That’s like asking, “Is the grass green?” Zelensky IS combat. You know the Chuck Norris jokes? Zelensky lives them.
#StandwithUkraine #takeallmymoney #Ukraineisspankingthatassbutstillneedsmore
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No.
I believe FDR was a loser domestically. The war is a separate issue from his previous 8 years of unconstitutional, communist bullshit.
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As much as 1930’s domestic policy interests me, I’m going to shut that down in this thread. I agree that there’s a wide swath of criticism that can be levied against FDR’s many wild adventures in social engineering. I’ll also acknowledge that he was in a precarious position. I think it is important to entertain the notion that FDR may have implemented some socialism to prevent the implementation of a lot more socialism.
Getting to the bottom of that question requires another thread.
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Agreed.
I’ve been kind of lurking in this thread and just taking in all the different viewpoints. In the past I would have jumped all over a topic like this, but in the past few years my outlook has changed. Not a nihilistic view, but to the realization that we aren’t going to stop what’s coming. I think the opportunity to vote it right is gone. It may have passed 20 years ago.
I’m a “same as it ever was” kind of guy. But I agree with you that were in uncharted territory with technology. The problems are the same, but technology has put a new spin on it.
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I’m glad that you understand the perspective I’m putting forward in this thread, but please join me in having hope.
I’ll get a little cheesy, mix a little bit of woo and smoke a water pipe full of completely legal plant matter in my jurisdiction for old time’s sake. I’m sorry for hitting everyone with rather depressing subject matter, so allow me to inject a little optimism into my own grim thread.
Good people can still win.
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If you’re as right about this as you have been about Ukraine/russia, I’m on team Churchill all the way! 
You’re just stumbling around the internet finding new things to be wrong about.
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I’m really surprised that Nazis (neo and otherwise) don’t like Churchhill. Shocking.
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Yeah. They really need to give up all hope of a better past.
Perhaps you’re both unpleasant when it comes to politics.
I’ve actually heard that Churchill really was the man we are all told Teddy Roosevelt was.
It is just old what I say. Education has long become a bad measurement for congnitive qualities. I will give me and my wife as examples. In my past company I was the only one without high education. Yet I was the only one published in a journal. I was also the top performer in the company. I quit because the management and the CEO could not handle that I earn twice as much as anyone else from bonuses. I was told you make money too easy, we are decreasing your bonus percentage…
My wife is not yet a landshaft architect. I am not sure if she will graduate. Yet she is a freelancer making projects and visualisations and making money. She is a much better and successful architect than her cousin who graduated in Berlin. I was at the same position 10 years ago. I was managing a hotel and an apart hotel, while studing Hotel Management in Cardiff. I dropped out because they were teaching me how to write a CV in an enterprenuership class while I was managing two properties in Istanbul.
Sure places where we were studying werent Harvard and etc, but I hope I am making a point. How many people in their 30s have no loans, 2 apartments a 2023 car and are published? I will start a company in a couple of years as well, I have the money and the business plan as well. Oh btw I am also coaching soccer without a licence. My club qualified for a pro league and the club is paying fines, because I have no licence.
This is nonsensical. Education measures nothing. Tests do however. In the US, as much as the SAT gets maligned, it is the best predictor of college success. I know there are people who panic and get anxious when taking tests and they claim that tests are an unfair or they are not good indicators of their knowledge or skill because they are unable to perform at their best. Ok, fine. But imagine that person as a doctor. If a test can turn their world upside down imagine how performing surgery will make them feel. Imagine any job related pressure.
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Correct.
Standardized tests and licensing tests exist for a reason. You will always have outliers, but for the large majority it is a good indicator on how you will do in whatever the test is testing for.
Now, I will say that has become bullshit for the bar in the last 15 years when it is fluctuating between a 33% and 60% pass rate.
It is being used as a gatekeeping method - not an actual measurement of proficiency.
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I mostly agree, but I disagree with the fact that in both universities I have studied I entered with an A. Testing can be bullshit. I have taken 13 exams in 14 business days. You can study to take tests and exams and know nothing.
It’s funny, though. Throughout University (or even highschool for that matter) I never knew where my teachers and professors stood, politically, nor was it ever something I even wondered about.
I think I like that it was like that.
My grandparents never discussed politics, sex, or religion. I don’t know if it was a generational thing across the board or just within their social group. Now I think all things should be open for discussion, but one thing is for sure: they got along with everyone.
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My high school teachers made it very well known how they felt about a variety of issues. I don’t know why. They were teaching kids as young as 14. Who they thought should be president didn’t really need to come up in the classroom.
My college professors don’t talk about what religion they follow or who they vote for, but you can sort of tell what they think by what they lecture about or what they make you read. When one professor has you read W.E.B. DuBois and Tanehisi Coates and then argues that DuBois has a better view of education/politics/society, it’s enough to let you know they’re not really in agreement with the woke crowd of today. So it’s not that their own views come up, but you get the idea from who they consider worth reading/listening to.
And I’ve never had a professor who appears to lean right get upset with a student disagreeing. I have had seemingly left-leaning professors argue and get upset with me when I push back against ideas of theirs. I am Lakota, and in a Contemporary Indian Issues class taught by a white woman, I got basically scolded for disagreeing with her on some issues. I think she was mostly concerned that something I said could be taken as offensive, but no other students (Native or otherwise), even those who I knew would disagree with me, actually had a problem with it, or at least not enough to vocalize it. So that lady held me down and suppressed my views for nothing! Haha.
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You’ve got a lot of reading on your plate I’m sure, but Thomas Sowell explained much of the root cause of modern wokeism back in 1995.
He hits the nail right on the head. Self-congratulation as a basis for social policy is at the root of many progressives’ motivations, especially white progressives, and most especially white progressive women. Particularly those found in and around West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Perhaps even the Dakotas. They just want what’s best and they are so, so much smarter than you thanks to their privilege.
I’m glad to hear your conservative professors are treating you and the other students well. My sister-in-law, who considers herself your “ally”, gets extremely upset if her ideas about politics are even slightly challenged. She’s got a master’s degree and manages a bioresearch lab that works on gene therapies. She’s obviously much smarter than you or I about all things, including politics. Her degree says so.
Back to the book, it is definitely worth a read and Sowell’s prescience back in 1995 is impressive, but here’s the 5 min cliff notes.
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Also this was simply not a thing at my rural Indiana public school in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The focus was almost always on the subject of the class. The closest thing I can recall to a strong political opinion in jr high or high school was my history teacher in my sophomore year informing us that prior to impeachment, the Nixon administration had some good accomplishments.
I think the teachers teaching today’s teachers may be teaching them differently than they were taught before. It seems like a shift to Teacher/Activist has already taken place, and in a lot of cases we’re seeing a shift to Activist/Teacher.
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It will eventually come out with the wash.
I always made it a point to avoid giving my view on issues. When Trump was elected, I heard many teachers openly disparaging him in front of students and I thought it was wrong.
I would have laughed out loud if I were asked to read anything by that half wit.
I’ve had professors who would have been considered leftists when they started teaching but right leaning or just plain right wing 20-30 years later even though their beliefs hadn’t changed much.