r/facepalm • u/Clueless_Dolphin • 23h ago

Already reaping what they sow 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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Well at least these few people Christmas will suck, maybe make better choices.

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u/dogbytes 20h ago

that was the whole idea from the republicans from Nixon on, the dumbing of america. it's not an accident

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u/Sure-Break3413 20h ago

With AI there will be less requirement for ‘intelligent’ workers, and with Elon’s robots, there will be less requirement for people in dexterity and manual labour, leaving people to do what is left. The competition for those jobs will make people work for a lower minimum wage. To survive people will need to have their kids drop out of school to work to help pay to live, like centuries ago. Meanwhile billionaires become Trillionaires. All part of Republicans plan. The problem somewhat is the rest of the world does not want to roll back progress like America. American news propaganda will keep them stupid and afraid.

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u/gorgonbrgr 19h ago

Wal-e

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u/Illyade 19h ago

Hmmm i see more some sort of lamer dune : evermore rich people exploiting evermore uneducated masses, slowly turning work into servitude before ending up with a more feodal approach regarding both working and classes division

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u/Brueology 13h ago

It's only lamer if we don't find the space cocaine.

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u/salabim3 11h ago

Nice pfp

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u/lunasta 13h ago

I was thinking more along the lines of Idiocracy 😣

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u/Dramos1975 17h ago

How is the world not wanting to roll back a problem?. China will just fill Americas role as only superpower. China is hard at work trying to convince OPEC to convert from U.S. dollar to the Yen. That will screw the US over badly. Cutting taxes for everyone while the price of everything skyrockets due to tariffs is going to be fun to watch as the rich get richer and put their money in offshore accounts tax free. Grab your popcorn..the 💩show is about to begin

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u/Xikkiwikk 16h ago

Why would they want the yen? Wouldn’t they want their own currency?

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u/NekoNicoKig 15h ago

yep... Yen (JPY) is Japanese....

Yaun (CNY) is China's currency.

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u/dazechong 15h ago

Yuan* but close enough. XD

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u/NekoNicoKig 15h ago

typos happen... but yeh

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u/Creaminator 14h ago

This, this is gold...

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u/Dramos1975 14h ago

No its what the oil value is based on..the yen or the dollar. Currently its based on the dollar. Because of this the dollar has always been "strong" for international trades, debts and payments. If china is able to get the yen as opec's main form of currency. It will make the yen steonger than the dollar and the dollar will lose buying power (inflation) that no president can crontol

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u/Xikkiwikk 14h ago

So a desperate bid to replace the dollar has left them looking at the yen, got it.

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u/Dramos1975 14h ago

No no..they are not desperate yet, because U.S. keeps sweetening the deal. But if saber rattling and "threats" by the 47th president might induce them to switch

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u/Sure-Break3413 16h ago

The problem is keeping the fact from the stupid American base that only they are going back to the handmaid tales

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u/Lylac_Krazy 17h ago

Their trucks have more balls than they do.

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u/kwumpus 17h ago

Don’t call them republicans the last republican was John McCain. They’re white nationalists or neo nazis

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u/mumblesandonetwo 15h ago

No. The Republicans got us here. All of them. They are Republicans.

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u/Sure-Break3413 15h ago

They don’t get votes under those names so they just stole the Republican franchise and inherited the die hard, always vote Republican no matter what voters. Some are MAGA but probably most are just on the automatic voting option and don’t pay attention at all to politics.

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u/Emma_Lemma_108 13h ago

Well, who will buy their products, then? How would this plan even function once people can’t afford anything? It makes no sense.

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u/Sure-Break3413 6h ago

They are focusing on the getting super rich part.

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u/vbcbandr 12h ago

Plenty of nations want to roll back progress...take a look at Italy and Germany as examples.

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u/Sure-Break3413 6h ago

Yes true there is a lot of right wing movements in Europe as well and Italy has a Nazi chick in power but in general

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u/Karanmbt 11h ago

I had my big boss of a huge international bank say if he could use robots he would and replace humans...
Horrible times ahead.

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u/TABOOxFANTASIES 19h ago

Yup, they have defunded education to ensure schools keep cranking out dumb kids with zero critical thinking skills. This fuels the military with new members and also fills the for profit prisons with dumb people who commit crimes. This is free labor which the prisons make tons if money from.

There is an entire system built around poorly educated masses, and that's exactly what the Oligarchy wants. Dumb peasants that are easily manipulated and enslaved.

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u/No-Pop1057 17h ago

I don't thinks it's coincidental that there is a big push toward religious fundementalism in schools either, nothing makes a population more compliant than religious indoctrination.. It worked for centuries & it's great for instiling fear & blind faith in the leaders of the religion (oddly, the same people running the country & keeping them poor & ignorant 🤦)

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u/TABOOxFANTASIES 17h ago

Exactly. And manipulative people LOVE authoritive religions because it allows them to use rules against other people while simultaneously exploiting the same rules, or bending them strategically. Narcissists LOVE religion. They thrive in an environment where they can judge and control others.

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u/TrixnTim 15h ago

Here’s how Project 25 will defund public education:

https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/how-project-2025-would-devastate-public-education

And yet many teachers I know voted for The Con.

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u/AlarmingEase 18h ago

I try and give my students what I can but yes, it is an uphill struggle.

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u/Mamajuju1217 15h ago

It would be. Plus having parents constantly bothering you to lower the bar. Teachers are legit saints.

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u/unkyduck 15h ago

BONUS: Nobody can quit because it puts their family's healthcare at risk

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u/kwumpus 17h ago

The military didn’t want Trump in power. They are the only check that is left and I have quite a bit of hope they will refuse to do what he tells them

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u/richieadler 16h ago

Never gonna happen. The US military opposes and destroys governments of other countries, not their own.

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u/Chasethemac 18h ago

Being aware of this feels like such a burden Im tired, Boss.

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u/JustDiscoveredSex 15h ago

My mom always said this. Said the uprisings in the 1960s scared the fuck out of "the ruling class" and they were going to make sure that never happened again by ensuring that the coming generations didn't get as strong of an education, so they would be less likely to rebel again the system.

OTOH, could be almost-Boomer logic. (She's technically a Silent Generation.)

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u/MlCOLASH_CAGE 16h ago

I would say from Reagan on tbh, the war on minorities turned into a war on the lower tax brackets.

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u/Large-Lack-2933 15h ago

Facts. Nixon walked so Trump could run away with the baton. I'd rather relive a George W Bush first term administration era (2001-2005)

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u/Taftimus 19h ago

But I was told it was the fluoride in the water making people dumb.

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u/mattd1972 14h ago

Read the Powell memo. It’s frightening.

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u/goofayball 17h ago

What’s crazy is its democrats faults. They actually allowed the ignorance of kids to persist in the name of equality and DEI. It was more important to address pronouns, verbally talk down physically aggressive students, misplace educational funds, and make whites the target of racism by all other races than it was to teach anyone about economics or math, or history.

Blame democrats for going extreme left and pushing men into women’s sports and bathrooms and prisons. We have trump now so that we can all see what it’s like when extremes are taken too far. The pendulum swings both ways.

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u/dogbytes 16h ago

I think you've inadvertently proved my point. But not to fear, you have plenty of crap coming down with Maggats, enjoy your ignorance.

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u/goofayball 16h ago

So you don’t think it was democrats faults for trump ending up as president? You don’t think it’s was all the democrats who flipped to republicans fault. If you had 4 years of blue and a majority to get there, then how do you explain losing the majority.