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Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”
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technocrit lemmy.dbzer0.com technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-02-19
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During his lesson, Trump exposed a central contradiction at the heart of his politics. States and school districts across the country have enacted MAGA education policies — such as the Florida Stop WOKE Act — that prohibit teaching content that might cause students “guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress.” But Trump himself showed no such restraint. During what amounted to an advanced course in authoritarian education, he immersed children in a grotesque curriculum of graphic executions, nuclear annihilation, and the threat of entire societies being wiped out — paired with nationalist triumphalism and the scapegoating of transgender people.

The premise of the event itself rested on the fear that the U.S. has become weak and soft, which could only be remedied by making the country aggressively masculine again. Trump framed the return of the Presidential Fitness Test not merely as a health initiative, but as part of a broader struggle for national strength and power. Warning in a statement to the press that declining youth fitness weakens “our economy, military readiness, academic performance, and national morale,” he cast physical toughness as a prerequisite for a nation prepared for war.

This is not education. It is spectacle, coercion, indoctrination, and the normalization of violence.

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vrek programming.dev vrek@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-20
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I think all the children should be able to pass any fitness test trump can. That should be the presidential fitness award, make Trump run a mile and kids should be expected in run a mile in the same time or less. Make Trump bench press weights and the weight he gets to is the new goal of the presidential fitness award.

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Imgonnatrythis sh.itjust.works Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-23
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Shame on any parent that signs a permission slip letting their kid go near this monster.

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13igTyme piefed.social 13igTyme@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-14
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I think all the children should be able to pass any fitness test trump can. That should be the presidential fitness award, make Trump run a mile and kids should be expected in run a mile in the same time or less. Make Trump bench press weights and the weight he gets to is the new goal of the presidential fitness award.

It's zero. He doesn't and has never exercised because he thinks humans are like batteries and we all have a set amount of energy for our entire life. Meaning exercise would shorten life spans.

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vrek programming.dev vrek@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-20
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It's zero. He doesn't and has never exercised because he thinks humans are like batteries and we all have a set amount of energy for our entire life. Meaning exercise would shorten life spans.

Probably true, but then every kid gets a presidential fitness award.

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