Education - never did me any good, so why should anyone else have it? Trump, it seems, seeks to send education not just "back to the states" but back to the Stone Age. - ThreadSky

georgemonbiot.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Education - never did me any good, so why should anyone else have it?
Trump, it seems, seeks to send education not just "back to the states" but back to the Stone Age.

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the0point.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think he'll have a fight on his hands. It ain't gone yet.

98percent.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course. Educated populations tend to ask awkward questions.

g-a-r-y.bsky.social•1 day ago

Educated people are also less likely to vote for Trump.

jarda.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not just Trump but GOP in general. I guess that's one of reasons why republicans worked for decades to make the education system the pile of smoldering ruins which it is now.

alex-harvey-1960.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all just part of ‘Project 25’. You know, the project that trump had never heard of…

https://www.project2025.observer

martandelus.bsky.social•1 day ago

They want to bulldoze evangelism into every brain, taking the world back in time to the 1950-1960's where white was right, everything else was wrong.

Rights are to be trampled on to cement the control. Meanwhile the male dominated heirarchy that is emphasized goes into overdrive.

martandelus.bsky.social•1 day ago

They clearly want to smash the education institutions to rewrite the rules. Doing away with anything that protects other religions, allows for the domination of the one they clearly favor, which is evangelical christianity.

To all ends, nothing else matters to them. It is a cult.

martandelus.bsky.social•1 day ago

The grassroots are already in the process of creating what they see as the replacement, it's rather grim.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/religious-education-schools-lifewise

johngage1.bsky.social•1 day ago

metamorphosis1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Burning books I’ve seen that somewhere before

mozziebytes.bsky.social•1 day ago

And it's also straight out of Hitler's playbook

keithgb.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s a disservice to our ancestors in the Stone Age, whose intellect created the likes of Stone Henge etc😀😜

jgreen63.bsky.social•1 day ago

Education has arguably failed in most parts of the world. I speak as an educator.

discript.bsky.social•1 day ago

How can we make it better? (Speaking as a publisher.)

jgreen63.bsky.social•1 day ago

Less about targets and attainment and more about consequences. The boat has sailed, I'm afraid. But if I were to go back in time, I'd want to emphasise scientific thinking in all things. The rise of Flat Earth is a disgrace.

e5j.bsky.social•1 day ago

He has an aversion to anyone braver or more educated than himself.

davewvero.bsky.social•1 day ago

Which encompasses a lot of people!

pcoggins.bsky.social•1 day ago

They attack education, because it is education that provides the critical inquiry into the lies and propaganda that are required for fascism to flourish

cftc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seems appropriate when there are rocks smarter than Trump.

sarahc15.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know people cant help how they look, but this man has never had, what seems to be, any kind of thought process cross his face.

cerulecoach.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s hard to imagine a more stupid population than the American people anyway.
This sticks the icing on the dumbass hillbilly cake.

abbotmythos.bsky.social•9 hours ago

referencehs.bsky.social•1 day ago

The attacks on education is about keeping a large portion of the people ignorant. Ignorant people believe lies much easier and are better to manipulate. Then you can use them as cheap labor in factories. This also keeps education only for the elite that can afford it. It's a waste of talent.

john-pedersen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well we've all have enough of experts haven't we?

Now we can cut them off at source.

Zero experts! Excellent. No-one knows more than me!

jessicajsalmon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cos a dumbed down population doesn’t ask awkward questions and votes for whoever Fox tells them to. And the rich will continue to get their kids educated privately anyway so they will continue to have all the advantages.

jessicajsalmon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly the same as in the UK where our educational system has been underfunded for the same reasons.

paulofarmer.bsky.social•1 day ago

MAGA see education as a threat to their beliefs

dragon-cheval.bsky.social•1 day ago

iskragoch.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The stupider they are, the more they'll vote for me. Trump's idiocracy.

lukechedleh.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had

ellyblom.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dumb indeed.
But the American people voted him in.
What does that say about them?
And - in a wider sense- about our political culture?

discript.bsky.social•1 day ago

It shows how intellectually challenged the USA has become. The charm of bright politicians, who can give their citizens a much better life, does not appeal to ignorant voters.

ellyblom.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is just such a complex issue. Rather than truly focusing on the problems people face & the causes, we are constantly entertained into a coma, everything needs to be funny or exciting...

ellyblom.bsky.social•1 day ago

... Schools seem to be churning out meek consumers rather than critically minded citizens. The media constantly blurs the lines between news, politics and entertainment. People are baited to react viscerally to soundbites and slogans rather than seek context and nuance...

ellyblom.bsky.social•1 day ago

We don't seem to mind fascists as long as they're funny. Expert opinions are derided as elitist. I know there's a lot going on here but I've got the distinct feeling we're being taken for fools. Unfortunately we are allowing them to play us like fiddles so maybe they have a point.

sickofelon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Get the word out to everyone!

Share it on TikTok!!
#BuildtheResistance
#WakeupAmerica

We need more pushback on the right wing propagandists!

Signups @ #mobilize.us and #fiftyfifty.one for protests info

Attend town hall meetings
letters-boycott-strike-blackouts
#5Calls
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BUZZZ

cookieaob.bsky.social•1 day ago

And yet he is now so very eloquent.....

crakeka.bsky.social•1 day ago

ROFL

cftc.bsky.social•1 day ago

The moment he sat in a Tesla and said ‘it’s all computer’ was a highlight (lowlight) for me.

referencehs.bsky.social•1 day ago

So much for the "3D chess" that some thought Trump was good at. That you don't understand someone doesn't always mean that person is too smart for you; he can also be too dumb and just ramble on. (They are eating the dogs, for example)

noelmurphy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump.
Has nothing but "front".
Is, was, always will be for sale.
Americans wanting to believe otherwise now know better.
Trump, an ignorant ape....... driving a Cadillac America............
And the children, they cried.......

squillifish.bsky.social•1 day ago

Farty, the biggest whore there ever was.

stevebasnett.bsky.social•1 day ago

We continue to use the wrong metrics to track the relative 'success' of nations. In my opinion, disrespect for education is a sure indicator of a civilisation in decline. Sadly, I see it too often in countries now, including some which believe they are great and will somehow continue to be.

davidhoward123.bsky.social•1 day ago

Burning of books to follow.

w2jmf.bsky.social•1 day ago

We know why this is. Stupid people vote republican.

winter02.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s to push private schools and stop supporting children with special needs.

patofminch.bsky.social•1 day ago

the US dept of education is to education what NHS England is to good UK patient care...
the stats are not good.

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