The US stopped caring about truth, justice, and basic humanity. Caring about people is not in the cards at all.
I was blessedly slow to learn this, but a significant chunk of the population is motivated by hate.
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#22> all 2019 scores were at least a little bit lower than they were in 2013.
Do we know the degree to which test scores were high around that time due to schools doing a generally good job vs. gaming the system? NCLB created incentives to do the latter.
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#23This is missing the forest for the trees. The cost of almost everything government related is going up because the amount of money going to pensions is reaching its peak (the rate of increase was quite high for the last 15 years, that rate is starting to taper off significantly, and will pretty much flat line in 15 more years). When a huge portion of your education spending is going to pay people that aren't working…
Do we need to change laws to allow pensions to be reduced? It seems like a pyramid scheme
The ordinary old person is unlikely to be in favor of that.
And the world is getting older by the second.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was blessedly slow to learn this, but a significant chunk of the population is motivated by hate.
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So they became demons and proved the progressives correct. Or more realistically, they took the masks off.
I've seen this argument a few times and the utter lack of self-awareness behind it always amuses me. It's literally the logic of comic book supervillains. "They call me a racist, so I'll became the most racist racist of all time, that'll show them!"
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#26A consequence of the end of the cold war and a belief among many that a few, exceptional individuals are responsible for the bulk of the ingenuity that powers economic growth.
I mean, that belief is clearly true.
Look how much Musk has given to society. PayPal / Tesla / SpaceX / OpenAI / Neuralink.
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#28Is it about wealth or about innate talent or their family’s culture? I’m genuinely asking. I’ve seen poor kids do well in schools when their family cares about grades or when they’re just plain smart. The amount of money they had I don’t think held them back.
Do you think the amount a parent can care and show interest in their children's education could be correlated to financial freedom?
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So they became demons and proved the progressives correct. Or more realistically, they took the masks off. I've seen this argument a few times and the utter lack of self-awareness behind it always amuses me. It's literally the logic of comic book supervillains. "They call me a racist, so I'll became the most racist racist of all time, that'll show them!"
Strawman.
No one said anything about racism.
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#30The US stopped caring about truth, justice, and basic humanity. Caring about people is not in the cards at all.
I was blessedly slow to learn this, but a significant chunk of the population is motivated by hate.
It outwardly manifests as hate, but most people don't think of themselves like that. People generally view themselves as the star of the story. We have subcultures that make people drift towards certain beliefs and outcomes, all the while with those people largely being unaware of their course. You are noticing that there is a dominant subculture that indoctrinates with hateful beliefs.