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    For those who are wondering if this picture is real or not, I couldn’t say. But I have seen a fair share of misspellings and bad grammar written on trucks about similar sentiments in Nevada (seeing where the license in the picture belongs to). The take away of this is that usually there is a correlation between education and conspiracies (believing in misinformation), and it’s a very real, serious issue in this country.

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      Wait. You mean to tell me that giving kids terrible educations…makes them more susceptible to being stupid assholes?

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        Somebody should let the GOP know so they stop trying to defund education! Surely they wouldn’t want entire generations of people growing up to be ignorant, conspiracy believing assholes with no critical thinking skills!

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      More specifically, we don’t really teach source analysis in a lot of schools anymore. I’ve run into college students who have no idea of how to discern that a source is bullshit - especially if the site or source looks well-polished and sounds like it knows what it’s talking about. Even a lot of Q people have figured out that the best way to draw people in is to look and sound professional, not just ranting into a camera in your truck cabin - you need a nice backdrop, and probably a polo shirt at minimum.

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        Right!?

        When Republicans were initially investingating the 2020 election in Georgia, they called in a “forensic imaging specialist” who said that they would be able to determine which ballots were fabricated. I got a lot of flack for questioning the guy’s credentials online, but literally his biggest accomplishment in life was inventing a crappy barcode scanner shaped like a cat, and it was a huge flop.

        r/conservative was adamant that this dunce was going to overturn the election in Georgia…

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    “Covet 19 are rights vacations have been mandeats are taken away killing us in the Land of Free.”

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      Add a dash of oil and a sprinkle of crushed almonds to that masterpiece and you’ve got yourself one tasty word salad. Yum yum.

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    Oh my god it took me forever to realize that “Are rights have been taken away” contained a grammar error. I need more sleep.

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    Not exactly a rave review of the American educational system.

    No wonder European countries don’t accept US high school diplomas as sufficient for acceptance into a college or university.

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      No wonder European countries don’t accept US high school diplomas as sufficient for acceptance into a college or university.

      1. Yes, they do. I have been to two.

      2. At least in my country, the highschools are not exactly good. Many students get ~30% attendance. On top of that, there aren’t enough highschool slots for students, so poorer performing students can’t go to highschool or have to pay for private school.

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        Yes, they do. I have been to two.

        There may be some countries. But I know the Scandinavian countries will not accept US diplomas without the student passing extra testing that others don’t have to go through.

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        Yes, they do. I have been to two.

        There may be some countries. But I know the Scandinavian countries will not accept US diplomas without the student passing extra testing that others don’t have to go through.

        It’s possible that’s for a full program. You may be able to take individual classes or certs with a US diploma.

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          There may be some countries.

          I’ve never encountered any country that didn’t accept US diplomas, or rather treated them any different than any other non-EU diploma.

          It’s possible that’s for a full program.

          I am talking about full bachelor’s programs.

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            I’ve never encountered any country that didn’t accept US diplomas, or rather treated them any different than any other non-EU diploma.

            One example is Denmark where a US highschool diploma is only considered under quota 2, which means you have to have other merits than just the highschool diploma. It could be additional testing and relevant work experience.

            Diplomas from most other countries are considered under quota 1, which looks at the diploma only.

            There are many other countries with similar rules.

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    I saw this type of manifesto on a brand new Yukon the other day in the Hobby Lobby parking lot. It was all cut vinyl lettering, nice contrast of color against the shiny black paint. It was honestly surreal, and could be an untapped market for the folks at Cricut.

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          It’d be fun, but I don’t think you’re supposed to tell potential customers that you think they’re nuts before they order anything, unfortunately.

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            You assume they could figure out that you’d be making fun of them. I think they probably lack the critical thinking and self-awareness for it to matter.

            I’ve said many times that I can’t get rich off of stuff like this because I have a soul and wouldn’t be able to be ok with parting fools from their money. That might be you, too.

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              Yup. I could make all sorts of money if I was just willing to have the morals of a disney villan. Scamming people is so easy and theres a lot of ways where you can do it so your victim will even fight tooth and nail to convince everyone else that they aren’t actually being scammed.