MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
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I do think they want to fix the problem. It’s really hard to find a group of people who insist on doing the exact opposite of what everyone who works with young men is screaming for them to do and not eventually come to the conclusion that the problem is “they just can’t figure out what to do.”
What has worked for pretty much all of human history is a purpose, a sense of responsibility, and feelings of competence. There are ways to do this, it’s not even that hard. Get them out doing useful things, competing in sports or other activities. Give them male only spaces. They’ll be fine. And if you pay attention to what kinds of messages young men gravitate to, it’s messages exactly like that— calls to purpose, to doing hard things and building something worthwhile. They eat up Jordan Peterson, Jocko, and other similar figures.
With the correct direction so obvious, I find it weird to think that all of the phDs worried about young men have absolutely no idea how to make them healthier. I don’t see it, I see people who look at boys as failed girls and men as failed women and goes about trying to turn the young men into women. It’s doesn’t work, but I’m not convinced it was ever supposed to make men more mentally healthy. It seems more about making sure men are in a sense as domesticated as women are by nature— willing to sit down, shut up and do as he’s told.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
Wouldn’t the line be some sort of contractual obligation for some sort of pay? If I’m doing chores to be nice, then there’s no obligation to do so and no expectation of getting anything in return. If she’s watching children and keeping house in return for something— education, shelter, or money, that’s pretty clearly work. Making something you sell is work, making something and giving it away isn’t.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I’m not inclined to take the story charitably simply because in a lot of cases where lawyers are involved and the terminology in vague, it’s because it’s not particularly helpful to the client. If she were helping with farm work, or cleaning the house or something of that vein, even if she’d instagrammed it, it’s something that you could explain. If she uploaded a comic or a piece of art from America, that’s something you can’t easily get away with because you are a professional artist uploading art sample for purchase. I can’t say as to what the ICE officer saw, but given that the defense is extremely vague on the point, it’s probably more than just washing the dishes twice a week.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I tend toward a soft colonialism just because I think it’s actually more peaceful and stable, while allowing for the development of land and resources that ethnic tribes might not be able to do.
It’s more peaceful because as I see it the “every tribe needs and deserves a state” is a cause of strife, rather than a prevention for that strife. Most ethnic groups are too small or weak to actually achieve independence. They assert a right the global elite tell them they have, but they actually can’t for geopolitical reasons. Palestinians will never have a state. They cannot take one any more than the Cherokee could in America. But the Cherokee who were sent to a reservation in 1840 or so live in relative peace and safety because they are not trying to assert a “right” they don’t have and frankly never did. Palestinians are still fighting, and committing war crimes while doing so, because they came to the same position in the post war world where everyone is entitled to an ethnostate. Who’s better off, Cherokee or Palestinians? And in some cases like Ukraine, they’re “independent” but their neighbors are much stronger than they are and thus they must go along mostly with that stronger neighbor because they can’t afford to get in a war they’d lose.
It’s more stable because it doesn’t have various tribes fighting over strips of land nearby for farming right, water rights, minerals, or strategic advantage. The border is drawn and that’s it.
It allows for development because the most advanced society tends to run the empire and thus have the technology and skill to extract resources and use the land efficiently. Britain knows how to run a mine. It’s rather doubtful that the Zulu can do the same. If some rich natural resources sit under Zulustan they’ll stay there because people who live in mud huts can’t run a mine like the British can.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I don’t think she really expected to stay, which is why she only did so after she’d already decided she was leaving, and decided to basically quit spectacularly in a way that she hoped would shame her boss into fighting Trump. I’m kinda assuming her end goal is to leverage her “do something” screed into a sinecure at a legal NGO fighting for liberal causes. She was probably job hunting before this in that sector and hoped that the fame she got for resisting would get her noticed.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I’m not buying it simply because I don’t see anything to make me believe that he’s ramping up to start a war. No reporting of troop movements even on the Canadian side, no announcement of anything of that sort. It’s not something you can just do on a whim. Canada isn’t just going to roll over and become part of the USA. You need tanks and planes mobilized on the border.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I’m rather partial to the idea that this is a collapsed society in some sense. It really explains quite a lot.
First of all, the technology itself doesn’t seem to progress much throughout the series as we see it. The millennium falcon is high tech in ANH and is still high tech a full generation later. There are few if any improvements on much of anything. Even things like displays, weapons, communications devices, and tools don’t seem to improve over time. If anything, they’re worse.
Then looking at the way technology is used, kept up and repaired, it often appears that much of it is left over from a previous age and kept up by ad how repairs by the owner of the technology. Everything in that universe is old, used, breaking down, falling apart. The Falcon is in service for fifty years, and was a used ship won on a bet when Han got it. It might well have been built 75 or 100 years ago and repaired by the owner as needed. Speaking of which, I don’t think, other than the battle droid factory, there’s much evidence of wide scale production of high tech goods. There’s not even an advertisement for new models of personal spaceships.
Further evidence of the collapse is seen in the state of law and law enforcement. No matter who is in charge of the galaxy, it’s pretty lawless. Piracy is common, slavery is common in the outer rim, mafia like gangs hold entire planets along the outer rim. The Empire or Republic only really seem to have symbolic control. They stick up a flag, but other than that, I don’t think they actually control much beyond the core worlds. I’m not even convinced that most people know who runs the government of the galaxy, and even if they did, it’s too far away and weak to actually matter, where the local warlord governing your planet matters quite a bit in most people’s lives. Tatoine residents probably worry more about what Jabba thinks and wants than Palpatine or the current head of the Republic.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I just followed the advice of the guy above me and replaced Th with Ð. That’s all I did. If you think it’s Jamaican cool. I like the idea of simplifying th3 phonetic system, and I think adding ć for ch and ś for sh would be cool as well (both come from polish)
But of course it’s probably never happening, so the kids will have to suffer digraphs.
Śe sold seaśells at ðe seaśore just looks cool.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
Not only that the “tax the rich” thing only works until you start living on your own and get into a permanent job. It’s popular with college kids because they don’t pay taxes and would get free money, essentially. But once you see your first check at a full time salaried job and realize that you’re paying nearly 40 of your check to the government, the appeal of “gibs” goes down a lot.
It’s one of the biggest red pills that people get alongside having a child and owning a house. Once you see how these things affect your life and family, you get cured of socialism really quickly because you realize that you are the one who will pay for it all.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
Ðis is ðe way.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I don’t think there’s a window, but I think the limit comes with the complexity of texts that would hold the attention of a child that age. First graders are fine with very simple stories using simple words and concepts. A fourth grader wants to read more complex stuff.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I think it’s less about the teachers and more about the kids. Somehow teachers started to think that they need to be “entertaining” to get kids to learn things, so things that work (like learning phonics, or memorizing times tables, or memorizing the dates and people in historical events) but are boring for kids don’t happen. Instead, there are a lot of silly but fun trendy ways of teaching— dramas, artwork, imagining yourself as someone in that event, etc. they don’t work, but the kids have fun and that’s what matters especially for elementary school teachers. Then the kids who don’t know the basics eventually reach a plateau and the methods that they could use to figure out what they don’t know are things they never learned to do. Whole word and guessing based on pictures doesn’t work when you’re reading a dense textbook with no pictures.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I think we’re largely on the same page. I honestly think that most o& the trends end up hurting the below average kids. And when adding in the reduced instruction time to make room for The Narrative, those kids are toast. A smart kid can learn on his own so taking away class time for LGBTQ stuff or Black History or whatever isn’t a big deal. If you have a kid who’s falling behind, he needs every second of help he can get.
Although to be honest, I think most of the problem of education is that we don’t track kids as many other developed countries do. Every kid is put on the college bound track unless he specifically wants off, and the culture pushes college to an absurd degree meaning that unless they’re introduced to other tracks, the current will carry them to university and they won’t be able to keep up. If you track kids, not only can you tailor the methods o& instruction to what best serves that group of students, but you can make sure that they end up with skills they can use to support themselves.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I mean, I think it depends on the person. People in tech and entertainment want to be in California because those industries are centered in California. That does create a certain demographic who wants to live in California because they’re wealthy enough to pay to live there.
Even in red states, you find people clustered in red areas around blue cities. People want to work in the big cities because the high value industries are clustered in cities. If possible, they prefer to live in red counties that surround those cities because it’s cheaper and has less crime. And I think the reason for the people willing to live in California for those industries, it’s a combination of those industries being very lucrative and the relative distance between LA or San Francisco and the nearest available cheap red state housing. In my area, you can live in bright red Arnold MO and commute to bright blue St. Louis in about an hour. Most middle class people do that because it’s cheaper, safer, and easier than trying to live in the city.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I think the idea that the states won’t ever do their own work in some form or fashion is false. And this is the entire premise of DOGE — much of what the federal government is doing is not something it should be doing, and in fact so much of it has not only not helped, but has caused real harm. We have a Department of Education that not only doesn’t educate our kids, but wastes our money basically standing in the way of kids learning the very basic concepts they need to understand their world. They’ve been pushing to waste limited class time on woke propaganda, and have pushed “trendy” schemes on schools that simply do not work. They spend billions of dollars to basically stand in the way of kids trying to get an education. Worse, they destroy the potential of those few kids who are thriving in schools by forcing them to learn at the pace of the slowest kids in the class.
Turning education back over to the states has some advantages. Because the department is smaller, it simply doesn’t have the funds to mandate weird trendy ideas of education. They need to have programs that work well and work cheaply. No more sight words and guessing based on pictures, instead learn phonics and sound out the words. No more new mathematical trends, use the stuff that has worked for generations. Furthermore, because the state is much closer to the people, it’s not going to be able to get away with pushing propaganda that’s wildly out of step with what the citizens of that state believe, if they do so at all. The citizens of Oklahoma want bibles in their kiss’s schools, they voted for that. The people of California would push a more liberal ideology. This is how federalism is supposed to work. States are smaller and much easier to bring to heel by the voting population.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I think you’d have to demonstrate that the program in question was of actual benefit to anyone in the public, and in far too many cases the benefits are: promoting progressive values, serving as safehouses for drug users, and occasionally providing something educational to a kid.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
This. I use libraries occasionally and for the most part ours (fairly red part of the Midwest) are not super overt with the pro LGBT stuff, but it’s still, even in a red state there, and while I don’t have kids myself, I can understand the complete frustration that they can’t even take their kid to a library without having to police the area first to keep their young child from being exposed to sexual content. And it’s only going to get worse if there’s no strong pushback. I’m not sure that such a thing couldn’t be done by coming up with a sort of Hayes Code for books appropriate for kids under 16, but it’s very clear that something needs to change. And Trump now has their attention.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I don’t think it’s going to be an easy transition, but I absolutely believe that schools need to go back to teaching the basics of literacy, numeracy, and scientific literacy. One thing that tends to stop that is the rather large list of special interest topics that schools are required to teach, the educational trends that get pushed by tge bureaucracy, and the fact that all of this takes time away from the actual education kids need.
Just taking history for example. Kids are graduating high school unable to tell you when very key events in American and world history took place. They don’t know when the civil war happened, but we need to shoehorn lots of “specialty history” into the narrative to induce kids to believe The Narrative instead of making sure they know the names dates and actors in historical context for the major events in American or for that matter world history.
Or you could take literacy. Kids are going off to college needing to catch up on reading and writing. Kids go off to college in some cases having never read a nonfiction book. They are used to skim reading a couple of paragraphs to find keywords and phrases but cannot go much deeper than that. And writing is just as bad if not worse.
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4mo ago
To me the issue is that none of these calls are really about what they’re claiming. It’s about creating a situation to be exploited by people looking to game tge system for people who are not even plausibly legal. And it happens all the time. Delay for extra discovery, delay for looking for documentation, delay by forcing the LEO to defend himself from baseless accusations that he didn’t follow every procedure to the letter. A good defense lawyer can tie up a case for months on procedure. And as the system crumbles under the weight of having to spend months on each case, you end up overcrowding the holding facility. Annnnd we’re back to catch and release with almost no progress on the backlog.
If we want to actually deport some of the estimated 15-20 million people who snuck into the country over the last four years, you have to do so at a pace of probably 10,000 a day. You can’t do that if everyone gets the liberal definition of a fair hearing.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I’ll also point out that no prominent anti-Trump figures are denouncing those random calls for assassination. I find little comfort in the fact that AOC has not called for an assassination when she also hasn’t called out those who have done so. Nor has she said a single word about the attacks on Tesla dealerships or the harassment of people who own Tesla vehicles. To me, this is a deafening silence signaling that while they’re unwilling to be brave enough to call for violence, they’re perfectly fine with violence happening.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I mean the issue here is that Theres so much hanging on the verbiage that I think there are gaping holes in our ability to protect ourselves. There are lots of non-state actors who would love to be able to disrupt the United States. And the loophole as I understand it is that as long as tge entity sending people into the country is not a legal state and the people sent are not legal members of a military organization, that there’s basically nothing we can do. They can flood the streets with drugs, commit crimes, possibly even commit terrorist acts, and there’s no way to do anything.
Keep in mind that non-state actors can be pretty powerful. ISIL never officially had a state, but it had effective control of a good chunk of MENA and carried out pretty horrific executions. Al-qaida goes without saying. Sinhola syndicate, MS-13. These groups have effective leadership and often control territory.
I think to tie the government’s hands in dealing with gangs that have effective control over their countries of origin through corruption and outright violence just means that their problems are going to end up here. Problems like drug cartels being able to control government officials (Plata o Plumba — silver (a bribe) or lead (aka killing you or your family)) are common occurrences in South America. If the people who can do that in El Salvador do so American cities, that’s not a minor issue.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
I think eliminating the DoE would help a bit as it would stop funding trendy educational schemes that don’t work, political indoctrination, and other useless programs. The money can be sent directly to the states and used for education, but not the bells and whistles the federal government wants. This would mean that the schools can focus on literacy and numeracy and teaching science rather than worrying that the kids aren’t learning to be progressives.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
That just incentivizes people to have kids tge second they get here. If you can’t deport when the illegal has American kids, you encourage people to cross the border pregnant and once the baby pops out, they get to stay.
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Renrijra Krin
4mo ago
The answer is not Twitter. The answer cannot be exchanging one source of information for another because the actual problem is not the source of information. It’s the meta-espistomology, how does one even begin to assess whether or not a statement is true. And for that, you need to learn th3 toolset of thinking — formal logic, empirical reasoning, inductive and deductive reasoning.
The problem for liberals is not that they have bad sources of information, it’s that they generally reason from authority. They take the pronouncements of the Cathederal on a given topic much like a Catholic would take the pronouncements of Pope Francis or Muslim would take a Hadith— the authority has said it, therefore it’s true, and I don’t need to check it out. And even for a very good source of information, this is a terrible way to try to make it all make sense.
Secondarily, I think Twitter is a terrible source of information simply because it doesn’t have anything to think about. It’s just millions of idiots screaming into the void about things they don’t understand. There’s nothing to practice empirical reasoning or deductive reasoning on. And the thing is if you can get someone to start using the toolset, you can get them out of their bubbles faster. Get them trying to predict what else is true if X story is real and it’s harder to keep that person in a bubble.
Well, so don’t go to big protests when you’re not a citizen, problem solved. It’s not even a permanent thing, just until you are granted us citizenship. It’s not asking them to take sides, to the contrary, it’s asking them to not take sides. Which I think is reasonable because you’re not a citizen, can’t vote and have literally no stake in the outcome of the political process in the USA.
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