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[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Bullshit. There's more propaganda online.

ADHD is the true anarchist spirit.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

oof, only propaganda i remember from school in finland was about milk consumption(in favour). they even put posters about it to classrooms. I suppose it didnt bite into me that hard since i often forget to use milk carton before it rots and dont even buy milk that often because of it.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago

See also: aphantasia!

Not visualizing myself with or for a product has likely helped a ton.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago

Same with Autism, I will hyperfixate Rome, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany and I will call out the similarities between them and the United States. I also got into a verbal fight with some kid in middle school because I wasn't going to play nice with his creationism BS unlike the teacher who danced around it, the only reason he didn't attack me was because I would probably throw him around like a ragdoll.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Joke's on me; I totally locked in on that shit and even made some pro-propaganda student films!

Few things teach you humility like a friend finally breaking through to you and shattering your glass bubble of misinformation. Especially when your personality and morals are completely at odds with your foundational beliefs that were built up by authority figures. I was that kid who would hang out with unhoused people and try to help them with shit because everybody deserves a friend, but I wouldn't give them money because I was taught that poor people don't know how to manage their money or spend it all on drugs.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Our highschool finance teacher would randomly stop the class to ralk about how communism killed more people than Nazis because of North Korea.

He was normally a basketball coach but teacher shortage I guess? Weird experience overall. He would try arguing with students not standing up to the pledge too.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

got expelled for not showing up. showed me how to work the system

[–] Dohnuthut@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

My 3rd grader informed us in 1st grade that he opted to not participate in the pledge of allegiance (does so respectfully) because we have discussed how the US doesn't take care of people (his words). He was even more frustrated when a substitute kept going on about how we're the greatest country in the world and have all these freedoms.

[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance because I was hyperfixated on the Eragon books and it seemed too similar to swearing loyalty to Galbatorix.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Same, except I read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. She seemed to have the right idea about a lot of things. Eragon definitely solidified it.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

I had forgotten about that, it was such a surreal book.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

it's literal brainwashing. Americans laugh at the NK people having to praise Dear Daddy, but then every morning in school, they cite the pledge of allegiance. Why would you want to be allied with one of the worst countries in modern history? Fuck that.

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[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When I was in the third grade, I had a teacher tell me it was okay we pushed the natives off the land because we made more efficient use of it, and could therefore carry a greater population.

In the previous grade the teacher passed around a worksheet, and we had to choose which jobs were most suited to what gender.

Oh what a glorious whitebread bublefuck town I grew up in!

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What the hell? Didn't that teacher got fired or anything?

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Lol that teacher was pretty much par for the course as far as rural 90's education goes.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Fuck no. Teachers are in such short supply that they aren't looking for reasons to fire them, just pay them less.

Besides, every state creates their own curriculum. It's possible that's the state's official take on the Native American Genocide. After all, for over 150 years, southern schools have been teaching that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, it was about the states rights to decide their own fates, without interference from the aggressive north. They teach this despite the evidence of their own state constitutions of the era, which all mention the protection of slavery right at the beginning, as well as the Confederate "Declaration of Independence," which puts the blame squarely on Slavery. They've spent 150 years OFFICIALLY teaching an alternative lie.

So that Native America explanation might well be an official government position in your state.

[–] johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

My favorite thing to point to when someone says the civil war was about states rights is to point out the fugitive slave act. They didn't want the federal government to get involved in slavery unless it was in their favor .

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

"Sure it was about State's Rights. The States Rights to own slaves."

That's the truth, and it's literally in their State Constitutions. If someone is spewing that nonsense, Google it, and read it to them, because they probably can't read.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Most likely that teacher is the wife of the pastor or sister of the mayor or some shit and thus invulnerable

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

My second grade teacher taught us the civil war was because of a disagreement over state's rights.

The same teacher marked me and a few other students down for completing a subtraction assignment using negative numbers. She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn't do it.

Edit: I forgot one! My third grade teacher marked me down for not knowing how much a hen weighed. It wasn't a joke. Apparently there was a rule of thumb for estimating chicken weight. Any kids who weren't raised on a farm missed the question.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 19 hours ago

She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn't do it.

That is astonishing.

The most incredible case of teacher malpractice I've ever heard of, came from my son. He was in college, taking a film class, which is my son's expertise. He's a deep film guy, for real. He could literally teach it, so he doesn't tolerate nonsense from bad film teachers.

So this teacher showed a clip of The Color Purple, and proceeded to criticize all of Stephen Spielberg's artistic choices, painting him as a hack. Spielberg isn't my son's favorite director, but he respects his talent. He doesn't believe that Spielberg is a hack.

But a stupid conclusion wasn't the problem. The problem was that the clip the teacher used to illustrate Spielberg's poor directing, was taken from the terrible remake of it, which wasn't directed by Spielberg. The teacher criticized Spielberg, using a movie Spielberg hadn't directed. And it turned out that the teacher hadn't known there were two versions of The Color Purple, nor that there was a musical, either.

This was in a COLLEGE film class. My son was disgusted, and I thought it was unforgivable, and told him to report the incident, but he didn't. He just pledged to never waste another course on that professor.

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

my mom didn't want me playing pokemon because it "taught evolution"

[–] SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] grandma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

This idea made it to the netherlands as well

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Its weird cuz evolution in Pokemon is more akin to metamorposes or even just basic puberty except theres sometimes 1 extra step XD

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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

God it's funny when your brain not working right accidentally prevents certain issues. I'm immune to getting addicted to MMOs, my brain can't handle the slow dopamine distribution.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair , MMOs aren't fun because of gameplay, they are fun because of the social aspects.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

which ironically have diminished greatly in mmos

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the golden era of MMOs was ~2007. It's been getting worse since then.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

at least there are still some gems appearing occasionally; project gorgon for one in my opinion at least. gloria victis was/is also pretty decent, star citizen is mixed opinion for me, but definitely above wow or other generic mmo games.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

A friend of mine got me to play an MMO a ling time ago, made it 30 minuts, fuck was it boring.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

Unless it's RuneScape, which offers a wealth of extremely repetitive tasks!

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I feel bad that I wore the free D.A.R.E. propaganda shirts in school because my family was too poor to get me decent clothing.

I know a lot of adults that wore them ironically, so maybe you were just ahead of your time.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

Naw. Wear that shit with pride, then take a Snoop-level rip from a bong.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

Drugs ARE Really Expensive, though. So, is it propaganda, or truth in advertising..? 🤔

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most propaganda is aimed at neurotypical wiring. We are out of tune with it, that gives us a measure of protection.

It's one of the worries I have with AI. While I think we are more protected from propaganda than most (since we constantly want to poke at the crack in a story), we are not immune. It's perfectly possible to shape it to effect us. They just haven't bothered, since we are a small target. AI makes that a lot easier to do, so we will see more of it.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

considering how certain people seem to get to the point of psychosis from llm usage, i dread the day the corporations start utilizing this fully. it would probably be possible to completely brainwash someone vulnerable to do ANYTHING with llm as long as they are receptive to it.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (6 children)

So that’s why my fifth grade teacher hated me. Because I was too smart for her lazy bullshit lessons. 😂

Did anyone else ace the assignments without paying any attention to the lectures?

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

Constantly in highschool. If you count a lazy 85% without really lifting a finger as "acing," that is.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah. It’s one of the reasons I wasn’t diagnosed until my 30s.

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