Constantly in highschool. If you count a lazy 85% without really lifting a finger as "acing," that is.

Drugs ARE Really Expensive, though. So, is it propaganda, or truth in advertising..? 🤔

Fuck no. Teachers are in such short supply that they aren't looking for reasons to fire them, just pay them less.

Besides, every state creates their own curriculum. It's possible that's the state's official take on the Native American Genocide. After all, for over 150 years, southern schools have been teaching that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, it was about the states rights to decide their own fates, without interference from the aggressive north. They teach this despite the evidence of their own state constitutions of the era, which all mention the protection of slavery right at the beginning, as well as the Confederate "Declaration of Independence," which puts the blame squarely on Slavery. They've spent 150 years OFFICIALLY teaching an alternative lie.

So that Native America explanation might well be an official government position in your state.

She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn't do it.

That is astonishing.

The most incredible case of teacher malpractice I've ever heard of, came from my son. He was in college, taking a film class, which is my son's expertise. He's a deep film guy, for real. He could literally teach it, so he doesn't tolerate nonsense from bad film teachers.

So this teacher showed a clip of The Color Purple, and proceeded to criticize all of Stephen Spielberg's artistic choices, painting him as a hack. Spielberg isn't my son's favorite director, but he respects his talent. He doesn't believe that Spielberg is a hack.

But a stupid conclusion wasn't the problem. The problem was that the clip the teacher used to illustrate Spielberg's poor directing, was taken from the terrible remake of it, which wasn't directed by Spielberg. The teacher criticized Spielberg, using a movie Spielberg hadn't directed. And it turned out that the teacher hadn't known there were two versions of The Color Purple, nor that there was a musical, either.

This was in a COLLEGE film class. My son was disgusted, and I thought it was unforgivable, and told him to report the incident, but he didn't. He just pledged to never waste another course on that professor.

My 3rd grader informed us in 1st grade that he opted to not participate in the pledge of allegiance (does so respectfully) because we have discussed how the US doesn't take care of people (his words). He was even more frustrated when a substitute kept going on about how we're the greatest country in the world and have all these freedoms.

A friend of mine got me to play an MMO a ling time ago, made it 30 minuts, fuck was it boring.

This idea made it to the netherlands as well

Same with Autism, I will hyperfixate Rome, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany and I will call out the similarities between them and the United States. I also got into a verbal fight with some kid in middle school because I wasn't going to play nice with his creationism BS unlike the teacher who danced around it, the only reason he didn't attack me was because I would probably throw him around like a ragdoll.

You're trial will being soon!

~fucking calling me names...~

What happens in America tomorrow if we refuse to say the pledge?

Joke's on me; I totally locked in on that shit and even made some pro-propaganda student films!

Few things teach you humility like a friend finally breaking through to you and shattering your glass bubble of misinformation. Especially when your personality and morals are completely at odds with your foundational beliefs that were built up by authority figures. I was that kid who would hang out with unhoused people and try to help them with shit because everybody deserves a friend, but I wouldn't give them money because I was taught that poor people don't know how to manage their money or spend it all on drugs.

Same, except I read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. She seemed to have the right idea about a lot of things. Eragon definitely solidified it.

Lol that teacher was pretty much par for the course as far as rural 90's education goes.

Tomorrow? Like Monday? Nothing happens if kids refuse to say the pledge of allegiance in America on Monday. They just don't say it.

That depends entirely on state and even on individual teachers in those states

My favorite thing to point to when someone says the civil war was about states rights is to point out the fugitive slave act. They didn't want the federal government to get involved in slavery unless it was in their favor .

"Sure it was about State's Rights. The States Rights to own slaves."

That's the truth, and it's literally in their State Constitutions. If someone is spewing that nonsense, Google it, and read it to them, because they probably can't read.

To be fair , MMOs aren't fun because of gameplay, they are fun because of the social aspects.

See also: aphantasia!

Not visualizing myself with or for a product has likely helped a ton.

which ironically have diminished greatly in mmos

I had forgotten about that, it was such a surreal book.

oof, only propaganda i remember from school in finland was about milk consumption(in favour). they even put posters about it to classrooms. I suppose it didnt bite into me that hard since i often forget to use milk carton before it rots and dont even buy milk that often because of it.

considering how certain people seem to get to the point of psychosis from llm usage, i dread the day the corporations start utilizing this fully. it would probably be possible to completely brainwash someone vulnerable to do ANYTHING with llm as long as they are receptive to it.

Yeah the golden era of MMOs was ~2007. It's been getting worse since then.

at least there are still some gems appearing occasionally;
project gorgon for one in my opinion at least. gloria victis was/is also pretty decent, star citizen is mixed opinion for me, but definitely above wow or other generic mmo games.

got expelled for not showing up. showed me how to work the system

Our highschool finance teacher would randomly stop the class to ralk about how communism killed more people than Nazis because of North Korea.

He was normally a basketball coach but teacher shortage I guess? Weird experience overall. He would try arguing with students not standing up to the pledge too.

ADHD is the true anarchist spirit.

There's always tomorrow.

You're pretending that America can't be turned into a place with similarities to N. Korea, when the wealthy and powerful are clearly trying to steer us that direction. Yes, it's perfectly valid to draw such comparisons, especially when we are using them as a warning for ourselves.

You're pretending I'm pretending that. Don't be that guy.

You're asking this as if any information we have about NK is anything but US and SK propaganda lol

Bullshit. There's more propaganda online.

Now. There wasn't always an online. Even once there was, back in my day, sonny, it wasn't always filled with inescapable propaganda. That all started in the 2010s.

Before that you would get some stupid ass chain email from your weird uncle and be like "does he really think I'm reading this bullshit?" lulz

I also tied onions around my belt.

I had such high hopes for dbzer0, but it's just another .ml.

in the US au last you have to be actively using a trademark in order to defend it in court

R/whoosh

Church alone does more brainwashing than any secular source

Spoon fed ? They shovel feed it x)

I remember the internet before Trump won in 2016. It was a different place.