• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    That assumes that 1) “They” know what education you need for that, which may or may not be the case, and 2) that they don’t have some other reason to need you to have that education, such as a job that they need to be done that by nature requires such knowledge.

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      And if you follow the logic of the written caption, those who have overthrown others, often purge those who may have the education to overthrow them. They also then do the exact same thing Linus says to Marcie Lydia.

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        Revolutionaries historically have killed and abused the most educated among them. This is doubly true with communist and religious revolutions, which are the most common revolutions of the past 200 years.