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[–] [email protected] 164 points 9 months ago (46 children)

It's amazing how dumb this entire situation is. To my knowledge she hasn't even publicly endorsed a candidate or political party, right? Just suggested her fans register to vote?

[–] [email protected] 190 points 9 months ago (16 children)

Republicans understand that demographics are against them, and their only chance is to whip their base into a froth while simultaneously making it harder for Others to vote.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Ding ding ding

Just like it is every election season. Republicans rely on the electoral vote, propaganda, and systematic diseducation (idk if that’s even a word, case in point?) to ensure victories over the populace

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

"Education" is from Latin "educ" which means "lead out". The reverse would be to lead in, which is "ducere in". So if you want to make a new but old-fashioned word, I suggest "ducereination" or because the "e-i"" syllables are uncomfortable to say and would have likely been dropped over time, "ducerination". The "c" might be pronounced as an "s" or as a "k" depending on how the word would have evolved since ancient times, but I prefer a "k" sound (which I think is the wrong one according to Google) so it sounds like the "c" in "education".

Note that I don't know Latin.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know a goddamn thing about Latin grammar, but it looks like you could follow the etymology of "education" more closely. The "educ" part is itself derived from "ex ducere", so we could probably have "inducation"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Y'all. Did you have your coffees this morning?

There's already an organically evolved etymologically rich word for the "passing of closed thinking", that harkens back to "leading in" or Inducing...

Indoctrination.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

lol, great point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the right only agree that indoctrination exists when it's colleges indoctrinating people into free-thought which they call being woke. Say that word to them and they'll be like "rubber, glue, you" because that's about as many syllables as the average right-winger can muster, and about as intelligent a complete thought as I expect from them as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I guarantee you they’ll feel the same way if you say ducerination or inducation. Words they don’t understand are inherently an attack, just like woke, which originally meant someone or something that was championing the rights of people in modern times

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably because so many people make fun of their education system

Why be angry with the root cause of your problem when you have so many branches that look close enough to a root

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Which is the goal. Defund public education. Fund private education. Both for profit but also to ensure that only the wealthy can actually pay for a “good” education and keep up the class divide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Let’s use miseducation then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

If you go with educere, you probably want to use inducere, which accidentally is the root of actual words

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It is a word now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Misinformation: Untrue or misleading information. Anyone can fall victim to it. Even the smartest among us can be misinformed.

Disinformation: Intentionally untrue or misleading information. This is information that is targeted towards people who are most likely to fall victim to it: Suckers

If you're watching a show/video and the advertisements are mostly bullshit things like supplements, (legal) drugs, and/or weight loss products the show/video you're watching is made for suckers. The folks selling these things know their marks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

See I didn’t like how that one fit, and it’s not that they’re outright feeding bad information (some are, sure) but that they withhold that info (I.e. banning books, taking whole curriculums straight up out (black history, us military history as related to global behavior in and out of war), etc

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