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Remember, small impressionable children, oligarchy and rigged market capitalism is the only way, everything else is evil and anti-freedom, and remember to compete against your fellow Americans to try to get more than them!
For our next lesson, critical thinking and reasoning! Just kidding, we don't do that here. It doesn't help to make you better laborers.
And now onto history, open your textbooks to page 33:
- Damn that picture is pissing me off lol
  
  Imagine what Native Americans must think of such depictions.
I'm interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.
- as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it's pronounced correctly in American
- We just say bourgeois
- Burgers
  
  Boogers please. We ain't no uppity frogs.
- "job creators"
  
  I'm actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn't return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!
- I personally pronounce it fahrenheit
- Boo shwa zee
- I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?
  
  Feel like that's as correct as we can get, as Americans.
  
  A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.
- Borzshwah
- 'Boojz wah', or if I'm feeling silly bourguignon. But I'd probably be more likely to use 'middle class' instead of the French.
- Bourxjeauxaseaux
- Different ways, I usually say boo-jwah, bur-jwah is also one I've heard though.
- I and anyone I've heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://m.piped.video/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- Beurj-wah
Me when the science teacher says the earth is round /s
https://www.theragblog.com/lamar-w-hankins-slipping-creationism-into-texas-textbooks/
- this is gonna be texas in about 3 weeks at this rate
Reminds me of this scene in the big short:
Rabbi Scene
- I thought Jews were supposed to think critically about religion. After all, that's why Yahweh keeps the devil around, to question them.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  Rabbi Scene
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
my teacher last year was like this

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