Politics

Yea if I can get personal, I'm not planning to become a father once I get older. I'm a naturally high stress and anxiety person and while I'm decent with small children, the stress of parenthood would literally kill me. However, the last thing I want is for America to have the same problem as Japan.

To add onto this, as a fellow on the autism spectrum, a greater diversity of school types available to the general public will mean a greater ability to educate special needs students.

Teaching students to think??? Someone hasn't seen the news lately. If the student doesn't regurgitate what the professor spewed the student doesn't get a good grade. Extra credit given to those that protest any speaker coming to campus with a non-leftist viewpoint.

A paramount rule of politicians is to be able to blame an opponent for anything that is adverse to the constituents. I see the DemonRats are true to form blaming the president and the senate for the virus related issues of health and economy. I'm interested in seeing how they spin it so as to blame the president and senate for all of the deaths/illnesses resulting from the virus infecting the illegal immigrant and homeless populations.

Ray B said:

Teaching students to think??? Someone hasn't seen the news lately. If the student doesn't regurgitate what the professor spewed the student doesn't get a good grade. Extra credit given to those that protest any speaker coming to campus with a non-leftist viewpoint.

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There ya go. Teachers don't teach. They spit out what they are told to and "teach the test" with no critical thinking called for on the part of the students. As for disagreeing with the teachers and profs, I can relate to that. When I went back to college after getting out of the military I took a class on world affairs. Having been around a good part of the world I had a fair knowledge of how the world ran. The prof was a real left liberal and didn't like my pointing out his misinformation. Needless to say it didn't do my grade much good but a lot of the other students liked it.

I often disagreed with my professors on things like big game hunting but, being a massive pacifist, I usually don't press the issues. Fellow students were actually fairly chill and willing to listen tho I knew who to and not to talk to about such subjects. It also helps that I'm naturally inclined to want to maintain good relationships for grades and for future academic/career references. I personally find that older professors are the nicer ones whereas younger professors are a bit more volatile. Like this one Korean lady in my anthropology department was super nice to me and even heard me out when I explored hunting as a part of man's fascination with wildlife and nature. I even had my mom make her a woolen scarf.

Also, most teachers gotta teach the curriculum because otherwise they get fired and blacklisted. My HS math teacher was a nice person and she openly voiced her resentment for things like overtesting and elements of the curriculum that were basically there to advertise the capability of the TI calculators.

@tigris115 - Who is to give them these resources? You seem to be stuck in a top-down mode.

Leave their liberties largely unsullied, and that will be enough. Free people do not need to be provided with anything. They will mostly seek out what they want or need of their own accord.

sgt_zim said:

@tigris115 - Who is to give them these resources? You seem to be stuck in a top-down mode.

Leave their liberties largely unsullied, and that will be enough. Free people do not need to be provided with anything. They will mostly seek out what they want or need of their own accord.

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Nah, I was trying to say that our current system teaches children to be another cog in the machine with all these tests and numbers (iirc, the skeleton of our current educational system originated in the Industrial Revolution). So we have to do away with that and teach the youth the critical thinking skills. IMO, if you want to make any social change, start with children.

As for me being stuck in the top-down model, old ideas die slow and hard.

How I feel about disrespectful spoiled little rich brats !

I feel like getting angry at Greta is the equivalent of yelling at a marionette when the puppeteer called you an asshole.

tigris115 said:

Nah, I was trying to say that our current system teaches children to be another cog in the machine with all these tests and numbers (iirc, the skeleton of our current educational system originated in the Industrial Revolution). So we have to do away with that and teach the youth the critical thinking skills. IMO, if you want to make any social change, start with children.

As for me being stuck in the top-down model, old ideas die slow and hard.

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Of course they do. But you're a young whipper-snapper. Easier for you than for some of us.

I've arrived where I am over about 30 years of reading and thinking. I wasn't a lot different from you when I was a young man.

tigris115 said:

I feel like getting angry at Greta is the equivalent of yelling at a marionette when the puppeteer called you an asshole.

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Agreed. The puppeteer should be flogged for abusing a disabled child the way she is being done. She has been used to make an appeal to emotion. Even if she weren't mentally handicapped, she's far to young to grasp what is being done to her.

Does she even realize what she's saying or is she repeating what the puppeteer tells her? I get the impression that she's being used as an emotional headliner (preying on other people's emotions).

' Greta invited the Chinese to give up using chopsticks to save trees!
The Chinese have called on her and her friends to go back to school, where they will learn that chopsticks are made from bamboo, Bamboo is grass!
The Chinese invited Greta and her friends not to wipe their butt with toilet paper, because it's made from trees! "

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-to...t-unusual-disruptions-in-markets-11584033537/

1. This is a crap idea. You can't just drop money down a well, wish for a Pegasus, and expect the feathered horse to come to you, ready to ride into the sunset. Remember 2008. This is pretty socialist as well.

2. If it feels like I didn't read the article, it's because I don't have a WSJ subscription and I'm too lazy to hunt down someone else's account.

An excerpt from Rush’s show today. . .


I went back and looked at the stats and I was stunned. Are you ready for this? The swine flu outbreak in this country in 2009 and 2010, 60 million Americans were infected. Do you remember that? Sixty million were infected. Dr. Siegel, one of the Fox doctors was on TV explaining this last night. He was not my primary source for it, but he ended up confirming it. Sixty million people were infected.

Do you know how many people were hospitalized in 2009-2010 with the swine flu? Three hundred thousand were hospitalized. So 60 million people infected, 300,000 hospitalized. And nobody even remembers it. And why?

Well, because we had a different president. We had a Democrat president by the name of Barack Obama, and the news then was how wonderfully well Obama was handling it, how expertly well Obama was dealing with it.

There wasn’t any media panic. The Republican Party did not politicize it at all. They made not one single effort that anybody can find or remember to try to make political hay out of it. It was treated as a health issue from top to bottom. Sixty million Americans infected, 300,000 hospitalized. I don’t know what the death toll was. The numbers with the coronavirus are not even close. They are barely a fraction of a percentage compared to the swine flu.

And then we also had Ebola. And I do remember a little bit more about Ebola, and once again, the Drive-By Media was praising the skills and the composure and the brilliance of Barack Obama in dealing with it. And I remember being kind of ticked off about that because there wasn’t anything anybody can do about Ebola. Ebola is like any of these other viruses. There’s nothing we can do to contain them.

See, the reason I’m not panicked is I don’t have enough emotion left for panic ’cause I’m too mad. I’m too ticked off at this. We’re watching the U.S. economy be wrecked here. There’s some people enjoying it. And it makes me mad. There’s some people’s lives here that are being seriously damaged over this. And you know what’s gonna happen? It’s gonna end. We are going to overcome it. It’s going to fizzle out like all of these do.

tigris115 said:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-to...t-unusual-disruptions-in-markets-11584033537/

1. This is a crap idea. You can't just drop money down a well, wish for a Pegasus, and expect the feathered horse to come to you, ready to ride into the sunset. Remember 2008. This is pretty socialist as well.

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Bingo. Money buys nothing. It's what money represents - productive effort traded in kind, value for value - that buys stuff.