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  • randon31415@lemmy.world
    65·
    11 days ago

    Shhhhh… let it pass. The generation after D.A.R.E. made marijuana legal. What do you think kids will do when teachers start saying socialism is bad and that they should stay away from it?

    • Primer - Zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
      30·
      11 days ago

      my history teacher in high school (around 2010) was pretty anti-socialist policy, but his arguments against it made it sound pretty good to me so you might have a point there.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      20·
      11 days ago

      If DARE is any indication they’ll come home and start crying that their dad is clearly a Communist and should be in rehab because he supports unions once a day

      (My brother was convinced that our father was an alcoholic because he frequently had a single beer after work)

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        51·
        10 days ago

        I wasn’t crying or everything, but I was definitely worried that my dad was an alcoholic from what I was taught in school because he had wine with dinner and when friends came over for a dinner party, they would bring a bottle of wine. I was reassured pretty quickly that he wasn’t thankfully.

        Then I realized the exact opposite was true when I was in high school- there were so many bottles of wine and booze in the house because of people bringing them over all the time (professors have each other over for dinner constantly) that we had a basement room half-full of them, all on the floor, and I could just grab one when I wanted.

        It’s a good thing I didn’t become an alcoholic myself.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      111·
      10 days ago

      The people who are all Trump’s age were taught that socialism is bad and they should stay away from it in school back in the 1950s. And they believed it because, unlike cannabis, you can’t experience it for yourself while in the U.S.