Even the dumbass Andrew Yang gets it: https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-yang-i-started-third-party-heres-why-you-shouldnt-vote-one-opinion-1975623

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What a stupid fucking take on the situation. We, the people, either stand up and take the power or we let whoever wants it have the power. One bug won’t due shit to the chicken. A million bugs will devour the chicken.

Mods- Why the fuck would you remove this comment? It doesn’t violate any of your rules.

Quit fucking waiting until the election to bitch and moan about it. Start making actual changes now and it will still take 12 years, minimum. Get involved at a more local level. Take that shit over so that you actually end up having a voice at the national level.

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geeze - what a troll bait video. Fuck Jill Stein Trump.

i am speaking from experience working in a large, k-12 [public] environment

Can you be more specific? Do you have a degree in education? What kind of work were you performing? What grade(s)? How long ago? Are you still there?

i am speaking from experience working in a large, k-12 [public] environment and watching brand new teachers discuss their degrees, and their pay.

Brand new teachers start at the bottom of the salary ladder and typically have a Bachelor’s in Education. They then have to do continuing education and frequently end up with their Master’s.

Why are you referring to ‘teachers’ as if to speak about all of them if what you really meant was those who just graduated? Even then, why are you generalizing and dinging all teachers when there also some very brilliant first year teachers and many who are adequate/good, too?

you barely need a degree to be a teacher in the united states

In most cases of actual teachers in the government run, public school setting, who were trained as teachers, they end up having to get a Masters degree and additional continuing education for as long as they remain a teacher. However, they are desperately under-paid and under-supported.

Once you get into private schools, especially those that are run by churches, all bets are off. This is just one of the many reasons that not even a single dollar of taxpayer money should be going to charter/private schools.

You also have stupid places that let anyone with some random skill teach with the belief they have the capacity to be a teacher and that’s just not true. Teaching is actually a very specialized skill that most people simply don’t have. You can be a brilliant mathematician and a horrible teacher. You may be the world’s best welder (with all of the requisite knowledge of metallurgy, engineering, safety, etc.) and be a horrible teacher.

If you’re going to bad-mouth teachers, then please be more specific than just a lazy trope. Another urban legend that needs to go away is the idea that teachers only work 9 months out of the year.

I’m starting to question my move to Firefox from Chrome… Firefox is doing some really stupid stuff.

Nobody ever said she couldn’t. Do you go outside and yell at the clouds?

I would argue that it’s very much on-point. I routinely called out questions on tests because they had ambiguities that would mean the correct answer couldn’t be determined from the information provided.

Like all meaningful change, you have to convince enough people to get involved and to do so more often and consistently than every four years at the Presidential general election. It’s this belief that the change is going to come from the parties that is the core problem. Everyone complains about having to vote for the lesser of two evils, but then they do it and go back to sleep for another four years. At best, they just gripe about the government never acknowledging that they are responsible.

RCV is starting to get some traction in places. What we have to do is continue supporting that and not let the detractors shit on it.

Agree with the philosophy, but stupid that she’s running for president. Until/unless we change FPTP voting the only the Democrat and Republican running even matter and if you don’t explicitly vote for the one then your are implicitly voting for the other.

The “lesser evils” are the Greens and PSL

Don’t be obtuse. Either the Democrat or the Republican is going to win. Those are the only two you get to choose from at the moment. You have to start long before the general election if you want to change that reality.

They are both unacceptable evil, period. T

Then don’t vote at all or vote third party, but know that by doing so you’ve supported Trump. You will be personally responsible for Trump winning. Sleep tight.

Don’t bother replying if you are just going to continue parroting the Russian propaganda.

Are the Russian Trolls in the room with us? Probably…

If you don’t like the FPTP voting, do something about that. If you don’t like voting for the lesser of two evils, do something about it besides waiting until that is the only choice.

• Fact 1: Right now, your only choice is to vote for the lesser of the two evils, unless you want to help the worse of two evils.
• Fact 2: Harris is, by a very large margin, the lesser of the two evils.
• Fact 3: Your ‘messaging’ is helping Trump

Do with the facts what you will, but know that the messaging of “the Russian trolls” is to do anything possible to diminish support for Harris either directly or indirectly. Like it or not, you are “on message” with those who would choose to see Trump win.