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the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

most of those guys would probably do this work for free idk

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Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

Why does she want to kill education so bad

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
Because she's rich and tired of paying like literally 0.00000000000000001% of her income every year to fund local public schools.

the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

Power to reshape society. Her brother is Erik Prince. These people do not gently caress around, the DeVos family is straight-up Eyes Wide Shut freaky deaky torturing kids poo poo.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

They can loot the public treasury and funnel it into some bullshit charter schools they own. It's just like why people want to get rid of Medicare and Social Security, it's a big trough of money they want for themselves.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

From what I understand, she is a Dominionist. Abolishing public education empowers religious education, and gets her one step closer to the Theocratic State she wants to build.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
all good answers but the real reason is because she's a member of the idle rich and her idiot ideas about public education make up her hobby she uses to fill the time of her pointless existence and try to give it meaning

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

there's a bunch of billionarie tech ceo fuckwits like billy g that wanna gently caress with public education and privatize it too

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

GlyphGryph posted:

From what I understand, she is a Dominionist. Abolishing public education empowers religious education, and gets her one step closer to the Theocratic State she wants to build.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJYFPMLuVRE

The part about public schools begins at 26 minutes.

https://youtu.be/qJYFPMLuVRE?t=26m

HUGE PUBES A PLUS has issued a correction as of 11:21 on Feb 7, 2017

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

the black husserl posted:

Power to reshape society. Her brother is Erik Prince. These people do not gently caress around, the DeVos family is straight-up Eyes Wide Shut freaky deaky torturing kids poo poo.

Wait, what?

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

Burt Sexual posted:

Wait, what?

Her family wants to establish a theocracy and also runs their own private army that they rent out for cash!

never heard of them torturing kids though

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

GlyphGryph posted:

Her family wants to establish a theocracy and also runs their own private army that they rent out for cash!

never heard of them torturing kids though

She only pushes the school agenda in cities like Detroit, Flint, etc.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

She only pushes the school agenda in cities like Detroit, Flint, etc.

Not sure if you've noticed but it seems like she's making a bid to push it nationally, not just in places where it would be easier...

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

Because education right now is a long term investment that won't really pay off until after she dies, and she wants it to be a short term investment that pays off now and to her family.

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer
Baby boomers will not be satisfied until they have sucked up all possible wealth they could while they were alive, and leave the earth a dying husk.

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

ever play witcher 3? she's on the level of some of the worst people in that game

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

betsy devos is the demonically possessed harbinger of the end times that they claimed hillary clinton was

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

Because she wants more money for religious schools to bring "god's kingdom" back.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

If I understand American politics it works like this: Rich people and Republicans claim programs and institutions aren't working, destroy those programs and institutions, then point to them again and say they should be abolished?

Why?

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Pollyanna posted:

ever play witcher 3? she's on the level of some of the worst people in that game

so she's yennefer?

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Frosted Flake posted:

If I understand American politics it works like this: Rich people and Republicans claim programs and institutions aren't working, destroy those programs and institutions, then point to them again and say they should be abolished?

Why?

because after they convince everyone that government programs are inefficient and bad, they can offload the exact same work to private contractors (which they own) for twice the cost

decent overview of how DeVos and similar pieces of poo poo ruined Detroit's schools: https://news.vice.com/story/school-choice-detroit-betsy-devos

MShadowy
Sep 30, 2013

dammit eyes don't work that way!



Fun Shoe
Austerity makes extremely valuable but inaccessable government resources too expensive to maintain, thus forcing the government to shut them down or pawn them off at firesale prices to corporate entities which can then make money off of providing the same service. And if memory still serves the increased instability also lets them hoard more wealth relative to everyone else--i.e. even though society is now poorer for their actions they are are (relatively speaking) richer.

Also, as mentioned already DeVos is a Dominionist, which means she has a nice rationalization in place for why tearing apart the system and ruining lives makes her good--allowing for creating Religious Schools and thus spreading "Godliness." A lot of these shits also believe in the Rapture so they hope to escape death by forcing it to happen, because surely God won't have a problem with this level of absolute selfishness. :rolleyes:

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

I'm not a theologian but that seems inconsistent with the poverty of Christ.

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Frosted Flake posted:

I'm not a theologian but that seems inconsistent with the poverty of Christ.

Most American Christians aren't theologians, either. They're barely even Christians. They're nationalists first and Christians second, and when the values of the Bible conflict with the values of US right nationalism, they choose the latter and rationalize.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

Betsy DeVos is secretary of Education. :smith:

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


Uncle Wemus posted:

Why does she want to kill education so bad

boomers are driven by sheer, relentless, unflinching hatred of all generations after their own

C-Euro
Mar 20, 2010

:science:
Soiled Meat

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Betsy DeVos is secretary of Education. :smith:

Off a Pence tiebreaker no less.

Cool I guess I'm going to have to time having children such that they start going to school after she's gone (if schools still exist by then)

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Betsy DeVos is secretary of Education. :smith:

democrats can't stop poo poo and trump is gonna win in 2020

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

C-Euro posted:

Off a Pence tiebreaker no less.

Cool I guess I'm going to have to time having children such that they start going to school after she's gone (if schools still exist by then)

There is never a good time to have children anymore. Just do it and then do your best.

the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005

okay now that she's confirmed we can start talking real poo poo

how long until the first nationwide teacher strike and walkout?

how long until Trump tries to do a mega-reagan and go YOU'RE FIRED to 100,000 educators at once

the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005

devtesla posted:

democrats can't stop poo poo and trump is gonna win in 2020

trump is a tired rear end lil bitch who isnt going to make it to 2020 without quitting in exhausted shame

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

excited for our national demographic collapse in 10-15 years after the education cuts from Bush years, recession austerity, and now DeVos means the next generation of adults is functionally illiterate just in time for a fully automated information economy

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

devtesla posted:

There is never a good time to have children anymore. Just do it and then do your best.

Seriously, unless you make like $200k then just flat-out don't have kids.

The world doesn't have a future anymore. You'll just be creating witnesses to the unprecedented misery and bloodshed that's coming once the ice goes.

resting mitch face
Apr 9, 2005

5) I hear you.

devtesla posted:

democrats can't stop poo poo and trump is gonna win in 2020
democrats WON'T stop poo poo and trump is gonna win in 2020

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

the black husserl posted:

trump is a tired rear end lil bitch who isnt going to make it to 2020 without quitting in exhausted shame

he'll quit and we get pence, what's your point?

the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005

devtesla posted:

he'll quit and we get pence, what's your point?

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Oxxidation posted:

Seriously, unless you make like $200k then just flat-out don't have kids.

The world doesn't have a future anymore. You'll just be creating witnesses to the unprecedented misery and bloodshed that's coming once the ice goes.

whew

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
Honestly I'm surprised that for-profit educational stocks aren't taking off. I know there aren't many of them left, but still.

GOOD TIMES ON METH
Mar 17, 2006

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/828994238255865856

lol

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devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

we got voxxed yall

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