NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Second, what exactly is it that you imagine is happening in schools? I'm sure schools in California have library books that talk about gender, and maybe as many as some kids have ever read them, but it's not going to be in the curriculum or on a test or anything.
My district uses FLASH to teach sex ed. Here's a sample lesson plan: https://cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king-county/depts/dph/documents/health-safety/health-programs-services/sexual-health-education/elementary/es02-family.pdf
Here's a relevant snippet:
Gender identity refers to whether a person feels like a boy, a girl, both, neither or somewhere in between. A person knows their gender identity because of how they feel, not because of their body parts. Some gender identities include boy, girl, trans, and non-binary. You can’t know what a person’s gender identity is by looking at them, or by how they dress. When a person’s gender identity is different from what the doctor said when they were born, that person might say they are transgender, or just trans. When a person’s gender identity is the same as what the doctor said when they were born, that’s called being cisgender.
Every person has a sexual orientation and a gender identity, and kids’ families are made up of people who are of all different sexual orientations and gender identities.
This lesson is something that 41% of Americans, including 18% of Democrats, think shouldn't be taught in public schools: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
we're talking about a law preventing teachers from giving parents information, even when the teacher wants to
This is the policy in my district, with a narrow exception for FERPA-compelled production of student records.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I would wager that more children are beaten for bringing home bad grades than for telling their parents they're transgender.
Should schools not share grades with parents?
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
South Carolina offered free rides to voters to get their IDs, all of 22 people took advantage: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nikki-haley-s-south-carolina-to-give-rides-to-22-voters-to-get-photo-ids
North Carolina's current iteration of Voter ID includes providing IDs to voters for free.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Good point, we haven't abandoned the South Koreans.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
What conflicts since WWII would lead someone to believe that America is a reliable ally?
It’s almost conventional wisdom at this point that America will ride in with guns blazing, then fight a war of attrition until they don’t want to fight it anymore, and on top of that will forsake the indigenous that put their lives and families at risk to work with America.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
I didn't make any normative statements.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
Prior to the Civil Service Act the Deep State wouldn't have been tenable. Every time the executive branch changed hands nearly everyone lost their jobs. They had probably gotten those jobs through patronage, and their replacements would be patrons of the new guy.
This is why Garfield was killed. His assassin believed he was a big enough Garfield booster that he ought to have landed one of those patronage rewarding jobs. But, he didn't.
NewCharlesInCharge
1yr ago
In some vague sense, a "deep state" may simply be a function of a government.
Not before Garfield's assassination.
Maybe it's time to repeal the Civil Service Act. According to Wikipedia it was racist anyway:
The namesake of the Pendleton Act is George H. Pendleton, an Ohio Democratic U.S. senator who defended slavery in the 1850s and led the anti-war "Copperheads" in the American Civil War opposing President Abraham Lincoln. The passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act with the aid of "Half-Breed" Republicans furthered the aims of white supremacist Democrats to curtail patronage, which had been used by "Stalwart" Republicans to socially and economically benefit blacks.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
climate change is a hoax
This is a distortion of what he said, which is that the climate change agenda is a hoax. It's a statement about the policy prescriptions, not temperature measurements.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
My reaction to "punch Nazis" is "please don't empower the Nazis."
Without the brownshirts squabbling with the communists people would have been less welcoming for someone, anyone, to step in and provide order. Unchecked political violence is good for the people that want to destabilize the status quo and put authoritarians in power.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
If only Linus, who was in a more powerful position, had the stones to just refuse.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I'm going to go with unknown. The world is relatively stable and peaceful. ISIS was the most recent brutal and evil group that had a chance of controlling large amounts of territory and expanding outward, but they were defeated.
The United States is most capable of any other player of wreaking mayhem far from their own shores. Currently there's not sufficient will to do so at scale, but I have little faith that will remain so. The population is vulnerable to demagoguery and blaming foreigners for their troubles and the incentives for politicians to engage in that are great. There's also a big chunk of people that think war is great and are ready for it right now, either with Russia or China.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
While campaigning for the presidency in 2023, Ramaswamy called himself a "scientist" and said, "I developed a number of medicines."[32] Although his undergraduate degree is in biology, he was never a scientist; his role in the biotechnology industry was that of a financier and entrepreneur.[32]
That sounds like a non-insiders take, and indeed in the citation I just see assertions that his undergraduate degree can't afford him the title of "scientist." To support the idea that he doesn't do any science you could have interviewed former employees and had them say that Vivek was just a money guy, he never came to any lab, didn't even seem to understand what the scientists were up to. Those NYT authors don't have any such quotes.
Given that his companies have been unusually successful in their industry, maybe that's partly attributable to him getting his hands dirty.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
all middle/east and Asian voters
His ancestry might get him fewer votes from Chinese-Americans than if he were just another white guy. There's some animosity there, especially among tech workers. Indians are overrepresented in management roles and will sometimes reward their other Indian friends while scapegoating their Chinese workers.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
As someone who doesn't believe China is the next big evil to be contained, this makes a lot of sense to me: https://newrepublic.com/post/175020/vivek-ramaswamy-thinks-us-let-china-invade-taiwan
tl; dr: The United States currently has a strategic interest in Taiwanese semiconductor exports and so will defend that interest. Once we have our own domestic manufacturing capacity, it makes no sense to put American lives at risk to intervene militarily in any dispute between the mainland and Taiwan.
I'm not a strict isolationist, but I think we're involved in too many conflicts that aren't at all in our interest and where it's not even clear we're doing any good. If we're going to kill our own children to intervene in a foreign conflict it ought to be Nazi or Imperial Japanese level of evil, and victory should be well-defined and plausible.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Perhaps Vivek is the master dealmaker that Trump styles himself to be.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
There was holding ten for the big guy, and then there was Hunter in his texts crying about everything he does for his family, including giving half of his salary to "pop": https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/hunter-biden-frequently-covered-family-expenses-texts-reveal/
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
NYP has done the most thorough reporting AFAICT. Congress also releases things from time to time, like this: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf
And this: https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
Not only is the evidence quite good that Joe was involved, but Joe doth protest too much. He said he's never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings.
That beggars belief. What non-estranged father and son never discuss the son's work? They didn't talk about this even when Joe was leaning on the Ukrainians to fire a prosecutor that was causing trouble for Burisma, where Hunter was a board member? A board position that paid Hunter up to a million dollars a year? Who had another board member get a White House visit with a presidential meet shortly after putting Hunter on the board?
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I think it’s the opposite, religious folks see the parallels between wokeism and other faiths more readily.
We’d all be better off if wokeism were treated as religion and thus unable to proselytize via authority figures in schools and workplaces.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
I disagree with destroying the conquered, but the distaste for it is relatively recent in history.
Even Machiavelli advised that when killing an enemy it’s best to kill their whole family, to ensure their offspring don’t come back in reprisal, and with the common people on their side.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
So, Lind’s argument is essentially that most people can’t be trusted not to misinterpret “overlapping curves with long tails” as “bimodal distribution.”
I’m not sure he’s wrong. Even at what should be some of the smartest employers, like Google, you can’t say the first without being misinterpreted as saying the second, and then subsequently lose your job.
It seems we are caught between two choices on this issue. Either keep political power in the hands of the people broadly and keep lying to them, or scale back who has political power to those that can interpret very simple ideas like overlapping curves.
NewCharlesInCharge
2yr ago
It would be a theological problem if God reneged on His old covenant, even if He introduced a new one.
I'm reading N.S. Lyon's magnificent piece, The China Convergence, and I'm reminded of one of the distinctions he makes. Rule by law versus rule of law. In the latter the law itself is the arbiter of justice. It has no biases not contained in its words, neutral parties merely apply the law to the facts and a result nearly produces itself.
In the former, rule by law, the law is a tool for the ruling class to enforce its will. Exceptions in both directions are expected. It's the ruling class that gave the law its power, and they can take it away or modify it as they see fit.
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