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DonkeyCigars

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  1. Hahaha. You are one of the good ones here; I think I'll miss you most. No, I'll miss @bad_teammate the most of all.
  2. Your example I think is a good one to illustrate how Americans these days are talking past each other, instead of communicating. It seems to me that there is a problem in definitions. When people who have a problem with "CRT" are saying "CRT is in our schools and sucks let's ban it!" they are not using CRT as a technical or academic term, which I would argue is pedantic and not hearing what people are saying, but rather looking for a way to disqualify what is being said. We know that in the science of language and words (linguistics), language changes over time. In the modern world where technology has enabled hyper-connectivity and communication, two points: 1). Language change is extremely fast. Whereas in the past it could take generations, language change between communities and populations is extremely mutable. 2). Language change is often socially problematic. Long before divergent dialects lose mutual intelligibility completely, they begin to show difficulties and inefficiencies in communication, especially under noisy or stressful conditions. So when people like your aunt (or most people who have a problem with CRT in public schools or whatever) are talking about CRT, they aren't talking about the academic framework, they are talking about something that is attacking their identity and worldview and social capital-- something that aims to help and enable and pull up the underrepresented minority, at the expense of the historically represented and powerful anglo.
  3. 3 years later how did this new company go or did it ever get off the ground?
  4. I hadn't though too deeply about this but it's a great point. A Dem in a red state is not going to be the same sub-species as a Dem in a blue state. We can't really expect that unless we are being naive or irrational, right?
  5. Out of respect to whigs, let's take this offline. Sorry @Mrs Whiggins for being a distraction here; I hadn't read the thread and got pulled offsides impulsively. Didn't mean to derail, I was planning on not posting anymore but in order to minimize continued fall-out please nobody respond to my briskettexan hate.
  6. You've gotten excited and gone on a neg spree on me this AM; should I go ahead and register CowCigarettes or something like that? Would that make you happy?
  7. The craziest part of your entire post is not that I agree with you, but that (again, I repeat), you can't or won't see that YOU are one who is cognitively inflexible, yourself! You are married to a talk track and a narrative and every situation or conversation or discussion turns into a nail for which you can use your emotionally comforting hammer to strike. I've posted before how your sloppy use of Dunning-Kruger Effect is wrong and a disservice to the term, to no real avail, but you are mostly guilty of Bulverism. Unfortunately for your narcissism, you are not tragically unique in that regard on this site. You have plenty of company!
  8. If I am a window licker than I am no better than you. That means that, like you, I lack even the most basic sense of self-awareness and am truly just an oblivious, sad, old person who is really and deeply in love with a narrative and constant talk track that makes me feel special and unique and less out of control to the world's going ons.
  9. Exhibit A of Naked Politics and Team Identity. I can't wait for Yang to build out his sizable consensus and third party option.
  10. Interesting synopsis of the "dilemma" Biden is facing.
  11. I’m not the biggest Biden fan in the world but don’t see how this is entirely his fault. He can only work with what he’s got: Biden slashes his social spending bill by more than $1 trillion. The White House and Democratic leaders said that they would propose spending $2.3 trillion on social programs over a decade. That’s substantially less than their original $3.5 trillion plan, which could mean jettisoning some initiatives entirely.
  12. I mean, according to the polls. Its just each side is bad to the opposite groups of people with little overlap. America!
  13. Was that so hard? Why is it so difficult for people to be honest? Is it a case of shooting the messenger versus the message? And to the rest of your post, it dovetails very nicely with my contention from last week that got everyone dishonestly enraged ( @Brisketexan I'm looking at you here) about how everything is nakedly political in 2021 and it's obviously the case and also obviously suboptimal, but that's the world we live in. Lastly, @DDD Dad clearly is still lost. Someone use the loudspeaker and page his mom to come pick him up in the mental lost and found.
  14. There is nothing inconsistent in what I'm saying. You are blinded by your familial love and bias here, unless you are just misconstruing what I mean when I say 100%. Which now that I think about it, has to be what happened. Let me explain: I'm using the parlance of the day which means that I'm absolute and definite (i.e. 100%) that public education is a political entity. You might be hearing me say that Public Education from the Legislative and Board down to the school janitors, substitute teachers and contract laborers and everything in-between (100% [of] Public Education) is political. Sorry for not more clearly communicating that and for any confusion that has caused (which actually explains a lot because the response, as I noted, was outsized and not at all appropriate for what I was suggesting)-- as you've noted my papers and essays in school weren't the best in class!
  15. Best part of the episode. Like a lot of folks my age I went through a Radiohead phase and I hadn't heard, what may be one of the better songs I've ever heard, in a while. It slapped and was the perfect outro, as the young people say.
  16. I have a grandparent who taught and published at the university level as well (public)-- it's a wonderful calling for some and a very valuable role in society. I'm not trying to denigrate the profession. I'm not even talking about public education being political at the teacher/administrator level. I'm talking about at the strategy setting (e.g. Board, Regent, Trustee, Legislative/Government) level. Keep negging for taking offense where offense was not intended, but you are being the disingenuous one here.
  17. On this, we agree 100%. Is it not such an obvious assumption to you people that those like you (and your family and communities) who ended up at UT and then years later on a UT message board, probably aren't the problem inherent to public schools? Anyways, the point isn't even your post I quoted or my response to it-- those are strawmen to the point, which is that public education is political. It is because it's publicly funded and a communal resource. So there will naturally need to be some politiking to figure out what is the best or most optimal path to educate a diverse populace and which will enable and prepare them to be of value to society (go to college, get a job, etc.) when finished matriculating. For some communities those ideas are different than in others, and that is largely influenced by the make-up of the community (e.g. Southlake or Katy has different population personas and demographics than DISD or HISD, for example) which will provide for different goals and definitions of success. It's political in that you will (and should) always have to be responsible and accountable to all the stakeholders. In public education that means answering to those who foot the bill-- tax-paying residents and/or owners who may or may not want to send their kids based upon the circumstances. Am I saying anything that is not just basic, table-stakes and Public Education 101? Some of you people are acting like I'm calling a baby ugly or coming out of left field with a super hot take here and it's pretty shocking to me. Especially from someone normally as sane and reasonable as @jimmyjazz. Jimmy, what am I saying here that is below board or offensive-- your feedback would actually be respected and considered based on what I consider to be your honest and fair track record.
  18. Also political in the sense that you and me and captain and every other homeowner and tax paying American is funding the government’s/public schooling. Like roads etc., as you stated. To act like it’s public education is not deeply and inherently political is absurd to me and frankly I can’t understand the mindset that would not see it as front and center political. You are outsourcing the education (and meaningful time and opportunities for deeper and richer development of soft skills and character/morals) to the state. If you do so you want to have input on what that agenda is going to look like. Especially since you are paying for the privilege. The other option (besides homeschooling) which financially sucks is to pay for the public schools via tax and not realize any direct value from it (there is good indirect value), and then pay extra to align your kids with a curriculum and/or agenda that makes sense for you and yours.
  19. Sounds less like deranged random act of violence and more concentrated, intentional violence based on past conflict?
  20. 18 year old black male on the loose
  21. This was the most aggravating thing about him; sucking on the field but worried about his brand and sunglasses business.
  22. The ultimate coward move, it can be argued, is suicide. So if he's a coward you can't rule that out as a viable result. Further, I maintain Occam's razor says he's dead. He's a bald, loser, poor, quasi-outdoorsy guy with a seemingly average family. He is not well-resourced and his family doesn't have generations of import riding on their ability to stand strong together with a stiff upper lip and hold their water-- I just can't imagine anyone being ride or die for this bald loser guy who probably killed his crazy girlfriend because the consequences to helping him, for when he is caught, far outweigh any benefit to having this guy continue to exist-- especially since his existence will have to be on the lam in Cambodia or something at this point, if it's to be sustainable.
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