Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s more that the system itself just leaves more and more children behind, as passing kids who aren’t actually making the grade has become the norm because parents are abusive and more apt to harass/harangue and schools are pressured with funding to make sure enough kids are graduating. Teachers themselves are left with few options and there’s still bright kids, they’re just waaaaay in the minority compared to the apparently teeming masses of absolute fuckwits.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always think of the George Carlin saying…

    "imagine how stupid the average person is… then realize half of all people are stupider than that. "

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hey, not ALL millennials are on the hook for this one!

    For instance, I never found anyone to love me, and have kids with. So THERE! You can’t blame ME for idiots today!

    …but also yes. Kids in the 90s, that I went to school with were fucking idiots. Including me.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If kids are dumb today, millennials are on the hook for it, boomers didn’t do this one.

    The bulk of older teenagers/college kids are from Gen X, not so much from millennials.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “There’s no educating a smart boy.”

  — Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time (Discworld, #26)

  GNU Sir Terry

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Probably the exception to the rule. I did as well, and constantly find myself at a loss for how it simply doesn’t occur to most people to stop and think about something for a split second as opposed to just impulsively doing whatever.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …well…

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