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At every presser for the next three years, he should ask that reporter if he denounces STDs, regardless of how many times previously he denounced them.
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Being a typical American millennial, "the world" means "among people my age who I don't know."
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It looked more like guacamole than wasabi. Although, much of the "wasabi" we get her in the U.S. isn't real wasabi.
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@LunaLapin-ho5tk I would say it's a small part of a bigger picture. These folks saw that their tax dollars were going out the door and never benefitting them beyond the bare minimum that the city is required to do. And the people getting that money just got worse. I applaud them for breaking off.
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I see this is where all the monumentally stupid people come to share their opinions about a trial they either didn't watch, weren't smart enough to understand, or are eager to lie about. To explain to TYT: all of those are bad things.
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Anyone else get the feeling that "Pat Dwyer" has a "tough time writing things that "are not" at least "a little" condescending while doling out the "most basic" advice?
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Seriously. And it doesn't LOOK like OJ in any way either. This strikes me as someone who was given Sunny D as a kid and believes that it is the same thing as OJ.
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If you spend a couple of hours on it, you can get the hang of rolling your own. This actually doesn't save much time. It DOES make it more idiot-proof.
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At that point, Goodell will step in and tell a team to draft her in the last batch of players as he did with Michael Sam. He's got a soft spot in his heart for players who LOOOOOOVE the cock.
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Oh yeah. There have been millions of "racists" created since this nonsense all started.
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"The boys should have forfeited." Something only someone who thinks like a woman would say.
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 @joka7316 So you believe "Raider Nation" refers to an organized geographic state, do you?
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Phonics is our mental default. They can end phonics teaching all they want. We all sound out words when we're learning them.
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Crowder being a garbage human being in front of the camera was just his sizzle reel for a TYT audition.
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I've been stating the obvious - that the clocks been ticking on the likes of Crowder and Pool for awhile, and they've at best only got a few years left. Of course, disgusting behavior caught by a camera makes him perfect for TYT.
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Trevor Robinson Let us please not offend the radish.
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@haledwards4642 That must be it! Loads of Scandinavian immigrants in nuclear families who strongly stress the importance of education, self-reliance and respect for institutions. 🤣
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Dang. A lot of those high-crime school areas seem to have something in common. I just can't quite put my finger on it.
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@renawilhite1 So when you visit is it more like strolling through a living meth head nature preserve? 🤪
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I mean, Ventura was wrong about WMDs, the NG serving overseas being a Bush creation, and never corrected the interviewer regarding his service, so I'm not sure he's my go-to for truth. But some people - when they hear something presented a certain way - are more than willing to buy everything that is said to them.
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Phonics has never been a thing of the past. Everyone learns words by sounding them out, etc. No one is taught to just look at the word "bill" and just remember how it's said. We all sound words out. People are being a little selectively disingenuous on this comment board and, I believe, in the vid. Take care.
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Yes. I remember all the complete books I had to read when I was a child in the 70s and 80s, which amounted to maybe three. I read many more books at home in my spare time. Damn that No Child Left Behind, implemented when I was 32!
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Biggest shopping day of the year? Juneteemf?!
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@celan4288 She didn't realize that EVERYONE learns through phonics to some extent. I was an ed major for awhile. They fill their heads with a LOT of silliness.
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Douglas was at least able to point out the lack of specificity at every turn. He easily cast Enver as being slippery and disingenuous. @saturday7
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Why do i get the feeling that all the people criticizing her using her finger to gage coolness happen to be Yeti owners who want to shift the conversation away from the fact that their tumblers couldn't keep ice as long as the Ozark Trail model? Oh yes! It's because i know too many "Yeti people." 😅
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@renawilhite1 Okay. Now I'm getting yes and no about the meth heads. This reminds me of the puzzle where you have two people: One who always lies and one who always tells the truth, and you have to figure which is which. Only in this case I have to determine who among you is actually a meth head wanting to mislead - or not mislead - me regarding their existence in this area. 🤣
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@kimberlytross9864 It just always seemed to me that sounding out words was baked into the cake, like using pictures of apples to learn early math. Ots done even if we pretend it isn't. Take care.
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I guess I don't recall having to hone my reading comprehension skills when I was 4. We all learn to read through phonics. WWL is perfectly fine for teaching students how to then pluck understanding from what we read. As for stamina, God forbid students read something they are not assigned at school. I'm not sure he really backed up any of what he was trying to put out there, to be honest. It seemed more like making excuses after the fact that people simply don't prioritize reading, or providing an emphasis on education in the home. That's not whole language learning's fault. Take care.
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@whitebenrr Good to hear.
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@bobbybaker5351 She didn't really start much in high school. That was also a long time ago. Something that isn't being brought up that much: This gal's 22 years old.
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@celticwarrior777 I can't say I'm surprised. I believe that there's a recent study I've heard quoted that concluded that to find whites are last or close to last when it comes to the most racist groups in the U.S. Although obviously - despite how common the phrase is - there is no "reverse" racism any more than there's such thing as "side" effects. There's just racism and effects.
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I agree that this woman has presented not a shred of believable evidence regarding whether the shameless networking whore we unleashed on your poor prince has been the victim of racism. But son, before you start spouting about how the U.S. is "one of the most racist countries in the world" you might want to: 1) Visit more of the world 2) Compare your demographics to those in the U.S. I know there are many people in UK who take great pride in declaring themselves to not be racist. And likely rightfully so as far as their personal experience has taken them. I'm sure I'm not speaking for all Americans, but I'm also sure I'm not alone in saying that UK and Europe in general are in the FETAL stage of learning what it's actually like to live in a racially diverse country, whereas the U.S. has been a petri dish for centuries in this regard. Before you start, no. Centuries of war and conquest don't count when all you're doing is shifting white folks around on a map. Even given all of this, I wouldn't say that the U.S. has a perfect approach. We're a little too free out here sometimes to be able to keep the noise down long enough to actually positively engage on some issues. It's a lot more difficult for us to put a man on trial for training his dog to give a Nazi salute or to jail Tommy Robinson. As both of our situations unfold, it will be interesting to see what IS done compared with what SHOULD BE done. I'm not optimistic where either of us is concerned. Just don't prance around calling my country "racist" until you've walked a kilometer in our shoes.
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Poor babies. They're not getting their way.
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@dhouse609 On the face of it, it would seem so, but that's not really how the term is defined. Think of it kind of like the old mining towns of the 1800s, or factory towns of the 1900s. Basically, a college town is on where the life of the town revolves/relies heavily around the college located there. When I was at Penn State, I believe there were 45000 students in a town of only about 25000 people, and many of those people were also affiliated with the college. When football is doing poorly, it is felt in the local economy. If the university disappeared, the town would take a huge hit it and would likely all but disappear rather than ever recover. If UCLA disappeared, it would be felt a little because of some of its affiliations with the city, especially in the medical community, but the City of Los Angeles probably wouldn't really notice, otherwise. One good rule of thumb is that it's a "college town" if, in most cases, people outside of the area wouldn't even generally be aware that the town exists if it were not for the college located there. I dont' know that most people would have ever heard of South Bend, Ind., Chapel Hill, NC or State College, Pa., if it wasn't for Notre Dame, UNC or Penn State. There are outliers like Madison, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio, that are good-sized state capitals but still also "college towns" but they're not the norm.
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Yes. I was looking more for towns like State College, Pa., College Station, Texas, Chapel Hill, NC, etc.
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And when they become management ... well ... has anyone else noticed that they tend to either want to avoid conflict at all costs, or take what they THINK are male leadership stereotypes and overdo them?
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There's one fact that seems to be mis-reported consistently in these stories, and I believe it has ripples. Meghan Markle was NOT well-known in the U.S. before she married Harry. If we insist on claiming she was a celebrity, she was of the B- or C-list variety. She was a working actress - not necessarily a prominent one or one of any renown. She was a working actress on a cable TV series. If you're a performer, that's not bad. But it's not as successful as is being portrayed. This is something that, on its face, doesn't really seem that important. After all, she's a celebrity NOW, right? But I think it sort of dovetails with the - in my opinion - equally fanciful belief that the couple is just going to fall into piles of money at every turn in the U.S. She's really only a recognizeable (and not THAT recognizeable here) celebrity because of the royal ties. Those are now diminished, and non-working, never-going-to-rule royals don't exactly get MORE famous as they age and more further toward the shadows. I'm not foolish enough to believe that they're going to be destitute. The Crown will always take care of Harry. But what are they going to be paid to do in the U.S.? Maybe you can squeeze a few high-priced private speaking engagements out of them, but about how many things can either speak authoritatively to a crowd that knows more than they do? Unlike the Clintons, neither has any power so no one's going to be making bogus donations in return for any kind of favors to be paid later. She was not being offered lucrative/big acting roles before, and she's certainly not going to get them now. All I really see is Meghan reaching for a reality show in a few years which the Crown will properly crush. Ultimately I think the two will part in about a half dozen years, she'll take a huge buyout and Harry will return to his duties.
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They'll do it through the courts and government mechanisms. It won't be black, but may still end up sh1tty.
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@thedave1771 That happens even without that policy. Go to a small town with a Tyson facility nearby and ask how much the public school kids are slow walked because they have to accommodate the 20% of their classmates who can't speak English.
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@UnsilencedOutspokenTikTok There's a vast difference between being expected to show up every day for years of duty, and maybe being asked to step up a couple of times in your career. Many of us have not forgotten the tantrums NG members threw when they were first actually expected to earn their benefits when the first Gulf War came about. There's also a difference in how one digests boot camp, knowing that after 8 weeks you're washing your hands of the military until that first Guard weekend rolls around, as opposed to sitting there wondering where you were going to be sent after AIT. None of this is to say that service isn't worth acknowledging. But service as reservist is rarely comparable. Take care.
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@candynickel It's adorable that you're making up reasons to be upset, given that I've fairly clearly outlined what I wanted to say. There's no actual red meat there because I'm actually fairly thoughtful in my responses, so you have to fabricate something you imagine MUST be the case. .🤣 Sadly, too many folks do not seem to believe it is possible to discuss any issue or argument based solely on its merit. I would say that at least 1/4 of the time I make a critical comment it's because someone's conclusion I agree with is being based on a ridiculously moronic argument. I don't really care about conclusions, for the most part, but I'm kind of a stickler for cogent arguments. And over time it's been born out that I happen to be lucky enough to have been born a more sophisticated consumer of information than most. That's served me well in the communications/media landscape for decades. Tell me something that sounds patently ridiculous, then show me what was ACTUALLY said or done, and I can tell you how you're f*cking up your digestion of that information. Take care.
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@mfritch Unlike regular colleges with 100% placement in their graduates' fields, correct? They promise that, do they?
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It might surprise you to know that members of the NG and Reserve are not actually considered veterans unless they're called to duty by the POTUS. And as active duty people, you and I know all too well that there IS a difference between military professionals and weekend/two weeks folks. It's just a different animal. They can absolutely serve with distinction, but it's not just out-of-hand ridiculous to question aspects of someone's service record, especially if they choose to wear it around like a brand new shirt for everyone to see.
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@artelisx To be honest, I think that was overblown. There's more evidence that people were ONLY reading that type of book during the broader YA trend, rather than that their book reading in general went up significantly. The Harry Potter books did tend to appeal to the previous generation of readers to an extent than the Hunger Games, Maze Runner, etc., books, but my experience is that those people were readers to begin with. Regardless, these millions of new readers we allegedly produced sure fell out of love with reading the second that trend/era - and the respective series they were reading - ended.
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@stevefisher2553 The Dems have cried every election this century about moving to Canada. And it's always only Dems. It says a lot about their ability to deal with something not going their way, as was magnified by their TDS of the last five years. Our last POTUS was a buffoon. But he was also the response to the silliness of the Left - not its cause. It's ignorant or intellectually lazy to believe otherwise. Take care.
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I just finished watching the doc. What I find most interesting is the fact that - as a child growing up in the 70s, we were NEVER taught that Columbus was Italian. We were always taught that he was a Portuguese who sailed for the queen of Spain. It kind of makes me wonder who this was made for. I assume the Cuomos were still insisting Columbus was Italian, or ...? 🤣
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We've taken those tests for generations, and if placing an emphasis on reading comprehension after we all already know how to read by sounding out the words is a problem, I'm not sure he proved it. It was a fine way to learn to read. And, really, how many of us are ever required to read a book in a single week unless we're taking a college lit class - which makes us a self-selecting group - and it's a relatively short book? I'm not sure he really backed up any of what he was trying to put out there, to be honest. It seemed more like making excuses after the fact that people simply don't prioritize reading, or providing an emphasis on education in the home. That's not whole language learning's fault.
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It's almost kind of adorable how they almost get to the root of the issue before their politics kick in and they refuse to place accountability where it obviously belongs. 🤣🤣🤣
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@amw6846 See, we rarely had to read books, period, for a standard English class. We only really had to do it in lit-type classes. If the schools were burning kids' education hours having them read books in standard English classes, I could honestly argue that - counter to the general theme of all of this - having kids reading so many books was detrimental to their education.
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@davideldred.campingwilder6481 You're high. Douglas tried to pin him down time after time, and Enver not only continued to then shift the discussion but flat-out avoided answering almost everything. And let's not pretend that it's not entirely possible that Enver deliberately kept misidentifying Murray. Murray himself admits he can get frustrated during these debates when the opponent basically refuses to debate. It may have been an attempt to throw Murray off his game. And Enver still failed to land a single real-world punch. It was all abstracts, theoretics and history.
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Hiding behind compassion and past dynamics to support an unsupportable position, ignoring the fact that the immigration landscape is not the same as the one your grandparents saw. In a way, it would be nice to go back to the days before the Internet when countries - including the US - were happy to fast-track citizenship for immigrants holding similar values who actually had something besides unskilled labor to offer and who genuinely wanted to melt into the culture, rather than bring their garbage cultures to new shores and drag those nations down as a result. To paraphrase something Douglas has said in other interviews, the cultural enrichment ended after the 200th curry shop/taco stand.
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@revol148 Let's address the drivel here: a) Not a self-important title at all. It's just a more brief description for someone who has spent his career in the communications business. I imagine that if an MLB player describes himself as a "sports professional" that you believe him to be putting on airs? And I didn't take issue with "most often." I took issue with "often linked," then went into detail as to why, and you didn't challenge any of it in your reply. Leave identifying irony to the smart people. b) Since none of this seems to really have anything to do with what I wrote, it doesn't seem necessary to reply beyond the fact that none of it assails anything I wrote other than the part where I didn't throw in any accusations of anti-Semitism. I'm starting to believe I was wrong in that assessment at this point. It's odd. Have you ever noticed how anti-Semites on comment boards seem to nip at any red meat tossed in their direction? c) and d): I didn't inject US politics. I merely pointed out an example of the sort of monolithic groups that do exist, contrary to the Jewish monolith you seem to believe exists, but does not. This is not injecting politics any more than using an example that includes animals is introducing zoology into the discussion. How do we know who people vote for? No way is perfect, but polls support a different narrative than you seem to embrace. I know it's convenient for you to believe that when they don't support your argument that it's because people tend to lie on polls, but there are many kinds of polls that are conducted in different ways. And, to be honest, if we were to apply that point of view, THEN we would believe in a monolithic Jewish vote because the 30 percent who do not side with the Dems would be the ones pressured to lie about which side they cozy up to. But this is not the case. It would probably be better known if it made a difference. The overwhelming majority of Jews in the US live in areas so blue that it would change almost nothing if all of them suddenly voted red. Regardless, I never wrote that any single religion votes overwhelmingly for one party/person. I'm not sure what the rest of that blather was, but hopefully you feel better now. e) That's nice. I don't see where I wrote about generalities, but I appreciate you sharing your opinion, I guess. You really seem to have not actually understood the arguments being put forward. At the worst, your reading comprehension skills are highly questionable. At best, you understood some things enough to know you couldn't possibly win the point, so you shifted a few of them into areas that were not on the table just so you'd have something to say - then you were fairly ridiculous in your rants in THOSE areas as well. Maybe the next time the big people are talking, you would do well to just sit quietly at the folding table in the corner with the rest of the children? Take care
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@MrThemovie321 He pointed it out after the third or fourth time. And I wouldn't be so certain that Enver didn't intentionally use the wrong name, knowing that even Douglas has admitted to becoming frustrated when debating morons, trying to throw him off his game so that it would appear that Enver scored at least some points, which he still failed to do.
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The hilarious thing here is that Enver actually believes that he's scoring ANY points.
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 @vilmazappulla3600 Don't worry. Some people get edgy when they see what freedom looks like. They're frightened and not used to it.
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Thing is, a woman CAN'T "do and be anything she wants." This gets proven fairly regularly.
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Before I have any sympathy for these business owners, I want to know how they vote and which causes they support. That said, I also won't CONDEMN him without that information. Not every guy with long hair and a beard smells like patchouli, votes for people who can't drive cars and thinks you can milk an almond.
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But they're in the same MSA, so it's a distinction without much of a difference. That's like saying Green Bay and Ashwaubenon are different entities.
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@danlieberman1590 Still the same MSA.
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@scallopohare9431 Do does California and New York. But taken as a whole the end is the same. Take care.
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The positions outlined don't really take a rocket scientist to explain without seeming contradictory. More to the point, though, Harris is just about as predictable as anyone else. We give him so much credit as being an intellectual that we think a lot of his views have been carefully deliberated on, when a good number of them can be simply explained as, "once anti-GOP, always anti-GOP." At no point during the last four years has there been any indication that Harris was going to allow his views of President Trump to change. His biggest fans don't like to admit it, but in this way he's just as basic as any other anti-Trumper. And it was always fairly plain - at least to me - that the lunacy on display by the Left was an annoyance to him not because he disagreed with the "spirit" of what they claimed to represent, but that they were kooks who were making those views, which Sam actually shared, seem fringe. He could carry on discussions with ore conservative people, but always seemed ultimately moored in Leftism beyond "classical liberalism." Another way in which he's at least fairly predictable is that he can be counted on to become incredibly autistic over some minor point of a debate to the extent that - even though he may be about to humiliate the opponent - he gets up his own ass for so long that the other guy kind of just takes a knee and runs the clock out until the result of Sam's meandering is so far from the actual point being addressed that he basically has taken his boot off the guy's neck and let him escape. For those who would like at least a general example, how well does Sam do to sticking to the fight when he decides that the definition of a word needs to be explored? Yeah. By the time he's decided what something like "freedom" means, the other guy has already liberated himself from the conversation. I like the thoughtfulness that Harris brings to a discussion that a guy like Ezra Klein clearly does not, but having seen how he is also very likely to be viewing this or that through a particular prism, I certainly won't take what he says at face value until I've tumbled it around in my brain a bit.
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So you do not allow that two things can be true at once?
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Chomsky didn't absent-mindedly omit what kind of gas it was. He deliberately led people to believe it was mustard gas. But even if we accept that his was a lie of omission, Murray doesn't commit a similar sin by not elaborating to the degree you claim he should for your personal edification, simply because you would never be edified. THAT rabbit hole never ends. You dislike his position so you would logically push his lack of unnecessary elaboration as far as you need to to try to make a point. That's aside from the fact that it's not necessary because the claim that "tear gas can be used to torture people" carries no serious weight. WATER can be used to torture someone. A FEATHER can be used to torture people. Also, neither gas is used to destroy an enemy. Even in WWI, only about five percent of people exposed to mustard gas who received medical attention died from it. But tear gas is still less lethal. You basically have to be trapped in a sealed box for an extended period of time to suffer any lasting effects from tear gas. And if we give Chomsky credit of being at least half-educated on the subjects on which he speaks or writes, then we have to assume that he knows this all too well. At the very least, he knows that no one is impressed by the use of tear gas, otherwise there would have been no need to attempt to mislead his audience. In fact, tear gas is so benign that they use it on us during Basic Training in the Army.
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@nickcharles1284 I will usually choose to say these were "men of their time" rather than cast them against the societal norms of generations after their deaths. Not to defend Marx, but the n-word back then wasn't the n-word of today, and I don't care what my pilot thinks about Jews. I only care that he can land the plane safely. I leave it to others to gnash teeth about the rest. I have puppy videos to watch.
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@johanneskreisler7647 I think maybe you've never lived in a true college town if you don't believe there's a difference. We've got multiple colleges in Des Moines. If they're not in session, no one really cares. The impact isn't felt that broadly throughout the city. I've also lived in State College, Pa. The city has 43K people. Penn State has 46K. On a football weekend, it swells to become the third-largest city in the state after Philly and Pittsburgh. The impact of the school is felt much differently there, I assure you. It can be a tough call, though. A city like Madison has a large university presence, but it's also the state capital and has 250K people of its own. I'd say it's kind of a tweener.
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Your "West" must be different than mine. In the U.S., we obviously think very seldom of either of them. That's just how we are. But enter the halls of US colleges where these men ARE actually discussed, you will be more likely to hear about Churchill's racism than you will a bad word about the ideas of Karl Marx.
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All they "know" now is that Jefferson had children with slaves, which has actually never been proven and the chances of which are very remote. Granted, it took geneaologists and historians about 5 minutes to look all that up, but that appears to be the case.
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Madonna is a clown, and has been for decades. I'm going to take any claims that she has "a lot of power" with a grain of salt, considering that she hasn't had anything resembling a big album in just over 20 years and has had only two solo singles chart inside the top 10 (non-grenre chart) during that time, the most recent being in 2005.
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I would be very careful if judicial review is more or less a new or untried thing in UK. Once you allow too much of it, the judiciary becomes lord over all other branches of government. It's certainly no longer co-equal in the US. Circuit Court judges can stop executive orders regardless of legal precedent, and the only check on that seems to be yet another level of courts. I kind of for the Andrew Jackson approach of acknowledging the court's opinion, then challenging it to enforce that opinion.
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This is aside from the fact that if you remove the number of "unarmed black people" who were going for the officer's weapon, endangering others and/or otherwise resisting arrest, you can count the number of times it happens in the U.S. every year pretty much on one hand.
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It was less word salad than it was irrelevant, which was ultimately pointed out.
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THIS is what a disingenuous person looks like - pretending to have NO idea why anyone would oppose making political and social statements on the field while on the company dime.
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Damn. How many seconds did this guy "live" in the U.S.? Did he ever leave the metro that he called home? First, it should be pointed out that the segregation is selective. People are choosing freely to live with "their own kind" or are economically segregated, which does occur in UK. When I joined the Army and we arrived at Basic Training, the black men segregated themselves from the rest of us immediately. Second, the U.S. doesn't have institutional racism either. That's illegal, and if it pops up it's punished. Third, whether the U.S. is "violent" is subjective. Almost no civilians walk around carrying guns, for example. There are dangerous areas of metros but THAT occurs in UK as well. But you have to leave the large cities once in awhile to realize that a country that is foreign to you is not represented by places like NYC and DC.
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More or less. Cis was brought in to try to put trans and "normal" on equal footing. If we just have women and trans women, then one is a departure from the other, and therefor lesser. But if we have trans women and cis women, they are BOTH living under the same, suddenly broad umbrella - "women" - and are equal.
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In wrestling there are weight classes and females that excel against good competition are rare. In the military almost none of them can get into the MOS's that require great physicality. Anything else?
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Regarding "cis," it's simple. Cis was created to diminish "normal" people. No longer is there the thing - woman - and the marginal identification - trans woman, which is a departure from the norm, and therefor lesser. Rather, with cis, "woman" is a broad umbrella under which cis and trans women are simple variations - one no lesser than another.
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And the PED testing in the league is almost nonexistent, so that would make it an even better match.
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@u4yk Someone posted that her 40 time is 5.9, I think.
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Always. Yeti makes great stuff, but if I only ever need ice for 5 hours, why spend 3.5x more to keep it for 7?
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@davidlafleche1142 And she'd have about as good of a case.
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@bakermayfield6hunnitdan6er24 My assertion is that her claim would be as groundless as Kaepernick's. A person can certainly try to claim Kaepernick is better than some of the quarterbacks starting in the NFL. They cannot flat-out make the case that bringing him in as a starter - or especially as a backup - would be worth the investment in a middling-at-best talent.
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She'll see Jesus after the first week of full contact in NAIA. People need to forget about the NFL.
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If we're forced to allow a female with no obvious football talent into the NFL, I think it's only fair that we get rid of alimony.
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@dragonite-nn3sv Define "playing." I think you need to do a little homework on exactly how little actual football she's played.
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I don't know, but they can apparently compete against them in MMA, and high school track and wrestling.
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Don't worry. I doubt we'll ever get to see that she's incapable of even playing at the NAIA level. She's likely going to get some mystery injury in practice and the narrative will shift to how fate intervened rather than the fact that she's not particularly talented. Basically, she'll get to be the next Mo'ne Davis. Remember 4-5 years ago when she Davis was going to be playing basketball for UConn and how dare we question whether that would happen? Well, the media narrative is that those dreams were dashed when she suffered an ankle injury. Call me crazy, but I'm not sure hurting an ankle drops you all the way from being a UConn prospect to signing to play softball at a traditionally black university with a student body of 4500. You'd think there would some sort of middle ground, wouldn't you?
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@whitebenrr Is it true about the meth heads?
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@jimanast3593 D Same difference. Basically, anyone who thinks it looks like OJ has never actually seen OJ. 🤣 Take care.
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Looks loke the mayor's salary just went down to $12K.
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What do you mean? Meghan gave up being a C-list actress on a cable network TV show! :)
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And within a decade she'll take a huge buyout for the divorce and Harry will return to his duties, older and slouching toward anonymity.
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@revol148 \You realize that reasoning got more convoluted with every letter, right? At the end, jews are "often linked" to something? Sounds air-tight to me! 🤣
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@revol148 I apologize if I seized on something erroneously after the deletion of a comment or two. I sometimes find I can't even find the links to people who reply to my posts and find it frustrating. "Often linked" doesn't actually say anything. That's why I have an issue with it. But I will point out that I've been a communications professional for decades, and I tend to see the red flags when it comes to rhetoric a little easier than most people. Think of it. We first have to pretend that the Jewish people are a monolithic group, like how blacks in the US tend to vote 90% Democrat. But they're not. There are all stripes of Jews even beyond the most high profile split between secular and religious Jews. Then we say "often." How often is "often"? We can say that often college football players often get arrested for rape and have a solid argument to back it up, but it's likely less than half of one percent ever actually do. But half of one percent doesn't sound like "often." Basically, it's a subjective term - more so than some others - and as such, again, it doesn't convey anything tangible. As for "linked," again, what does that actually mean? We can claim "links" in a lot of ways. If 5% of KKK members used to be in the Boy Scouts, I can claim a link. We can explore links between freemasonry and the founding of the country in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but is it freemasonry, or the fact that such a large percentage of influential people of the time happened to be freemasons? Or maybe they became prominent using that network, but did that network have anything to do with the founding choices they made? Still, we have a link. We're just not sure of what. It all just really requires elaboration before it's of much use, rhetorically. Of course, when it comes to anti-Semites (not accusing you, btw), they'll claim all manner of links between Israel and various dark forces, while claiming the Palestinians have no outside ties whatsoever and that ever act of violence they've ever participated in is simply a reaction to oppression. And folks seem pretty comfortable with that nothing-to-see-here explanation. 🤣 So then we also have to deal with the prism through which a claim is made. As for me, I'm going to find some puppy videos now. Take care.
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@bg156 But neither of those two were being touted as being able to make money in the private sector, away from royal duties. A B-/C-list actress doesn't usually make bank, especially one who (still) won't be getting any juicy roles moving forward.
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@yavamontaanansombut5801 I guess you don't know how few people watch scripted cable TV shows.
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Yep. They're not leaving because countries have decided that they want to persecute their doctor class. They're economic migrants, the same as any other. @newton18311
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And then they become crappy taxi drivers. Assuming you're still allowed to drive taxis in Canada. Has that right been taken away as well? @vancouverterry9142
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Wouldn't "the WORLD'S gift" include the crapcan countries these people are fleeing?
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@heatherg1706 NOW she is. She wasn't before hooking up with Harry. She was on a USA Network cable show for a few years. No one was holding a spot on the red carpet for her.
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He can't do that. This was a short form and once you point out that they bring crime and terrorism, the opposition siezes on that and will run out the clock talking about how you believe all immigrants are criminals and terrorists. Besides, he's got a solid economic argument. Not even a need to go down the cultural road Enver was baiting him into pursuing. Once you settle on THAT ground, you then have to argue negative effects of their culture, and you inevitably land on having to point out their high criminality and you get cast in a bad light, again.
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@darkhighwayman1757 I mean, we learned the letters, then learned their sounds, then sounded out words, etc. This sh!t wasn't hard. It may have BECOME difficult once they decided we need to buckle down and come up with the one true way to teach reading, and it had better differ from the one that has worked for centuries. And - on what I'm sure is a completely unrelated topic - the Department of Education was established in 1980.
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Andrew Schultz can be pretty entertaining. But (like Joe Rogan) his standup isn't really that great. Sometimes these folks forget that the wigga act doesn't really play outside of their metro.
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People are too quick to deify George Carlin. When it came to these issues, he was always a leftist first, comedian second. The only power he would have been fighting is President Trump.
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On the plus side, I have the physique of a shot putter. On the down side, I am a scaled down version with that physique. (5'9", 245#) 🤣
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I'm not sure it's toxic, but it seems really weird to me to have all of these people posting goof posts about how old they are and how far they've thrown things. I must be missing something.
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Dude. At 51 I just started throwing this year, and with a 12 lb shot. My ulnar nerve was about to explode when I thought that this kid had gone almost 30 feet on day one with a 12 lb shot. 🤣
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With him just picking up a shot for the first time that day, I can kind of forgive the fact that he doesn't have the reps in for any real drill over much of a period of time and that he ends up having to think about every single part of the movement rather than relying on muscle memory. I get what you're saying about some people being quicker to learn things like a spin move. But I found some basic videos for some throwing drills that were much more simple than what we saw here that really benefited me. One of them you basically just started with your toes touching the board in the front of the circle and all you had to consume yourself with was twisting and throwing without moving your feet at all. Then he gradually built on that.
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@whatyoudo9773 I have the muscle, but get dizzy if I pay too much attention during a spin. Maybe if I close my eyes at the right time. :)
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Ryan Crouser is currently the best in the world, consistently. He is usually pushing the 75-foot mark.
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No offense, but if THAT kid had pushed 30' with a 12# shot right out of the gate, my ulnar nerve would have finally exploded. Glad they clarified that he moved down to 8#.
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I've been pointing this out at every turn. Markle was NOT much more than a B- or C-list celebrity here (still isn't, really) before the engagement and wedding. She was an actress on a little-watched cable TV show. Being a working actor is great, but is not going to have the couple rolling around in a big Scrooge McDuck vault of gold coins in the U.S. as is being said. I really don't see any rational avenue for them to make a great deal of money here.
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@rosemariebaber3360 Wouldn't it be "WHO made it through grammar school only with the help of his tutors"? Maybe someone can confirm this, because I'm tired and need to go to bed.
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@1902donna I can't say I necessarily agree, but everyone has his own way of digesting what they see and hear.
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Cliff's Notes version (of my much longer response): We don't prioritize reading today - in favor of screen time and less parenting or emphasis on education in the home - so blame it on how it was being taught when many of you were reading TONS of books when you were younger.
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Granted, this guy is mediocre at best. But it's disheartening what a boner commentators on these channels have for trying to claim that racism in the US was/is much more horrible than their ancestors are responsible for, and how they seem to believe that there were such problems leading into the 1960s. "Effective Apartheid" is a squish phrase that has no meaning other than what the person using it claims it is, so as such it means nothing. I guess I get tired from time to time about the history of race relations in my country being criticized by people whose own history is one in which they can't even get white Christians who speak the same language to get along. Get that straight, then come calling, sunshine.
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Let's not get too condescending or full of ourselves here. The Head of State - while not irrelevant - is almost entirely ceremonial in this case. The transition would only be extraordinary if there WAS some sort of controversy. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back for something going as it's almost guaranteed to.
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I have yet to see Douglas lose one of these debates. But I've only watched a couple dozen of them. Sideshow Bobbie here was trying to punch above her weight class and failed in predictable fashion.
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It allows a person to claim superiority - or at least some degree of being special - by burning only the number of calories required to label themselves. It's why fat, unattractive girls just decide one day to buy a few scarves and candles and call themselves "wiccans."
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In what could have been a chance to get some points across, Sideshow Bobbie looked for triggers to ignite her hackneyed sloganism rather than to understand that there is often another side and that there are genuine concerns to consider. That's really all a person needs to know about why there's a communication gap right now. And to pretend it's the result of both sides running from forming an understanding demonstrates a lack of willingness to resolve anything.
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@myklmusic To clarify, the American Left.
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@1902donna As they age - and as the former colonies mature - pretty much none of them really hold anyone's interest more than any other sideshow. Harry's demonstrated time and again he's not the boy he's remembered as - at least with his wife. And the media will only be able to use the "he had to walk behind his mother's casket" excuse for him only so much longer. I always liked the kid, but people change.
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Once we got to the "Boomer," I think i finally had a beat on things based on the couple of vids I saw on this channel. Most of the clubs are low-hanging fruit anyone can easily grab. But this does not appear to be a thinking mans channel. The Boomer was glaringly obvious regarding the belief thar putting in the effort will usually reap rewards. Closing with the nonsense about climate change and producing dangerous people was lunacy, but so was the reaction that there was no clear path being laid out to avoid being marginalized. I'm not sure how much hand holding is required here. And I hate to use this phrase, but the real dog whistle I've been hearing us this fairly hackneyed idea of sex tourism - I mean looking to the East for a wife. Granted, this channel generally does seem to simply be regurgitating talking points young men have heard countless times - usually not really related at all to the clip that was just watched. Maybe I'm wrong. It's only been a couple of vids and I do not know this person's relationship status. But based on other channels pitching the same content, I encourage people to take a moment to consider why they would take relationship advice from people whose only experience seems to be that all of their relationships have failed. Take care.
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Bad behavior? Hell, I wouldn't have even DREAMED of just lounging in a store like that, sitting area or not. That said, this is what you get for putting that sort of area in a store. Eventually, it's going to be abused by someone other than people on their way to read Bible verses to blind orphans.
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Imagine them in a classroom? That's imagining the impossible.
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Would you two rather be alone? I kind of feel like I'm intruding, watching this vid while you're having a conversation with someone off camera shouting "hallelujah" every 6 seconds.
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I mean, NEITHER looks like orange juice at all, so it makes me question whether you grew up believing that OJ and Sunny D were both OJ. 🤣 It kind of looks more like Tang to me.
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There are multiple problems here, but I'll take things as they come. One issue I have is that we never actually abandoned phonics (I mean, who was never told to not sound words out at some early level?), and Whole Language Learning absolutely worked. The number of people from my generation (Gen X) who read copious amounts of books - and still do - is not under dispute. Perhaps they skew the average, but that has always been the case, just as how Larry King used to skew the divorce rate. I'm also seeing no real evidence whatsoever that any decline in literacy is a "systemic" issue. This ignores basically every other variable regarding home and family environment. etc., that seem to be just as likely evidence of creating children incapable of - or not interested in - learning, rather than indicting the way they are being instructed. (by the way, the first item shown on the screen was from 2020 - not some time relevant to the assertion, which would put it more at sometime in the 80s) As for the "language wars," that item was printed in 1997 by PBS (take the source for what it's worth). As I recall leading up to that time, that didn't actually speak to traditional phonics and Whole Language Learning, but more to a very strange offshoot of phonics that was to language learning what Common Core was to math - a nonsensical approach that was more confusing than educational. I had several relatives who were educators at the time who tried to tell me how kids in some locations were being taught language via "phonics" and it sounded insane. I believe it was mostly an early- to mid-80s thing. Again, taking place after what was described earlier as the phonics and WLL learning eras being held up for criticism in this vid. Drawing any conclusions about learning from the COVID era is sketchy at best. This is a period during which children in their developmental stages were not even allowed to see people's mouths move while producing language, which has been held out to being very detrimental. I can agree that it may have REVEALED that younger people were not reading a lot of books but, again, it's a Graham Hancock leap, logically, to then attribute it to methods that actually worked. I'm also noting this seeming belief that if you didn't read 20 books last year, it's the school's fault for not assigning you 20 books to read to build up that "reading stamina." Here's a wild idea. Maybe a child can read a book outside of school? Granted, if a child isn't assigned those 20 books, maybe we can't expect them to all make up for it outside of the classroom. This brings us to the movement over the last generation to require LESS reading in classrooms. Homework is just too burdensome nowadays, right? Kids need that time to stare at screens, game and become the victims of sexual predators via social media. Educators have been pressured to not require so much of the students. And it wasn't the educators doing the pressuring. I will not blame the kids for complaining about homework. That's what kids do. But, again, we CAN hold parents accountable for suddenly embracing the lunacy of actually listening to their griping offspring and taking it seriously because, ultimately, a satiated child requires less of a parent who, not coincidentally, wants to spend most of THEIR time on screens. Not exactly a unique approach in this world where we've decided to constantly be held hostage by this or that group's tantrums. Maybe when a student claims they "can't" read an entire book in a week, we should (likely rightly) interpret that as they don't WANT to read an entire book in a week. Along those lines, how many of you have EVER been required to read a book in a week for a class that was NOT a lit class? And even there, that book would have to be relatively short. We almost always had weeks to break down books. And this might shock people, but you usually can go your entire school career without signing up for a lit class. I was good through differential equations. I didn't then turn around and sign up for Calc III. By college, students required to do that much reading in that short of a time is a pretty self-selecting group. My experience has also been that student's lack of desire/ability to read an entire book - or how they were taught - has next to nothing to do with whether they can take a standardized test (exams we'd already been taking GENERATIONS before either Bush administration, by the way) well enough to get into top schools. They just happen to be good students who are also very good at taking standardized tests. I know just as many of my friends who were battling for valedictorian honors who never cracked anything but a text book in high school. Even if the language learning approach IS a big deal in this regard, I think it can be argued that the ability to understand what you just read might be a skill that at least complements your ability to sound those words out. Maybe toward the very end, we finally arrive at what appears to be the likely purpose of this exercise from the start, which was to make an excuse for people who simply choose to do things other than reading. Reading a book isn't a high enough priority to leave the phone inside so that you can absorb a good book in the back yard, so let's blame Whole Language Learning's. We can argue about whether children are being raised in a manner and environment that make them less able to learn what they're being taught, but I'm really not seeing an actual connection between their lack of reading skills and the teaching approach being put forth here. This all written, I obviously have a bias considering that I was actually witness to all of this and am willing to put what would admittedly be considered anecdotal evidence against studies that - at least as presented here - seem to be taking a conclusion and working backward, rather than showing a causal relationship. Or maybe I'm just full of sh!t. Take care.
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He's going to suffer divorce after things don't work out in the U.S. She'll take the buyout she's known was coming since their wedding day and he'll return to his duties, diminished.
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Maya Yeel But now he's diminished and unable to do anything for anyone.
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@artelisx Then all those added "readers" apparently stopped reading, so ...
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Observation: As a B-/C-list actress on an American cable TV show for a few years, Meghan is about as likely to land lucrative acting employment as Harry is to take the throne. :)
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To all the people still blaming NCLB for the fact that you didn't have enough emphasis on education in your homes and you never had any interest in reading anything outside of what was assigned (thereby not building their stamina), did you need a government entity to tell you when to wipe your backsides as well, or did you kind of just figure that one out? 🤣
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In the dark ages (1970s) we learned the letters, then learned their sounds, then sounded out words, etc., and the next thing we knew we were reading. This sh!t wasn't hard. It may have BECOME difficult once people (usually academics) decided we needed to buckle down and come up with the one true way to teach reading, and it had BETTER differ from the one that has worked for centuries, or those of us creating it won't appear to be very useful. On what I'm sure is a completely unrelated topic, the Department of Education was established in 1980.
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Did anyone else watch a documentary on all of this, and find themselves thinking, "This is not how Sriracha is made"? At least, it seems like a few steps were skipped. From what I remember from the doc, there are three sauces made by Huy Fong, each produced by adding something to the previous one. As in, there is a base sauce. They add to the base sauce to make the second sauce, then add to the second sauce to make the third (or maybe they added different things to the base sauce to make the third). I just remember thinking that was brilliantly economical.
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An extrusion tube crapping out rice? WHAT MANNER OF SCORCERY IS THIS?!
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I understand she absolutely goes into ecstatic convulsions whenever she uses toothpaste or tubed polenta.
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I don't know the source - and I'm sure it was stated better than I'm about to - but one of my favorite related quotes goes like this: "It's tougher to convince a common man of something than it is an intellectual. The common man is generally rooted in common sense when it comes to ideas, whereas an intellectual can be convinced of ANYTHING as long as you lay out a trail of what appear to be logical bread crumbs."
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Shocker. A Biden nominee who is not a straight white male. Not like you need to be such a person to fill these jobs, but considering that we're constantly told that straight white males set up the entire system, you'd think they would be among the most qualified at ... SOMEthing. As for Shalanda Young? It APPEARS that the only job she's had since leaving college was working for the Dems on the House Appropriations committee in various capacities including, most recently, head of staff. I write "appears" because, although I've tried a half dozen or so of the top Google matches that might include that information, I cannot find her actual year of birth anywhere on the internet, including her Wiki page. Seriously, "Early Life" on Wiki jumps from birthPLACE to her earning her B.A. I'm not saying that there is some grand mystery here. She seems to likely be in her early 40s, and who gives a sh!t? But if something that basic has been scrubbed, I'm a little curious what else might be out there that we're not supposed to know. From what is available, I KNOW she was born in Baton Rouge, La., and earned her undergrad and grad degrees at Louisiana schools. I know she has worked for the House Dems since 2007. What can I ASSUME, given the limited information, if I choose? Here we have a woman who never really ventured outside of her birth state until she got her master's degree and landed her first job, which she's worked ever since. And, for some reason, the Biden administration believes this qualifies her for a second-fiddle OMB post.
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Note how they all get big balls when grilling people who are going to be "under" secretaries, or "deputy" this or that. I don't recall these guys bringing the pain when it comes to the top appointee positions.
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Nonsense. Unless life has been one unexpected curveball after another, you don't need to be in the top 20% of earners in the U.S. to get a passport or save up $1000, let alone live in these countries. It does take good decisions.
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I guess if you're not willing to spend a couple of hours one afternoon figuring out how to use a sushi mat to roll your own, this could come in handy. It's more to make things idiot-proof. It doesn't really save you much time.
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Blame it on the method of learning that was in place when you DID read a lot! That's what we're supposed to believe here, it appears.
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@sovietunion7643 i'll buy that people busy themselves because the economy may cause some to have to find additional employment, but for the most part the jobs we do are exponentially easier and quicker to do than in the past. We are making a lot of bad choices, from where we spend our money to how we spend our down time. People used to complain about how tired they were after returning home at the end of the day because they had to spend the entire day staring at a monitor. Now those same people can't wait to stare at their phones or tablets for an additional few hours after they get home.
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We should have a UBI "right now"? At what point are you going to tell people they can no longer get a UBI then? Better yet, is there any evidence in the entirety of U.S. history that demonstrates that we would be willing to end such an entitlement program when it is no longer needed? I'm also not entirely sure the translation of what the billionaire was saying is accurate, but I'm not the most astute at parsing through financial language.
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Let's see ... 1) Ventura was not a Navy SEAL. I know a lot of people are going to say that he's "considered a SEAL" by this or that group, or that this or that department retroactively has him as a SEAL. There were SEALs long before his service. Ventura went to a kick-ass school that feeds into two tracts: one for SEALs and an alternative. Ventura chose the alternative. That's no small potatoes. It's still beyond the ability of at least 95% of people currently serving and would likely have been beyond mine when I served. It should be respected. But the fact of the matter is that - while you can serve WITH SEAL teams - that doesn't make you a SEAL. You can't be an actual SEAL if you don't go to SEAL school. It's very simple. Even if they lump old units together and say he's considered one retroactively, he was never a SEAL while he served. Top his credit, he never raised much of a fuss about this in the past and usually just lets people in interviews say what they say. But I do know that usually in the past HE never made the SEAL claim. That always came from someone else. Again, credit to him. I think all the Kyle stuff kind of rattled things around a bit for Ventura. 2) Ventura was never deployed to Vietnam. I think he was in the Philippines. To my knowledge, that wasn't his doing and you sort of go where higher-ups decide you're needed. Again, where someone chooses to send him shouldn't be held against him or what I believe is still a distinguished service record. 3) Contrary to what Ventura seems to claim, the National Guard being mobilized to fight abroad was not invented by President Bush. The NG has served in foreign wars since World War 1, often with units left in tact, rather than being absorbed into Army units. It's also worth noting that even if this wasn't the case, we have to acknowledge that there is a difference between the conscription eras and the post-draft era. And something that most are likely unaware of is that NG and Reserve members aren't technically considered veterans UNLESS they've been federalized at some point. Look it up. Kind of shocked me as well. 4) This one is somewhat up to memory and interpretation (and doesn't really have to do with the irrelevant things Ventura was rambling about at this time in the vid), but very early on in the Gulf War, we DID find WMDs. Rather, we found the components needed to build them buried in the sand in Iraq. Everyone seems to have completely forgotten this. I don't believe huge stockpiles were ever found, but claiming that no WMDs were discovered is kind of like saying that if my M16A2 is sitting on the table, disassembled, that I don't have a weapon. 5) I'm not sure what military deferments have to do with things. I believe former President Trump had four deferments and President Biden had five. Obviously Harris hasn't served. But as someone who served active duty, there IS usually a considerable difference between military professionals and weekend/two weeks personnel, regardless of how long someone served in the NG. The two services are just completely different animals. It's not necessarily ridiculous to question aspects of someone's service. That's all I was able to get through, really. Ventura just hasn't been that entertaining for at least two decades now.
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I believe Trump had four deferments, which is one less than Biden had. Unless Waltz was deployed in some extended way (I haven't bothered to look deep into his record out of apathy), he actually served about 2.5 years during those 24 years of service.
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@Tahoe10 Kind of like how Ventura may have SERVED with SEAL teams, but he never actually was a SEAL while he served. He didn't go to the school. His service is still to be respected, but after his kick-ass advanced training WITH guys who would become SEALs, the SEALs chose Door A, and Ventura chose Door B.
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Her amazement at the existence of the extrusion tube sort of reminds you of when your toddler was fascinated by balloons, or how the dog would chase an empty Coors Light box around the yard because it could see it's reflection in it.
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@theman0612 It appears it has to do mostly with benefits. The view seems to be that a 24-year veteran of the NG who likely spent less than 3-4 years actually on duty doesn't enjoy the same status as someone whose job it was to put on the uniform every day for almost a quarter of a crntury.
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@Oh-No-Its-Lizzie-Jo I have friends at the VA myself. And NG members are not technically considered "veterans" like full-time military members unless the fulfill a specific set of circumstances. It surprised me, but there it is. I assume "coach" refers to Walz, considering that I've also heard something to the effect that when saying he was a "coach" he often tended to leave out that he was an assistant - not the head coach? It sounds similar to what is being said regarding him puffing up his military service a bit, claiming one status while actually serving as an interim? It kind of establishes a pattern if these things are true. Regarding reservist vs. full-time military, a person should not be put down for being a reservist, but we should also not pretend that NG and active military are the same. They're completely different animals. In 24 years, an active-duty soldier puts in 24 years on duty. A reservist who is never part of a major deployment - which has overwhelmingly been the case for decades despite the foreign wars - is on duty for about 900-1000 days, total, if he serves for a quarter century. And a chunk of that can be inactive where you don't show up at all unless there's a call-up. I have no idea what you're talking about regarding people failing classes. This was all so full of garbage that I was done after a couple of minutes so maybe it was included in the rest of Ventura's ramblings. If so, I wasn't around for that. Take care.
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@Xerou Yeah. Pretty sure I didn't mention anything about that. But both things can actually be true if you have critical thinking skills. Take care.
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If you think she got excited with THIS gadget, I understand that she slid off her chair the first time she saw a Slap-Chop!
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I believe I can help with the Canada thing. The reason American liberals/Leftists threaten to move to Canada is because it's full of white people who elect Left-leaning governments. Granted, American blacks vote overwhelmingly Democrat, but white liberals assume that blacks either won't be able to afford to follow them into Canada, or won't be inclined to because of the climate. Those white folks would basically view it as kind of paradise for them. They won't go to Mexico because pretty much the opposite would be the case. They'd be incredibly uncomfortable surrounded by non-whites in a country in which forcing people to follow Leftist social ideals would be like herding cats. And although politics is dirty to some extent most anywhere, they wouldn't like how they can be purchased in Mexico, where increasing the chances of people being able to make money would be taken much more seriously than appealing to the sense of social justice of the person you're trying to hand the briefcase to.
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@mattboland7063 I feel like we can work "properly relieved" in here somehow. 🤣 Take care.
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@theman0612 And you should probably try being a little more thoughtful before being so quick to respond. Maybe take some time to read what's actually being put out there before offering up irrelevant anecdotal evidence. It's got nothing to do with any "theory." As a former full-time active duty service member, I was as surprised as anyone that reservists are not considered veterans unless they fit a certain set of circumstances, which very few of them actually fit for quite a long time. Your friend can (likely)be considered a veteran because he was federalized, then (I assume) served out that obligation. Whether he earned "combat citations" or a purple heart are irrelevant. Those things are simply often consequences of that duty. It's the duty itself that determines whether you attain veteran status in the eyes of the government.
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I mean, Ventura was not a Navy SEAL when he served, but SOMEONE has to praise the ability to rehydrate and re-heat things, and usually never be seen doing PT until two weeks before the test! 🤣
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Regardless of all of this, I think we CAN respect Walz as a First Nations member, being affiliated with the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren.
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True. I would never notice the gaps in time where I DON'T get a bj if it hadn't been for all the bjs I've gotten in the past. Truly profound.
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@justinweidenbach3699 I'm not sure which "his" we're talking about here, but there ARE official military records for Ventura and Walz. The records show that Ventura was not a SEAL (which is why it's so staggering that people have to build him up to be one rather than respect what looked to be a kick-ass service record on its own), and apparently Walz has been puffing up his status if not out-and-out lying about it. I haven't burned any calories looking into the exact circumstances around Walz. But at least one thing has to do with claiming rank that he never actually achieved simply because he kept the chair warm while the NG was finding a replacement. Like if a light colonel filled in for a few weeks as battallion commander until they found the next full bird to replace the last one who left. That light colonel doesn't get to tell everyone he was a full bird. Maybe people are too quick to give it a pass since interim coaches in sports often actually take over those positions until the end of the current campaign. Take care.
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I see a lot of people confused by the oft-confused former Gov. Ventura regarding the National Guard serving overseas. I believe this was formalized by a defense act in 1916 and the NG has been serving abroad since at least WWI. Former President Bush did not invent this practice. 🤣 Another thing that might surprise many is that NG and Reserve personnel are not technically considered to be veterans UNLESS they are federalized by a POTUS and serve their obligation. Shocked the heck out of me when I stumbled upon that little nugget as well.
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And, of course, they bring in a 19yo-looking "reporter from 'New York' magazine" to fill us in on all this, as though "sex sells" is a new concept, and we're not aware that this is a "multi-million dollar" demographic. Guess what? ALL demographics are "multi-million dollar" demographics!I like how she actually believes that these girls "have access to their own money." I don't think I'll be taking financial planning advice from this girl.
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If that one gal wants to look like a raccoon-eyed skank as a 17yo, sobeit. Most of us make fashion mistakes in our teens. Or, at least, we allow ourselves to fall in with the fads and trends. Pressuring younger girls to also become raccoon-eyed skanks is where I draw the line.
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Given a choice, blacks almost always choose to separate themselves from white folks.
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For all the people hoping this will start a trend, not every state is set up like Louisiana. A lot of suburbs are not served so much by the county other than law enforcement or hospitals. Theyll just end up cut off. But it doesn't hurt to try.
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Just think of how vibrant the culture of the city will be now that it's 82% black!
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 @TamaraJohnBlue La. Is a corrupt cesspool regardless.
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@mr.selfimprovement3241 I can see why this would prevent you from building up your reading stamina outside of what you were assigned in school.
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No they won't. Larger government will step in.
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I did the math, based on my memory of the numbers. Baton Rouge just became 82.2% black. This place should be Walanda in no time! 😂
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And these are the sort of women who keep being prematurely promoted in business to check all the boxes. And when they become management ... well ... has anyone else noticed that they tend to either want to avoid conflict at all costs, or take what they THINK are male leadership stereotypes and overdo them? I've worked under pretty much the gamut of humanity. It was almost exclusively women who either wanted to pretend a conflict didn't exist (it's usually avoiding eye contact and/or a "what do you mean?" as though you're the crazy one for recognizing the issue), or try to spread blame when it was very clear only one party was at fault. This isn't meant to paint all women with the same brush. But there's something to be said for BOTH sexes understanding that they're still very new at the whole "running things" thing, and a LOT of them were rushed up the ladder without paying their dues in the typical way. Why would we expect the overwhelming majority of them to know how to effectively do it? You can't even trust dudes to get it right a lot of the time.
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I appreciate the identification of how trans "thinking" can not reconcile with itself, but I'm not sure I'm buying into assertions about what is proper behavior in various cases. And the repeated assertions regarding how the patriarchy is just woven into things comes off a bit as off-handed excuse making. Regarding our biological sex driving us toward this and that, it can be a little complicated. But we can't deny the studies that have shown that the more egalitarian society becomes in the West, the more the sexes freely choose to gravitate toward more "traditional" capacities and interests, in general. It was good to hear people were able to see past the guest's bravado and masculinity, though. I would put forth that women are not blameless regarding how many men react negatively when treated a certain way. There's a reason they view themselves through the eyes of others. You'd think a group that mistakenly blames the patriarchy for them feeling as though they have to cater to modern beauty standards would be more open minded to that.
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