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[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 82 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fascists: Let's destroy the part of the government that educates our people.

Also fascists: We're just smol bean megacorps that are FORCED to hire people from out of the country to find anyone competent! Why aren't native born USians educated?!? Must be because we react to sitcoms wrong.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fucking Vivek, lol. Another Harvard undergrad, Yale law graduate finance bro complaining about there not being enough engineers in the US.

He's right up there with all the other suit wearing, ivy league chuds and podcast bros that have been telling everyone (guys, specifically) that college is a woke DEI scam and to go to trade school instead while they sit in air conditioned offices.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Kind of funny that the same people who constantly glaze white people want to muscle them out of every single job except back-breaking trades: literally choosing their job for them.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

Maybe I'm naive... I don't think their ideology is developed enough, but there's almost a kind of sense to it.

  • Tech oligarchs want cheap, compliant labor.

  • Push the ostensibly-protected native population out of the education pipeline for those jobs and into trades.

  • Complain there aren't enough graduates to meet that demand in the country.

  • Increase the ability to import workers with tenuous legal status in the country.

  • Also, as a bonus, end birthright citizenship to allow for maximum coercion in the event the imported worker has a child while in the country.

It all makes sense, kinda. pepe-silvia

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago

This country is trying so hard to burn itself down

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 52 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

we're really gonna start wearing this emoji out, we should consider stockpiling replacement parts

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

We should hand Boeing a multi-billion dollar contract to create a cutting edge meme to use in its place that's actually a little bit worse in every way and sometimes kills you

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 50 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Bruh who is gonna deal with the loans?

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 49 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Maybe comrade Trump is planning to eliminate all student debt by destroying any records of their existence?

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago

Doing project mayhem accidentally

[–] picklemeister@hexbear.net 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i think debtor's prisons and roping in student debt is more likely, musk was out retweetering bukele on expanding slave labor

[–] someone@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

Mandatory military service for anyone who gets delinquent with loans. A reverse GI bill.

[–] Sulv@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

God I hope so

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago
[–] RION@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

I've heard it said they would be punted over to the treasury

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Also all college accreditation is done through some form of the DOE committees.

[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 43 points 6 days ago

looked up the rep, this guy has tried this twice before

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 34 points 6 days ago

American politicians having the 8 year old boy brainpan again.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago

It's been referred to committee, who knows it if it will make it back out. I'd say that I don't expect it to come to a vote, but I'm not making any predictions at this point. I mean the Republican party has been trying to get rid of public school for some time.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 33 points 6 days ago

Man, isn't Kansas still suffering pretty hard from all their education cuts in the Brownback era? I'm sure this won't be like a larger scale, worse version of that

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Compared to the rest of the government, the DoEd is tiny. They make up a negligible amount of Federal employees (rounds to 0%), and have a relatively small budget (less than 2%).

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 25 points 6 days ago

Ah but if we got rid of that 2%, we could add that straight into our concentration camp budget!

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

~~DoE is the department of Energy, this is the DoEd. Other than that you're correct.~~ (post was edited)

The overwhelming majority of DoEd-associated government employees are associated with student loans or state run programs like Vocational Rehabilitation services.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

2% too many! Besides, anything that supports workers? Removing it is TOP PRIORITY! That 2% means more money to subsidize BUSINESS!

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago
[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

They have been mad about the department of education ever since they were forced to integrate public schools. Like most things in America, it all goes back to hating black people if you go back far enough.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago
[–] kristina@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago