly, the wealthy don't pay taxes
|u/Slendermesh - 1 month
|
|To be fair you have to be very careful couching anything these days
|with JD Vance around <.<
|u/That_Path4668 - 1 month
|
|He can be foiled by great aunt Mabel’s vinyl furniture slipcovers!
|u/DeathlySnails64 - 1 month
|
|This reminds me of another online argument where this guy was saying
|something like, "Women are such babies. Get over yourselves." And I
|vividly remember A girl responding with, "A woman gave birth to you."
|And the guy replied to that response with, "I was adopted but okay."
|And this argument is essentially the same as the one I mentioned. "I was
|adopted" and "I was homeschooled" aren't proper arguments in this
|situation. So why are these guys responding like this?
|u/CardiologistNo616 - 1 month
|
|Bro really insulted his own parents without realizing it.
|u/Man_Schette - 1 month
|
|There is definitely a ghost haunting in his head. But it is not the
|ghost of communism
|u/OneForAllOfHumanity - 1 month
|
|I think his final response omitted an 'a' before the word homeschooled
|u/H_Bowman - 1 month
|
|😂. "Time to give your degree back to your mom". This is way too spot on.
|u/BetaPat - 1 month
|
|I would say modern Democrats simply want a return to pre-Reagan
|Keynesian economics and making a strong working class by investing in
|education, healthcare and infrastructure.
|u/First_Assistant2876 - 1 month
|
|I was homeschooled = dimwit
|u/alizayback - 1 month
|
|“Collectivizing power” is literally the definition of democracy.
|u/virtual_human - 1 month
|
|Why, exactly, should the wealthy have all the power? Shouldn't it be
|one person, one person's worth of power?
|u/Tias-st - 1 month
|
|Lmao, it's like being accused of pissing your pants, only to say nu-uh,
|you actually shit yourself and think that was somehow better lol
|u/stiiii - 1 month
|
|So if Harris did hold every communist position but refused to call
|herself communist would she be explicitly communist? &#x200B; Like it
|would be kind of an awkward dodge but the word explicit surely has to
|mean something even then?
|u/Ok_Star_4136 - 1 month
|
|Maybe he was sick the day the definition of the word "explicitly" was
|taught. I don't think anything can be explicit unless it is openly
|admitted as such, and to my knowledge Kamala Harris has never self-
|proclaimed to be a communist.
|u/Writerhaha - 1 month
|
|“Maybe he was sick the day.” We can check with the nurse. She’s
|making meatloaf upstairs.
|u/longknives - 1 month
|
|Yeah, you can add “explicitly” to the list of words he absolutely
|doesn’t know the definition of, along with “communism” and
|“collectivizing”
|u/Madrugada2010 - 1 month
|
|"I was homeschooled" NOT a flex, and hand me the popcorn before I read
|what comes next.
|u/hbi2k - 1 month
|
|"Harris subscribes to every policy about collectivizing power from the
|wealthy and redistributing it to everyone." Shit, don't I wish. Don't
|threaten me with a good time, I might vote for her even harder.
|u/CheesecakeVisual4919 - 1 month
|
|"I was homeschooled dimwit." I see that, and I think you were taught
|for 12 years by somebody who dropped out of high school and probably
|never got their GED either.
|u/Lynx_Eyed_Zombie - 1 month
|
|“I was homeschooled” lmao this dumb dick asshole thinks that’s a flex?
|He might as well wave a big sign that says “I AM A MALADJUSTED WEIRDO
|WITH NO ABILITY TO DEAL WITH REAL WORLD CONSEQUENCES”.
|u/Zapp_Rowsdower_ - 1 month
|
|lol….ask this dimwit to list some of the ‘post-war consensus policy’ and
|watch him go offline. Or, ask him which war he is referring to.
|u/Environmental-Arm365 - 1 month
|
|Aww, let him be he just ain’t much fer fancy book learnin’
|u/OGBeege - 1 month
|
|Nate is not even mediocre. (That’s “middling” for you homeschoolers).
|Dimwit? Haahahahahaha
|u/Dehdp00L - 1 month
|
|He was probably bullied in school too...
|u/That_Path4668 - 1 month
|
|Not enough, though.
|u/Ruckus292 - 1 month
|
|"so it's just your mum that failed you"
|u/EhGoodEnough3141 - 1 month
|
|There is a good reason why actually developed countries don't allow
|homeschooling.
|u/Puzzled_Detective359 - 1 month
|
|Mark Twain said - “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.”
|u/thesarc - 1 month
|
|Ah yes. We all remember when Harris seized the means of production,
|don't we?
|u/Teamerchant - 1 month
|
|I have never actually met a conservative on Reddit that knew the
|definition of communism let alone the difference between it, socialism
|and even capitalism.
|u/otidaiz - 1 month
|
|If you stomp your feet when you call her a commi, and I would be more
|apt to believe you.
|u/Administrative_Cry_9 - 1 month
|
|The school system failed his parents. They figured if they are doomed to
|fail, they can do that from home.
|u/Mexicanity_ - 1 month
|
|Even homeschooled, he graduated last of his class. The washing machine
|was the valedictorian
|u/Jaystaffford - 1 month
|
|"Hey her records lines up with communist ideals" 'lol no.'
|u/ExperienceDaveness - 1 month
|
|Harris is MUCH, MUCH closer to being a very conservative Republican than
|she is to being a communist. That's just a plain fact.
|u/Drezhar - 1 month
|
|Propaganda: "Communism bad you don't need to know why" Also
|propaganda: "Kamala bad you don't need to know why" Homeschooled
|conclusion: "Kamala Communist, I don't need to know why".
|u/Jiuaki - 1 month
|
|"time to give your degree back to your mom" You mean along with his
|virginity?
|u/Gretgor - 1 month
|
|Holy shit, homeschooling sex ed is wild. 
|u/jib661 - 1 month
|
|listening to conservatives trying to describe communism is always a
|fucking laugh.
|u/CrimsonTightwad - 1 month
|
|Complete nonsense. The US Democratic Party would be described as far
|right in comparison to European Social Democrat parties. It pains me the
|lack of political sophistication out there.
|u/Polkawillneverdie81 - 1 month
|
|I wish these democrats were as awesome as these maga idiots made them
|sound.
|u/HopeSubstantial - 1 month
|
|Arguing with political tinfoilhats is like playing chess with a pigeon.
|It knocks down all pieces and shits on the board, after you quit it
|declares itself as the winner.
|u/Danni_Les - 1 month
|
|I wonder, if one day, the rest of the US (magassholes) woke up and
|realised that trump is a narcissistic, rapist felon, who doesn't care
|about anyone else but himself.. I wonder if society is going to accept
|them again? Would it be like Harry Potter where the death eaters all
|claim they were under the imperius curse, where they were 'made' to
|do/say things? hmmm..
|u/Txdust80 - 1 month
|
|“Taxes are communism”🫨 Exact opposite. Taxes don’t exist under
|communism because the means of production are owned by government. If
|you call someone a communist because they propose taxes you don’t
|understand communism. No taxes equal communism. So repealing taxes
|actually pushes us closer to communism because the government is gonna
|do what it needs to do to function and if they don’t have taxes to do
|that they are going to start to snatch up things like oil production,
|and manufacturing and agriculture to pay for the military and roads and
|such. Taxes prevents communism and republicans need to hear that more
|often
|u/peezle69 - 1 month
|
|"I was homeschooled" isn't the slam dunk response you think it is. It's
|a good argument against homeschooling as well.
|u/Alienhaslanded - 1 month
|
|I like how he drops homeschooling as if it's Oxford university.
|u/parrot_scritches - 1 month
|
|Homeschooling is such a weird concept. Pretty sure it's illegal in most
|of Europe. Parents will be changed with negligence if their kids are not
|properly able to attend school.
|u/PotemkinPoster - 1 month
|
|Home Schooling is child abuse.
|u/Little_Assistant_551 - 1 month
|
|So he neither knows what explicitly means nor what communism is... then
|confirms the education system failed him thinking he owned the other
|person? How weird
|u/Doodahhh1 - 1 month
|
|Yes, that's why Danielle is the clever comeback.  Because America's
|right wing wrongly calls EVERYONE they don't like a communist.  Do I
|need to help you understand our history more?
|u/skibidiscuba - 1 month
|
|My friend is a hiring manager. He says when he gets a homeschooling
|resume, he has a good laugh, and then it goes right in the trash. He
|said some of them are qualified... but culturally, it's not a good fit.
|If you cause a fight over dinosaurs existing or flat earth or claim
|women are second-class citizens or won't work with lgbtq people... bad
|fit and future HR nightmare. Easier just to not hire them and avoid such
|things.
|u/Imaginary-Plenty6282 - 1 month
|
|American system is not one of them, some of you can even find your own
|country in a world map
|u/Sidhion - 1 month
|
|Nooo, not the poor 1%! 😭
|u/infectedturtles - 1 month
|
|Dudes name is BiggieShitpost, it's just rage bait.
|u/jackberinger - 1 month
|
|Nate not so great
|u/Critical-Fault-1617 - 1 month
|
|Lololol. God damn. It’s hard out here for a simp. That dude hot toasted.
|u/bungus7000 - 1 month
|
|Two of the most intelligent humans I know were homeschooled.
|Homeschooling isn't inherently bad. It's the quality of parents that
|makes it good or bad
|u/CornFedIABoy - 1 month
|
|*Teacher quality
|u/zeruch - 1 month
|
|Maybe he meant to say "I'm also a current dimwit" Nate is definitely
|not very great. Or even mildly great. Or passively ok. Or even meh.
|u/Comprehensive_Fact61 - 1 month
|
|Imagine thinking that the wealthy shouldn't have their power limited.
|u/ABearDream - 1 month
|
|I know some people that are pulling their kids out of school and I just
|cringe inside everytime I think about it. They aren't bad people but I
|don't think they'll be good teachers
|u/Reason-Abject - 1 month
|
|Sounds like his home school didn’t explain “all men are created equal”
|to him. That explains the tirade of “power redistribution.” Apparently
|somebody was instructed to worship the elite.
|u/poopdinkofficial - 1 month
|
|"I was homeschooled dimwit" = "I'm a homeschooled dimwit"
|u/MandessTV - 1 month
|
|Homeschooled is the new word for indoctrinated
|u/ReplacementWise6878 - 1 month
|
|Weird flex to respond to “you had a poor education” with “joke’s on you,
|I had NO education.”
|u/Mischief_Actual - 1 month
|
|As a bloke who was primarily homeschooled (due to chronic physical
|health issues), people like this tick me the fuck off, cuz the good ones
|through the mud with them
|u/mac_the_man - 1 month
|
|When you say dumb shit, "I was homeschooled" should never be used as a
|comeback. It just explains so much about you..
|u/DamThatRiver22 - 1 month
|
|Shit like this is why homeschooling has a terrible reputation in spite
|of actually being the best option in many cases. I was homeschooled for
|most of Jr. High and High School. Got a near-perfect score on my GED
|and ASVAB a full year before everyone else graduated, went to college
|for audio engineering and music business, have three well-adjusted kids
|and a wife I've been with for 15 years, have run my own successful
|business for the last 14 years, and basically have managed to not be a
|raging idiot. I, however, was homeschooled by a mother with multiple
|degrees, including a Master's in the Humanities...as well as a
|stepfather with a business degree and a high-profile business consulting
|career. Religion was never a driving factor behind it...nor was any
|specific religion, political leaning, or philosophy pushed or favored in
|my studies. (Quite the opposite...numerous ideologies and religions
|were presented to me in a very factual, informative, and non-conflicting
|manner in an effort to broaden my horizons and educate me.) And
|overall, it was the best option for me for multiple reasons (socially
|and educationally). The increasing number of morons with zero education
|of their own that homeschool because "muh public school indoctrination"
|and religion give us all a bad name, because this (the OP) is the
|unfortunate result.
|u/Gretgor - 1 month
|
|Yeah, the problem is when homeschooling is done by uneducated paranoid
|rednecks. 
|u/thwgrandpigeon - 1 month
|
|Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he either he doesn't understand the
|word 'explicitly' or doesn't understand the word 'communist'. Not
|giving him the benefit of the doubt, he doesn't understand either.
|u/IsThisThingOn69lol - 1 month
|
|Can't think of a worse response to having cancerous views than "I was
|homeschooled, dimwit." like, the next time I do some accidental stupid
|shit in traffic and get someone screaming at me about how things should
|be done on the road, Imagine me replying "I was homeschooled, dimwit"
|and thinking its anything other than its a response that says "I am a
|carbon copy of my abhorrent mother."
|u/350 - 1 month
|
|bruh as a lefty, I fucking wish Kamala was half as left as idiots on
|Twitter describe her to be
|u/RegretComplete3476 - 1 month
|
|I would not call someone a dimwit after just admitting to being
|homeschooled
|u/PervyTurtle0 - 1 month
|
|Great argument to get rid of homeschooling
|u/insipidgoose - 1 month
|
|Everyone knows that one homeschool kid. Weird af.
|u/randomlettercombinat - 1 month
|
|Lol collectivizing.
|u/seantubridy - 1 month
|
|More like, “I was a homeschooled dimwit.”
|u/Large-Crew3446 - 1 month
|
|“Jokes on you, I didn’t go to school!” Got ‘em?
|u/Global_Permission749 - 1 month
|
|If the alternative to "collectivizing power from the wealthy" is "let a
|fraction of a fraction of a percentage of people have all the wealth and
|all the power do whatever the fuck they want", sign me the fuck up for
|communism please. Nothing worse than someone who simps for the rich.
|u/krucz36 - 1 month
|
|he is indeed a homeschooled dimwit
|u/Felinomancy - 1 month
|
|> *"Collectivizing power from the wealthy and redistributing to everyone
|else".* That's democracy.
|u/THEREALOFFICALCAFE - 1 month
|
|r/homeschoolrecovery
|u/AlcoholicCocoa - 1 month
|
|Homeschooling parents claim that their system has the highest succes
|quote in regards of schooling Given that they don't have to follow a
|curriculum in too many states and parents grade their children, it is
|unsurprising to me. Homeschooling with no clear regulations and
|accountability is shit
|u/Anubisrapture - 1 month
|
|Oh the horror! Not kissing the ass of the Uber wealthy … because
|Jesus??? Who- *checks notes* believed in feeding everyone , and
|basically has communist and socialist principles way before they were
|even a modern system. C- could it be that being a good person is what
|the LEFT has right all along ???
|u/Pretzel-Kingg - 1 month
|
|Shit makes me annoyed. I was homeschooled (mostly) but, like, it’s not a
|point of pride lmao. I know I’m worse off for it, even if my education
|was closer to normal than other homeschoolers. Had to pass public exams
|so I wasn’t, like, NOT learning, but still. I really don’t get the whole
|“I’m better than you because I didn’t go to school” thing.
|u/HotMorning3413 - 1 month
|
|He hasn't been educated. He's been brainwashed.
|u/AutisticWhirlpoop - 1 month
|
|Funny way of saying "whomever homeschooled me, eats glue sticks"
|u/ThePrisonSoap - 1 month
|
|He was probably breastfed till 14
|u/Bloo_Dred - 1 month
|
|The Dunning-Kruger is strong with this one...
|u/CybWhtKnight - 1 month
|
|So, taxes on the wealthy was much higher immediately after WWII, so was
|the USA more “communist” then? Also, FDR with the New Deal did a lot to
|give power and protections to the common person. More “communist” then?
|It’s not the word you think, Mom’s Diploma man.
|u/MrDudeManBroGuyBoy - 1 month
|
|why is communism inherently bad..? i genuinely lack understanding and i
|suppose don’t know enough to consider the downsides of equally sharing
|the prospers of people
|u/West-Aspect3145 - 1 month
|
|Why are people so terrified of socialist policies...it will still be a
|democracy, companies can still make profits...just shit, have some
|compassion for the less fortunate
|u/Knightwing1047 - 1 month
|
|Brainwashing and fear mongering... Social programs are everywhere but
|the ones that help the rich are good, the ones that help the poor and
|the working classes are inherently evil.
|u/sporbywg - 1 month
|
|Covid is over, but the Plague Of Stupidity rages on.
|u/H_Bowman - 1 month
|
|😂. "Time to give your degree back to your mom". This is way too spot on.
|u/Drakenas - 1 month
|
|Source: "trust me brother"
|u/Rais93 - 1 month
|
|At some point west civilization discovered that schooling is not a
|private matter since a democracy is strong as their citizens. Usa
|didn't catch up
|u/Interesting_Card2169 - 1 month
|
|I'm glad America still has democracy. You can dilute out idiots like
|this guy simply by voting.
|u/Kanulie - 1 month
|
|Kinda half-honest question: how come quite some Americans seem to not
|know what communism actually means and is…?
|u/Rivetss1972 - 1 month
|
|It's only ever used as a scare word, and defining it correctly would
|reduce its value as such.
|u/MenacingMallard - 1 month
|
|It fits the definition of my opinion, therefore I am right. Neener
|neener.
|u/SqueekyGee - 1 month
|
|Nate the not so great.
|u/swennergren11 - 1 month
|
|Strong argument against homeschooling there…
|u/Training_Barber4543 - 1 month
|
|Do American homeschooled kids not get a national exam to check that
|their parents aren't brainwashing them?
|u/DMM4138 - 1 month
|
|Dude really thought he said something by claiming to be homeschooled
|lol…Brother, you just proved the point.
|u/Coebalte - 1 month
|
|I wish she was communist. Maybe then she wouldn't be a zionist.
|u/MrsP_ifurnastee - 1 month
|
|Ooop 💀. Double homicide.
|u/LonPlays_Zwei - 1 month
|
|Communism literally involves abolishing government and currency. No
|politician could even THINK about doing that shit.
|u/Wardman66 - 1 month
|
|Our neighbor who we knew had weird ideas and are pretty vocal voicing
|their opinion, just hung up tRUMP flag…saw that coming
|u/Travis_T_OJustice - 1 month
|
|Oof. Gottem
|u/BSaSTC - 1 month
|
|So redistribution of wealth to the middle class is bad, redistribution
|of wealth to the wealthy is good?
|u/Dramatic-Box-4931 - 1 month
|
|Anyone that starts a sentence with “literally “ has there opinion
|immediately dismissed you clearly watch the kardashians and don’t have a
|brain
|u/bass_fire - 1 month
|
|Who is this Harris they are referring to?
|u/StSean - 1 month
|
|oh jeez IF ONLY she was that cool
|u/Reasonable-Wave8093 - 1 month
|
|“I was homeschooled dimwit” sounds like the new trump vance
|bumpersticker!
|u/DadVader77 - 1 month
|
|If you think redistribution of anything is “explicitly communist” you
|automatically show that you have no idea what communism is
|u/LineOfInquiry - 1 month
|
|>post war consensus You mean the consensus in America during the 1950’s
|and 60’s? Aka… THE COLD WAR!?!
|u/talinseven - 1 month
|
|Its definitely the biggest coup in history for an entire cultural
|political party defending billionaires to the death.
|u/BusinessDuck132 - 1 month
|
|Homeschooling can be amazing if done properly with either well educated
|parents with time or tutors/private online schools like K-12. I hate how
|much our society looks down on educating your own children and being
|forced to go to public school
|u/Odel888 - 1 month
|
|This is less about home schools being bad and more about this guy
|brags about being home schooled and ends up being an idiot.
|u/Jawbeast - 1 month
|
|The epitome of communism : **taxes**
|u/Final_Winter7524 - 1 month
|
|Yes, we can tell. Because the correct syntax for the term is
|home-“schooled”.
|u/StoneChoirPilots - 1 month
|
|How can a sock puppet for a faction of the elite make credible promises
|of "distributing power" to everyone else.
|u/Agent_RubberDucky - 1 month
|
|So let me get this straight: they hate Harris because they think she is
|a communist, which is bad because communism is taking power from the
|rich and giving it to everyone else? Buddy, if you really think that’s
|what communism is, I’m struggling to understand why you think it’s so
|bad, because that sounds great!
|u/Fault_Pretty - 1 month
|
|“Post war consensus policy” made me LOL real hard like…I’d love to see
|NateTheGreat try and explain what that means
|u/Hopediah_Planter - 1 month
|
|Man he’s good at regurgitating those talking points the GOP gave him
|though
|u/Weeping_Warlord - 1 month
|
|How do you have the stones to call somebody a dimwit when you didn’t
|even get a real education? Simple answer is you don’t understand the
|depths of your own inadequacy, I suppose
|u/Obvious_Interest3635 - 1 month
|
|Basically Texas.
|u/Sea_Structure_8692 - 1 month
|
|Homeschooling? So worse than the school system failing you. This is what
|they want, dummies who keep voting them in.
|u/Klutzy-Performance97 - 1 month
|
|This is exactly what’s wrong with homeschooling, the dumb leading a new
|generation into poverty and pregnancy.
|u/TheRetromancer - 1 month
|
|Like, "congratulations on not even meeting the low standards of the
|American education system".
|u/Harvey-Danger1917 - 1 month
|
|I fucking wish she was
|u/Hatehound - 1 month
|
|“Post war consensus policy” is Peterson levels of gibberish.
|u/zuilserip - 1 month
|
|I wonder if he even realizes that the definition of 'consensus policy'
|is 'a policy about which there is general agreement'.
|u/Gary-Beau - 1 month
|
|Homeschooled? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
|u/BathingSun - 1 month
|
|You could literally get your lesson on communism from Red Heat and it'd
|be more accurate...
|u/GenitalCommericals - 1 month
|
|Once dated a homeschooled girl…yeah needless to say never again.
|u/Toughbiscuit - 1 month
|
|Thats not even communism, thats socialism. Communism: Means of
|production in the hands of the state Socialism: Means of production in
|the hands of the people Capitalism: Means of production in the hands
|of the Individuals. This is so dumbed down that it borders on being
|wrong to be fair, but its enough of a basic concept to start
|understanding the differences
|u/TaskMaster404 - 1 month
|
|What you have failed to take into account, OP, is that this is exactly
|what the parents want. If they send their child to actual school and,
|God forbid, university, their child might learn some of that leftist
|nonsense like learning that the earth is round in science class, or
|learning about penises and vaginas in biology, or - or worst of all,
|they might have classmates who come from different racial backgrounds as
|them. How will the child continue to spread hate if they learn from a
|young age that there's absolutely no difference between black, white,
|Latina, Asian people besides cultural background???? Think of the kids,
|OP!
|u/snek99001 - 1 month
|
|I wish the Democrats were who the Republicans claimed they were...
|u/skateboardjim - 1 month
|
|The postwar consensus was communist? Seriously?
|u/xemprah - 1 month
|
|He's right though. That's why your candidate was chosen.
|u/Individual99991 - 1 month
|
|Parents who homeschool their kids are the biggest snowflakes.
|u/TheBones777 - 1 month
|
|Imagine using the burn "the education system failed you" then screaming
|and crying about someone wanting to disband the department of education.
|Typical.
|u/IHaveABigDuvet - 1 month
|
|If only she was.
|u/Ostracus - 1 month
|
|It's not just a schooling problem. It's people abusing the language by
|calling a lot of things "communism" when it's not just for the sake of
|winning arguments.
|u/TheSlovakEngineer - 1 month
|
|Ok, but his definition of communism is correct... even if he is
|homeschooled. Right?
|u/Budderlips-revival23 - 1 month
|
|So his example of Harris being communist is incorrect… Right?
|u/swennergren11 - 1 month
|
|Merriam-Webster definition of communism: “a final stage of society
|in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic
|goods are distributed equitably” He’s part right, but twisted by far
|right politics. It’s about property, not power (although property
|leads to power). Also Marx envisioned no government in the end state,
|and equitable distribution.
|u/Scarsdale81 - 1 month
|
|It's not clever. It's not even an answer. I suspect she can't answer.
|She never even had a chance to be clever.
|u/Eodbatman - 1 month
|
|I love this. For the opposite reasons all of you love this.
|u/Sad_Pangolin7379 - 1 month
|
|Burn 
|u/Outrageous_Piece_928 - 1 month
|
|Idk about communist but she's very close to being a socialist. And her
|VP has basically said he's a socialist without saying the word by way of
|his policies.
|u/ApolloZ_99 - 1 month
|
|Not surprising everyone disagrees taking more money so it can be handed
|out
|u/hmbzk - 1 month
|
|Arguing with someone named biggiesh*tpost says more about the person
|arguing
|u/rabouilethefirst - 1 month
|
|“Explicitly communist” Do you not understand what explicit means? If
|she were explicitly communist, she would just say, “I’m communist”.
|u/Downtown-Custard5346 - 1 month
|
|Someone who was homeschooled calling anyone a dimwit is funny to me...
|was that supposed to be a clever comeback? It failed
|u/luchaburz - 1 month
|
|THERES SOMETHING WRONG WITH HIS MADULLA OBLONGATTA GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
|u/Additional_Cycle_51 - 1 month
|
|Don’t dis homeschoolers, some of us get to travel the world while the
|rest of you only stay in one place your whole life
|u/lewisae0 - 1 month
|
|Wow!
|u/Autumn1eaves - 1 month
|
|I do know a couple extremely intelligent homeschooled people. One of
|them was a 15 year old I met in college.
|u/platecanoe - 1 month
|
|A “clever comeback” doesn’t disprove a point. That’s the problem with
|these communists
|u/Phrozenstare - 1 month
|
|burn 🔥🔥
|u/TheGreenKnight920 - 1 month
|
|I fucking wish she was a communist. Conservative conceptions of reality
|often sound pretty based, inadvertently. I wish the global political
|consensus was firmly far-left like they think it is.
|u/Internetolocutor - 1 month
|
|A communist would take away all the money and redistribute it evenly
|amongst the masses. That's not what she's doing so she's not a communist
|u/Careless-Pizza-6507 - 1 month
|
|Homeschool gives you a diploma, not a degree.
|u/TheBulletThatCouldve - 1 month
|
|Why are people like this completely unable to type how they speak. They
|type in a way like they're still learning. Most people with some decent
|education can type how they speak. It's an important unit from your
|english class!
|u/Capybara39 - 1 month
|
|Do you know how much leftists of all shades would be celebrating if the
|Democratic Party decided to run an honest to god communist for their
|presidential nominee?
|u/Specialist-Cookie-61 - 1 month
|
|To be fair, the person offered an argument, and "Danielle" just engaged
|in ad hominem.
|u/Forever-Lurking - 1 month
|
|M-m-m-m-Momma’s right… you’re wrong, Colonel Sanders….
|u/furryeasymac - 1 month
|
|The postwar neoliberal consensus, which oversaw the most dramatic
|improvement in living standards in human history, was communist. You
|heard it here first.
|u/PixelCultMedia - 1 month
|
|Whenever I go after someone’s education they end up being a loner
|sociopath engineer with a PHD with dog shit social skills and they hate
|everyone.
|u/hollow_13 - 1 month
|
|Actually home schoolers take the same standardized testing and often
|through a proctor so that the ability to cheat is removed. So if you’re
|“smarter” than a home schooler, it really just means your parents let
|someone else babysit you for 12 years to take the same tests. Just sayin
|😁
|u/Charming_Corner_9774 - 1 month
|
|“School system has failed you.” You’re right, maybe we should abolish
|it and start over.
|u/Baecn - 1 month
|
|Home schooling shouldn’t even be legal… literally brain washing your kid
|to not know better than to think how you want them to, not to mention
|they literally never are properly educated
|u/therealblockingmars - 1 month
|
|So embarrassing
|u/whitewater09 - 1 month
|
|That's not even what "explicitly" means lol
|u/Copernicus_Brahe - 1 month
|
|The sad part is, he believes the things his parents told him and that he
|is great...
|u/CantDrinkSoWhat - 1 month
|
|I love how she's making no arguments, just hating him for his ideas
|u/iplaymarimba - 1 month
|
|This is why they wanna dismantle the DoE, so uneducated people will
|homeschool their children
|u/Dontbeme9820 - 1 month
|
|Homeschooling shouldn’t be legal
|u/Poop___scoop - 1 month
|
|Imagine the kind of person who openly says “collectivizing power from
|the wealthy and redistributing to everyone else” as though it’s self-
|evidently a *bad thing* All I’m saying is, don’t threaten me with a
|good time
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