Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success?
from Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 16:04
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Nemo@slrpnk.net on 03 Jul 16:18 next collapse

If MAHA has their way, the path to success is bootlicking Glorious Leader with pulling up our own bootstraps to stomp on the underclass.

They’re not conservatives. They want to conserve nothing. They seek only to destroy anything in the way of their own power, like all fascists.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 03 Jul 16:25 next collapse

Loyalty to the leader, and implicitly knowing whom to ratfuck to climb the ladder.

Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jul 16:29 collapse

Ok, true and thats always been behind the veil of conservatism but is that what they will tell their children?

What virtue will they signal?

Will they abandon the actual tools they need to build a modern society?

I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 18:04 collapse

Pretty much just racism. Replace “colored man” with the minority of the day and there you go.

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

Nomad@infosec.pub on 04 Jul 04:22 collapse

Usually veiled in religion. Also the American dream, work your way up instead of investing into education.

goofus@lemmy.today on 03 Jul 16:32 next collapse

Con Artistry

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 16:41 next collapse

To look at a historical analogue:

The system of government was formed whereby leading Nazi officials were forced to interpret Hitler’s speeches, remarks and writings on government policies and turn them into programs and legislation. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated them verbally, or had them conveyed through his close associate, Martin Bormann. He entrusted Bormann with his paperwork, appointments, and personal finances; Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. Hitler’s cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.

Hitler’s leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have “the stronger one [do] the job”. In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.

The process allowed more unscrupulous and ambitious Nazis to get away with implementing the more radical and extreme elements of Hitler’s ideology, such as antisemitism, and in doing so win political favour. It was protected by Joseph Goebbels’ effective propaganda machine, which portrayed Hitler as a heroic and infallible leader. Further, the government was portrayed as a dedicated, dutiful and efficient outfit. Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany’s states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue.

stoly@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 17:47 next collapse

The MAGA types used to talk about an education when it was a way to insult people who make the minimum wage and make it their fault that they were underpaid. They didn’t actually want peoples’ lives to be better, but rather to find a way to look down on entire classes of humans.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 04 Jul 07:59 collapse

they are also trying to deflect attention about themselves, when they look down on "poorly educated: they are talking about themselves, but they add in a little racism, and you got another demographic that is generally very poorly well off as a people. its like “look over here, instead of us”

JigglySackles@lemmy.world on 03 Jul 19:43 next collapse

It’s more like a bucket of crabs. They don’t care to see others rise up.

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works on 04 Jul 04:16 collapse

Unless one crab gets lucky in the crypto casino, then they all laud the success.

Lottery based economy… that’s so fucked

JigglySackles@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 14:34 collapse

Just pregaming for those post apocalyptic YA murder games

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 04:34 next collapse

Licking Trump’s ass clean.

Bwaz@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 04:37 next collapse

Having ones lips firmly mounted onto a certain large ass.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 04 Jul 07:57 next collapse

in maga times, its only and solely grifting now. see which one can podcast better and compete with the likes of shapiro, tucker, crowder, loomer, poole,etc, you know you made it when russia is paying your services in that area. they never boasts about Higher ed they hate it and almost always called i liberal propaganda indoctrination centers , maybe the rich ones do, also being religiously and conservatives makes them incompitable with higher education in non-religious areas. when i was in CComunity, our gen bio teacher said she had a student that was answering every question as “GOD” and she spoke with that student and said she likely wasnt going to continue higher education because of it, contradicting her beliefs.

Semester3383@lemmy.world on 04 Jul 14:56 collapse

Cruelty and sociopathy.