US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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[Amelia Troonheart]

Can someone give me the steal-man for gutting/getting rid of the Department Of Education? It seems like every problem that is causing lackluster metrics in U.S. education can directly be tied to things that yes, aren't due to a LACK of funding (black people) but getting rid of it just seems retarded.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/trump-education-department-devos-013427

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Name one thing that mainly deals with citizens that would be made worse by going from federal government control to state government control.

Then, next, look at America's education level and performance over time compared to when the DoE began.
That will get you started on asking some productive questions.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Education is funded in the US at the local level via property taxes. The parents and community of the school have direct influence on how their children are taught. State governments facilitate school districts and wider curriculum. The Federal Government doesn't need to involve itself in education, and up until 1970 when Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education, it didn't. Additionally, the federal DoE is a source of woke faggotry infecting school education. Top-down forced indoctrination is not the American way of doing things.

I found it interesting to learn the state my work is in only 7% or so is federal aid for schools. Every school is locally or state funded enough that the dept of ed won't matter for funding. Unless its the schools specifically receiving federal funding which is schools in under achieving (read as black/latino/ghetto) neighborhoods.

The only thing I'm not sure of is how it would effect student loans. Sadly you work in disabilities and you sometimes get paid less than a fast food employee.

 

[Jaimas]

So here's an interesting coinkidink:

Way back during the Autism Holy War, I made the observation that DIGRA, the research firm behind all those "50% of gamers are women" studies, was partly paid for by the state department. Doing a bit of digging suggested that there was a fuckton of money getting pumped into that shit by the government.

So cut to a couple of days ago. Guess what gets exposed?



.....USAID was being used to fund Feminist Frequency.
Curiously, they never really recieved any of it, which suggests that FemFreq folding around 2020 or so had something to do with this.

The bigger takeaway is what follows.



You know how over the last few years, multiple publications kept screeching about GG after the fact, to the point where it practically became a fucking meme in and of itself?
Yeah, USAID was being used to fund those, and probably had been for years.

 

[David Floyd George]

look at America's education level and performance over time compared to when the DoE began

DoE was founded in 1980. Adult illiteracy rate that year in the US was 0.6%. Adult illiteracy rate in 2024 in the US was 21%. Enough said.

 

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DoE was founded in 1980. Adult illiteracy rate that year in the US was 0.6%. Adult illiteracy rate in 2024 in the US was 21%. Enough said.

I was going to say those numbers appear to be bullshit, but then I realized you're saying ILLITERACY not literacy. I absolutely believe that, even before we consider the fact that even back in my high school days I had a sinking realization that my fellow classmates during our senior projects... couldn't read.

Still. I wonder how much of that 21% are wetbacks.

 

[X Prime]

Still. I wonder how much of that 21% are wetbacks.

To demonstrate my numeracy, I have done the calculations and the result came out as "a metric fuckton."

 

[Srumab]

Okay gonna PL here: I worked as a teacher for 2 years cause nobody hires political science majors. It's useless.

So here is how it worked where I was and how I understood it. The Department of Education says "this is what we will be testing on, focus on this part of this event". The state Department of Education gets the list on what will be tested on and what a certain grade should know. They deliver this to the superintendents. The supers go to all the various principals with the news as well as SAMPLES OF NEW BOOKS THAT COINCIDENTALLY MATCHES WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS DECIDED A GRADE SHOULD LEARN WHILE ALSO FORGETTING TO MENTION THE KICKBACKS THAT THE SUPERS AND PRINCIPALS GET FROM THE PUBLISHING COMPANY.

The caps bit is important because it shows how all of it is a way for everybody, DOE, SDOE,Supers, and Principals to line their own pockets.

This is how I understood it to be. It might be wrong. The economics teacher I learned it from was nearing retirement and fairly resentful for getting passed over for a cushy job as the grade school principal.

 

[Abradolfus_Linclerson]

Can someone give me the steal-man for gutting/getting rid of the Department Of Education? It seems like every problem that is causing lackluster metrics in U.S. education can directly be tied to things that yes, aren't due to a LACK of funding (black people) but getting rid of it just seems retarded.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/trump-education-department-devos-013427

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Asked and answered multiple times now, but I'mma throw my hat in anyway.

Consider that we landed men on the moon multiple times over the course of the 60s and early 70s using computers (both on the modules and in mission control itself) that probably had--combined--less processing power than the smart phone in your pocket. Consider the literacy ratings referenced by posters before me. Consider that to be an educated lady or gentleman with any actual class, you had to be able to parse Shakespeare without Cliffnotes. Consider that the sum of human knowledge was not available at one's fingertips and required hitting libraries and reading or watching educational TV stuff (assuming that even existed back then, I dunno, not old enough).

Now look at what NASA does in this day and age, which is...fuck all. Or screw up calculations and losing modules on re-entry because they forgot to convert from feet to meters. Or lose entire shuttle crews because some jackwagon signed off on a safety checklist despite the preponderance of evidence that the weather was going to be miserable enough to damage sensitive components leading to leaks and explosions.

So, how's about instead of us proving our case that the DoE is at best not helping and at worst an active impediment to education, how 'bout you explain just why in the fucking fuck anyone should want this worthless barnacle of an organization clinging to the ass of every school in the country.

 

[David Floyd George]

I wonder how much of that 21% are wetbacks

34% of this cohort was born outside the US. An additional fun fact is that 33% of all adults in the US have literacy below a 6th-grade level (54% if we include the illiterates).

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Another plane crash in Alaska. 10 people missing.

 

[DSP for president 2032]

6. 2 million to sex changes in Guatemala

I actually understand the Iraqi Sesame Street show somewhat. Obviously, it's meant to instill liberal values in young Iraqis and make them easier to conquer. But what is the point of mutilating mentally ill Guatemalans?

 

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I actually understand the Iraqi Sesame Street show somewhat. Obviously, it's meant to instill liberal values in young Iraqis and make them easier to conquer. But what is the point of mutilating mentally ill Guatemalans?

Gotta keep the twink supply flowing

 

[Desu Mountain]

https://x.com/RobSchneider/status/1887190735256240201

 

[Sammich]

These feds who have been saying "when the illegals are gone who will pick our crops?`" seem awfully concerned about finding a job after being fired from the government even though there's a bunch of brand new jobs picking crops suddenly available.

learn to harvest

 

[Lammy]

But what is the point of mutilating mentally ill Guatemalans?

John Money and Magnus Hershfeld said you should, or else someones feelings will be hurt.
So, I suppose there's really no alternative. Can't have a world where someone has upset feelings, that's worth throwing civilization away to fix.

 

[The Ugly One]

Consider that the sum of human knowledge was not available at one's fingertips and required hitting libraries and reading or watching educational TV stuff (assuming that even existed back then, I dunno, not old enough).

Reading had actually existed for several years by the time we went to the moon. Not long after, we invented papyrus.

 

[The Last Stand]

The MAHA effect
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Another Trump win.

 

[NoReturn]

I actually understand the Iraqi Sesame Street show somewhat. Obviously, it's meant to instill liberal values in young Iraqis and make them easier to conquer. But what is the point of mutilating mentally ill Guatemalans?

Come on guys, think like a fed.
If you get the mentally ill Guatemalans on HRT, now they're dependent on you for that HRT. You've made lifelong medical patients, just like here in the US, and now they're loyal to you and will do whatever they need to do to keep getting their fix.
The surgeries, too, funnel money to the Guatemalan versions of Sidhbh Gallagher.

 

[David Floyd George]

34% of this cohort was born outside the US. An additional fun fact is that 33% of all adults in the US have literacy below a 6th-grade level (54% if we include the illiterates).

To follow up a bit (I love this stuff, lol) New Hampshire (88.3% white non-hispanic population 2022) had the country's highest literacy rate. The state with the lowest literacy rate - a real, real shocker here, honestly, I'm stunned - is California, whose 2020 white non-hispanic population was 41.2%. Just a coincidence, of course.

 

[Desu Mountain]