It doesn't matter how long you make them read Lenin and break rocks in the gulag, the second you let them out they'll see an AI generated meme from a CIA holdout posting from a bunker somewhere and immediately revert to being a burgerbrained fash.

I think we need to just dump them on an island somewhere and put them under continuous naval blockade and internet blackout till they revert to a Hunter gather society.

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[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reagan's advisor Roger Freeman is the reason student loans exist basically.

His reasoning is that an "educated proletariat" would be dangerous.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

damn, did he ever articulate it that way? that would make for some good quotes

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They literally said that. Someone posted a photo of the text sometime ago but I can't find it.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 24 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

lmao, found it, holy shit

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat,” announced Reagan advisor Roger A. Freeman during a press conference on Oct. 29, 1970. Freeman, an economics professor at Stanford, was also an advisor to President Richard Nixon. “We have to be selective on who we allow to go through [higher education],” Freeman added.

From this article https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educated-proletariat-created-the-student-debt-crisis/