'Murica! (298 Viewers)

[Ronn]

It’s been a “year of the parent” in other matters too.

 

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[ALC]

It’s been a “year of the parent” in other matters too.

shitty parents usually leads to shitty kids anyways so this seems like one of those problems that fixes itslef

 

[.zero]

It's 2035. And we probably shouldn't be burning cow dung as cooking fuel anymore either.



I hate parents. No, seriously. It's the reason I never had kids. It was never the kids. It was always the other parents. Parents have become freaks from the days I used to walk to school by myself, play in school yards without supervision, didn't have arranged playdates, didn't have mommy and daddy trying to be my best friend. Parents have seriously f'ed a lot of things up in the past few decades.



Well, to be fair, the real question here is whether you believe in elite overproduction or not -- basically Turchin's cliodynamics. Because the whole student debt bubble started with that... largely under governor Reagan in Cali in the late 60s when Reagan reacted to anti-Vietnam war protests by defunding higher education. Tuitions went from $300 a year to $15k for a public institution like UC Berkeley.

It took off in other states looking to buy something for nothing: shortchanging higher educational funding in exchange for bloated loans. The student debt bubble was completely obvious by 2010 after the 2008 financial crisis defunded higher education further. And like any bubble, the taxpayers either end up paying for it up-front or the aftermath when the false economics blow up in their faces.

Students were left holding the loan bag because governments preferred defunding higher education and leaving the plebs with the choice of either being a) uneducated or b) postponed indentured servants to a newly created student loan industrial complex.



Label me a lib if you want, but I've heard this cry wolf business far too often to take it seriously. I'm still waiting for that Sharia Law threat from 2013 that made all these states flip out about how the Moooselims were coming to take our freedoms away.

The line between QAnon threats of cannibal pedophiles in the basement of Comet Ping Pong and the scare tactics of schools endorsing gender mutilations and drag queen book club conversion therapy is mighty thin. Antifa coming to get us, BLM burning every town down, the knockout game... it's like paranoia has a great marketing team. Just invent something crazy like teachers are endorsing cannibalism, claim you're against it, and if anybody says you're nuts you take the crazy high ground asking what are they hiding and if they support the alleged cannibals.

This playbook is tiresome.

R.I.P.’d them

 

[Ronn]

shitty parents usually leads to shitty kids anyways so this seems like one of those problems that fixes itslef

I’m not following

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

Speaking of "year of the parent," who the fuck would ever agree to this?

Missouri school district allows parents to opt in to corporal punishment of their children

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ents-opt-corporal-punishment-childr-rcna44803

 

[Enron]

Speaking of "year of the parent," who the fuck would ever agree to this?

Missouri school district allows parents to opt in to corporal punishment of their children

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ents-opt-corporal-punishment-childr-rcna44803

now that’s taking it back lol

 

[Hust]

now that’s taking it back lol

Wasn’t that more in catholic schools?

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It's 2035. And we probably shouldn't be burning cow dung as cooking fuel anymore either.



I hate parents. No, seriously. It's the reason I never had kids. It was never the kids. It was always the other parents. Parents have become freaks from the days I used to walk to school by myself, play in school yards without supervision, didn't have arranged playdates, didn't have mommy and daddy trying to be my best friend. Parents have seriously f'ed a lot of things up in the past few decades.



Well, to be fair, the real question here is whether you believe in elite overproduction or not -- basically Turchin's cliodynamics. Because the whole student debt bubble started with that... largely under governor Reagan in Cali in the late 60s when Reagan reacted to anti-Vietnam war protests by defunding higher education. Tuitions went from $300 a year to $15k for a public institution like UC Berkeley.

It took off in other states looking to buy something for nothing: shortchanging higher educational funding in exchange for bloated loans. The student debt bubble was completely obvious by 2010 after the 2008 financial crisis defunded higher education further. And like any bubble, the taxpayers either end up paying for it up-front or the aftermath when the false economics blow up in their faces.

Students were left holding the loan bag because governments preferred defunding higher education and leaving the plebs with the choice of either being a) uneducated or b) postponed indentured servants to a newly created student loan industrial complex.



Label me a lib if you want, but I've heard this cry wolf business far too often to take it seriously. I'm still waiting for that Sharia Law threat from 2013 that made all these states flip out about how the Moooselims were coming to take our freedoms away.

The line between QAnon threats of cannibal pedophiles in the basement of Comet Ping Pong and the scare tactics of schools endorsing gender mutilations and drag queen book club conversion therapy is mighty thin. Antifa coming to get us, BLM burning every town down, the knockout game... it's like paranoia has a great marketing team. Just invent something crazy like teachers are endorsing cannibalism, claim you're against it, and if anybody says you're nuts you take the crazy high ground asking what are they hiding and if they support the alleged cannibals.

This playbook is tiresome.

I saw ping pong and immediately thought of Thailand

 

[Enron]

Wasn’t that more in catholic schools?

nope, was in public schools as well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_the_United_States

 

[swag]

Speaking of "year of the parent," who the fuck would ever agree to this?

Missouri school district allows parents to opt in to corporal punishment of their children

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ents-opt-corporal-punishment-childr-rcna44803

That really just underscores that parents want teachers to be nannies to their children and run a free day care center for them now.

 

[Hust]

nope, was in public schools as well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_the_United_States

I remember my mom telling me about the ruler treatment growing up catholic lol

 

[swag]

The man looks more unreal as he ages.

Are we seeing Zuck's early transformation a la Michael Jackson circa Bad?

I remember my mom telling me about the ruler treatment growing up catholic lol

Dat sheet was real though. Not fake news. Like ruler on yer palms because they measured your skirt to be more than an inch above your knees. And so girls would roll up their skirts as soon as they left the school, because that was the cool thing to do. Or so I've heard.

Now they could just attach wireless devices to jolt your genitals from the teacher's mobile phone.

 

[Hust]

Are we seeing Zuck's early transformation a la Michael Jackson circa Bad?



Dat sheet was real though. Not fake news. Like ruler on yer palms because they measured your skirt to be more than an inch above your knees. And so girls would roll up their skirts as soon as they left the school, because that was the cool thing to do. Or so I've heard.

Now they could just attach wireless devices to jolt your genitals from the teacher's mobile phone.

I can't remember if she said palms or wrists with there rulers but palms makes more sense

 

[Ronn]

You gotta be so hated to lose an election as a Republican in Alaska even with Trump’s endorsement. Palin is now in Roy Moore territory without the scandals. Quite an achievement.

 

[swag]

So after about 15 months from the time I put money down on a finished apartment (thank you Portuguese bureaucracy and city utility approvals with a Covid backlog), I finally have a deed and keys to a pretty nice new condo in Lisbon.

And because the money is next to free, I took out a mortgage for a portion of it. Just learned that because my new apartment unit has an "A" energy rating, the EIB (European Investment Bank) is knocking an additional 0.1% off on my interest rate. Not much, but I'll take it.

Because if the condo were in Texas, I'd probably be charged an extra 0.1% of interest just for discriminatory harm to the state's fossil fuels business.

 

[AFL_ITALIA]

So after about 15 months from the time I put money down on a finished apartment (thank you Portuguese bureaucracy and city utility approvals with a Covid backlog), I finally have a deed and keys to a pretty nice new condo in Lisbon.

And because the money is next to free, I took out a mortgage for a portion of it. Just learned that because my new apartment unit has an "A" energy rating, the EIB (European Investment Bank) is knocking an additional 0.1% off on my interest rate. Not much, but I'll take it.

Because if the condo were in Texas, I'd probably be charged an extra 0.1% of interest just for discriminatory harm to the state's fossil fuels business.

Congratulations!

 

[swag]

Congratulations!

Thanks! It's the first place I've actually bought in 22 years -- or about the time I joined these forums -- so it's a milestone.

 

[Hust]

So after about 15 months from the time I put money down on a finished apartment (thank you Portuguese bureaucracy and city utility approvals with a Covid backlog), I finally have a deed and keys to a pretty nice new condo in Lisbon.

And because the money is next to free, I took out a mortgage for a portion of it. Just learned that because my new apartment unit has an "A" energy rating, the EIB (European Investment Bank) is knocking an additional 0.1% off on my interest rate. Not much, but I'll take it.

Because if the condo were in Texas, I'd probably be charged an extra 0.1% of interest just for discriminatory harm to the state's fossil fuels business.

Congrats from across the pond. Despite our disagreements I still hope you fly an Old Glory there on our nations behalf. If nothing else, for me, the most annoying Murican you know

 

[alaska]

You gotta be so hated to lose an election as a Republican in Alaska even with Trump’s endorsement. Palin is now in Roy Moore territory without the scandals. Quite an achievement.

Speaking from experience, Alaskans really, really disliked the way she left the governorship. We haven't forgotten.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

That's awesome! Are you planning on moving there full time?

 

[alaska]

*Researches Portuguese real estate out of curiosity*