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Trump advisers weigh actions to dismantle education department – report (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Summary

Trump is considering executive actions to dismantle the Department of Education, following Elon Musk’s push to slash government spending.

Officials are discussing shutting down non-statutory functions or moving them to other agencies. Dozens of employees were placed on leave under Trump’s order banning diversity programs.

Trump, who promised to eliminate the department, awaits Senate confirmation of Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon.

While Congress must approve agency closures, Trump’s team may replicate its aggressive approach used against USAID.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was homeschooled. Because my idiotic bio-mom was convinced I would be taught things that would impact my religious development(she's a psycho, and there's unfortunately much more, but I'm leaving it at "she has a life long battle with the devil and she lost."

  1. If we allow the education department to go away there WILL be more kids like me, entering the world with no damn clue, allowed to vote and doing it based entirely off lies. I voted for Bush Jr the first time, I would never be caught dead doing that now that I have real world knowledge and experience.
  2. The Republican's at least got it to work on me once, how well is it gonna work on your neighbors kids that don't have any friends and aren't allowed to play out of view of their parent even if it is daylight still? What happens once they are voting age?
  3. It actually does take a village, and by killing children's education they are effectively killing the village system we have setup to ensure the children of this countries future. Reading, writing, and Arithmetic, religion has no place in your child's public education, the bible ain't gonna help them fix a copier, or solve why the printers are printing gibberish, or how to balance a budget,in fact, unless you are breading animals (which the bible oddly has specific instructions on), then the bible has NO answers. None. Vague references to situations that have little to NO bearing on the real world. It's why I can't stand people that "trust in god"... Bitch I'll trust in my my own experience and YouTube videos to show me how to exactly solve my situation, Bible ain't never had nothing on that level of usefulness, maybe propping up a table leg...
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Are you me? 100% agreed man. Same here, voted for Dubaya the first time, and took a while to get deprogrammed from the homeschooled/religious bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

The noise is deafeningly loud, the flush of everything down the drain.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How do we get the rest of the country to recognize what is going on here? Does no one else feel a sense of panic at what is happening here?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We spent months trying to warn people of what would be going on here. Trump spent months promising his base that this is exactly what would be going on here. And voters said "Yes, I'd like more of that, please."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

No, we spent years.

Years.

Many have been pointing this out since 2016.

And people went screaming back for more.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump spent his entire campaign saying he was going to do crazy and stupid shit. He highlighted that he wanted the DOE shutdown. This is what the country voted for. I am astonished and disappointed but the truth is that the majority of Americans that voted were too dumb to care (best case) or possibly just really into fascism (possible case).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

or possibly just really into fascism (possible case).

Not or. And.

Go back and watch some of the news reports covering Trump rallies. There were plenty of people openly saying that they wouldn't mind having a "strongman" dictator in charge. Women saying that they shouldn't have the right to vote. The "Your body, my choice" incels. Lawmakers asking why we even have elections and that we should "give the votes to Trump because he's going to win anyway."

The fascism is being openly requested and welcomed with thundering applause.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Exactly. Trump may be evil, but he would never have gotten where he is today without about half of the population actively supporting him.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but what can I do about it personally? You'd need a million people to march on Washington D.C. for anybody to notice at this point.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which will be totally meaningless and completely ignored if everybody just goes back to business as usual February 6th.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I feel your first comment too. What can 1 person do? Honestly not much imo. And these strikes haven't accomplished much since its business as usual they day after lol. I dont use amazon, i dont get things delivered to the house, i try to shop local, etc.

People might call this a "negative attitude" but have you seen what's going on? It's pretty god damn negative. I think it's ok to feel a sense of dread and hopelessness, it's ok to feel all the emotions. But the insanely tricky part is figuring out how to express those emotions in a constructive way.

I've always talked about a making a veggie garden in my backyard, maybe doing that will help me feel less shitty about food prices going up. Just an example I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It's a start. Protests can get people connected and involved and build towards more effective action.

[–] echutaaa 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’ve seen a lot of peaceful protest in my life, and it’s never changed a damn thing. Unless ppl want to start fighting for it I’ve written the country off

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Then it seems you are younger than 40 years old. Because the fall of the socialist bloc in east europe was achieved by peaceful protests.

Edit: I do not mean that I think peaceful protest alone will save the USA, but it's the start. If that doesn't change enough things, then you start the non peaceful protest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only because the cops wouldn't fire on them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

So you would say they were... peaceful?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I'd suggest you don't reject imperfect action while you wait for something better. The more people who show at a protest, the stronger the message to everyone that they are not alone in resisting. Just being there won't change things immediately, but it will add momentum to the resistance by encouraging and emboldening people, and that's an essential step.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If i didn't have a 9-5, I honestly would drive the hour to the capital of my state and protest. Might even drive the other 2.5 to D.C. Nothing short of overwhelming backlash is this going to stop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Request the day off? I understand there might be more to your situation but just having a 9-5 seems like an exceptionally lazy excuse considering the position of your country.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately this is why the capitalist oligarchs have insured we do not have universal healthcare. If we lose our job we lose our healthcare. So we can’t protest in fear of losing our lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Lucky me, my company just did an audit of my hours from last month and decided I didn't work enough to qualify for health care.

I guess I got nothing to lose in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, okay. That explains it really well and is so fucked. I'm sure you don't need to be told that though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not everyone has the luxury. Nothing about a 9-5 preventing them being there is “exceptionally lazy”. It’s a reality people face. Especially when everything’s about to skyrocket here in price. Job security is kinda important too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Hence the reason I started my response with acknowledgement of possible other factors. If the only reason is having a 9-5 though... Take one (1) day off. You're walking into a dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not from the US but yes, a more or less constant feeling of dread since November

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Lucky! Somehow I feel like Iran would be more welcoming right now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm fucking terrified and am spiraling while wondering what role I'm going to play in the modern Nazi regime. I also spend a lot of time trying to distract myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If they get what they want, it'll be magnitudes worse than the Nazis. They have mass surveillance devices absolutely everywhere, the entire world pretty much runs on American software from American tech giants, there are American military bases pretty much everywhere, etc. We're absolutely not ready for what's to come.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

The Republican Party is the enemy of the people. No other way to put it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The irony being you have to be a complete idiot to be on the side that thinks withholding, dismantling, or removing education is a good idea. Wanting to change the curriculum is one thing. Dismantling it just makes you look evil. There is no positive light you could possibly put this in.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They've convinced a ton of people that education is an indoctrination program, especially education beyond high school. It's not hard to convince someone something is true if you blast it on their favorite news channel 24/7

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Also, that children don't deserve to eat if their parents can't afford it