The USA Political Thread

[lennco]

Here you can spout your USA political views.

Rules:
1. Keep it clean
2. No fighting
3. Respect the views of others.
4. US Political views, No Religious views
5. Have fun

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[Domainace]

Okay, that's something interesting to explore. Is there some reference material to back up that information about most journalists donating to Democrats?

https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journalist_donations_go_to_Democrats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...licans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/

Don't know about the first link, but the WAPO is notoriously hostile to the right. And even they agree. There are plenty of sources. The right is being systematically silenced. Everybody should be concerned. Today it's the right, tomorrow it's the left. If people don't speak up for others, there will be no one to speak for them when their time comes.

 

[Domainace]

And are most/all states still using this education model today?

As far as I know, most developed nations, including Canada and Japan, adopted the Prussian model of education. Education is just one of the many institutions that are becoming obsolete and will need complete overhauls. Education today is a grotesque waste of time at best, child abuse at worst. 12 years of life spent learning to conform and obey. The actual learning of value could be done in a year or two with motivated students.

 

[Joe N]

https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journalist_donations_go_to_Democrats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...licans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/

Don't know about the first link, but the WAPO is notoriously hostile to the right. And even they agree. There are plenty of sources. The right is being systematically silenced. Everybody should be concerned. Today it's the right, tomorrow it's the left. If people don't speak up for others, there will be no one to speak for them when their time comes.

Interesting. I mean, I totally buy into the notion that media in general is more left leaning. I'd be curious to explore why, and how that came to be, but I guess that's another discussion.

I think what I've had issue for most of Trump's presidency are the assertions that mainstream media are all making up news. I mean... yes, I get that conservative narratives don't get as much play as liberal stories, but I haven't seen anything to convince me that there's an organized conspiracy to actively misinform people.

 

[rh2000]

Oops.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324490206326738946

 

[Cannuck]

As far as I know, most developed nations, including Canada and Japan, adopted the Prussian model of education. Education is just one of the many institutions that are becoming obsolete and will need complete overhauls. Education today is a grotesque waste of time at best, child abuse at worst. 12 years of life spent learning to conform and obey. The actual learning of value could be done in a year or two with motivated students.

I agree, that is one of the projects I am currently working on. I take this approach:

 

[Joe N]

As far as I know, most developed nations, including Canada and Japan, adopted the Prussian model of education. Education is just one of the many institutions that are becoming obsolete and will need complete overhauls. Education today is a grotesque waste of time at best, child abuse at worst. 12 years of life spent learning to conform and obey. The actual learning of value could be done in a year or two with motivated students.

It's definitely archaic in some ways. I've seen evidence at least where I am that efforts are being made to modernize some of the methods and the subject matter. I'm starting to see a little more focus on learning "real" things (budgeting, cooking, building) rather than just conceptual academia.

 

[sonatime]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1137970/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[Cannuck]

Here's the butt of the truth, call it what you may, Trump's Education reform mirrors the same patriotic education plan as in communist China.

 

[JB Lions]

President Biden giving a speech right now.

Trump did have some nice boat parades and big crowds.

 

[HotKey]

Well. That's what a president sounds like.

 

[HotKey]

I hope he brings the goods for you guys, I really do. America needs it so do the rest of us.

 

[GILSAN]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1137970/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Great video for @Joe Nichols to see... if he so feels!

 

[JB Lions]

"Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has the coronavirus. Meadows informed a close circle of advisers after the election. "

Trumpers would say he didn't actually catch Covid, he caught the hoax.

And another record, 132,000+ cases today - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324924848217477121

 

[jberryhill]

God, some people will believe anything...

No, a US federal agency is not putting watermarks on ballots produced by the individual states, regardless of an out-of-context infographic explaining different types of security measures that can be implemented...

https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol

New

Reality: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) do not design or audit ballots, which are processes managed by state and local election officials.

Rumor: DHS or CISA printed paper ballots with security measures and is auditing results as a countermeasure against ballot counterfeiting.

Get the Facts: While DHS and CISA assist states and localities with securing election infrastructure, DHS and CISA do not design, print, or audit ballots. State and local election officials manage ballot design and printing, as well as the auditing of results.

Local election offices have security and detection measures in place that make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots. While the specific measures vary, in accordance with state and local election laws and practices, ballot security measures can include signature matching, information checks, barcodes, watermarks, and precise paper weights.


DHS and CISA operate in support of state and local election officials, and do not administer elections or handle ballots. CISA’s role in election security includes sharing information, such as cyber threat indicators, with state and local election officials, as well as providing technical cybersecurity services (e.g. vulnerability scanning) upon the request of those officials.

 

[sonatime]

Great video for @Joe Nichols to see... if he so feels!

Are you kidding me? he is probably teaching that course

 

[JB Lions]

"Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has the coronavirus. Meadows informed a close circle of advisers after the election. "

Trumpers would say he didn't actually catch Covid, he caught the hoax.

And another record, 132,000+ cases today - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324924848217477121

This guy

 

[GILSAN]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324867717808050176

 

[Domainace]

I agree, that is one of the projects I am currently working on.

That's great. Just going through it with my own kids, and trying alternative ideas like "Democratic" Schools where the kids decide what they want to do. It all needs to be questions, and the subject matters being taught are just scratching the surface.

Why do kids go 5 days a week. Why not 3? Why not whenever they feel like? Why do they go at all? Why do they go all day? While are all kids the same age all grouped together? Why isn't there more mixing of ages? Why do they use traditional classrooms, the kids lined up in rows? Why are kids forced to learn what they don't want, which pretty much ensures they will lose interest and learn very little?

I have heard it described as throwing spaghetti at the wall. It takes years to teach something they could learn in 6 months if they were interested. So they just force it on the kids and hope some of it will stick.

I don't think the system can be reformed without breaking it down to the basics.

And this goes pretty much for banks, taxation, government, police, military, retail and any number of sacred institutions.

 

[GILSAN]

Justice Alito just ordered every single Pennsylvania county board of elections to segregate ballots received after election day.
And suggested that they all should have been doing that already, but that many had failed to do so...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1324888477708644352

 

[Joe N]

Great video for @Joe Nichols to see... if he so feels!

Why was I singled out to watch this? Just wondering.