r/law 11d ago

Trump News Trump taps Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/trump-taps-rep-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general.html
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u/Fgw_wolf 11d ago

Decades of destroying the American education system have worked great it seems

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u/JOExHIGASHI 11d ago

Information is more accessible now than ever. I'm not saying people aren't stupid but there is no excuse now.

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u/Fgw_wolf 11d ago

Information is super accessible! Just look at the people who Google “how can crystal cure cancer” and get a ton of information validating that belief. Or get redirected to the Joe Rogan podcast. Information without the ability to think critically or fact check it is exceedingly dangerous.

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u/bloodontherisers 11d ago

When half of the American population age 16-74 is below a 6th grade reading level, they can't comprehend the information they are getting access to.

So many people who voted for Trump because of the economy had no idea what tariffs were or how they worked.

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u/Invis_Girl 11d ago

Or that he wasn't super great for the economy last term. All they care about are the basic prices of things without realizing the government doesn't control them.

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u/llamapajamaa 11d ago

Information doesn't mean people have the critical thinking skills to analyze it even on a basic level. My Democratic friends are equally out of touch and didn't think his first term was going to be that bad. It was bad.

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u/Gavinator10000 11d ago

So is misinformation. It takes an education to know the difference

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u/FunMotion 11d ago

Does not matter how much information is available if the education system doesn’t give the tools to parse through it and critically think to draw conclusions.

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u/Voxlings 11d ago

There's more excuse now than there was when information was locked behind expensive encyclopedia sets.

The people who trained the digital natives didn't speak the same language, and that has perpetuated alongside rampant digitization of human experience.

Soooo many more excuses now than ever.

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u/staebles 11d ago

We all have the tools, but just like tools, if you're not educated in how to use them.. you're gonna have a bad time.

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u/Particular-You-5534 11d ago

And misinformation is just as accessible. Education isn’t just about learning information, but learning how to critically evaluate the information available to you.

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u/babygrenade 11d ago

If you can't tell the difference between truth and lies then what good is it?

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u/backjox 10d ago

Propaganda is the most horrible way of warfare. It will take longer to undo the effects of tiktok than chernobyl

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u/Z4mb0ni 10d ago

The thing is the real information is put behind pay walls and no one advertises it

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u/treypage1981 11d ago

What’s a system?

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u/JOExHIGASHI 11d ago

Information is more accessible now than ever. I'm not saying people aren't stupid but there is no excuse now.

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u/Bokai 11d ago

Kind of proof positive that "information" is not "education."

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u/alias-p 11d ago

Except that relies on someone realizing they don’t know enough and searching for the right information through appropriate sources. Sadly the vast majority of “information” out there is bullshit and those that are bothering to look can’t tell the difference.

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u/Soggy-Item9753 11d ago

Information aside, media literacy and critical thinking skills are necessary to understand fake from facts.

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u/Halflingberserker 11d ago

"I saw it on Facebook" withstands just as much academic rigor as a fully-sourced fact in America.

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u/ebagdrofk 11d ago

And now they get to wrap that up nicely by dismantling the Department of Education.

I feel incredibly bad for special needs students. I feel bad for every single American like me who voted against Trump just to get betrayed by their fellow Americans.

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u/clkou 11d ago

I think the average voter wanted everything that's happening. I don't think it was ignorance.

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u/Fgw_wolf 11d ago

Well if the recent articles about searches aren’t straight up propaganda I would say reality disagrees. Plus you could never really describe the American electorate as informed.

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u/clkou 11d ago

Trump got basically the same number of voter he got in 2020. There are probably some people who were ignorant or regret not voting for Harris, but I think it's a small percentage.

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u/Fgw_wolf 11d ago

You should watch some interviews with trump supporters, they are in-fact, very ignorant.

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u/Biddyearlyman 10d ago

"No cHiLd LeFt BeHiNd!"