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Post by PaulsLaugh on May 10, 2023 12:14:19 GMT
Shoot me some better ideas
You can boarden your horizons.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 10, 2023 12:22:03 GMT
Shoot me some better ideas
You can boarden your horizons.
I'm already board with this conversation
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Post by Meseia on May 10, 2023 19:41:45 GMT
Some points are spot on, market-based healthcare way underperforms socialized health care while costing loads more. Our public schools are underperforming when taken in aggregate because we are a large country with many poor areas that drag down the average. I don't agree that other countries have "freedom" in the same context. Canada bans everything and you soon might get arrested for using the wrong pronoun. England arrests teens for posting rap lyrics and it's one of the most oppressive countries in history bar none, and still has a monarchy. Australia does not have freedom of speech, and for a long time imported stolen children to use as child slaves labor, where young women typically had to prostitute their way out of it. And all of the countries he mentioned are a fraction of our size and mostly white with very little diversity. So while there is truth in some of what he says, it lacks context and really is just another way of shitting on the United States which is the driver behind many of our current problems. No, not the kind of free speech like you do but we still have voices ie the right to protest and criticize government. Then again how free is free speech when the FBI gets involved in elections and tries to silence oppositional information ie Twitter and Facebook in regards to the New York Post's Hunter Biden article (Russian disinformation) No country is without sin. What about African Americans and native Americans? Were they treated so well in the past? Africans were brought here by the monarchies who made immense wealth from selling them. Australia was importing stolen children well into the 1800s. My point is that none of the countries he mentions are comparable to the US in diversity, size, freedom, or population. Not everything scales per capita. The biggest problem with the USA is everyone, including our politicians and media, trying to find problems with the USA. If everyone focuses on the negative, real or imagined, it becomes worse or real.
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Post by dlancer on May 10, 2023 20:30:02 GMT
Less culture war idiots pretending they're doing it "for the children" would definitely help.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 11, 2023 1:42:57 GMT
Less culture war idiots pretending they're doing it "for the children" would definitely help.
That's been the BS rallying cry for teachers unions for years
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Post by dlancer on May 11, 2023 2:48:23 GMT
Less culture war idiots pretending they're doing it "for the children" would definitely help.
That's been the BS rallying cry for teachers unions for years
At least teachers have experience working with children to make that call.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 11, 2023 11:56:33 GMT
That's been the BS rallying cry for teachers unions for years
At least teachers have experience working with children to make that call.
Too bad all these years of "YES!" voting and more spending hasn't shown up in the RESULTS categories.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2023 13:08:40 GMT
Just wait a few years, seems to be on that trajectory.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 11, 2023 13:57:47 GMT
Just wait a few years, seems to be on that trajectory.
Are you gong to count the 2nd Civil War deaths?
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2023 16:31:47 GMT
Just wait a few years, seems to be on that trajectory.
Are you gong to count the 2nd Civil War deaths?
Why am I doing the counting?
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Post by abbey1227 on May 12, 2023 12:20:21 GMT
Are you gong to count the 2nd Civil War deaths?
Why am I doing the counting?
Fine, I'll find someone else.
Though I did really enjoy The Accountant.........can't believe they didn't opt for a sequel.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2023 12:41:03 GMT
Why am I doing the counting?
Fine, I'll find someone else.
Though I did really enjoy The Accountant.........can't believe they didn't opt for a sequel.
Anna Kendrick is quirky cute.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 12, 2023 13:12:51 GMT
Fine, I'll find someone else.
Though I did really enjoy The Accountant.........can't believe they didn't opt for a sequel.
Anna Kendrick is quirky cute.
she is kinda cute..........but dang, so skinny. Too skinny
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