Victim of Communism
Harris campaigned side by side with Liz Cheney, repeating all the same talking points that paved the way for our wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
I’ve seen absolutely nothing from the Biden interregnum that would lead me to believe a Harris government wouldn’t have slaughtered countless people for threadbare reasons.
And liberals would be defending it, while conservatives complained about incompetency.
You must vote for and support the candidate who’ll kill only 700,000 people.
Unless, of course, they decide they need to kill 800k. Or 1M. Or 5M. Or 10M.
But hey, the other guys were going to kill more, we swear.
If you see a snake coiling up and preparing to strike, do you wait until it bites you to stop it?
Generally speaking, snakes only attack when they feel threatened.
But humans attack purely for the joy of killing.
If I see a snake coiled up to attack, I back away and we both live another day. I don’t reach in to stab it, get bit in response, and die from the poison a few hours later.
The poors can still get in if they are willing to become indebted wage slaves with a 6 figure debit for the next 20-30 years.
They can’t. Those schools are all scams. That’s the real ugliness. Private universities charging six figures also have some of the worst placement rates and poorest post-collegate incomes.
Just, don’t expect to get in to a social connection generator for nepo babies
Right. Because the degree is a social gatekeeper first and foremost.
What has changed is the amount of student loan money available and how it needs to be paid back.
Student loan money availability is only being made available because students are seen as a good financial investment. And that’s because college education yields higher salaries in the private sector.
Since student loan money is very easy to get, the prices of everything at a university have skyrocketed.
Private university tuition has far outpaced public university tuition, particularly in areas of the country where demand for public education is eclipsed by open seats at public universities. Students afforded low-cost public education don’t take on student debt, regardless of its availability.
Since student loan debt needs to be paid, only education tracks that lead to landing a job matter
That plays into a myth about education tracks as related to “landing a job”, when pretty much any basic degree plan - from English Lit to Comp Sci - gives you a better job prospect and higher future salary expectations than no-degree. Even bearing in mind the cost of servicing the debt, you’re better off completing a degree plan (or vocational program) than going directly into the workforce with merely a diploma.
Where people get fucked is in taking on debt, failing to complete the degree. At that point, they’re in the worst of both worlds. Or taking on private university debts that far outstrip what a public university would charge. The really nasty for-profit colleges love to lard you up with six figures of debt and plow the profits back into a blizzard of marketing.
But that has far less to do with available student debt (for-profits are more than happy to take the backend risk on loans and simply hound you with collectors) and more to do with predatory private for-profit schools specifically and weed-out courses in public universities generally.
I’m being told we need to Vote Blue No Matter Who.
You’ve found a bunch of clickbait headlines built on anecdotes.
But absent a marginal performance dip in the wake of COVID, overall US rates have been relatively flat for the first quarter of the 21st century.
What you’re witnessing is a media converge on a given topic, not a social crisis. Once the media hype dies down, you’ll forget about it.
The costs aren’t really what’s changed. It’s who bares the costs. Teaching a student today isn’t materially more expensive than it was 30 years ago. We’ve just shifted the demand for school revenues from state budgets to family pocketbooks as the number of students entering college has swelled.
The “kids aren’t literate anymore” line really runs afoul of the abysmal state of standardized testing. Case in point:
The Pineapple And The Hare: Can You Answer Two Bizarre State Exam Questions?
This is what we’re using to evaluate literacy in the modern day. Tests designed to confuse students and flunk classrooms, in order to justify education privatization.
I’m always deeply skeptical of this insistence that college offers “little benefit”. But I’ll happily concede that it functions as a bureaucratic hurdle, designed to favor the historically wealthy and socially entrenched over the impoverished and recently arrived.
“Pick up and leave” is such a popular advice / prediction / threat that I assumed more people were doing it.
Y’all wouldn’t just be spouting off nonsense to score rhetorical points on the internet, right?
Which is hilarious because there’s absolutely no equivalency here. China is not running warships through the Florida Keys or in the Long Island Sound. The US is running warships off the coast of China and has Marines stationed 4 miles off the coast inside a territory that the UN recognizes as a province of the state of China. The US are clearly in the wrong here. This both-sides position is ridiculous
I can’t help map the history of Taiwan against the history of Cuba, when it comes to the topic of “imperialism”.
On the one hand, you have an island that was actually and repeatedly invaded by Western governments, conquered and liberated and conquered again. Bombed, embargoed, sabotaged, sanctioned, its leaders subjected to hundreds of assassination attempts. The explicit stated goal of the imperial neighbor is “regime change”. The implicit unstated goal is subjugation leading to a full-on ethnic cleansing, to clear the way for a new generation of colonial settlers to occupy vacant real estate.
On the other, you have an island that is heavily incorporated into its neighbor’s economic ecosystem. People freely travel to and from the mainland. Citizenship is muddy by design, because the Eastern government wants to encourage islanders to recognize themselves as full citizens of the neighboring state. And Taiwanese businesses are happy to take advantage of this arrangement, exploiting their special status to function as a bridge between mainland businesses (under sanction by Western governments) and Western customers (hungry for cheap, high quality Chinese goods).
Cuba is impoverished as a matter of US foreign policy.
Taiwan is enriched as a matter of Chinese foreign and domestic policies.
One of these countries has been in the headlines for decades, with hysterical predictions of an imminent military occupation. And it isn’t Cuba.
And people question why we say that the USA is the most propagandized people on the planet.
The math autism is really just the profound desire to start a rock band your garage autism, where the math becomes a coping mechanism.
New Study same as the Old Study.
We’re going to keep churning out studies. They’re going to keep churning out violence against trans people.
I bank with Dixie Normous.
There’s a point in your life where “all your stuff” is maybe two non-IKEA pieces of furniture that your parents forced on you when you moved out. And then there’s the point at which “all your stuff” fills a 1600 sqft ranch house and half of it is made out of granite for some reason.
Just, baseline, ignore the meme. If you have to move a refrigerator down a flight of stairs, this is no longer a “buy me a pizza” tier work.
If you’re straight you can just move there.
There’s this fascination, online, with selling your house and your car and quitting your job and converting your life savings to a new currency and kissing your parents goodbye so you can relocate to a country you once said “This place isn’t as bad as the trolls on the internet said it was” to… prove a point?
I’ll never understand the urge. But apparently all of you people have done it and now you just post from somewhere in Scandinavia or Argentina or Qatar, encouraging other people to do the same.
Right. It’s still a home server setup. Unless, I guess, you’ve got some kind of cloud service you can pipe the data in from. But then you’re regressing to #1.
Dubya had some amazing stuff to say about the guy if you want to play waddabouts.
Much like Reagan and Saddam Hussein. They were friends until they weren’t
:-/