https://twitter.com/squarejoesmith/status/1426618208719712257

  • BatCountryMusicFan [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I'm not even mad, just confused. What exactly would happen in a person's life to make them think that like Maple Hill School District #49 is part of the fucking ruling class?

    • KiaKaha [he/him]M
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      2 years ago

      It’s just the cultural Marxist line again.

      The school board makes cultural decisions, so it’s ‘ruling class’. Musk is in charge of a workplace, so he’s ‘working class’.

      No, it doesn’t make sense.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I can see the thought process as it probably happened: he thinks society is divided between the doers, the "working" class (the actually productive class would be more accurate) and the parasites (mostly the bureaucrats, paper pushers and all sorts of real or imaginary apparatchiks). Musk advertises himself as the ultimate producer, thus he's working class, and anyone who isn't making widgets at the widget factory are mere parasites sucking off the intellectual labor of the doers and makers. In other words, dude is a libertarian but he doesn't know it yet.

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      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I suspect the roots of it is deep primordial resentment for Mrs. Meanface in 10th Grade English class

        I think it's unfortunately simpler than that. The roots of it is antisemitism. The (((school board))) is corrupting our Aryan youth with their Cultural Marxist propaganda.

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          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Definitely true, but I think the specific idea of the school board itself being ruling class comes from CRT-panic (and similar past panics), which is just antisemitic tropes rebranded for 2022. It's antisemitism without the Jews, and when it gets scratched I'm pretty sure it will be antisemitism original formula.

    • Shamwow [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Many adults would genuinely love to defund all public education. Anything that is not this is tyranny.

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      If I had to take a guess, it's an extremely literal, surface level minded view of what is "Ruling class". In this instance, to be "Ruling class" would be anyone directly a part of the state with any form of jurisdiction to make policy. Everyone else is "working class", which means Jeannie McLane, one of the 5 people on your local school board is "ruling class" because she's part of "the government" and has jurisdictional power (albeit, very very limited) while Elon Musk is working class because he's not part of the government and has 0 impact over it

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      "Don't tell me what to do" pointless contrarianism reduced down to a thick, sticky sauce.

      • VeganTendies [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Has it ever occured to these filthy cousinfucking killbillies maybe Jews actually ARE superior to them?

        As if Cletus the KKKracker is even superior to maggots.

    • Woly [any]
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      2 years ago

      His son is gay and doesn't like him and he blames it on the school

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      he hates CRT and traaanspeople so the schoolboard is ruling class

      not for paying their superintendents enormous salaries, or bringing in literal police to drug check and often rape the kids, because that would be working class

      elon musk is working class because he has tons of slaves under him producing things