That is 100% what it is.

Republicans don’t get elected when the constituents are educated. So instead of changing their platform to align with educated opinions, they decided to dumb down the population.

They’ve been doing it for decades and it’s finally all coming to a head.

I’m a teacher and don’t see public schooling lasting more than 5 years.

Have you learned anything from these comments and responses you’ve gotten?

Like I need to know. I need to know if you’ve reflected at all.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1847252

This you?

Literally two comments ago you were making excuses.

The US has committed multiple genocides.

You were just indoctrinated by it’s propaganda to believe they haven’t.

Highlight of your day?

Do you think that could have just been jet lag?

I teach middle school. During the school year, I heard it two dozen times daily.

It’s getting tiresome already.

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Nowhere did I say I misunderstood.

The users were playing for the service tho.

They then created artificial barriers to charge more for the service.

They’ve been doing it consistently.

That’s just reiterating the same thing without expanding on it.

How could you explain it better for an argument then?

That feels like a scapegoat argument. That reduces down to “bad things happen when bad people do bad things.”

You can argue against anything when you say that.

"Dentists should be outlawed because some dentists have abused their clients " Isn’t a fair argument either.

Just because it has a chance to happen doesn’t mean it’s an inevitability.

Feels like an example of confirmation bias.

I’m not even saying I agree. I think privacy is important. I’m just playing devil’s advocate for the OPs question.

The couldn’t the person just cite all the times that hasn’t happened?

Age of Mythology was my shit growing up.