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No u!
Seriously, do you even vote in your local school board elections? I do. If so, what criteria do you use? I vote according to the educational platform they propose.
None of that has anything to do with merit of qualifications that are hypothetically being raised as criteria for evaluating a school board member's performance or competency.
It's not demanding answers, it's pointing out the typical lemmy/reddit hypocracy of sitting on a illusory high horse, getting outraged, and refusing to actually deal with the problem on your local level where you do have the ability to make a difference.
or if you want to be really extreme, you could move to this district in TN and run for school board yourself.
I dont think you can follow up with "seriously" after that.
You have already diminished the seriousness and effectiveness of this conversation to practically none, so this then becomes a conversation for fun... Which I dont find you to be.
You do nothing but try to find things to get offended about.
Says the person that hunted down one of my other comments after I didnt agree with their rude take.
To see your quality, and it was the same across all of your comments. You just look for comments to take the wrong way and get offended by, I saw 3 others besides mine in a few minutes.
You don't really have anything to contribute do you?
No I just disagree with you and others. It happens from time to time. Its called having an opinion. Its a shocking revelation, I know.
You disagree that it's ok to ask why representatives don't represent the population? Got it.
Why lie when we are the only 2 people that will ever see these comments? That isn't where you started and not alone in the things you have said that can be disagreed with.
Its pretty silly.