Anyone else think it’s cool to just fly solo as a good human, no religion attached?
Religion does not have a monopoly on morality, despite what many preach. Be kind, and believe what you want.
MelodiousFunk
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strict control of access to bathrooms, and in general the prison-like obsession with routines and schedules
I'd argue that this is one of the only real life situations that school prepares people for: you're very likely to be stuck living on someone else's schedule for the vast majority of your life. Your employer decides what time you have to be there and what time you're allowed to leave; when you get a break; when you can use the bathroom; when you're allowed to take a vacation. Sick for more than a day or two? Better burn some cash and get a doctor's note. Need to go to a funeral? Immediate family only, company policy, sorry buddy.
That tree looks like it would make a nice cozy fire.
Pop pop! Hope no one sees me... bein freaky.
They're already learning this.
I am in a solidly blue district. 4 out of the 7 school board candidates, ALL of the non-incumbents, were running on some sort of "family values" or "parents' rights" platform. A couple of them were within a few hundred votes of taking a seat last year. This year, their statements to media were highly scrubbed because they knew to tread carefully and avoid the dog whistles. And this week, one of them unseated an incumbent (and the only POC in the group). I'm glad the trend is going in the right direction nationally. But I wouldn't call for a victory lap just yet.
This. I am in a solidly blue district. 4 out of the 7 school board candidates, ALL of the non-incumbents, were running on some sort of "family values" or "parents' rights" platform. But their statements to media were highly scrubbed because they know to tread carefully and avoid the dog whistles. One of them unseated an incumbent (and the only POC in the group) yesterday. I'm glad the trend is going in the right direction nationally. But I wouldn't call for a victory lap just yet.
Thank you for the clarification.
If I'm tied to a train track any potential fart risks coming with a little extra mustard on it.
I'll be on my deathbed, idly scrolling Future Internet because I have nothing better to do while waiting for the works to give out for the last time, and I'll still be coming across little BotW tidbits that I never knew before. Or it might just be senility, but at that point it won't matter. One last "huh, neat" for the road.
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As in they don’t know what the damn words mean.
Most Americans have only heard the words used in the contexts that are being bitched about. And that's intentional on behalf of the ruling class. It's a framing of the conversation on a societal scale. More accurate information is out there, but to find it, one would need to either be intellectually curious (a dangerous trait to exhibit in the "wrong" setting) or stumble across it at random AND have the inclination to hear out something that goes against what they've been told their whole lives instead of rejecting it out of hand.
And now we are neck deep in yet another round of anti-intellectualism to further compound the issue. I'm not trying to make excuses, just provide context that tends to get lost amongst the "Americans are stupid" narrative.
All it takes is watching a few home improvement videos on YT to start the idiot ads rolling: bots reading screen text a la TikTok that boil down to "Doctors HATE this one trick!" nonsense. I'm never sure if the knowledge gained from the video is worth the brain cells lost to the ad.