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"His immigration crackdown will create jobs"???
How stupid are these people? Even if all the immigrants disappeared tomorrow, do they think that bottom level jobs are suddenly going to be paying a living wage?
Someone explain it to me, please.
Any minute now
Ok. Here’s it how it works. Let me break it down for you in this one part answer.
They aren’t intelligent.
Yeah, it'll open up opportunities to pick lettuce in Salinas in 100-degree heat for sub-minimum wage.
Imagine a bag of rusty hammers. Now imagine someone who's nowhere near that intelligent.
Someone here recently reminded me that a surprising amount of Americans are functionally illiterate. 21%!
I doubt that critical thinking skills are much better. And while I keep seeing lots of copium/hopium about how "the kids" (pick virtually any generation under boomers, I guess?) have it all figured out because, well, reasons, and that if boomers could just die off already everything will be magically better.
I see no reason to believe any of that, given how education systems have been under attack for decades, and I don't see an orchestrated, systemic effort to educate millions of children and adults about media literacy and critical thinking - now we have to add in things like narrow-casting, algorithms and filter bubbles. Without a concerted effort to counter it, I suspect entire generations have already been lost, and will probably do even worse than prior ones.
When people claim that somehow the younger generations are going to do better at literacy (including media) and critical thinking than every generation prior, while education has been steadily chipped away at for decades by the cons...well, the math ain't mathing, to put it rather bluntly. The cons have been working at exactly the opposite outcome.
Well, the thing about dismantling the Department of Education is somehow even stupider.
Oh, no. They all think they're going to be the ones pulling the triggers on the immigrants lined up in front of the mass graves.
They just know they can't really easily say it.