destroying everything they can in a fruitless effort to find the wokeness button - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 3 days ago

destroying everything they can in a fruitless effort to find the wokeness button

It appears the Trump Admin is shutting down the Dept of Education's International and Foreign Language Education unit, which funds and administers University and graduate foreign language study throughout the country and overseas. If true, an act of national sabotage. www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...

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epiousios.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maga can't handle the fact that the planet exists, and most of it is different.

edwardthethird.bsky.social•2 days ago

They want a future generation of useful idiots

kurtweldon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Pretty sure they already know there is no wokeness button...

johnrage.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is no switch for being a decent human being.

arthur--dent.bsky.social•3 days ago

Melania will just have to steal more of Michele's work.

ofsevit.bsky.social•3 days ago

SPEAK ENGLISH

(We do not want to teach people English)

lioncub19.bsky.social•2 days ago

So nobody can learn to speak or read a language other than American English? Okaaay.

alwaysthinking.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is the dissolution of the United States of America like in the dissolution of the USSR on Dec. 25, 1991, which will enrich MuTrump & enablers. Both parties take oligarchy/corpocracy donations obliging them to pass legislation benefiting their wealthy donors at our expense. We needed a

alwaysthinking.bsky.social•3 days ago

progressive party decades ago. Instead, we got congressional lifers too greedy/cowardly to take moral actions because they wanted to retain their congressional seats. Republicans don’t give a fig about traditions, decorum, or norms. Yet, Democrats bring feathers to sword fights.

alwaysthinking.bsky.social•3 days ago

They are either feckless fucks to our detriment or in it for themselves. I think it’s the latter.

democracysoon.bsky.social•3 days ago

putin will never be satisfied

oh-that-amy.bsky.social•3 days ago

this is a great move if you want to kneecap your intelligence apparatus!

oh-that-amy.bsky.social•3 days ago

(this is not an endorsement of the US intelligence apparatus, but it seems counter to the established goals of this administration)

kmagnacca.bsky.social•3 days ago

Kneecapping the intelligence apparatus IS one of their goals, that’s why they put Gabbard in charge of it.

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•3 days ago

Similar to the apparent desire to pivot to an all white losers military. Seems like a dumb idea when you're being increasingly bellicose on the world stage to also say "my military needs to have fewer and less qualified soldiers!"

aviendha69.bsky.social•3 days ago

it feels like they are closing the country off from the international community - isolation - but still need ressources, so think to just consume all of North America.

shoutingboy.bsky.social•3 days ago

we're getting closer and closer to "Khmer Rouge killing people with glasses because if they wear glasses they probably read stuff"

shriketron.bsky.social•3 days ago

DOGE is some digital historical conqueror burning their way through villages, lands to find a legend that doesn't exist. Violence, betrayal, destruction in the wake.

Cortes, Pizarro, Lope de Aguirre that did these things in search of El Dorado.

achristy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thankfully Chuck Schumer and his geriatric pals passed the CR so stuff like this can't happen 🙏🙏

john-gardi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Like the deep state, wokeness never existed in the way these conspiracy liars perceived.
In both cases, it's just folks doing the right thing. 💁

caldemsince68.bsky.social•3 days ago

Isolationist BS

abbot-x.bsky.social•3 days ago

N.b. IFLE programs including Fulbright-Hays and Title VI are authorized by statute and predate ED. Fulbright-Hays used to be run by State, Title VI by DOD. They have not been terminated legally and it's still important to fight for them.

revbrown.bsky.social•3 days ago

Funny how it works. They didn't even send a Russian or Ukraini language speaker to the peace talks.

swiftieoverfiftie.bsky.social•3 days ago

They can't find any button.

jalaneschmidt.bsky.social•3 days ago

I would like to see reporting on what classes Elon’s boys took in undergrad. Computer science obvs. But what else, what other inputs have they had in their young lives? I’m guessing little to no humanities and arts.

aristofontes.bsky.social•3 days ago

Didn't they all skip college to go work with Elon?

stevenljohnson.org•3 days ago

some relevant info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship

greggiven.bsky.social•3 days ago

They undoubtedly believe that we don't need language instruction anymore, because we have google translate

tekorei.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mandating all diplomats and intelligence personnel only have the ability to read, write, and speak in English.

bluedotinaredspace.bsky.social•3 days ago

Keep the people uneducated and the country isolated. The next thing will be only state-owned media.

patrickpoll.bsky.social•3 days ago

These numb nuts think that if English was good enough for Jesus and the 12 Apostles it's good enough for everyone

dconrad.bsky.social•3 days ago

Don't worry, they're going to undermine the teaching of English, too.

gardenerjams.bsky.social•3 days ago

we just don’t really come back from this do we

rsquared.bsky.social•3 days ago

How long before they're just playing saxophone amidst the wreckage?

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•3 days ago

No no, they're going to ax the music programs too

dconrad.bsky.social•3 days ago

They do like the saxophone because it was invented by a guy named Adolphe (Sax), but he was Belgian, so he's the wrong kind of white European.

wudang96.bsky.social•3 days ago

they are trying to sabotage everything
they are deeply disturbed children who have been given far too much leeway to do whatever they want to hurt as many as they can

polantaris.bsky.social•3 days ago

They're not children, they're traitors. Hopefully people get with the program before it's too late.

peacedayresistance.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm old enough to remember when the U.S. really wanted people who spoke Russian, Arabic, and Chinese as a matter of national security.

joylove.bsky.social•3 days ago

After The Dark Ages, the Renaissance blossomed…

mycrazywrld23.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you keep people uninformed then you can make up whatever you want. That is why he's taking apart the DOE. It's easier to make women stay home and just be homemakers if they're uneducated. If women are uneducated then men feel Superior.

ethiccalbeef.bsky.social•3 days ago

😂

jacquienina.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sounds familiar.

ianneilschmidt1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump is a goddamned fucking barbarian, who's busy burning Rome to the ground.

alwayseating.bsky.social•3 days ago

"French is gay and woke" Says Trump official.

cabbageridge.bsky.social•3 days ago

Elon should know how important this is for some of the specialty engineering jobs.

nosajlaroc.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good thing these programs aren’t used to train Analysts in the Intelligence organizations or anything like that.

avendarien.bsky.social•3 days ago

Horrible

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s in the walls

uncleboom.bsky.social•3 days ago

Conveniently next to the copper pipes being eagerly stripped.

toowoke2joke.on.computer•3 days ago

I'm sure the replacement *checks notes* --Duolingo will be able to fill this important capability.

jrfanboy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Other people do exist and deserve to continue so = woke

maximumeffort433.bsky.social•3 days ago

They're channeling the Powell Memorandum like it's gospel.

septimushodge.bsky.social•3 days ago

"At least there's no more woke."

happyhulk.bsky.social•3 days ago

jonreinhardt.bsky.social•3 days ago

at the same time, the Defense Dept continues to spend millions on FLE at places like the DLI and Flagship programs, but only the 'strategic languages' of Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Farsi, and a few others, sometimes spending upwards of $1 million per student. If it really were about efficiency...

jennysampson.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think it has more to do with Trump being a traitor and crushing anything that facilitates US science and technology supremacy

grimestimator.bsky.social•3 days ago

it's classic wokeness to say the CIA needs people fluent in other languages

jhwood.bsky.social•3 days ago

And sell off as many depreciated pieces as possible.

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