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    A safe, healthy, and broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.

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    Fuck you, Musk. The Department of Education is approved and funded by Congress who we voted for! You’re an unelected piece of shit Nazi fighting against literal knowledge.

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      The dumbass thinks getting a college degree means you are already failing or something.

      He’s suuuuuuch a dipshit, but also a complete asshole.

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        It’s simpler. They know that those with college degrees usually vote with the liberal bias that reality has.

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          These people are either stupid or evil. Or both. And so we have to oppose them. Does it really matter which it is?

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            Yes, it matters, because underestimating them because we think they’re stupid instead of evil is a recipe for disaster.

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    Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.

    The days from the 80s to today, especially this recent event, are what lead to it. But sadly they’ll be so uneducated that even this they will not understand.

    Like being in a prison whose walls you cannot see and whose bars you cannot feel. There is no greater wealth than education, no greater poverty than ignorance.

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      These same people will vote for qons even harder, assuming we even have free and fair elections. Why? I’m sure it will be for very stupid reasons, like seeing a trans women in sports somewhere, even if it’s not even in this country. Or because they thought Hollywood “talked down to them” or whatever the fuck.

      They might be forced to move out of their trailer and take up “urban camping”. They and their kids may have no food, no clean water, and no health care, but by Zeus, they’ll be ahead of those Blas and those trans and those Mexicans!

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      Once all of this damage is done there will be people who wonder why they can never get ahead in life. Why so many roads towards wealth have been cut off from them.

      That day has been here since the mid 2000s. More than half the country lives paycheck to paycheck with less than 1k saved, and will be stuck there working until they die.

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      Ngl, this post kind of saddened me. I don’t want to believe it, but the possibility of what you’re saying being true is bleak to me.

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      It’s going to be worse than that. AI may take your job, automation will dramatically advance, and you will be left with little more than the virtual realities created by some corporation to fill your day with. Ready Player 1 may have the most realistic future.

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    Great so now they can privatize student loans. I was going to go back to school at age 40 and get my bachelors degree

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        In Canada they closed that loophole in the 90’s

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      I hope this is /s

      The interest rate on those private loans are going to be much higher and more difficult to obtain than the government backed ones

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        Exactly I wonder how much higher they’ll be and if they will basically make college only affordable for those who are super rich and needs loans and I’m sure there will be a sharp decline in college admissions which is what the super rich want. Keep the poor and middle class uneducated and fighting with each other

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          The whole idea here is to rapidly accelerate the decline of the US so the techbros can take over and create the own self described utopia where poor people live in debtor prisons and the rich are treated like gods

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    Comme on, Democrats, run someone in every fuckin district of every fuckin state and just run excerpts of this fucker on repeat, s maybe victory in the house and Senate in two years - is there still are elections by then - will be the only way these shitstains might be stopped

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        Don’t insult Elmo. Elon Musk would get his ass kicked off Sesame Street

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      The man is backing a man who vows to end electric cars and increase our reliance on fossil fuels.

      The man sells electric cars.

      This man obviously doesn’t have his head screwed on straight.

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        Doesn’t matter. He has his fingers in the treasury. He has all the money, what good are silly businesses to him now?

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        He creates shareholder value. That’s all that publically trades companies do. It’s their goal.

        Everything else is just ways they attempt to do that, and someone like Elon does it with hype, since the agencies that are supposed to prevent such nonsense abandoned their responsibilities a long time ago.

        Tesla stocks are now a ponzi scheme. At some point, someone’ll be left holding the bag.

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        In all liklihood, this is a ploy to sell and rebuy tesla stocks to become the world’s first trillionaire faster than the other robber barons who have achieved the green light from America’s fascist movement.

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    Funny, because their website is still up and looks normal.

    Maybe he means “won’t exist for much longer”? But if that’s the case then describing it as “no longer exists” shows either a poor grasp of language or a deeply flawed understanding of the past, present, and future.

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      His brain is probably fucked from the amount of ketamine he has used. When rich bastards like musk use drugs its never a normal amount of too much its usually a how the fuck are you still alive amount.

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        He should use more. Parts of his brain are still encouraging him to move around and do harmful things. He needs to be more comatose.

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          I wish he would add pervitin to his cocktail of drugs so that at the very least he would be time period accurate to his Nazi beliefs. I kinda doubt the Nazis would approve of horse tranquilizer, they wanted meth.