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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 63 points 1 year ago

What's the point of teaching children to deny climate change? So that they won't go and find a solution? Are they trying to eliminate human beings?

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

Let me guess....big oil is now lobbying for changes in our education so they can keep making money and ruining the planet

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

what good is money for if we all die

[-] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The world isn't going to die overnight, it's going to happen slowly, and it's already started. Failed crops, mass migration, water shortages, etc. The rich need to maintain the ability to influence policies like immigration to stretch out their miserable existance.

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The rich think they'll live in opulent bunkers.

It doesn't seem to occur to them that they'll be killed and eaten by their own security guards, once the collapse of civilization renders their money moot.

But we will all be dead by then.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I believe that they are direct funders of PragerU actually yes.

[-] RedditReject@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

A lot of these religious folks think the apocalypse can't get here great enough, so they are helping

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

doesn't make a lot of sense either - like, they're going to Heaven when they die or.if the rapture happens, so what's the rush?

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Fundies often expect the world to end any moment now and for Supply-Side Jesus to further comfort the comforted and to send the afflicted to further affliction.

Calvinism, in all its spinoffs, is a fuck.

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

At this point I think there might just be an element of pure reaction and contrarianism involved. Dying's worth it as long as you own the commie nazi libs or whatever

[-] eXAt@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm seeing this at the level of my provincial government (Alberta) all green energy projects being indefinitely canceled/ not being approved in favor of oil and gas based power. Ostensibly to protect jobs but the rhetoric used about it clearly just being backlash against the commie libs (and Turdeau of course)

[-] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Teach 'em young to get more votes. Republicans have been playing the long game for generations now.

If anyone has not previously googled for PragerU content, you should. I watched a couple vids and looked at images from a textbook awhile ago. You'll be sure it's either satire or fake. Best as I can tell, it's neither. That makes it scary.

[-] regalia@literature.cafe 20 points 1 year ago

Just a reminder that PragerU made a video defending racism and slavery.

[-] gornius@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Thanos was right. Some greater-being should just snap some part of humanity out of existence. Just not the random half, but those who actively try to ruin it for the others.

[-] OutOfMemory@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Is anyone able to find these videos on the Florida list of approved materials? I found statements from state officials that Prager is included, but I don't see it in any official documents or [teacher resource lists](https://www.flimadoption.org/Bids/Adopted Materials). I'd love some help digging it up so I can get involved.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

Zoe Bee did a great video recently where she broke down some of the PragerU teaching materials from a teaching materials. They're worse than I expected.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder if other well-known industry groups are also called our for their propganda? For example recycling is pushed by the plastic industry, the notion of "clean coal" is pushed by coal mining, and of course the entire notion of volunteering for charity is just Capitalism ensuring that societal problems will never try to be tackled by a Government.

This is no different.

[-] mrnotoriousman@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

What schools are teaching clean coal as part of their curriculum? And yes, even ineffective solutions like recycling are extremely different and far better than teaching kids outright denial.

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[-] M68040@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I'm eager for The Audit to return.

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