JA Westenberg
so the plan is to defund schools, defund libraries, defund the arts, and then complain that people are stupid. just want to make sure I'm following the strategy
Feb 24 at 1:02amTypefully
Show threadestelleFeb 24
@Daojoan see also: defund transit, complain the [train/bus] is slow, etc
Show threadUnknownTreeStumpFeb 24
@estelle @Daojoan It is so disappointing to see such a large country move backwards. Nashville has been proposing a bigger intercity tram for a while and it is voted down every time for funding. Heck most big cities in the US at one point had elaborate city trams but the auto manufacturers ruined it through lobbying in the early days. Granted they probably still do but they wanted to sell us vehicles. I love my vehicle and I love working on it but I also enjoy my local city bus too.
Show threadestelleFeb 24

@UnknownTreeStump @Daojoan it's the privatization playbook, corrupt officials defund public services while investing in whatever must take up the slack when the services they defund inevitably fail

in the case of schools though, you get the bonus benefit that the general public is now less prepared to understand what is happening to them!

Show threadStephen Dioxide Feb 24
@Daojoan Also, it's their fault they're stupid.
Show threadwaferbabyFeb 24
@Daojoan
Show threadTootko TootarovFeb 24
@Daojoan @Binder if everyone is literally stupid, their complaints won't make any sense to a reasonable person, and generations on, whatever complaints they have will be inconsequential anyway.
complaining that people are stupid isn't the plan. making people stupid is.
Show threadquadrivial, tall and grayingFeb 24
@tootkoTootarov @Daojoan @Binder beat me to it. They don't care if people are stupid, it's what's desired.
Show threadmaya_b 🇨🇦Feb 24

@Daojoan

sounds like you know too much

Show threadEricka SimoneFeb 24
@Daojoan that’s been the strategy since (American) Brown vs. Board of education up here sis
Show threadSuperstars of the ApocalypseFeb 24

@Daojoan

Liberal: even tho I don't have kids, I still pay property taxes because I don't want to live in a country full of stupid people

Me: oh, sweet summer child, that ship has sailed 😆

Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 24

@Daojoan actually, it literally is:

complain that people are stupid and then...defund schools, defund libraries, defund the arts.

Show threadTimFeb 24
@Daojoan thank you, jawestenberg
Show threadCarolynFeb 24
@Daojoan Well, the stupid people are those who question them. They want to dumb things down to where they won’t be questioned. In upside down world, stupid = smart.
Show threadHakusoFeb 24
@Daojoan
Not much different than defunding healthcare and then screaming "mental health crisis" when people start snapping.en masse.
Show threadHumphrey ArcherFeb 24
@Daojoan
There is no plan, just a mouldy sack filled with dumbass conservative fever dreams.
They like to flatter themselves that they are great strategists, but it's the "let's all fly to New Zealand, or maybe, Mars, or wait, the Moon!" kind of eight-year-old bullshit
Show threadPlantwizardFeb 24
@Daojoan Got it in one.
Show threadΞVΞ🦋Feb 24

@Daojoan

Yes, that’s Israel’s long-term strategy for the US. They want our children to be dumb, gullible and complacent, just like Israelis so they don’t grow up to be dissenting adults.

Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Feb 24
@Daojoan @fname so stupid that the state must take over making decisions for them …
Show threaddraNgNonFeb 24
@Daojoan pretty sure there has been zero waiting for those defunding events, to complain that people are stupid!
Show threadHenri VerwijmerenFeb 24
@Daojoan I'm sorry but people in the US actually are stupid. They put Trump in the White House twice.
Show threadhuzuniFeb 24

@Daojoan Also, get rid of IT classes in schools, dumb down computer OSes, blocking access to file management, and other basic features to make the newer generations more controllable in the internet, since they don’t know their way around

PS: Older generations (Gen Z, Millennials and Gen X) instead of seeing this problems and just calling Gen Alpha dumb for not knowing, let’s actually teach them the ways just like we did

Show threadᛋᛁᚵᛁᛋᛘᚢᚾᛑ ᚾᛁᚾᛃᛅFeb 24
@Daojoan That's the neoliberal way.
Show threadderptronFeb 24
@Daojoan Nah. It's so they can brag about how stupid they are and we'll think it means they're more trustworthy.
Show threadPetraPandaFeb 24

@Daojoan

You misspelled celebrate.

Celebrate people are stoopid because that makes them more malleable.

Look no further than the result of decades of poor education, groomed ignorance, inexustent self-awareness, and an inability to recognise self-aggrandisement at a scale barely matched by China, N-Korea, Mussolini or Hitler.
And yes, I am referring to that failed state sandwiched between Mexico and Canada.

Show threadNull HypothesisFeb 25
@Daojoan
When most of the population is hobbled, the “bosses" can assert that they know what the answer must be.