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[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 180 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If "Vote for Educated Leaders" is truly a controversial statement, then we're all fucked.

Your leaders absolutely should be educated, not even necessarily in politics, but Bob next door who's only got two neurons in his head fighting for third place shouldn't be leading any country

[–] jungekatz@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The indian PM has a controversial masters degree ( mostly a fake one), so when someone says vote for educated people , he feels its an personal attack on him and his party !

[–] Justly0250@lemdro.id 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forgot to name the prestigious degree: "Entire Political Science"

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[–] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you just wake up from hypersleep? We definitely are fucked my guy.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Can I hypersleep until we make our way round to not being fucked?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You want to use water? Like from the toilet?

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[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago (50 children)

It’s so incredibly sad how adults need to be reminded and told to vote for people that have a background with real education. I can’t believe people don’t care about education when it comes to voting for someone to be put in your government. I feel sorry for those people who don’t. You know it’s the people who don’t that have lives that revolve around politics and consume it everyday

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[–] Techpriest2@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Very telling (and not without reason) that just reading the headline creates an automatic assumption that this occurred in a US "red" state.

[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I definitely read the headline and thought "please don't be my state again"

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you explain why?

(I am not from US)

[–] Techpriest2@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The US republican/trump/conservative (known collectively as Nazi's) followers are historically against education. These people are currently promoting a religious inquisition to eliminate books and curriculum in schools that they feel do not align with their hate based religious and intolerant beliefs. Teachers and librarians are being physically threatened and fired for refusing to comply with the book bans and twisted educational mandates. The politicians that populate the groups I mentioned are not considered smart themselves (like stating wind generators were a threat because they would use up all the wind eventually) so advising children to vote for educated politicians threatens their one and only goal, the retention and accumulation of more power.

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[–] beertoagunfight@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Around 40% of Indian politicians are only educated up to school (stat might have changed), and the ruling party is quite dystopian in silencing narratives that go against it.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sorry, but what does "up to school" mean? (I am American, and many of our education groups are schools.) Is that school prior to college, ending near age 18, or something else?

Edit: thank you, I now understand

[–] ruford1976@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

till 10th grade (GED equivlent i guess.)

Upto age of 16 or might include upto 18

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean if he chose to communicate his preference, that's a problem. But "Vote for educated leaders" shouldn't be exactly controversial. If you're angry, is it because you know the ppl that you voted for are uneducated?

[–] art@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Teacher fired for promoting education. Got it.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop voting for fascists just because they blame all your problems on marginalized people, already.

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[–] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels like we've been devolving as a species for the last 20 years or so, I'm pretty tired of living in interesting times.

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[–] Niello@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I'd love to see those who disagree with his statement answer the question "when is a good time to not vote for educated leaders?" that applies more than 0.01% of the time.

Even religious people shouldn't disagree with it. If you want someone with religious background in then you want them to be educated in matters to do with that religion. That they themselves don't consider that education is telling.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It’s really telling when politicians feel attacked by such a statement.

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