• @PizzaMan
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    21 year ago

    This is why liberals look confused to people. They scream we want to be more like Europe then scream when we want to be more like Europe.

    This is a strawman. Quit trying to put words in my mouth.

    If a community is under funded then it’s that community fault.

    Not really. There are housing developers and real estate orgs that intentionally destroy neighborhood housing value for their own profit. The lower house prices mean that local schools go underfunded because of how property tax is tied to school funding.

    https://www.americanprogress.org/article/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting

    https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/blockbusting/

    On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can’t bear the burden.

    Tax them more but don’t tax me to pay for other areas.

    Fuck that. No school should be left behind because of some made up failure to pull up bootstraps that don’t exist.

    Piss away your vote if you like, but I’m going to vote to keep society educated. I don’t want to live in a world of uneducated assholes, especially considering how big of a factor education is in crime rates.

      • @PizzaMan
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        21 year ago

        The local communities can vote a tax in.

        I already addressed that:

        “On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can’t bear the burden.”

        It’s not my job to pay another schools upkeep. I

        I can’t fathom why somebody would want higher crime rates. Failing to educate the public leads to higher crime rates.

        Republicans truly are the party of crime.

          • @PizzaMan
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            21 year ago

            we just keep them incarcerated.

            How very freedom. We are number one in prisoners per capita. Land of the Free my ass.

            Any system that intentionally increases crime, prisoners per capita, and cost is a bad system. There are alternatives that reduce all three. But it requires everyone investing in education.

              • @PizzaMan
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                21 year ago

                Nobody is intentionally increasing crime

                Republicans and people like you are trying to destroy education. And that leads to higher crime rates.

                So ultimately you’re saying you want higher crime rates.

                  • @PizzaMan
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                    21 year ago

                    Republicans are trying to destroy education by siphoning money away from already underfunded schools. Y’all aren’t trying to fix it. You’re just focusing on culture war bullshit.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                If they they want better education. Pay for it. It’s that simple. It’s not my job to pay for everyone’s education. I pay for the education in my area.

                I mean, I’m no deontologist…but what do you think would happen if everyone believed this?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    21 year ago

                    Would they pay for their own education? But yeah, weighing the consequences of a bunch of ignorant people running around is important, too.