• Moss [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 hours ago

    Being real how many teenagers are able to articulate this? The idea that material reality has a measurable effect on people isn’t even accepted in most of the USA. The lie of “work hard for good results, people deserve their place in the hierarchy” still has most adults fooled.

    Also for the record me and my friends were cool communists who read theory when we were 16 (unironically, genuinely, not a joke). Just gotta flex on everyone who took until adulthood to become cool

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      3 hours ago

      It’s also safe to assume that the vast majority of teenagers would rather die than get up in front of their entire school to give a speech for the explicit reason that they’re the worst student there.

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        Yeah for sure, also one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever known, consistently at the top of their class, was a queer person from a poor single parent family, and a lot of the people who underperformed in class were from wealthy farming families. So even if someone with terrible grades had to speak, they probably wouldn’t bring up material conditions