Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Katie Halper"
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@elizabethsmusicandarts1590 I know. I taught community college for nearly 17 years part time, not as my main job. The last few years were a nightmare. I often took night classes at a local state college that used to be the teachers' college, and I had many fellow students who were in public education, usually in an affluent district. Their workload was unbelievable. Overwrought parents were using them as free therapists. Emails several pages long, twice a week, that sort of thing -- and those were the good jobs. No real regard for the teachers, or respect; pressure to give unearned grades; impossible for a teacher to say "no" to anything, because "think of the children." I'm not describing bad schools, I'm describing the "nicer" ones where my classmates taught while studying for their Master's degrees.
Of course, we had the shooter drills as well at community college, where I taught. I was expected to put myself at some measure of risk to protect the class, and I accepted the need, and the ethics as well. The day I knew I could no longer do that was the day I left. Students routinely harassed teachers and the teachers were assumed to be to blame. I have to say that when Trump came on the scene, that really blew the lid off. Everyone became entitled to their very own facts. Quite a few also wanted to bring their guns to school. I had more students crying in front of me, for various reasons, during those couple of years than during all the fifteen previous ones combined.
I wish I were making this up.
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I wish Jack would speak in a more coherent style. After listening to Justin Jackson and Briahna Joy Gray today, this is uh uh uh, like, uh getting, uh, painful, uh, like, y'know what I, like, mean? HA. HA. HA.
Detracts from an important point.
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Yes, there are Israelis who support a real peace and justice movement, and consider Israel as devolving into apartheid, if it isn't there already.
Israel has more people in that movement than the US does, and they are more genuine, trustworthy, and ready to take real risks for justice, and are not on the take, from anybody. Or did you miss that part?
In fact, one was a prime minister who was assassinated. Huh.
And Katie barely scratched the surface. These comments, from Americans, are meaningless. Let those people -- those Israelis -- be heard. They live there.
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michael nola I'm so sorry that you imagine you have deeper insights of the underlying logic of federal legislation than others do. I submit that you cannot predict what would happen if M4A were put to a vote, anymore than the result of the last election could be predicted. (Did you expect the Democrats to lose seats in the House, and fail to take the Senate outright? Did you expect Trump(!) to take Iowa, Ohio, and Florida? I didn't.)
It's one thing to posture about M4A, and quite another to be called upon to vote on it in a formal roll call. What you're describing is what usually happens. But that's not what always happens. This could turn out to be one of those times when the usual doesn't happen. I mean, they do keep telling us COVID is an emergency. Isn't it?
One (additional?) "small" problem: millions have lost their health insurance, and millions more will. Do you expect them to line up meekly to take a vaccine that has been approved on an accelerated timetable, if it turns that the side effects are significant, for most people? You do, huh? And are they also supposed to believe they should trust a government that has done next to nothing for them, and that holds them in contempt? If they're on their own in this, well, they have no reason to feel obligated to comply.
You think most people don't know that every other country has universal health care? You think they're all so stupid they don't know the care is generally better?
Let's have our legislators take a Brave Stand. Let's see how that shakes out.
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@LastBref RFK Jr has appeared wherever he has been invited, including most recently on The Hill. Is Briahna Joy Gray right wing now? Or is she hereby "right adjacent" according to you? Kim Iversen as well? Does circular reasoning suddenly sound right to you? (On matters of free speech, consult Strossen, Chemerinsky, and Justin Driver.)
But more important, why shouldn't a bona fide Democrat address the working class that has been migrating to the right for two generations now, which has proven to be a true catastrophe, for them and for everyone? There was a series of articles in The New Yorker by Paige Williams taking an in-depth look at the Kyle Rittenhouse family, including his drug-addicted father (divorced from his mother) and his activist older sister, who participated in BLM demonstrations after George Floyd was murdered, and including the fact the Rittenhouse has worked full time while going to high school because they are that poor. A "left" that cannot recuperate and rehabilitate someone like that is unworthy of the name. Every European leftist knows that, intellectually and instinctively. America has no left.
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@plateoshrimp9685 If it's not obvious to you why you need to push for real change now, not tokenism that might incrementally improve a few people's lives, until the next crash, pandemic, and environmental catastrophe, then I guess you're comfortable, naive, and lacking in imagination.
We have been hearing about incremental improvements to American health care since the mid-1980s. Close to TWO generations. Try somethin' else, maybe?
You're also assuming that what usually happens will happen this time, too. And that pushing for what SHOULD happen won't bring M4A any closer. Why would you assume that? We are not living through a true catastrophe? Okay then, back to the usual, but don't laugh at anyone who thinks COVID is a hoax. The DNC is acting like it is.
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That may be true, and not unusual. But read up on what happened in Kenosha, and on gang infiltration, including KKK infiltration, of police departments.
In any case, defense of property and defense of occupied structures have different rules, as do attempts to intimidate legislators, courts, etc., while in session. It's one thing stand back to refrain from killing a looter, it's another to allow insurrectionists free rein because you agree with them.
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@steve1279 Well, we are the only developed country where people are "responsible for themselves" -- and the one with the MOST obesity, opioid addiction, teen pregnancy, cocaine abuse, and . . . COVID. Some of the worst infant mortality, maternal mortality, and shortest lifespans found in developed, "Western" countries. Working out just as "market logic" predicted! /s
If you think "healthy eating" can prevent disease before age 65, wow are you in for a surprise. You don't know any young people with cancer? And you don't know how petrified they are to lose everything? You also don't know most addicts find a way to obtain Medicaid? And that people looking to start a business fear the health care costs, not the other risks?
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@steve1279 It's a great idea to teach kids to eat properly. Have you noticed what good, wholesome food costs now? I spend the money, and never go to restaurants. Try avoiding all GMOs. There is no mandatory labeling.
In any event, the POINT is, in countries with universal health care, people take MORE personal responsibility, not less. Why? Well, whatever the reasons may be, the fact of having health care for everyone does not cause them to have poor health habits. They don't say, "well, I don't have to pay for it!" Of course not. The incentive is intrinsic.
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