I'm excited. Are you excited?

    • 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