The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year.

  • @foggy
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    119 hours ago

    It benefits wealthy oligarchs.

    Someone get me a blue shell. angry_luigi.jpg

    • @thebestaquaman
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      17 hours ago

      I just can’t see how an incompetent (and thereby less productive) populace benefits the oligarchs, other than the whole thing about wanting people to be easier to manipulate.

      I mean, if the country has fewer competent people, businesses relying on competence will eventually start hurting. That obviously includes these people’s companies, which are the source of their all-important wealth.

      • @[email protected]
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        76 hours ago

        My guess is because we’re at the capitalism end game. Wealth inequality is to high, to have a functioning capitalistic society money needs to flow, and its not.

        So now they want to extract the last amount of wealth before everything falls apart in the hope of owning whatever arises from the ashes.

        • @thebestaquaman
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          12 hours ago

          It’s terrifying that this seems like a reasonable explanation

          • @[email protected]
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            121 minutes ago

            It’s crony capitalism and exactly how Russia operates. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. If you don’t play ball fuck you.