CCT will educate American high school students about the dangers of communism and totalitarianism, and how they are contrary to the founding principals of fr...

I'm excited. Are you excited?

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      DARE literally got some of my childhood friends to try hard drugs they otherwise likely would have never bothered with.

    • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      and if it's anything like anticommunist propaganda of the past, they're going to make it look rad as fuck.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Capitalists see polls about how young people like socialism (even if to them it's really just milquetoast social democracy) and really are kinda panicking a bit.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      I think "CRT for Chuds" is exactly what they're going for. It's just an attempt to Own The Libs.

  • regul [any]
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    3 years ago

    Can't wait to see what the Texas statutes on mandatory public school subjects look like in ten years, provided Texas has not demolished all of its public schools to build Whataburgers surrounded by giant parking lots by then.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      We're already well past the breaking point. So many of these testing mandates and teaching requirements and documentation standards are piling up that nobody can keep up with it even in the "best" schools. We've got a teacher shortage. Kids are falling behind full grade-levels at an accelerating pace, particularly after COVID. The state's only move is to raise costs and fire people, without paying for the balance they incur.

      Teachers are pissed. Parents are pissed. Charter schools are either highly exclusionary or outright scams, so there's no relief there. I don't know whats going to come of it, as we've got 5.3M kids in the system, atm, and there's at least some tacit recognition that dumping them onto the street would be a bad idea. But the idea that you can just do D.A.R.E. for Communism and make this all go away is... optimistic.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Arrest Social Forces with Brute Force And Prove Allende Wrong Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) COPS CALLED (GONE SEXUAL)

    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      All private schools, they can teach whatever they want, the only requirement is anti-communism classes.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I'm not even gonna make a lathe of heaven joke because this is almost exactly what WILL happen if the fash get their way in Texas (maybe make "American Exceptionalism" required more than anti-communism, but maybe both).

        • gullyfoyleismyname [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I have bosnian friends that live here because of the shit serbia pulled in the 90's. Fuck them and fuck any dogma that sees them as the good guys

            • gullyfoyleismyname [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              I didn't say the US is good either, but blowing up a pack of genocidal assholes is an objectively good mood I really don't care about the motivations

                • gullyfoyleismyname [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  Yeah one can criticize the civilian casualties or what have you I agree with you there but I'd rather the serbs be prevented from doing another genocide like they had just got done doing and suffer some losses then just let em into Kosovo to make more mass graves. It's awful but way I see it it's the same as the german civillians that died during WWII. Was it sad? Yes it really was. Is it better those German civvies die before Generalplan Ost gets implemented? Yeah

              • baguettePants [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                So all Serbs are "packs of genocidal assholes"?

                I was nearly killed in one Serbian attack and I can tell you with a high degree of confidence, that your opinion is dogshit and you should do better.

                You don't even need Parenti. Chomsky's analysis of that bombing is the same, even though his negative opinion of Milosevic is very well known. Chomsky quotes the highest levels of Clinton administration who said the bombing had nothing to do with stopping the "possible" genocide, but disciplining Serbia for not following the wishes of western imperialists. Furthermore, the bombing was long after the Milosevic's "fuckery" in Bosnia. Furthermore, they bombed the entire infrastructure of the country, back to the stone age. Not just military targets. Furthermore, it was about Kosovo, not Bosnia, and at that time the Kosovars organized a terrorist group there who were "being assholes" there. Furthermore, this bombing actually made things on Kosovo worse, rather then better etc. Finally, this is all Chomsky, not Parenti.

          • Florn [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            So do I, but that's not what this quote is saying.

    • Anarchist [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      There’s nothing to compromise on, they’re all anti-communists.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      I've got a friend who does speech pathology in a Houston suburb. Liberal as hell, but otherwise a genuinely goodhearted and decent person.

      Her first week on the job, the thing all her coworkers warned her of straight out of the gate was that she should expect to get sued by a parent. Parents would sue you for not giving their kids enough time. Or for giving them the wrong kind of therapy. Or for giving them too much attention (because then they'd be out of regular classes). Or for favoring another kid over their kid. Or for failing to fill out this or that form of arcane documentation. Or for not providing approval for this or that higher level of treatment.

      Every parent was scrambling to get their kids the most resources. And the most effective way to win this tug-of-war was to literally sue individual faculty members assigned to give your child that care.

      This is, admittedly, Texas. And the suburb is absolutely overflowing with PMCs, particularly lawyers, with far more money than sense. But I've got a few neighbors who are teachers. I've got friends who are teachers. And they all kinda confirm that the profession is an absolute shit-show statewide, because of how poorly everything is funded and managed. The faculty are absolutely shit on all the time as a matter of course, because shitting on faculty is the most efficient way to get your kid to the top of the pile.

      It's a textbook instance of the term "Kafkaesque".

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        And they all kinda confirm that the profession is an absolute shit-show statewide nationwide

        Almost all of the cool teachers at my highschool quit all at once and it's not better anywhere else...just worse

        It actually worries the fuck out of my because I have to wonder what the cumulative effect of all this is going to be. No one is having kids, and the ones that are popped go straight into an anti human meatgrinder with zero resources to cope unless they're booooooj. It's going to create superpredators with like, fins and shark teeth. It's going to create socialist superpredators (SSP), and a few Aryan Apex Animals (AAA)

        it's bad :doomjak:

        • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Probably gonna create more fascists since we’re all atomized and only get our political ideas from media now, the vast majority of which is owned or influenced by the capitalist class.

          • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, unironically. Fascists are pretty good at spreading their ideas through memes and jokes and making it all seem like one big spectacle. This country is fucked lol, I want to leave but Mexico isn't much better, Spain has serious financial issues, and Chile also has fucked up shit going on. The rest of the EU is headed in the same direction as the USA.

            Probably just have to come to grips with being turned into a lampshade

            There was a guy on GETchan documenting the absolute fucking DELUGE of fascist agitprop proliferating on iFunny, a site popular with middle school kids. It's like non stop. Right wingers are all pedophile so they like to hang out on shit like Roblox too...

            • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              Right wingers are all pedophile so they like to hang out on shit like Roblox too…

              You know that's actually a really good observation. Especially with how many fash memes are made around kids games.

            • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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              3 years ago

              documenting the absolute fucking DELUGE of fascist agitprop proliferating on iFunny

              You have a link to this by chance? I need to shove it in all my lib friends' faces so they see how bad shit actually is.

              • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                I mean you'd be linking them to an obscure leftist 4chan clone so they'd probably think you were even more unhinged https://getchan.net/GET/res/1787.html

    • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Idk I feel like trying to convince people of anything nowadays is like screaming into the void. You have to compete with a million media sources saying the opposite. Maybe I’m just a defeatist

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They could have at least called it the

    Communism

    Ubiquitous

    Nimrods

    Teaching

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Get this, the bill is being sponsored by Rep. Maria Salazar. She's a daughter of gusanos and she was a news anchor in Miami. She was born in the US in 1961 and she went to some private school in Coral Gables. Given that if she was born in the US that close in time to the revolution, my guess is her parents were some rich landowners or bourgeoisie. Every single time with these people...

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    His speech is using Twitter and Reddit-tier examples. All the best hits! :stalin-feels-good:

    edit: And he's so perfectly hamfisted and has to shove his "racism isn't real" stuff in there, absolutely perfect rhetoric for radicalizing some more people. Although the bill itself would be negative.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's just making VoCMF materials available for teachers. For better or worse, the federal government can't really do anything about enforcing what's taught in schools. States on the other hand...

      • HamManBad [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oooh yes let's make high school kids examine the breakdown of the VoC's numbers. I feel like this is going to backfire spectacularly on them

        • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          It won't even get to that point. It'll be akin to the narrative on XJ where millions are just assumed out of thin air without evidence.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Shout out to the cool cats in the youtube comments who are big mad at their epic bacon marvel representative for signing some vaccination registry.