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āWe Oughta Get These Unions Affiliated - Gosh Ding It!ā Vancouver Sun. March 2, 1933. Page 1.
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it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.
yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.
right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.
the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.
these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.
it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.
we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.
secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)
whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.
they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")
and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."
i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.
one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.
i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.
#i can't believe i have to say this#the conservative party is legit like ''is it anything good? okay we hate it.''#''lets kill lgbt people and ummmmm school children shouldnt be able to read they should be at home watching jordan peterson :)"#the fact that it's like all related is. wild.#like it's wild bc if u start being like. actually making it impossible to afford housing is part of how they keep the nuclear family.....#it's just like lines connecting to lines. EXCEPT ITS OBVIOUS?#what's wild to me about most conspiracy theorists is that they're like . ohhhh the govt is hiding shit!!!!!!! they don't want u to know!!!#and im like. this old man literally got up on stage and said he hates public education and will let our kids die before taking away ak-47s#and ppl are like: lol thats just bob's sense of humor he didn't mean it literally uwu
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BC Conservative leader John Rustad assured anti-vaccine activists British Columbia would be open to joining other jurisdictions in legal proceedings inspired by the Nuremberg Trials that would be aimed at prosecuting those deemed responsible for COVID-19 public health measures and vaccines. āNuremberg 2.0,ā an idea popular among COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and the online far-right, is simultaneously inspired by theĀ Nuremberg Code, a set of ethical principles on human experimentation, as well as theĀ Nuremberg TrialsĀ thatĀ prosecuted Nazi leadersĀ after the Second World War. Nuremberg 2.0 advocates typically call for those who created, justified or enforced public health measures ā including politicians, doctors, academics, journalists and police ā to be jailed and even executed forĀ ācrimes against humanity.ā
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Why do you hate Alexander Hamilton so much? The guy lived and died before you were even born dude. He isnāt going to come alive and bite you XD
No, his actions just persist in the policies that my home nation was founded upon.
#guy was a warmongerer and also wanted Washington to basically play king#his politics were conservative and he offered to buy enslaved persons for his wife if she wanted#so he's not the abolitionist hero some like to paint him as#and Burr only challenged Alexander to a duel after MANY YEARS of Alex undermining his political ambitions#and trying to undermine voting results (intentionally party-splitting to get the other to win) so obviously once that George III knew#this is without getting into the adultery#look the musical fucked I can't deny that even after LMM's personal issues and the fandom that was born of it#and bi rights or whatever#(I am bi)#but as a person he objectively sucked#and I am allowed to have opinions on people fictional and dead even if they are no longer capable of actively directly influencing Now#PARTICULARLY when it's someone whose actions Have Indeed influenced modern history#his face is on the $10 ffs THAT'S how influential he was#not just with the formation of the modern banks but in general#tbh replace Alexander Hamilton instead of Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman#bc Jackson HATED the banks and Hamilton would HATE having his legacy diminished#if we're replacing Jackson we should replace him with Crazy Horse or another historically significant indigenous person#answers and shitposts#personal
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listen if we brat summer our way out of fascism I'll fuckin take it
#ravi rants#historically speaking the best way to shut down asshats that violate the social contract of tolerance is to mock them#idk man maybe I have a different perspective on all of this because I'm part of the desi diaspora#but like.... so Indians won't always obviously call out violations of social decorum#if you're making an idiot of yourself or you're making a scene. other people will stand by and let you do it.#my therapist and I talk about me coming from a high-context Asianic cultural background like I do a lot actually#because the thing about Indian decorum is that. like.#one. you protect yours. if your friend is actively intervening in on something there's a reason and it might be helpful#but two. if someone's breaking decorum.... we allow them to do so in order to figure out why.#if someone's ex is crashing a wedding and successfully gets the floor they'll get heard out#and everyone will be paying attention#because the thing is those kinds of overt violations of decorum usually happen for a reason....#Indian soap operas are A Lotā¢ but listen. a party might be the right time to call someone out on being abusive or manipulative#because the whistleblower can be escorted away to safety by them and theirs.#and usually you have to be able to know enough decorum to get to the point where you make a scene#and Indians respect the hustle. we'll hear you out.#the Hindu gods are notorious for being like 'alright smart guy. here's your wish.'#the gods will readily admit if they've been outwitted#but you're an idiot if you think you'll get away with fucking with the natural chaos of samsara and karma forever :)#however. there's also Hindu parables of asuras and dumbass humans realizing they fucked up and taking the L with grace#and the gods respect that#but lol. fascists aren't respectful.#Richard Spencer shut the fuck up after we all saw him get punched#conservatives are having a mental breakdown over being called weird while insisting that a cis woman is a man#and I'd like to remind everyone that the social role of a court jester is to keep everyone humble#bc dude. if you're getting butthurt over the clown ribbing you. maybe calm the fuck down? look in the mirror?#you may be a king but the larger the seat you hold#the better your toilet plumbing should be
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noah and mio are great because mio turns out to be the kid of previous protags, probably the beloved niece by proxy of the entire cast of 2, maybe royalty (I personally hc Nia's queen position as more of a politically elected one Ala Star Wars prequels so YMMV) and then Noah is just. some kiddo. and they become inexplicably intertwined for a thousand years in the time loop
#in general im not too fond of trying to hc anyone who isnt canonically related to a previous party member as being someones kid or whatever#sometimes I like to think x was friends with x back in pre aionios times but like idk. im wary of fandoms tendencies to make everything fit#into a nuclear family mold but Noah especially. I have seen a few cute arts but as an actual writing choice/theory? nah man. no thank you#he was just some kid and I like it that way. random people getting caught up in fate beats legacy stuff every time!#tho i dont mind mio bc first off the writers of 3 were conservative in only making one character a legacy kid#and also bc it is very adorable to think about baby mio and her family and how much they love her gah. muah#xenoblade#mio#noah
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"When did you have your last abortion? Until you know everything that goes with it, don't you dare lecture me or anybody aboutā" "I know what goes with it! Obviously I haven't experienced the physical part, but I know the overwhelming emotion that goes with it. I know the sense of loss, I know the doubt, the guilt, so please, don'tā" BOSTON LEGAL 5.08 "Roe"
#this scene guts me like a fish#alan AND shirley shouting at each other on the verge of tears. why are my parents fighting#and watching this whole episode post-roe is so....... ugh#james spader#alan shore#boston legal#*#this whole season is the most overtly political and there are fantastic nuanced debates VERY current to the times like. down to the week#and alan the Democrat (as a proxy for liberalism) usually* comes out on top (though maybe that's a matter of perspective)#but this ep is especially interesting bc abortion is suuuuch a divisive issue they still come down relatively conservatively.#blegal pushed many envelopes on network TV in the bush era and the abortion eps went further than most but not too far#and notice there weren't any fourth wall jokes about getting letters in this ep. but I bet they did!#ANYWAY my polisci degree and characters as proxies for political parties aside. back to the boston freak#you could say it's a cop-out OR that it's realistically complicated but I like how alan balances his feelings#he feels the weight of the procedures he's been part of personally he has questions but he will fight to the bone for the legal right#fine upstanding gentleman. principled supportive man <3 I want him to get me pregnant#we'll keep it!
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British Columbia saw a rare unanimous vote in its legislature in October 2019, when members passed a law adopting the United Nations Declarations on the Rights ofĀ IndigenousĀ Peoples, setting out standards including free, prior and informed consent for actions affecting them. The law āfundamentally changed the relationshipā between First Nations and the province, said Terry Teegee, regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations. [...] John Rustad threw his support behind the legislation as a member of the Official Opposition B.C. Liberal Party, but as the B.C. Conservative leader he has since signalled his intention to ārepealā the law if his party wins the Oct. 19 provincial election.
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getting messages saying I should vote for kamala because she'll "protect Israel against hamas" and messages that democrats are too woke bc they allow trans people to exist is making me fucking SICK TO MY STOMACH
socialism 2024 please, end this two party nonsense.
#every platform is based on demonizing entire groups of people#like actually im anti genocide pro palestine and pro trans people#most messages i just replied with the stop or blocked them but these two i sent snarky responses before blocking#the first one i was like is this ... a pro genocide message? gtfo out of my inbox#the anti trans one i said i wish all old ass out of touch policitians a miserable life and a soon deathš¬š#and that democrats arent liberal enough bc also wtf like no you cannot turn dems into conservative 2 just bc trump cult took over the og#what the fuck who was his audience saying dems should be more conservative#i am so sick of voting against trump in unprecedented elections#ive only ever voted against trump in all the time ive been able to vote and IM sSICK OF IT#i hope jill stein somehow winsššš or the socialist party Claudia and Karina but i know im dreamingšš„²#us elections#t
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anyway light would be vocal NDP voter and most of his views would line up pretty neatly with theirs but heād confuse a nominal belief in such politics for an actual understanding of what they mean and what needs to be done to enact them. he says he supports prison abolition but if you talk to him youāll discover he has so many exceptions for āactually badā criminals that he functionally wants more people punished than are currently and he wants them to be killed by the community once the revolution comes. he supports safe injection sites but he thinks they should be kept in āappropriateā places and heās got no answers as to where such a place might be. he really does support a UBI and universal healthcare because they are for people who ādeserveā help.
#this is what i mean. btw. by light would not be a republican#like genuinely im not saying he would be a good person fjdjjdjd im saying there is not a 1:1 of#political beliefs across political systems#this is unironically the vibe he gives to me and i have met SO many people exactly like this#he does not act like a PC voter literally at all bc conservative parties are not interchangeable
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Absolutely not.
In case you didn't know, BC has an election soon! And the conservatives are in Prime form as always. I live in Surrey, BC, a city where one in 20 households identify as Muslim households, and yet... Surrey South Conservative Party candidate Brent Chapman's historical feelings on the subject leave much to be desired.
Brent Chapman Surrey South remarks from just under a decade ago are not going to be erased by his paltry apology for stating Palestinians are -- hold on let me get the quote -- "inbred walking, talking, breathing time bombs." He also shared an article on "Muslim inbreeding," along a sentiment that it was simply not possible to "coexist" with Islam.
But I guess don't worry, because he is, supposedly, 'sincerely' sorry.
Sorry Mr. Chapman, we cannot coexist with you either; good luck with that.
Not that I would have ever voted for a Conservative party member anyway, but if this is what they have to offer, that really just drives the point home that much harder.
#bc election#british columbia#muslim#islam#palestine#palestinian#conservative#conservative party#no thanks#bigot#politics#canada
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general election is coming up for my province and man
love hearing moe say he'll increase the budget for education or the medical sector and then w/in like a year when the budget report comes out it'll turn out all that extra money he promised just disappeared into a black hole but he PROMMYS it'll actually work next time
#scott 'murdered a woman while drunk driving' moe#god i hate him#the only reason he isnt the worst actual premier is bc danielle smith exists and shes a whole new dimension of loony#but by god is he determined to catch up#fun fact our conservative party basically doesnt exist anymore bc of an expense fraud scandal#that ruined their reputation so badly that almost all of them left to form a new party (the sask party)#well. the expense fraud scandal AND colin thatcher murdering his wife ruined their reputation
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Watching the projection polls for the BC election like
Are y'all okay out there
#y'all. if you elect a conservative circus you're gonna get clowns. they keep scrubbing their media of stuff to mislead people#among a lot of other things lol#like. maybe the fact they absorbed a bunch of bc united far-right lunatics should be enough of a red flag#and the fact rustad is a conspiracy theory 'climate change isn't a crisis' freak#but i guess that's not enough of a deterrent?#different party =/= good party. can y'all please understand that before you wreck the province my friends live in#i have more choice words but imma leave it at that#bc election#canada politics#politics#current events#current events cw
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maybe iām just too old and tired of lame extremists who want to make the world burn to prove a point on how theyāre holier than everybody else and actually donāt get anything done, but the āboth sides are the sameā discourse really irks me and rubs me in the worst way possible. especially when you have gained such a wide platform from which you could do a lot of good, and even more so when youāre part of communities that are at the highest levels of risk if one specific party wins. both parties are NOT the same, and to say that is justā¦ itās just incendiary, and irresponsible and outright stupid.
#and no amount of great music justifies being neutral/silent in critical times#itās just being an silent enabler by omission#elections CANNOT be boycotted!!!!!!!! and both parties are not the same!!!!!!!!#really wish you guys had the same outraged reaction you had towards taylor for no reason at all two weeks ago#but of course you wonāt bc hypocrisy runs deep in this website lol#itās so easy. yāknow? and you donāt get to use the āiām from a conservative state so whatās the matterā card when taylor herself#is a tennessee voter lol#and hayley williams is out there being as vocal as always#bc performative outrage is worthless!!!!!!!!!!!!! and misinformation is dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!! and iām just tired of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#anyway#lol#if you get this you probably know what iām talking about
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extremely fucking stressed about who to vote for in the election ngl
#(the uk election before anyone comes at me. i know the sitch is far more clear cut across the pond)#basically it's like do i. out of fear. vote for a spineless coward whose party no longer really aligns with my values#or do i go with my heart and hope that some MPs with actual morals might be able to claw a few extra seats and do some good#given that the labour party is almost guaranteed to win anyway at this point bc the conservatives have fucked up so bad#but what if everyone thinks the same and votes for a smaller party and the vote is split...#or we get another conservative government... i've been agonizing over this for hours and i just don't know
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