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Republicans and Fascism
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Bucknutz
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Or maybe people are tired of the public school system and what comes with it. Public schools in 2023 are not even close to how they were in 1950, 1999(When I graduated) or even 2010. Now schools are telling parents to enroll them elsewhere. Good thing Florida has a bully scholarship that helps with these situations!
The Hope Scholarship
Florida provides a variety of school choice options, including four scholarship programs. These programs allow parents unprecedented choice among public and p.
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Sickening video shows cowering girl being pummeled in the head by boys
The parents of the 9-year-old are now planning to press charges against her attackers after the sickening footage was posted online.
"She told Local 10 that violence in and around the school is overwhelming administrators, with those in charge urging her to enroll her three children in a different school.
Her mother claims that her two older children have also been bullied during their short stint at the school, adding that they have done nothing to help since they joined on January 9."
One Brow
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True. There are many area where the schools used to be better funded.
Back in the 1970s, we kids were told to handle bullies ourselves. I can appreciate why you'd want to return to that.
Bucknutz
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@Al-O-Meter one of those posters I commented about earlier
9yr old girl vs teenage boy and another boy. Yeah she should handle these bullies herself. Seriously you just post to argue not to discuss. You are doing exactly what claim others do. No value.
The video of the bullies she should just take on:
View: https://twitter.com/sahibolta/status/1621404622991790080?s=46&t=SFBkk0dxevrj6LkGb-edgQ
Him being dismissive of what you have to say, ignoring what was actually posted and the details.
9yr old girl vs teenage boy and another boy. Yeah she should handle these bullies herself. Seriously you just post to argue not to discuss. You are doing exactly what claim others do. No value.
The video of the bullies she should just take on:
View: https://twitter.com/sahibolta/status/1621404622991790080?s=46&t=SFBkk0dxevrj6LkGb-edgQ
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One Brow
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That's a measure of how times have changed. It was never OK for high school kids to pick on 9-year-olds, but we didn't expect the schools to handle it. Those of us with working parents had to figure this stuff out, whether it was going to school in a group, taking alternate paths, tracking down their parents and shaming them, etc. Now we expect schools to ameliorate hunger, provide social work, mainstream those who have trouble with factory learning styles, deal with parents who take their children's side (mine did once or twice, but it was very unusual) in addition to teaching. Your nostalgic comments about '1950, 1999, ... 2010' are a complete failure of perspective. By being glib, I was actually being kind to you. You have no clue what it was like.
Of course there are many parents who want to avoid public schools, and send their kids to schools where they can expel kids easily and don't need to make provisions for kids that learn slowly or differently. It's so much easier on everyone to leave behind the kids that only public schools take and keep. I went to a mix of public schools and Catholic schools, depending on my parents and grandparents resources at the time. It was easy to see the difference, and the reasons for it.
As for @Al-O-Meter, I spent years trying to have reasonable discussion with him, only to have outright lies returned to me. The last straw was when he made a stupid claim about the definition of racism changing in 2015 in school textbooks, so I offered him about 6 links before and after 2015 to show the definition had not changed. He then lied about the contents of one of the links I provided, as if I hadn't checked. By all means, seek solace wherever you can find it, even with a liar and a bigot. However, seeking common cause with him will undermine your claims to be moderate and seek only truth.
Sometimes you handle bullies in other ways than by taking them on.
mongoose01
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More evidence that our government on both sides are siding with big industry. This rail industry has been pulling strings in government for decades. It doesn’t matter who is in power. Go ahead and debate who messed up worse and with what legislation there plenty of blame on both sides. From deregulation to blocking strikes this is completely bi partisan fascism.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjUmg5Gn6Bk
It’s way past time to start pointing the finger at the government as a whole and quit pointing it at each other. We aren’t being represented.
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View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WjUmg5Gn6Bk
It’s way past time to start pointing the finger at the government as a whole and quit pointing it at each other. We aren’t being represented.
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Yeah anyone paying attention knows this country is run by corporations. Look at the bank bailouts, the auto industry, hell even all the excess spending and tax cuts and breaks given through lobbying and back-door deals that come to light. The bridge to nowhere in Alaska. **** like that goes on all the time. We have allowed a system to develop where whoever throws the most money at the individual legislators gets whatever they want. Lobbyist control Washington, not us. They listen far more to them than they do the voting tax-payers.
mongoose01
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Yet still constant bickering and circle jerking going on here. Even full on support and the defense of pharmaceutical industries when someone displays some skepticism. It’s very strange. My very first post was about how corrupt our government was as a whole, yet I was very quickly labeled and trashed like others here with any opposing perspectives.
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I'll continue to criticize the MAGA faction of the Republican party as they are unique in their willingness to do harm to subsets within the U.S. population with no shame or apology.
This is not simply a "both sides" thing just because neither side is particularly good. The MAGA faction is special and unique and something apart from "traditional" U.S. political pandering to corporations.
I don't remember what you specifically said earlier but if it was something along the lines of MAGA isn't any worse than what the democrats are doing then I would have emphatically disagreed with you.
I have seen very little defense of the pharmaceutical industry as such, what I have seen is push back on unsubstantiated claims against them. The objection in that case is not on behalf of the pharma industry but to arguments made based on false premises.
mongoose01
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Oh so you guys are still just gonna hold tight to the whataboutisms and the lesser of two evils?
You might figure **** out on your own eventually. Neither side is better and until people figure that out they will remain a part of the problem.
You’re a frog in hot water and they are turning the heat up on you. Hell you might even be turning it up on yourself.
I might not have the solution, but I can guarandamntee it’s not to keep voting democrat.
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I'm not "you guys" I'm me.
I said one thing that you seem to have intentionally breezed past. MAGA is different. MAGA actively "otherizes" me, other members of my family and have targeted people I love to have their basic rights taken away. MAGA has made themself my enemy and that is how I will regard them.
I have no special love for democrats but they haven't threatened my rights and freedoms in anywhere close to the same way the MAGA movement has. It's not the lesser of two evils, it's the enemy of my enemy is my friend.