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"Last summer, my kids and I spent a month in Greece, where their grandfather lives." Very first sentence of the article. God do I hate this style. Do we always need to start with your own, personal, true-to-you, totally-happened experience this one time? Is it a new thing or it's always been like that and I didn't realize it?
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There’s always Somalia. I heard it’s got great schools, if “child soldier” is what you aspire your children to be. But hey at least no one will be there to “steal” your hard earned currency that was minted by a central government or build you those pesky roads or whatever.
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Children don’t vote. If they would only get up off their butts and vote, they’d get some representation. Imagine what they could do if they pooled all their lunch money and started a SuperPAC! Then Congress would take notice. Their parents sure as hell aren’t going to do the voting for them. They just want lower taxes.
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If this could all be done without taxes, that would be nice. But I doubt the above could be achieved via voluntary payment without living in a dystopian world ruled by an oligarchy.
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I like roads, and indoor plumbing. I like living in urban environments that are well thought out and enjoy the ability to efficiently travel to natural destinations. I also enjoy safety nets of the social and judicial varieties, and the innovations of research institutions. Living without fear of a horse coming over the horizon is also a nice benefit. If this could all be done without taxes, that would be nice. But I…
"Last summer, my kids and I spent a month in Greece, where their grandfather lives." Very first sentence of the article. God do I hate this style. Do we always need to start with your own, personal, true-to-you, totally-happened experience this one time? Is it a new thing or it's always been like that and I didn't realize it?
Making an emotional connection with the reader builds trust which later can be exploited to present assertions without solid evidence.
but often it tells you how little time they have spent actually engaged with the real truth of the place or places they are about to compare the problems of wherever they live, instead of the idealistic view of someone who was visiting family or being a tourist … it is a shortcut to that emotional connection to the reader, but taking that can sometimes leave the writer clearly marked as not actually having any grounds upon which the rest of their arguments can stand…
This however doesn’t appear to suffer from that. It seems quite well considered.
So this article goes on for paragraphs blaming republicans and evangelicals and the red scare and slavery. But why do democrats (apparently) hate their children as well? After all, education is 90% funded by states and municipalities. That’s not unique to the US—education is a local issue everywhere from Sweden to Canada to Germany. Why are schools falling apart in Baltimore and Chicago? Why aren’t social services fo…
During Covid, when I read that the US required children to wear facemasks from the age of two , it sent a shiver down my spine.
Children should be protected against airborne transmittable sickness.
Also, we are still in COVID it's not over.
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There’s always Somalia. I heard it’s got great schools, if “child soldier” is what you aspire your children to be. But hey at least no one will be there to “steal” your hard earned currency that was minted by a central government or build you those pesky roads or whatever.
So this article goes on for paragraphs blaming republicans and evangelicals and the red scare and slavery. But why do democrats (apparently) hate their children as well? After all, education is 90% funded by states and municipalities. That’s not unique to the US—education is a local issue everywhere from Sweden to Canada to Germany. Why are schools falling apart in Baltimore and Chicago? Why aren’t social services fo…
European countries have many problems; IME placing profit, religion, and extreme forms of individualism above child well-being aren't on the list.