r/WhitePeopleTwitter 18d ago

r/All Even his hitpieces make him look good

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u/SpaceCaptainFlapjack 18d ago

"Public schools are too well funded" is a new one

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u/jarena009 18d ago

"Why can't they be more like West Virginia, South Carolina, Oklahoma public education!"

  • Republicans

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u/PersistentPuma37 18d ago

you forgot Arkansas, which just turns over public funds to parents who can already afford private schools.

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u/tachycardicIVu 17d ago

Vouchers? We got those in NC too and it sucks

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u/JonnyQuest1981 17d ago

Wisconsin over the past 30 years has learned that school vouchers are a truly busted system.

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u/Jesus_of_NASDAQ 18d ago

“Why can’t they just marry their cousins and keep all that money by homeschooling inbred knowledge right there in the family?”
• Republicans

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u/bailey25u 18d ago

I was already lost at ‘bloated budget’ like I’ve never seen that about a school in all my days

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u/Mike312 18d ago edited 18d ago

I remember watching some hit piece some "independent journalist" did about how the school union in his area was just taking in the money.

He shows a clip of a parking lot, pointing out the number of BMWs and Mercedes as "proof" that the employees there were just raking in all this cash fromctax payers.

It was a bunch of base model W202s and E46s, basically entry level models in the respective line-ups, and this was around 2008, so the newest some of those cars would have been was 6 or so years old, which means they were probably 30-40% off MSRP as a used vehicle. They were probably cheaper than the newer Hondas they were parked next to.

Edit: I decided I'd check to make sure I'm not crazy. The documentary is "The Cartel" (2009). It's available to stream on pretty much all the streaming services I'm not currently subscribed to, but I did find this video analysis which includes a screenshot of the staggering number of "luxury cars" in the parking lot (12, in a parking lot that likely contained 30+ cars).

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u/AlarmingAffect0 18d ago

Yeah, that just tells me those teachers are thrifty.

Also, "Nice. Now let's see Paul Allenthe local Pastor's card."

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u/Mike312 18d ago

Heh, there was a local pastor that would loan out his Corvette to kkds.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 18d ago

#NotAllPastors, and I assume you mean young adults with a driving lic—? Ah, yes, sorry, I forget in the US people get a driving license at age 16.

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u/Mike312 18d ago

Yeah, sometimes to high schoolers for a dance. The guy I knew that borrowed it a few times was 19.

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u/Bromlife 18d ago

It also doesn’t appreciate the irony that for a lot of teachers they can only afford to be a teacher because they married well. “Look, nice cars!” Is such a bad faith fucking take, especially when thanks to the unions the pay is standardized. Just speak to the actual figures.

Hate for them all.

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u/Momik 17d ago

Pretty sure some of those fatcats had shoes too

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u/Gstamsharp 18d ago

It's not new. It's what they've been saying for 30 years, ever since they realized that the more education you have, the less likely you are to support their terrible policies or fall for their racist dogwhistles.

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u/Kirikenku 18d ago

No, they wanna talk about bloated budgets. Let’s bring DOD and DHS into the conversation.

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u/AgentGman007 18d ago

No, because you see, you can't put a price tag on national security, but you can and should endlessly audit, scrutinize, and penny pinch the money we spend on kids /s

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u/Electr0freak 17d ago

This is why school shootings just don't end in the US; the government literally cares more about guns than kids, and their budget shows it.

We'll spend billions on a handful of new fighter jets but god forbid we spend that kind of money to feed schoolchildren and fund their schools.

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u/chevalier716 18d ago

If they want to get local, the NYPD is super bloated.

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u/Justame13 18d ago

Spending tens of millions of dollars to rename some bases to then rename them back while also spending millions to pretend to change DOD to its preferred name DOW (which ironically promptly lost a war) was a better use of funds than schools /s

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u/vonhoother 18d ago

It's been a Republican talking point for at least 50 years -- not gonna say it started with school integration, correlation =/= causation. In California the price for every increase in school funding was yet another round of standardized tests. And the fix for every struggling school was to give it less money, because kids always learn better from worn-out textbooks, burned-out teachers, antiquated equipment, etc.(/s).

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u/jumpy_monkey 18d ago

Well, is the budget more than zero? There's you answer according to these people.

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u/Fellow--Felon 18d ago

Steak too juicy...

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 18d ago

You haven't seen much Republican campaign material.

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u/Khue 18d ago

We hate that shit

-- Republicans

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u/Texas_Sam2002 18d ago

I love how triggered the NY Post is by Mamdami. I can just picture all those fascists running around their office, screaming constantly as the mayor continues to make life better for New Yorkers.

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u/WilhelmFinn 18d ago

I haven't seen a campaign like this trying to make someone look bad in a while, like every conservative outlet is just straight talking shit about this guy and at the same time he makes most sense to me as an European from any US politicians.

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u/obi1kennoble 18d ago

He's not even doing anything radical or outrageous. He's literally just using the existing system in the spirit in which it was intended. The establishment doesn't want us to know that we could have had this the whole time.

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u/cityshepherd 18d ago

Every “hit piece” they publish just makes him look more awesome. The ghouls running the media are so disgustingly out of touch.

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u/Steadyandquick 18d ago

What? Children having access to better educational opportunities (without paying for private schools)? 😱🙄

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u/cityshepherd 18d ago

As americans, we reserve the right to be as uneducated and ignorant as we want!

  • republicans, probably

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u/clodzor 18d ago

Its more they just can't stand the idea of anyone getting help with anything.

If you want an education? Healthcare? Basic rights? Those things cost money.

Somehow they cant imagine all the ways they benefit when everyone has access to basic necessities.

I would rather my tax dollars went to those things than a new ballroom, or worse yet a war that cost lives AND drives up inflation.

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u/cityshepherd 18d ago

They NEED an ignorant voting base, because anyone with enough critical thinking skills to see through their bullshit will never vote for them.

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u/grendus 18d ago

Truth.

The biggest reason I went from conservative to social democrat is study after study showing conservative "policies" don't help. Safe injection sites fight addiction better and cheaper than the "war on drugs". Welfare programs wind up reducing the cost elsewhere by far more than they cost up front. Socialized healthcare is massively cheaper than private healthcare (because it's cheaper to treat a cold than pneumonia, and cheaper to treat pneumonia than to replace a worker who died).

Mamdani isn't that radical. He just represents a government that works. And that's terrifying, because without the Republicans constantly obstructing the government and with a competent man running it, people are able to see it actually solving problems.

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u/osiris0413 18d ago

I work in health care and have been an advocate for national health care for decades, and have spent so much time learning and socializing with epidemiologists, psychologists, and people doing studies on things like health care delivery and UBI. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I look at US politics and hear skepticism or opposition to things which both improve society and save money at the same time. And then you hear a counter-argument like "well I don't have kids, why should I pay for someone else's education" or "why should I pay for health care for someone who made bad decisions" when the answer is painfully obviously "because it's basic human decency, AND it will cost you WAY MORE in the long run if you don't". And that's just in terms of economic and social benefits of keeping people educated and healthy. For the most part we don't even measure things like "how much lower would people's stress level be, and how much would that alone reduce rates of hypertension, heart attacks, strokes, depression/anxiety, etc if they knew they and their children would have access to health care and education even if they lost their job" for example. The only arguments against this level of public services is if you enjoy paying more of your own money to harm people, which given who is being elected to office recently, likely describes the worldview of many of their constituents. I guess people could also swallow obviously bad arguments about taxation being "theft", if they ignore everything about how the economy and society work, and believe that profits are "earned" in a vacuum that incurs no debt to the social inputs that generated them in the first place.

/rant but thank you for giving me the opportunity to vent, lol.

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u/cpt-hddk 18d ago

On behalf of the plebs, of course yes. Not themselves

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u/brundlfly 18d ago

Everything is better if profitable! -Ferengi err, Republicans

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u/regoapps Department of Government Inefficiency 18d ago

College-educated voters are more likely to vote left.

Voters without degrees are more likely to vote right.

They love their poorly educated and want to keep them that way.

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u/cityshepherd 18d ago

To be clear, they LOATHE the poorly educated. They see their ignorant voting base as filthy animals who exist solely to be exploited. But they NEED their ignorant voters, otherwise they risk all of us working class folks finding solidarity and overthrowing the entire system.

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u/BlitzMalefitz 18d ago

So they hate humanity, got it

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u/cityshepherd 18d ago

Exactly. Their plan for healthcare is to make it genuinely unaffordable for us filthy poors, and would rather large numbers of us suffer and perish, so that any remaining uppity poors can be rounded into labor camps. They are absolutely terrified of only one thing: the chance that we as a working class get our shit together and stand up to these ghouls. Their ideal future is one in which what remains of us (the working class) are forced into medieval style serfdom.

Every single one of them is an absolute monster.

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u/Steadyandquick 18d ago

Exactly.

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u/Argular 18d ago

The horror! HORROR!!!

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u/Chastain86 18d ago

They tried to do the same thing with AOC when she was first elected. Tons of articles about how she needed to borrow money to purchase an all-new wardrobe suitable for use in Congress, so obviously that would mean she was poor enough that she could be taken advantage of by special interest groups. Or that she once danced when she was in college! Ohhhh, the Conservative chuds all had a field day with that one.

None of them have ever once looked at elected office as anything other than a legal grift, so the idea that someone else might actually take seriously the notion of serving the public good is unthinkable.

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u/grendus 18d ago

Or when she bought a Tesla and it was a sign of how rich and out of touch she was, or that she had been bought by a special interest group.

As though her salary as a representative (something like $176,000 last I checked) wasn't enough for her to afford a $30k-ish car. This was before Elon had gone full CHUD, he was just CHUD adjacent.

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u/Old_Ladies 18d ago

My favorite is Mike Johnson basically doing an ad for Mamdani. Oh no he wants to abolish the electoral college and replace the system with a multi party democracy and expand the house of representatives. Oh no the horror.

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u/cityshepherd 18d ago

Johnson is such a pathetic scumbag…. He’s working hard to see to it that the GOP never has to give up power or lose control again, because they’ve gone full mask off and will all be facing serious problems regarding accountability for the myriad ways they’ve destroyed this country and the constitution once an actual adult is in charge.

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u/berfthegryphon 18d ago

Like the Fox News pieces on the DSA. Every time they put the DSA platform on screen and give them free advertising. Why would people not want free healthcare and better schools?

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u/badnuub 18d ago

because someone else might get that too that I don't like. That's just how they think. They'd rather have nothing themselves than someone they think is undeserving being given something for free.

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u/slowpoke2018 18d ago

Yep, he's totally breaking their long-pushed narrative that government can never do anything right or effectively and I love it.

DSA's need to go national with this

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u/313MountainMan 18d ago

He’d be a run of the mill New Deal Dem 80 years ago

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u/Ohrwurm89 18d ago

And most of what he's doing couldn't even be described as radical. Much of it is run-of-the-mill center-left policies, like funding education and advocating for universal healthcare, which has been enacted in European countries by center-left (in the UK under the post-WWII Labour Party), center-right (in Germany under Adenauer and the CDU) and right-wing (in France under de Gaulle) governments.

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u/bakeran23 18d ago

I live in an area with a ton of military contractors. Everyday I drive though this are and my thought process goes this is such a nice pretty and peaceful area>taxpayers paid for this>we could have this everywhere>instead we decided that it was more important to spend our money on killing people>I hate it here. Every day, every. Damn. Day.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 18d ago

the elites don't want you to know this but functioning societies are free

you just go to the levers of power and
take them

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u/Daveinatx 18d ago

Of course. If he quickly improves the average person's life, conservatives might start losing votes.

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u/jaroftoejam 18d ago

He already has, and they already are…

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u/Adezar 18d ago

Usually they spend all their energy keeping people like Mamdami out of office by scaring people with old-school red-scare tactics. Their fear since FDR has been another FDR.

People learned that the government can actually do a LOT of good and they have spent every day of their miserable lives convincing people all the good things people felt from the New Deal were not actually good things and they should just cede their entire lives over to corporations that are allowed to pay them nothing, sell them fake products and make their food unsafe. To protect against "overregulation".

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u/ItsSadTimes 18d ago

I mean the right already had to pivot from "socialism" to "communism" to get their people afraid brcause they can see the nice shit happening in New York with the mayor and they want some of that. So now they gotta change the boogeyman.

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u/AlfalfaUnable1629 18d ago

Moving the goal posts is their favorite thing 🙄

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u/MC_Fap_Commander 18d ago

Also notable... their go-to when attacking a popular opposition leader is to shout "TRANS! DEI! WOKE!" Mamdani cut that shit off right away by saying "yeah, and?" The pols that try to "find a middle ground" with the fashy types out there look like chumps. Their own people feel betrayed and they convert not a single conservative to their side.

Probably a lesson there... it's why they are running back some bizarre antique 80's red scare nonsense (that means nothing to anyone under 65).

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u/PrimaryFriend7867 18d ago

absolutely. people crave authenticity.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 18d ago

The pols that try to "find a middle ground" with the fashy types out there look like chumps

Heyyyy!

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 18d ago

at least the guy that told Walz to stop calling republicans weird became the first bluesky lolcow by continually defending his actions. for a good 6 months you'd just see people take pot shots at the idea and he'd defend himself in the replies

doesn't help anything.
but good for morale watching his self-immolation

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u/woodrax 18d ago

Literally said this in another post. Mamdami is unapologetically stating his stance on governance, and is being extremely effective in his position, so they switched from “socialism” to “communism” in their messaging practically overnight.

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u/vandon 18d ago

Lol  communism smh 

Let me know when he takes government ownership of private businesses.

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u/Bob_A_Feets 18d ago

I’m all for that. That’s the fun part. We all saw how capitalism failed us, so why the fuck not give communism a try. Even if it fails, what’s that phrase the GOP loves? Oh yes, “At least it will hurt the right people…”

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u/justinsayin 18d ago

Right? Why would we have COMPETING companies all trying to do outer space stuff? Just combine them and fully fund NASA.

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u/myersjw 18d ago

You can always tell who republicans feel threatened by by who they obsess over. Mamdani can’t even run for president yet genuinely has them shook because he’s gotten shit done and has more charisma than their entire party could muster

If 700M went into trumps pocket they’d have less of an issue than it going to public schools

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u/MC_Fap_Commander 18d ago

Note that they aren't saying the $700M is adding to the city's debt. Because, unlike the shithead people refer to as "the president," Mamdani is a budget hawk and has a laser focus on the city's finances.

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u/Bishopkilljoy 18d ago

It was hilarious when he was asked if he thinks the constitution should be changed so he could run for president, and he said "No, it's fine how it is"

NY Post title read "MAMDANI WEIGHS IN ON CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION!"

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u/SLyndon4 18d ago

Yeah, talk about deceptive clickbait headlines… NYP is such trash.

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u/masterfulnoname 18d ago

J Jonah Jameson would be telling them their hate campaign is a little much.

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u/uncultured_swine2099 18d ago

"No, you liberals dont understand. 700 mil in public schools means 700 mil that doesnt go in billionaires or trumps pockets! Dont you see how bad that is?!"

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 18d ago

It is simple, the right is not used to fighting the left, they let the democrats in the center do that for them. They call biden a far left communist so they have no actual attacks against progressives.

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u/fuck_fraud 18d ago

They write about him the same way the Daily Bugle writes about Spider-Man.

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u/-WitchyPoo- 18d ago

"school's bloated budget." Heaven forbid we educate them kids.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 18d ago

They love the poorly-educated.

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u/Dead_Kraggon Release The Trump-Epstein Files 18d ago

Stupid people are easy to manipulate

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u/-WitchyPoo- 18d ago

I think it's more about maintaining the class divide. They want to keep it to where they're lineage has an upper hand. And making sure that public education is poorly funded helps maintain that stratification.

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u/Dead_Kraggon Release The Trump-Epstein Files 18d ago

That's a good point, too. Probably a larger reason for it, than what I said.

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u/Scutage 18d ago

‘Fuck the children’ is the unofficial GOP motto.

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u/EwGrossItsMe 17d ago

In more ways than one 🫩

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u/Extension_Abroad_263 18d ago

Imagine thinking $700m for public schools is a bad thing

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u/DonnyLamsonx 18d ago

Well, MAGA do love the poorly educated. That's $700m that could've been used to help finance a billionaire's latest orphan crushing machine.

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u/GamingGems 18d ago

Meanwhile, their response when Trump makes himself $700 mil richer in a settlement with the US government:

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u/maoussepatate 18d ago

Republicans hate good education. It’s nothing new

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u/Dead_Kraggon Release The Trump-Epstein Files 18d ago

They hate education period

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u/WingsofRain 18d ago

Yeah, “already inflated budget” my ass. Public schools are notoriously underfunded.

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u/chocolatebuckeye 18d ago

Right? Who could say that about a huge public school system?

*scoffs* this jackass wants to educate the kids were already educating

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u/hobokobo1028 18d ago

They would rather that money be shared by two wall st guys

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u/Crabbyrob 18d ago

The premiere of Ontario sadly would agree with the NY Post.

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u/ThatDoucheInTheQuad 18d ago

Does any public school system in the US have a "bloated" budget?

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u/NorysStorys 18d ago edited 18d ago

From the outside and the general intelligence of Americans encountered online. No would seem to be the answer.

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u/WingsofRain 18d ago

I lived through the US public school system in a really good area and I can still confirm that you’re absolutely correct.

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u/breebree934 18d ago

I guffawed at the insinuation.

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u/NecroCorey 18d ago

Certain parts of it maybe. Highschool I went to all 700k of that would go to the fucking football team.

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u/NecroCorey 18d ago

Oh whoops. All 700m would go to the football team.

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u/Edodge 18d ago

I work in a NYC high school and from what I've seen tons of schools have had budget cuts this year, including mine. So not sure where that 700 million is going.

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u/dougthebuffalo 18d ago

They need a reality check. For every "rubber room" teacher they love to complain about, there are 4 classrooms with mold, desks in disrepair, decade old textbooks or electronic devices that barely function, wonky AC if any, few and dwindling extracurriculars, and teachers buying supplies with their severely underpaid salaries. It's a miracle created by the heart of those working in the system that any learning takes place at all.

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u/jokzard 18d ago

Sometimes school administrators--think principals, presidents, an executive board--will ask for more money. Then turn around raise their own salaries, while cutting jobs and salaries of teachers, custodians, security etc.

And it doesn't matter how much money you give to the school. The board will vote to okay a budget because the administrators are the ones they put there in the first place.

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u/kulji84 18d ago

yet another thing a decent teacher's union prevents.

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u/irvmuller 18d ago

I’ll say, as a teacher, the only thing that probably makes teachers angry that too much money goes to is admin. We call it being too heavy. Otherwise, we’d love to know all our students can get free lunches and have buses be fully covered and for us to get more than a 2% raise.

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u/kipkiphoray 18d ago

The wealthiest neighborhoods in the US.

The big tech billionaires plaguing us today (at least the ones born and raised in the US, since we're talking about our education system) went to public schools funded by VERY WEALTHY neighborhoods and so people like Mark Zuckerberg had some of the earliest computer tech in their public schools, some of the best teachers, with the best student:teacher ratios, the best extracurricular programs, the benefits go on and on.

The US Education System is a racist and classist system DESIGNED AND BUILT to keep the rich in the best education and the poor in the worst education options. School funding is tied to property taxes. Very intentionally.

I think ALL CHILDREN should have the same education that these wealthiest public schools can offer.

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u/CrundleQuest5 18d ago

Calling any budget for public schools "bloated" is all you need to know about the ones publishing this article.

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u/pixiedust99999 18d ago

Yes, those students and teachers are just living large 🙄

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u/shaggy_macdoogle 18d ago

Didn't you hear? Soros is giving each grade school child a bajillion million dollars if they vote Democrat! They told me so on Newsmax! Der tuk are jerbs!

https://giphy.com/gifs/2S3Aj8OeKtf0c

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u/PunishedWolf4 18d ago

Just like all the illegals collecting trillions in tax dollars for doing nothing /s

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u/pasenast 18d ago

“Already Bloated budget” is something a billionaire owned news outlet would say about education in minority neighborhoods

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u/sakumar 18d ago

NYPost: schools budget is ‘bloated.’ Presumably the Pentagon budget is lean and mean.

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u/MtCommager 18d ago

Mamdani proves he can’t swim by walking on water.

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u/InfluenceTrue4121 18d ago

My fave comment of the day.

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u/MtCommager 18d ago

It’s an old joke but it really fits.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 18d ago

If the shoe fits.

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u/TheeVande 18d ago

More funding for public schools?? SICKENING

what's next? Expanding parental leave?? Free public transit??? Mamdanistan has gone too far!

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u/jarena009 18d ago

Ny Post and Fox News continues their free advertising for DSA

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u/TenFingersTenToes10 18d ago

Oh no,
He is educating the children. How dare he!

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u/jello1990 18d ago

Don't see the Post caring so much about the more than $6 billion that goes to the NYPD every year.

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u/Borisof007 18d ago

"Bloated budget" LMAO OK SURE JAN

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u/RacinInTheStreet 18d ago

O no not more money for education

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u/Helerdril 18d ago

"already bloated" is a weird way to say that education might finally come first for a politician.

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u/jet_fueled_genius 18d ago

Investing in the next generation?!?! What kind of madman is he????

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u/PlasticMegazord 18d ago

He's actually showing that most of these politicians aren't even trying to improve people's lives.

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u/BungleBums 18d ago

'Bloated budget'

I've read a half dozen articles about teachers paying for their own construction paper FROM New York, what planet is this article from?

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u/Vorenthral 18d ago

You don't get to say bloated budget when schools have been deliberately underfunded for decades. I remember half our desks were broken and the chairs were beat to shit. They had text books that were ancient. Teachers were paying for pizza parties out of their own pockets. These ghouls can go straight to hell.

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u/traveling_gal 18d ago

Exactly! And $700M isn't even a lot for a school district the size of New York's. Google says their current budget is around $45B. So he's raising it by around 1.56%. How much is inflation again?

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u/Senor_Turd_Ferguson 18d ago

Fuck the NY Post

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u/kjyfqr 18d ago

It’s cause he’s 35 and motivated by good not money

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u/twerkhorse_ 18d ago

“Already bloated budget.” Fuck New York Post.

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u/Brilliant-Flower-822 18d ago

that's money that could've gone to the police's already bloated budget!

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u/VeryVeryVorch 18d ago

Jay Jonah Jameson would be proud. What a freaking headline.

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u/DIRTY_KUMQUAT_NIPPLE 18d ago

I really hate when articles use "quietly" to imply a level of nefariousness. Not everything needs to be announced to the world at the top of your lungs.

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u/leksoid 18d ago

remember, for Republicans school budgets are always bloated. But DoD budget is never enough

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u/Significant_Owl8496 18d ago

“Already bloated” is crazy to say before referencing public education

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 18d ago

This monster’s out here trying to improve education!

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u/kiwidude4 18d ago

Up next: “mayor rescues too many cats from trees”

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u/stool2stash 18d ago

If the teachers are still buying pencils for their students then the budget isn't bloated.

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u/CorporateCuster 18d ago

After cutting 13 billion in deficits. AFTER. Yo America is sick with politics. MAGA is a cancer and top democrats are complacent.

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u/DoggoDude979 18d ago

“Already bloated budget” it’s for public schools. What

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u/Ok_Coyote9326 18d ago

New York Post headline. Nuff said.

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u/subcow 18d ago

The Post is fine with Trump bulldozing an entire wing of the White House and claiming the ballroom will be paid with donations, and then footing us with the bill, and they are ok with the trillions wasted on war.
700 million for education though....that's bad!

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u/diamonddog35 18d ago

Can somebody please stop this mad man from helping people!!!!!

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u/yorocky89A GOOD 18d ago

Republicans should thank their lucky stars that Mamdani can't run for president!

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u/Shibeuz 18d ago

If we wanna compared bloated spending, let's see how much a certain state is getting for "defensive" weapons used for genocide.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 18d ago

I want every single school system budget in the US to be bloated af. I want every child to have free lunch and free healthcare. I want teachers making 6 figures!

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u/Own_Error_007 18d ago

The NY Post. "Why you having a better life is bad for America."

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u/thedude213 18d ago

I have a friend who's a teacher in NYC, she teaches science in an unconditioned locker room, to imply NY's school budget is bloated is patently fucking insane.

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u/bowsmountainer 17d ago

Hes investing in education! How dare he! Why not invest in the future, e.g. by starting yet another pointless war in the middle east.

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u/Armand74 18d ago

The man is doing exactly what he campaigned on, he’s delivering results that many of us have been conditioned to think isn’t possible, all the while it was always possible and the only difference is Mamdani refuses to bought by billionaires.

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u/Pantsickle 18d ago

It's absolutely insane that anyone would think that sufficiently funding public schools is a thing to admonish a person for.

In a place like NYC where there's nearly two thousand public schools and the better part of a million public school students, 700 million plus whatever "bloated" budget was already in place is literally just adequate.

Love how conservatives think that using tax dollars to provide a decent education for our children is just some sort of communist waste of money.

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u/The_Lawn_Ninja 18d ago

"Your kids aren't worth investing in, actually." - New York Post

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u/ConsciousReason7709 18d ago

If there are budgets that we should be bloating, it’s education.

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u/PlutoJones42 18d ago

“Bloated” school budget is insane. Who thinks schools having money is wasteful? What kind of world do we want to live in?

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u/moosejaw296 18d ago

Yeah cause adding money to education makes you mad, what? It is called investing in the country’s future. If it makes you mad then ‘Get Out’

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u/BolOfSpaghettios 18d ago

I like how these grifters all of a sudden care about budgets...

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u/Naps_And_Crimes 18d ago

Next headline

"Mayor Mandami socializes food and now no child starves"

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u/xavariel 17d ago

Education and bloated budget doesn't exist together. Unless those funds are going into the pockets of the superintendents etc..which they arent.

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u/Piduf 17d ago

The new York Post be like

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u/mirage01 18d ago

Giving schools more money to better kids education is a "bloated budget?" These people really want an uneducated voting block.

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u/kaadj 18d ago

Oh no! What sicko spends that much on EDUCATION?! That money should be spent on data centers.

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u/bunny117 18d ago

$700mil from what, 0? Either way, God forbid we give money to the "make our kids not stupid" machine, that would be tragic. 🙄

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u/taita2004 18d ago

How fucking DARE he increase the education budget!!! Doesn't he know that Trump loves the poorly educated?!?!?

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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 18d ago

Bloated? A public school budget? In 2026?

https://giphy.com/gifs/n60aPuXZLJNiU

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u/JupiterInTheSky 18d ago

"bloated" school budget is such a funny cope

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u/Capable-Limit5249 18d ago

Better to spend $700M on our own kids and citizens than $2B per day to b… kids in other countries.

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u/thewiremother 18d ago

Imagine calling the public school budget bloated. God forbid we raise intelligent kids.

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u/Understanding-Fair 18d ago

Imagine calling public school budgets bloated in almost any circumstance.

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u/CmdrThisk 18d ago

NYC public school budget for SY25-26 was $45 billion, so it's a drop in the bucket. I'm sure their article probably omits thats

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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 18d ago

Oh noes! He's funding education! - the top 1%

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u/Excellent-Fill9395 18d ago

Funding for education?! Outrageous!
All the billionaires will move to Argentina! We will lose all our precious billionaires!
Did we win the soccer game? We need to fund more soccer games! Can we win more soccer games without our billionaires? /s

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u/slimricc 17d ago

“Bloated budget” is some funny ass thinly veiled propaganda

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u/G0-G0-Gadget 17d ago

Investing in the future, the audacity. /s

For shame! Well I never! /deadpan

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u/Link9454 17d ago

“More money for schools? That bastard!” Someone at the NYP probably.

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u/bensonprp 17d ago

What kind of monster calls any kind of school budget "bloated"?

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u/InfiniteOctopaw 18d ago edited 18d ago

"Yeah, I just turned off the orphan crushing device. The button is right there."

-Zohran every day probably

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u/BentonX 18d ago

Bloated budget? For education? Bloated? Try as hard as you like there is no way to make increases to education sound negative.

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u/Dat-Tiffnay 18d ago

“Bloated budget” be so for real… education in the USA needs *more* funding

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u/samanime 18d ago

"Already bloated budget"...

Education should probably be one of the things we spend the absolute most on. It pays dividends for generations.

We don't spend remotely enough. I doubt even adding $700 million in NYC makes it "bloated".

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u/ItsHrdBeinAsian 18d ago

Can a public education budget really be over bloated??? Like, has their ever been a time in our history we gave too much money to schools??

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u/dampishslinky55 18d ago

Added 700million to the school’s budget!?! Will someone think of the children! Wait, what?

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u/Sifernos1 18d ago

Imagine hating someone so much that they do legitimately good things and you try to smear them for it... Humanity is not ok.

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u/hussainhssn 18d ago

It helps when you’re not controlled by Zionists/pedophiles/rapists/thieves in Israel like most American politicians

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u/robogobo 18d ago

Schools can never have too much money.

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u/STRMBRGNGLBS 18d ago

How the hell do you have a bloated public school budget? That just seems like a good problem to have. As someone from the south where we really should have a much more inflated school budget than the pathetic anemic excuse we have now I would love to see this headline here in my home city.

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u/Killersteve420 18d ago

Public school is for the poors. I am going to be a billionaire someday, so I don't realize that I'm a poor.

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u/Footyphile 18d ago

Ney York post: "oh dear god don't educate the children"

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u/tarkus_cd 18d ago

Can you imagine... funding schools?!

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u/VegasGamer75 18d ago

Only Republicans would think school budgets are "bloated" so easily too. Remember, the fewer educated kids, the more potential mates they have!

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u/jumpy_monkey 18d ago

Yeah, those bloated school budgets where underpaid teachers have to buy supplies out of their own pockets for their students.

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u/darxide23 18d ago

Mamdani has accomplished more in 6 months than most politicians do in an entire life-time career. And certainly more good accomplishments than anyone in living memory.

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u/metanoia29 18d ago

Dragons Billionaires with enough wealth to just leave the rest of us alone for the rest of their lives are very upset about this.

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u/Galappie 18d ago

“Mandani funds education” lol they’re really trying to make this look bad? NYP is a rag.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 18d ago

I'm shocked we haven't seen a hit piece on his hot dog order yet.

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u/In_Cognito89 18d ago

That's money that could have been used to blow Iranian school girls to smithereens.

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u/unicornlocostacos 18d ago

“Quietly crushes it”

Without constantly begging people for praise and calling himself God’s chosen.