The famous documentary Ferris Bueller’s Day Off demonstrates why forty years later our leaders elected Tariff Man. (Classic comedy actually if you’ve never seen it)

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    The teacher in this scene was played by Ben Stein, who was a speechwriter for both Nixon and Ford. His father also worked for Nixon as an economic advisor.

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    Holy shit. The deadpan presentation, the different variations between boredom and “for god’s sake, I’m actually trying to pay attention!”

    Pure gold. 🤣

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    I want to argue against this point, but it’s true that the quality of instructor can make the difference, plus any time I dare to sneak back on Facebook and see the posts from various high school classmates that I friended long ago… all I can say is not all of Gen-X are idiots, like any other grouping. But damn, some of them are.