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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I wish the mouthpieces of rich assholes, like these tools from NNU, would support teaching factual history. It’s nice that a Scotsman from the 1770s thinks parents need to pay for school or else they won’t care about educating their kids. I don’t find Smith’s opinions binding, or particularly actionable in 2023.

    When I went through Idaho public schools, our history class never mentioned the fighting and midnight flight of the Idaho state capital from Lewiston to Boise in the 1860s. No mention was made of the Army called out to illegally imprison hundreds of miners in the 1890s to help break the many strikes. No mention was made of the mining union, or the IWW, organizing thousands of Idahoans for fair wages and treatment. No mention was made of former governor Stuenenberg being blown up with a bomb in his mailbox in 1905.

    The monied interests have been corrupting politics, exploiting workers, rewriting history, and lining their pockets in Idaho as long as there have been monied interests. They continue to do so today, as witnessed by these 3rd tier Chicago-school pudknockers from Nampa.

    The monied interests are still here, fucking over the Idaho political and education systems. It’s no wonder that 2/3 of the U of Idaho students leave the state after graduation.