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      The man is backing a man who vows to end electric cars and increase our reliance on fossil fuels.

      The man sells electric cars.

      This man obviously doesn’t have his head screwed on straight.

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        He creates shareholder value. That’s all that publically trades companies do. It’s their goal.

        Everything else is just ways they attempt to do that, and someone like Elon does it with hype, since the agencies that are supposed to prevent such nonsense abandoned their responsibilities a long time ago.

        Tesla stocks are now a ponzi scheme. At some point, someone’ll be left holding the bag.

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        In all liklihood, this is a ploy to sell and rebuy tesla stocks to become the world’s first trillionaire faster than the other robber barons who have achieved the green light from America’s fascist movement.

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        Don’t insult Elmo. Elon Musk would get his ass kicked off Sesame Street

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        Best believe that Elmo would cut a bitch if he ever got to Sesame Street.

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    The cons in that sub believe the department should be gone as it steals money and indoctrinates kids. They say test scores haven’t gone up so what’s the point.

    They also say America went to the moon in 69 and the doe was invented in the 70s. Therefore it’s not needed.

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      “They also say America went to the moon in 69 and the doe was invented in the 70s. Therefore it’s not needed.”

      Maybe if they were actually educated, they’d realize an anecdote aint worth shit 🤷‍♀️

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        A federally managed DoE goes all the way back to 1867 - it became a cabinet-level department with a specified ‘Secretary of Education’ in 1979.

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      They never really say this exactly but I believe they are fine with getting the money but want it no strings attached. This is an old objection, such as from Title IX and the ADA.

      You should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and walk right in even if you’re mobility impaired. Only boys want to play sports: why waste money on girls? Our priority is a new stadium at this top school: why do we have to put money into this failing school? Why can’t we use education money for religious indoctrination and just leave us public school for the poors? /s

      Then you’ll see some sort of contorted logic about divisive inclusiveness and unfair equity

      Or at least this new attempt to destroy Education looks a lot like those older complaints

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    Great so now they can privatize student loans. I was going to go back to school at age 40 and get my bachelors degree

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      I hope this is /s

      The interest rate on those private loans are going to be much higher and more difficult to obtain than the government backed ones

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        Exactly I wonder how much higher they’ll be and if they will basically make college only affordable for those who are super rich and needs loans and I’m sure there will be a sharp decline in college admissions which is what the super rich want. Keep the poor and middle class uneducated and fighting with each other

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          The whole idea here is to rapidly accelerate the decline of the US so the techbros can take over and create the own self described utopia where poor people live in debtor prisons and the rich are treated like gods

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    Comme on, Democrats, run someone in every fuckin district of every fuckin state and just run excerpts of this fucker on repeat, s maybe victory in the house and Senate in two years - is there still are elections by then - will be the only way these shitstains might be stopped

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      maybe victory in the house and Senate in two years - is there still are elections by then - will be the only way these shitstains might be stopped

      So they can do whatever they want for 2 years and nobody will stop them.

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    Funny, because their website is still up and looks normal.

    Maybe he means “won’t exist for much longer”? But if that’s the case then describing it as “no longer exists” shows either a poor grasp of language or a deeply flawed understanding of the past, present, and future.

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      His brain is probably fucked from the amount of ketamine he has used. When rich bastards like musk use drugs its never a normal amount of too much its usually a how the fuck are you still alive amount.

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      It effectively doesn’t exist if all the people are gone. Legally he can’t remove an agency that Congress created, but legally he can’t get rid of employees without due process nor can he choose not to distribute money Congress allocated. Legally. But enforcement is throught the courts and Congress so we’re screwed

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    Elon’s latest crusade against the Department of Education plays like a Silicon Valley remix of Atlas Shrugged – all disruption theater masking a fundamental disdain for public infrastructure. Dissolving federal oversight would turbocharge the existing educational caste system, where zip codes determine destiny and critical thinking gets outsourced to charter school grifters.

    The student loan rage reeks of survivorship bias from someone who cashed out an emerald mine privilege card. Decrying “bureaucracy” while building rocket empires on government contracts is peak hypercapitalist cognitive dissonance. Local control sounds quaint until you realize which local oligarchs get to rewrite history textbooks.

    This isn’t innovation – it’s demolition derby governance. The rubble left behind would make great feedstock for AI training data, though.