• SabinStargem@lemmings.world
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    2 months ago

    Hm. Maybe I should buy Trump and Musk “We did that.” stickers, and add them to price tags while shopping? After all, they shut down the agencies meant to control bird flu, meat inspection, and so many other things…

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        Our education system is bad, but it’s not “don’t teach about the French revolution” bad. Hell my high school even made a point to point out that Antoinette was a teenager who likely didn’t actually say that

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          Ah, but online high schools/credit recovery. The French Revolution is often covered in a fifteen minute video with four multiple choice questions and a short response (which is almost always turned in with an obviously AI generated answer, and marked with 100% because there’s no longer an expectation that a teacher be qualified to teach their subject - a high school diploma is enough in Oklahoma)

          I’d met with a high schooler over zoom (thirty minutes once a week was the requirement) - “hey, tell me what you thought about that American Civil War unit you just completed?” - and they wouldn’t be able to name the century the war happened, had no idea who Abraham Lincoln was, couldn’t name the Confederacy - hell, didn’t recognize that the American Civil War happened in the United States.

          My current role as a tutor (because most high schools would rather have an unqualified high school grad that a transsexual union member with a masters degree - and tbh, getting a school bomb threats on the off chance that LibsOfTikTok targets me is not a risk I feel I can expose others too) shocks me. You have long term subs that don’t understand the pre algebra concepts teaching Algebra 2 and Pre Calc. (Every time I hear the term “cross multiply” I cringe in preparation for the horror I’m about to see)

          But yes - education is 100% that bad in southern states.

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            I can’t imagine anything she could’ve reasonably done in the environment she lived in that wouldn’t’ve been deeply offensive to the peasantry. Versailles was at its core a tool to insulate the nobility and separate them from reality. Her life and death were tragic, not because of some condemnation of the poor who killed her, but because they weren’t even wrong to do so and yet this teenager who was probably one of the least evil people at Versailles had to be the one to pay the price for the systems crafted by people like Louis XIV and Maria Theresa Hapsburg.

            The republic was necessary. The fall of bourbon was necessary. The people were right to be mad. But there is a tragedy in how some people are corrupted and broken by power they wouldn’t have asked for and have to pay the price for it

  • RedC@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    It’s so incredible that everything was bidens fault day one of his presidency, but with Trump it’s the fault of the previous administration, and no body brings up this double standard at all. What a double standard.

    Also, we all know that Trump can’t lower the price of eggs himself, just like biden couldn’t lower gas prices by himself. The fact that Trump and his ilk RAN on lowering grocery prices, especially eggs, is why we’re still talking about it and why a lot of Americans are upset. Now the right are calling us idiots and whiners for still talking about eggs while they are still going up, while the last 4 years nobody on that side could shut up about gas prices.

    They put those ‘biden did this’ stickers on pumps until the final moments of his administration, I say we do the same to eggs.

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    I just went to Costco and all the eggs are gone. Clearly there was some kind of recall but I never heard of it. Is this where we’re at now?

    Cook your eggs. I wouldn’t do over easy or my favorite eggs Benedict until I feel confident the gov is telling us the truth.

    From what I understand cook to 165 and it should be ok. There are some good businesses that sell good food thermometers. The cheap ones on Amazon aren’t reliable and break as designed.

  • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    When the Democrats said “What are you talking about? The economy is doing great!” the rightoids correctly called this shit out. Now that it’s Trump doing it, I wonder what the response will be?

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      Now that it’s Trump doing it, I wonder what the response will be?

      “How could Biden do this?”

      Is the response I’ve seen so far.

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        Just saw the Keebler Elf Mike Johnson say almost exactly that a short time ago. I mean, really, WTAF.

        Little d messes around with tariffs, the market reacts, and Mike Johnson the weird Keebler porn elf, is out there saying “we are seeing the effect of the last administration’s horrible economy” or some such nonsense…as if we cannot all see with our fucking eyes, the games that little d is playing and the effect it is having. I’m horrified that people actually fall for such obvious bullshit, especially after such a great economy was handed off to little d.

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          I’m horrified that people actually fall for such obvious bullshit, especially after such a great economy was handed off to little d.

          People are falling for the lie because, the average Joe is being squeezed dry. The economy is only doing well for the already wealthy.

          Of course, the current economy was the result of the Biden Administration attempting to fix Trump’s first term. Along with the Trump administration’s complete mismanagement of COVID-19.

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      If I keep posting this every time there are egg related political news stories, maybe it’ll come true?

      I put together a little short story about how I would like to see Donald Trump meet his demise. Drowning in eggs:

      The Eggsecution.

      The once-proud leader, now stripped of title and dignity, stands in the center of the barren, concrete abyss. The abandoned Olympic swimming pool—thirty feet deep, dry as bone—has become their final stage. Above, the gathered masses stretch in every direction, a writhing sea of anticipation.

      They do not jeer. They do not boo.

      They simply chant.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      It starts as a murmur, a low thrum of human voices vibrating in unison. Then it grows, swelling into a deafening roar that rattles windows, that shudders in the bones of every person present. A chant as ancient as it is absurd, a single-minded invocation of punishment.

      The first egg arcs high overhead, tracing a lazy curve before splattering against the fallen leader’s shoulder. The yolk bursts, oozing down his baggy, ugly, now-useless suit. A streak of yellow, the first of many.

      Another egg. Then another.

      Then dozens.

      The first impacts make them flinch, stagger—hands raised in a futile shield. But soon there are too many to dodge, too many to deflect. They curl inward as the sky rains viscous judgment. The chant never stops.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      Shells crack. Yolk drips. The scent of sulfur and shame thickens in the stagnant air. It coats their skin, their hair, their pride, turning them into something less than human. Something… egg-like.

      At the top of the pit, a child—no older than seven—steps forward. They hold their egg with both hands, cradling it like something precious. Reverent. With a deliberate motion, they lob it downward. It strikes the leader square on the forehead, exploding with an almost musical plap. The crowd erupts into a fresh crescendo of cheers, but the chant never falters.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      No escape. No reprieve. The pit is smooth concrete, slick now with raw egg and humiliation. They can do nothing but stand there, endure, become part of the ritual.

      Somewhere in the throng, a vendor hawks boiled eggs. Another sells cartons to the unprepared. A man in a chicken suit waves encouragingly at the crowd.

      The night wears on, but the spectacle does not end.

      It cannot end.

      Not until the last egg is thrown. Not until the last voice is hoarse.

      Not until the world is rid of this one, failed leader, broken not by swords or exile, but by the inescapable weight of public yolk and scorn.

      “Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”

      • cyphear@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Do you have a blog? I would subscribe and actively donate to your cause.

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    2 months ago

    “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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    2 months ago

    Biden is the worst it will be fixed as soon as I get in there… Gets in there: this isn’t my fault stop whining.