Adjusted for inflation, the federal government simply spend less on education than we used to (ref1). And that doesn't even account for the fact that the population has grown.

Not that per student spending is the only or best metric to measure education. You could look at college graduation rates, in 1980 it's 16.2% and by 2020 it's 37.5%, so by that metric we're doing very well. (sorry, Statisa won't provide me the source unless I pay the money. I had a hard time finding the 1980 graduation rates)

Looking at the statistic of "Attained Tertiary Education" on wikipedia, which convenient has linked reference.
    USA 43.1% (ref2)
    China 16.1% (ref3)

From that point of view, the USA is winning. Right?
Not really, it's also a bad metric (I chose it intentionally). Take into account China's long-term strategy, which is no open secret. We saw a dramatic increase in the influx of Chinese students into American Universities, becoming the dominate source of international students for US schools. And now we see their numbers going back down, after Chinese Universities were built and expanded over the years. We would of course expect a shift, with cheaper and improved schools in China reducing the number of foreign students applying to US schools.

Long-term what does this even mean?
It means China has a plan and they have been executing on that plan for decades.

What's the US's plan?

*ref1: Education Spending Declined During 80’s, Report Says
*ref2: S1501 - Educational Attainment
*ref3: 4-4 Population aged 25 and over by region, sex, and educational attainment

When you arrived in Nuremberg, did it feel like you had finally made it home?

Welcome to making science content for the masses and all ages, you do have to simplify things a bit.

I don't think it was PBS that was stopping local broadcasters from doing that up to this point, PBS exists because most places do not in fact produce such content given their own initiatives. Video production is more accessible today than anytime in history, nothing was stopping this.

STEM students who can't hack it should be shuffled to the trades.

Oh college students are supposed to spare the feelings of conservatives. Maybe they need their own safe spaces they clamored against for rage bait for so long.

By conservative media I mean the entire apparatus from Fox, to the alternative cable networks, to the social media influencers to the podcasts to the Youtube channels where they are all lockstep in talking points and messaging.

Where do I get my viewpoints from? Probably what youd call "liberal" media but I almost don't really trust them so I like to look at source documents because most headlines and "just so" narratives (like all colleges being dominated by super progressive wokies) are true a littl ebit but nowhere near the degree.

Also I'm not the one out ehre making really strong claims with really strong opinions and when pressed if they are accurate respond back with "well, let me go ask gpt if that's actually true"

New and improved! Now with 21st century anarcho-capitalism in every bite.

First off that's talking about guests, guests aren't typically paid for appearances you silly goose.

Also how many liberals are guests on Fox, Newsmax, OANN, etc? Also they don't mentioned if the I'm sure reputable journalists at... let's check, fucking Newsbusters (says a lot about your media diet) did their journalistic due diligence and asked PBS why that was the case. Maybe they ask a bunch of conservatives and they get turned down because so many of them prefer to go to their multitiude of safe spaces where they can circle jerk each other and never have to face a challenging question (like the President!)

Yet again, if you all want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine by all means, let's have at it but you all are the ones who killed it.

Then why should anyone put the effort in to watching it?
That's the problem with AI slop. You cut humans out of one end of the equation but don't realize that also is going to remove humans for the other end.

The media executives of the world must think we're all pretty stupid if they think that your average consumer is OK with ever decreasing quality of content. It gets to a point where watching grass grow is more entertaining than confusing moronic slop, and nobody is getting paid then.

I will take your non answer as "yes, i get this viewpoint from social and conservative media". Moving on.

Point out where I said that.

Banning arguments or speakers is cringe and should not happen on campus but again, I don't think that happens as much as conservative media wants us to believe.

If you are ideas are unpopular or you are dogshit at arguing them out (most conservatives today) that's different, that's called get better arguments.

Not the college kids fault the conservative movement is bereft of principles or ideas. College Republican groups exist in like almost every school, their elders have just left them adrift outside of support of Trump.

Now tell us how long it took to put this together, what all the data processing time cost and compare that to the day or two to pay a competent editor to put a recap together.

I swear half the things these companies want to replace employees with is literally just malice, they just hate having to acknowledge some people have skill syou have to pay them for, it eats the executives up. They don't care if it costs more so long as some employees get screwed, they need to know their place.

Turns out you were a woke DEI hire all along.

Also let's not beat around the bush, when Trump says anithetical to the United States he means himself. Antithetical to him. Not allowed!

They are as subservient as the managers and owners want them to be, most engineers are employees. \

But they are way way more beholden to the finance guys today than say 1940-1970.

Do you attend or work at a university or is this all coming from alternative and social media reporting? There's a pretty stark difference between say, law and economics departments and your liberal arts department.

Colleges are filled with 18-24 year olds, how do we expect them to act? Also you're in college, you're not supposed to be "avoiding" alternative viewpoints and arguments, its actually where youre supposed to confront and discuss them, you're supposed to have some radical thinking in college, it's the last place you can do those things before adulthood.

In short: All of this is the consequence of post-WW2 ultra-empowerment of the executive by the legislature.
We like to blame the guy instead of the laws that enable him.

The system was designed to survive a mini-mussolini. The system was not designed to protect against a legislature that did not jealously guard its power.

And neither does humanities or social sciences is my point. The dominance of "woke progressive" programs is a conservative media bogeyman creation, as I said.

Also you do still need humanities and arts. We agree on business and law being flooded so I would prefer those people go into arts besides thoughts. America has dominated arts and entertainment for like a century.