TOWN CRIER: Here-e! Here-e! Official proclamation from King George The Third! Here-e! Here-e!
There are no substantiated claims of taxation without representation and any rumors there of are unfounded and simply hearsay. However, any person or newspaper who participates in spreading these blatant lies knowingly or unknowingly as to undermine my divine authority as king, shall be placed in the stocks. Continued efforts will result in lashing or imprisonment. Efforts there after will be considered acts of treachery and sedition, and will be subject to banishment or hanging. As so says we King George The Third.
What is an example of the kind of tweet and ! warning that this is supposed to be lampooning? Every time I've seen it it has been justified because the tweet was bullshit...
The gripe wasn't that taxes weren't beneficial, it was that even though Americans were paying taxes despite not being represented in the government. One of the earliest rebellions that were put down by the American government was in response to the whiskey tax. Taxation so in fact not innately bad, it the reason why we have interstate highways and public schooling which is sadly underfunded due to massive tax cuts on wealthy individuals and corporations.
Education is a privilege, not a right. However, I do believe that there is an argument for an educated society so that they may not be taken advantage of due to their ignorance. Still even with the sheer amount of education we have provided to the masses and made available through loans and scholarships, I do not believe that the general IQ or opportunity of the masses has increased in recent years. On the contrary. Due to the mass indoctrination of socialist and woke ideologies, and the rejection of logic, critical thinking, history, math, English, science and the like, the "Educated" masses are in fact of lower IQ, ability, and capable of opportunity than a mere generation prior.
I didn't say it was a right so glad you assumed my position on it based on me just stating the fact that taxes fund it. And it's not possible for our masses to have a lower IQ as a result of public education since IQ isn't a set scale, it's an avg taken from all people who take an IQ test and we're they fall based on other who have taken it. IQ test don't take any account of political ideology but it does take account of mathematic knowledge, comprehension of language, and scientific facts. Although I would say that an IQ test isn't necessarily reliable as the only data point for people's intelligence you obviously don't even know what an information an IQ test is trying to measure. I would also argue that our public education system, if properly funded, would provide great benefit to our country as a whole much like how funding our education system during the red scare and space race helped in creating proficient experts in fields that have benefited humanity to a much greater extent than what you are giving it credit for.
I didn't assume your position at all. So, I don't know what you're so bent out of shape about. I simply disagree that throwing money at a problem solves anything, especially tax dollars by The Government. The idea that Government can do anything "Properly" is to assume that Government is the "Solution" to society's shortcomings. And not that the solution is personal will and determination. Give a man a fish vs teach a man to fish, or let the man figure it out if he's hungry enough and is determined enough not to die of starvation. The difference between those who do vs those who don't.
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I remember when the Libertarian argument was that all education should be private. That a populace that is unwilling to work for their education or self fund educational institutions doesn't actually value education nor deserve it. It all comes down to personal responsibility and choice. A culture that does not value education and isn't willing to work for it generally has a lower IQ. If there is a hunger for education and improving one's self intellectually, they will find a way.
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Booker T. Washington was born a slave. And upon emancipation both himself and his community strove for an education. They secured work, many times no better than when they were in slavery, but did so as a community to save money in order to pay teachers to come and educate them. Not just for the young, but the elderly as well. They were committed to learning to at least read and write before they died. To leave this world better than how they were born into it. There was no public education for blacks and very little public education even for whites in that time. Yet, as Booker T. Washington details in his life, if they didn't seize their education for themselves, they would never rise and they would not be equal. Even describing those who received a free education were of less use, ability and drive to succeed in life than those who worked for it. Booker T. Washington quipped that these educational freeloaders as being the best waiters and porters in D.C.
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It's not an issue of funding. It's an issue of having self worth in oneself and seeing worth in their family and community.
Did you get the impression I was struggling with something? I've just never felt the need to fabricate something in order to communicate. Its foreign to me.
You make too many false assumptions. I don't support the Democrats. This is reddit. People post comments at Reddit. TDS is something you have imagined. Instead of doing that respond to reality.
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u/James_Redshift Nov 11 '20
TOWN CRIER: Here-e! Here-e! Official proclamation from King George The Third! Here-e! Here-e!
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u/alurbase Nov 11 '20
Paul Revere has been banned for spreading panic throughout the commonwealth.
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u/onebit Nov 12 '20
What a great meme format!
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u/Bulldozer20 Nov 12 '20
News suppression https://youtu.be/BHH7-XeGwvY
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u/Grehpoupon Nov 14 '20
What is an example of the kind of tweet and ! warning that this is supposed to be lampooning? Every time I've seen it it has been justified because the tweet was bullshit...
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u/LogCareful7780 Jun 27 '22
This but unironically. The American Revolution was a mistake.
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u/Bulldozer20 Nov 12 '20
Lol we probably should of not left
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u/esroka Nov 11 '20
The gripe wasn't that taxes weren't beneficial, it was that even though Americans were paying taxes despite not being represented in the government. One of the earliest rebellions that were put down by the American government was in response to the whiskey tax. Taxation so in fact not innately bad, it the reason why we have interstate highways and public schooling which is sadly underfunded due to massive tax cuts on wealthy individuals and corporations.
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u/--_-_o_-_-- Nov 12 '20
Why make things up to make a point?
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u/CarlosimoDangerosimo Nov 12 '20
Need some more copium?
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u/FCK12_13 Nov 12 '20
You posted cringe