pdxfed @ pdxfed @lemmy.world

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"upgrading"

Right, much like the rest of the country. My point was as the ripples and waves and face eating leopards hit the folks who voted for the Republicans, as their businesses and communities suffer from fallout and they're told "just a bit of pain" that they have enough brain cells to remember the lies they were fed.

Well, I hope all those Kansas residents who voted for racism, fascism, the end of the rule of law and destroying the government enjoy their bed.

More in this case, bullies and fascists only respond to force, that is all. There is no decorum, no societal norm, no mutually agreeable term that can be arrived at. Punch them in the face and keep doing it until the consequences are greater than the benefits of acting as such.

Power, through force is the ONLY thing they respect and understand.

Oregon, despite being home to Powell's books and thought of as progressive has one of the worst high school graduation rates,ath and literacy rates in the country. After the pandemic they straight up removed many math and English requirements from high school curriculum under the guise of "equity" for those affected by the learning disruptions cause by COVID. It was pretty clearly less about serving disadvantaged students than raising the abysmal education statistics.

That said, educators are doing as much social work now as they are education as society collapses in on itself and generational poverty, social ills related to poverty, poisons in our environment and relating depression and anxiety from young to old metastasize nationally. Teachers cannot hope to fix all that in a few hours a day let alone make up for years of lacking learning environments outside of school for their students.

They're teaching phonics still in 3rd grade.

Racism, in the United States? Stay it ain't so!

Exactly. Look at our "news" industry, built on supposedly the critical function of journalism. When $ is the output and $ becomes the input, it can easily be steered to antisocial ends. Medicine, higher education, they've all been distorted and corrupted by profit motive.

I remember reading Thomas Paine in high school and most of the students couldn't even understand it. That stuff was printed for the average bloke 200 years ago. The stuff that helped light the American populace to take up arms and overthrow tyrannical rule isn't even comprehendible to our poorly educated populace now. Being a genius isn't required to foment revolution, but common language is, literally and figuratively.

If you haven't learned vocabulary, your brain struggles to conceive, identify and of course use it in course of thought. One of the reasons right wing news and cable so often misuses and deliberately butchers important words like traitor, fascist, etc. is they want to strip them of their very important meaning so they aren't notable when used.

Maybe if I just bend the knee harder daddy will stop beating me. Maybe just once more.

Almost like for profit "news" is antithetical to journalism.

Sure, 100%, and no doubt staffing levels for ATC, and FAA, etc. could have played a causal or correlative role, my point is that there is little digging into the other half of the accident, which for me is pretty strange since a collision involves two parties, systems, processes, etc.

In the same way poker players misuse or misunderstand "pot equity" as a concept to justify chasing poor hands.

That's a 10 second Photoshop away from biblical Obama. If Dems were playing to win, this should have been like a Che poster 15 years ago, Obama walking on water. Maybe would have done better in the south!

So why is the focus on the FAA when the military is the one flying a helicopter into a high volume domestic flight path? Why wouldn't the focus be on military controls, training, conditions of soldiers, accountability in their opaque system, etc.?

If you truly haven't connected the dots as to why the slide to the right of Democrats enabled Trump to win, and win again, I pity you.

Throwing labels at me because you can't refute the point is always the mark of someone on the correct side. Rest easy!

He allowed extra-judicial torture practices there against UNHR and any humanitarian objections. He didn't do what Trump is going to, but he allowed it to normalize and continue despite the power to stop it, and makes it less of a leap for a right wing freak to make something like this happen. It's not a "thanks Obama", but people down voting holding Obama to account for keeping it open want Dems to be blameless despite complicity in the neoliberal bullshit dating back to Clinton as the party swung for corporate interests and abandoned their humanity.

Obama didn't, even with a supermajority in the Senate. This is the problem with neoiberalism taking over the D party. Trump certainly isn't going to.

Smells like a Manchurian Candidate.

If you thought China's COVID reporting numbers were bullshit, just wait for what comes out of the CDC on any disease. We will be completely disease free for 4 years as a nation...