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Cake day: January 13th, 2025

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  • Holy shit this could really work. If anyone can keep the cult of Trump alive, it’s another Trump. Think of the hero worship of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. MAGA wants to deify Trump in just the same manner. Trump will become the great “God Emperor of America” who will fight to keep the Democrats out of heaven or w/e, and Trump Jr will act as Kim Jong Il and take over ruling.

    It really depends on how quickly the old sack of shit actually dies. It’s meant to be the most stressful job in the world, and he’s back to unlimited mcdonalds. If it happens quickly, maybe the whole house of cards just collapses.









  • It really doesn’t seem that hard to just constantly disprove the lies they’re telling, over and over, until eventually the people who are still sane in this country understand what a non-issue the conservatives are freaking out over. I feel the same way about their “migrant crime” myth, which Democrats also immediately capitulated to and started campaigning on fixing despite crime statistics clearly demonstrating migrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than the general populace.

    It’s almost like standing up for their beliefs was never the goal, and they’ll just say whatever makes their corporate donors happy.


  • There already is, and there has been for many years. Students in blue states, on average, perform better on all standardized tests compared to students in red states. I’ve also seen some extremely suspect coursework being reported on these kids’ transcripts, like engineering coursework getting counted as a foreign language, or multiple years of Christian theology “electives” that every student suspiciously takes being given at public schools.

    In fact, the real issue is that this has been going on for so long, an entire generation of teachers were taught by these poor red state education systems. Now you have people who take pride in their illiteracy teaching freshmen U.S. history, to the exact effect that you’re imagining.

    Edit: Jfc, I just read a student’s essay from Virginia where they’re lamenting the fact their high school didn’t do any literary analysis of books, but instead analyzed Youtube videos and short poems. They’re not even teaching reading anymore. Sure, this student was motivated to go beyond their high school curriculum and focused on learning the classics themselves, but what about the other 446 students in their class?