Stuff like this is why I left Facebook.

[LuckyCharms]

Not the satirical article, but the response. There are a lot of people like this out there. And they probably vote. This makes me cry.

[NCTraveler]

1. The person who responded....

Probably received a public education. Overseen, in part, by the same group they want protecting them.

Just a whole vicious circle. Keep 'em dumb.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Not sure what the state of your area's public education is, but mine produces top college candidates

[NCTraveler]

3. That is awesome to here.

Even though it’s a given. Yes, Moon Lake, sections of South St. Pete, and other areas around me have failing education systems.

I do understand there are vast differences regionally. Thanks for highlighting a huge part of the problem.

[writerJT]

5. My public education taught me the difference

between “here” and “hear.”

[Ms. Toad]

7. I was about to make the same comment . . .

People who live in glass houses, and all that.

[NCTraveler]

12. That mistake does not mitigate my accurate...

Description of public education. The “glass house” argument should have died long ago considering its intent.

It is funny. I’ll give you that. What a time for me to make such a basic error. I was sidetracked transferring profits into my account. Probably shouldn’t post when I’m doing that.

[NCTraveler]

9. Interestingly enough...

I spent most of my time in private schools.

[Orrex]

10. .

[TheBlackAdder]

8. We have towns near us who do vote to keep education costs low, it ripples to their town/property values.

The residents think that they are saving several hundred or a thousand dollars a year on property taxes, when just that little amount causes people who can afford to leave their communities to do so and that ushers in a slowly forming economic blight. Property values lower, rateables start to drop as more Gold to Cash stores start to open and larger national businesses shun the area. Crime starts to go up, which just takes a little to further devalue people's residential investments and a calling goes out to increase police presence, which incurs more of a drain on tight municipal budgets. Other services are cut back, as landscaping, roadway, curbing and sidewalk repair wanes, fire departments slowly become outmoded, etc. This further degrades the town's curb appeal. Since education is the largest nut, more calls to reduce teachers and salaries are made, causing a return to the first sentence.

[NCTraveler]

11. Thank you.

Well rounded statement. Not that you aren’t aware already.

[MGKrebs]

4. Of course it's fake news. It's The Onion. Says so right on the picture.

That's what they do.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. Remember the Onion article about the abortion mall

and all the outrage it created? I think it even got a mention from one of the Fox News talking heads...

https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640

And here's the dumb congressman who fell for the story...

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/congressman-falls-months-old-onion-story-about-planned-parenthood-abortionplex/332189/

[samnsara]

13. seems like a blowtorch could cut thru that rusty ol fence