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  1. 1 hour ago, Balcones said:

    I KNOW!!! IM ALL FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES RUNNING EDUCATION. ITS WHY I DONT THINK WE NEED A DOE. THEY DONT DO SHIT!

    Do you though, because every post above you talk about pushing community education and disbanding DOE. Those two things have nothing to do with each other. Again, specifically what’s your issue with TexasJeff and Goofyboy’s list of things the DOE does since you know they don’t deal with curriculum?

    Hell, if we’re disbanding entire Department’s, I would think you would at least have some specific relevant complaints.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Balcones said:

    It’s exactly what he said. 
     

    -Education should be pushed to community.

    -You don’t know my neighbors.

    -Same. Houston has already closed all libraries.
     

    -Although smaller the Houston, but still filled with 100000 college educated people, Fort Bend cannot do it either.

    I stopped short of suggesting he only thinks Washington DC has “smart enough” people but I think most know that is what he is thinking.

     

    It ALREADY is, have you not been paying attention? Local districts and state education departments set curriculum and the local education. The feds DO NOT deal with curriculum. They deal with the things that have been mentioned multiple times in this thread. Quit going on about something that doesn’t happen.

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  3. 9 minutes ago, Balcones said:

    People like TwiceHorn think that they do. He doesn’t think state or local districts can do it because they have too many welders, migrants or farmers and not enough people with BAs in Sanskrit or African American Studies.

    I so enjoy the deflect/distract method of discussing politics and political views. There have been numerous things posted above that you could respond to about your specific issues with the DoE and perceived lack of understanding on what they do. Either you have some point that isn’t clear or you’re parroting information found elsewhere with no way to discuss it.

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  4. Just now, workswithseed said:

    People are saying that after the creation of public education we fell to 29th in the world. Why would that take place? 

    See “only country with decentralized education” and think about the ramifications of that. I am curious what data you are using other than “people are saying” to base your opinion. 

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  5. 18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This is the story, and pretty much the whole story.

    Trump, Trumpism, and a resurgence of xenophobia and demonization of the "other" is not a product of Trumpism, MAGA, etc.  MAGA, Trumpism, and message board posters who gleefully jack off to the idea of going down to the border and shooting brown people are a product of WHO WE ARE.

    Fighting back/arguing against that is clearly just yelling against the waves as they roll over us.  No point in talking about who we would like to be, who we pretend we are.  We are who we are.  This is who we are:

    - Open statements by men of "your body, MY choice" to women: online, by male students to females in high schools and colleges, by advocacy groups demonstrating on college campuses.

    - Gleeful statements and texts from friends and family members saying things like "glad that n***** b**** lost."

    - Taunts to hispanic people, south asian people, and other minority groups of "your ass is gonna get deported."

    - More open confrontations of people who are "foreign" looking or sounding in public of "go back to your country, you don't belong here."

    - Open verbal statements, emails, and signs telling black people to "get ready to go back to the plantation" and numerous other shitty messages like that.

    - Calling any and all gay and trans people "groomers" and "pedophiles" who should be taken care of by the law and otherwise.

     

    And then, a big chunk of people who go along with that because either they are blind to it, think it won't really affect them, think that they can deal with the effects because the money pay off will be better, etc.  

    TLDR: We are mostly one of two things - shitty, or okay with shittiness if we think we can skirt the effects/reap the benefits.

    This is the basis of Trumpism. It’s not policy driven, it’s isolationism and fear driven. Just the number of people around here and other places online that can’t discuss policy, have no idea what they are even arguing in support of, and really just interact by sticking their fingers in their ears and sticking out their tongues is fascinating.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Balcones said:

    They don’t do shit! That’s why it needs to be wound down. States, local school districts, etc… is where this should reside.

    States and school districts are where the “decision of how to educate” resides. Again, what specifically do you disagree with that the DoE oversees now that your original premise doesn’t hold? Do you even know what they do, why they do it, and that we are literally the only country with decentralized education already?

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  7. 36 minutes ago, Balcones said:

    Education should be pushed to the lowest levels. Let the communities be the primary decision makes of how to educate.

    Who do you think sets curriculum and educational objectives? What do you think the DoE actually does?

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  8. On 11/8/2024 at 5:33 PM, Frank Drebin said:

    1) Gut the government while improving what is left. Move agencies out of Washington and find competent heads to man and restore faith in institutions. Break the neck of the elite, intelligence and bureaucratic groups rotting in the government. Shrink the size and scope of the Federal Government, especially Exec branch agencies

    2) Comprehensive and permanent immigration reform. Executive orders help and will stop border crossings immediately, but we need permanent safeguards against what Biden Harris did to us.  Have a robust guest worker program.  Pathway to citizenship for hardworking contributors.  Recruit other high achievers from around the world. Deport violent criminals.

    3) Secure permanent onshoring of manufacturing -- or at least bring to Latin America -- especially for critical infrastructure like tech and medicine. Lead the charge to wean is off the addiction to constant purchasing of cheap shit to a culture that will pay more once for a more quality product the way we did from post war through preNAFTA.

    4) lay down the foundation for a generational dynasty of a new Republican party. Make good on promises to all the various nontraditional republican voters and try to retain them after Trump is finished. There's an incredibly bright future with a deep bench in the republican party, but it won't matter if they squander the gains they just made. I think it's imperative they secure democrats a seat at the table, even if it means some compromises. Getting bipartisan consensus on what I believe will be an incredibly successful agenda would solidify the party for a generation.

    5) Repair Federal Law Enforcement . . . Remove biased DOJ and FBI administrators and prosecute any DOJ and FBI officials who have acted illegally.

    6) End all DEI in federal government.  Have the EEOC issue guidance that corporate DEI programs that promote one race over another are per se violations of Title VII and will result in enforcement actions

    7) Get rid of all mission creep in our military and the CDC.  Return to core missions, and not the social justice wet dream of the week

    8. If constitutional, a national ID and comprehensive requirement for voter ID (have not studied constitutionality

    9) Eliminate the department of education

    10) Investigate and if appropriate charge under RICO, with mail and wire fraud being the predicates, if evidence is there for a criminal conspiracy with the perpetrators of lawfare.  Willis.  Smith. Bragg. Leticia James.  Anyone at DOJ that violated the law.

    11) Replace Alito and Thomas on the SCOTUS and hopefully get 1 or 2 more like Roberts or Sotamayor

    12) Remove gender identity from Title IX

    13) Finish the wall

    14) Strengthen SS and Medicare.  Compromise between raising SS cap and moving retirement age back a couple years since people are living longer.

    15) Tell Ukraine we will sell you weapons, but the free ride is over.  EU countries have plenty of money and they can pay.

    16) Extend tax cuts

     

     

    Most of these I at least get the premise of even if I don’t agree with them. However, what’s the primary issue with the Dept of Education and what are you proposing to replace it?

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  9. 24 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    Sure, sure, End Wokeness, Gunther Englemann, etc have the same reach and influence as the NYT, the Sunday morning talk shows, etc. which sets the table for what is being discussed nationally. Fuck off you disingenuous piece of shit.  

    I can tell you when my MAGA parents call they aren’t talking about the NYT, WSJ, etc. They are talking about Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, etc which I think was the point being made. What’s the viewership on the Sunday Morning talk shows versus Elon’s followers on Twitter.

    I would agree they don’t meet the historical definition of mainstream media, but you should be able to agree the R’s own the information/content wars at the moment through the various types of media outside of Legacy maybe. You can debate semantics (which seems popular around here) or you can debate the message/point (which is what most normal people would do). 

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  10. 49 minutes ago, bluto said:

    why is steel different from the material costs in the first paragraph?

    Steel has worldwide tariffs with exemptions for Canada/Mexico, it wasn’t just a specific tariff directed at China. There are also targeted tariffs on Chinese steel outside of the overall tariffs. Numerous studies have shown the steel tariffs specifically to be detrimental to the consumer from a cost perspective, but there are also issues around the push for production of “clean” steel/aluminum that drive those tariffs as well.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    Keep trying to box me into arguing against data that doesn't exist. I don't give a fuck about your feels about tariffs. If they are stupid just post data to support that argument, not tweets from antifalickpopsiclesticks. This is not hard. 

    I’m not giving you my “feels”. I’m telling you what my construction clients are seeing in their futures pricing. G650 is telling you what he is seeing/expecting in materials pricing. The guys on my side have all been in the industry a long-time and they are making plans for increased/unstable material costs and are not locking in long-term contract pricing. You have a short window to accept and a short window to pay for/purchase materials. 

    Now, my steel guys are falling all over themselves with the proposed increase in the tariffs. Their numbers will go through the roof because their prices increase substantially with tariffs. They can charge more because of foreign material pricing. The end customer pays similar to what he would for imported tariffed steel (xx% higher than without tariffs) and the steel guys here just make a much larger spread. They love it.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    I don't need to go run down data to argue against antifapuddingpops that provided no data nor coherent public policy argument to begin with. If you want to engage in chasing ghosts for the next 2 years go for it. Fucking twitter gonna run through you though. 

    You don’t, you could just respond to the couple of people involved in the industry that have posted. Or not, either way.

    20 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Is this dude stupid?

    Yes, the answer is always yes. Remember, deflect, disinformation, distract, it’s the way of their world.

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  13. 17 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    I didn’t ask you to go one by one.

    surrender on the “nazis are fine people” bullshit noted

    I’m actually trying really hard here to find your point, but I can’t. You clearly aren’t reading along or wanting to discuss the difference between actual things that are  said by the individual and can be quoted versus those that are people saying this is what he will do or thinks. We’re back to distract and deflect rather than actually discussing the level of misinformation Trump himself has injected into the narrative.

  14. 5 minutes ago, quigley said:

    Cool. You didn't answer the question.

    When do you, in your personal life, tell people to have guns trained on people? If my child did that, they would be corrected. Adults don't use those words.

    I understand your point about Trumps words being mischaracterized. But his speaks is ripe for mischaracterization because it's so meandering and disjointed.

    Trump is evoking violence against a political rival. Why Cheney should be subjected to violence is besides the point. "Nine barrels," to me, means firing squad. Maybe I watched too many Hogans Heroes or something.

    I can easily agree that his quote is a problem and it’s not a line of thought that normal people would take, but stretching it to “he wants her in front of a firing squad” based strictly on what he said is a bridge too far. There are plenty of people that would agree that politicians often take individual lives for granted in other countries wars while they sit behind their desks which is really the point he was making. Hell, it was a premise of the Democratic Party for some time.

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  15. 6 minutes ago, quigley said:

    @Brew

    Are we okay with

    "nine barrels shooting at her" ?

    I gave you the whole quote. When do you, in your personal life, tell people to have guns trained on people?

    You can’t cherry pick one portion of the quote from the entire message. You lose context. Saying that she should be in front of a firing squad is different than what he actually said. Right off the bat, you don’t get a gun if you’re in front of the firing squad. The the part of what he said is below.

    Liz Cheney is “a deranged person,” the GOP nominee said, “but the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war. She wanted to go – she wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, if [it] were up to her, we’d, we’d be in 50 different countries. She’s a radical war hawk.”

    He then said, “Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”

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  16. 7 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    great, now do the full text of the, “Trump called Nazi’s fine people” bullshit.

    I don’t think you really want to go through all of the stupid shit he has said one by one. It will not work out well for you. There are instances where it is spun, there are a lot more instances where he actually said the dumb shit that has been quoted just as it was said.

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  17. 9 minutes ago, quigley said:

    "She's a radical war hawk," Trump said of Cheney. "Let's put her with a rifle standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face."

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-suggests-liz-cheney-should-face-firing-squad-her-foreign-policy-stance-2024-11-01/

    If you read the whole thing, it’s clear he is saying that lawmakers shouldn’t be sending people to war when they aren’t willing to go be put in harm’s way.

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  18. 23 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Biden: “Put Trump in a bullseye”

    Days later someone shoots Trump

    Surly Leftists: “Trump’s statements lead to violence”


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    The conversation was on disinformation and people eating up the misinformation that is fed to them. Bringing that into the discussion where it was said to put him in the bullseye of their campaign coming out of the debate isn’t misinformation, no matter how you want to argue context. It’s no different than any other war time reference used by either side. Interestingly enough, he also apologized for the use of the terminology which hasn’t happened on the other side of aisle. 

    You could at least stay on track.

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  19. 34 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    And your side was claiming Trump wanted a national abortion ban and to have Liz Cheney executed.  

    You do see that there is a difference between direct quotes from a presidential candidate/elect and others saying this is what one side or the other will do, don’t you? The horse’s mouth is a much better source of information than accusations by either side and the “horse” is on the record saying the things I mentioned.

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  20. 1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

    The important thing is that it started a conversation.  These fools will buy anything. See Jussie Smollett thread when it first popped.  Or when Poncho and the rest of these fools thought there were white supremacists lynching minorities in the Heights when some Hispanic guy hung hinself.  These are not serious people. They’re everything they accuse the dumb other side of doing when it comes to lapping up disinformation 

    Interesting take there based on the amount of BS Trump injected into his campaign (eating pets, FEMA/immigrants, etc) that the lapdogs ate up. If you don’t think pricing/futures in the construction industry is already being impacted, then you don’t deal with the industry.

    The odd thing about the industry is they have had record years post Covid. I work with 80+ contractors and I can’t think of one that hasn’t had record sales/earnings during that period. They are all as red as they come too, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. There were already signs through the summer that it was checking up especially in certain industries.

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  21. 1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

    So as long as the message is possible misinformation is A-OK.  Thats what you’re going with?

    I just gave you actual conversations with GC’s and subs I had and what they are seeing with prices and futures, G650 is giving you actual views from the industry and what they are doing on pricing as well. It would be much simpler just to say you’re good with it, you don’t care than ignoring the actual impact on how these things play out.

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  22. 24 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    Keep the fanfic coming.  
     

    fwd:fwd:fwd:fwd

    Let’s say you are right for the moment and the story is fiction, in your mind does that mean the storyline can’t play out that way? I talked to my largest GC yesterday and they are concerned about material costs with the level of imported items in the industry. My largest electrical sub has been loading up on wire this fall to try and mitigate the increase coming there because it’s all imported. 

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  23. 7 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    Just got done running 5 miles.  Now at daughter’s tumbling practice.  You probably can’t relate to either.  

    Do you have an actual point to make or are you just trying to run up the imaginary internet dig scoreboard you keep in your head?

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