I think everyone following this thread knows who the loser is.

So again, no actual response. What a joke. Pathetic.

For what?

Alright, first comment, let’s see… other dude said GOP has ignored the will of the voters for 70 years. You chime in that the democrats voted against Civil Rights back in the 50s and 60s.

Again, so the fuck what? What the actual fuck does that have to do with anything the Democrats are doing right now? The other guy’s comment had a clear through line between history and contemporary GOP voting patterns, while your comment is a petulant “but all these mostly dead dudes from the Democrat party of 70 years ago made these terrible votes.”

You have a bad day and just need to blow off steam or something? There’s no fucking point other “I know you are but what am I,” with the ridiculous topping of using examples from 70 fucking years ago.

In other words, no response of substance to what your actual point is supposed to be, just pointless projection about knickers?

Fine, but why delay the special elections?

But the take away is: What the fuck is your point? I wasn’t a democrat back then. I wasn’t even alive back then. Why the fuck does it matter what democrats voted for in the 40s in terms of what the parties stand for today aside from academic trivia? It’s clearly not what democrats stand for today.

I sure hope you’re not someone who gets their knickers in a twist when stuff like reparations and history lessons about slavery making people “feel bad” hit the headlines, because you’re essentially advocating for people today being tied to what people 80 years ago did as a fucked-up “gotcha” piece of garbage.

When are white Christians the minority?

I never spoke about getting rid of the electoral college, so you don’t need to waste time on that with me. I agree that the system needs to be tweaked, for sure, but if you tweak it to be granted more in proportion with population than land, republicans as we currently know them likely would never win the presidency again.

It’s been 19 years since a Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote.

DeSantis barely won his first run for governor in Florida, and anyone who has seen him speak in person can tell you he is as tantalizing as whole wheat bread on 98-degree summer day.

If he refuses to grow his platform beyond “teachers and vaccines kill people,” I earnestly hope he becomes the Republican candidate.

DeSantis will not win the popular vote if he runs for president. Please bookmark this post or whatever this place lets you do.

I like most of your post, but you lost me when you settled for the usual Philly shit talk. As with any massive city, there are incredibly different experiences and areas, and people who are dumb enough (or think their audience is dumb enough) to water it down to a single instance of bullshit lose their credibility in my eyes.

I also have no clue what you mean by “when those minorities are political,” but I would love to know.

It very well will be decided by the courts, and I welcome it.

Pennsylvanians voted for more democrat state reps than republicans for our next congress, period. Republicans shouldn’t use their current majority to subvert our will.

I don’t know you can morally and logically debate that.

People are people, man. There are tons of groups who help with the causes you mentioned. Caring for people isn’t mutually exclusive.

Open your damn heart.

I agree on the messaging of the vaccine. I don’t know if it was some people being overly optimistic or if it was intentionally misleading in hopes of getting more people to take the vaccine immediately. I do think there was an honest thought in the scientific community that if enough of the population could be vaccinated in a very tight window, perhaps we had a shot at slowing or even stopping Covid. But realities of the world and vaccine distribution should have made those people publicly acknowledge that such a feat was basically impossible. They should have been very honest up front what the vaccine was most likely to do: Keep you out of the hospital, and giving people most at risk a better chance at weathering bouts of the illness.

If they would have pitched it much like the flu shot, (which it really is, just for Covid) I think people would more more understanding of the situation we find ourselves in and we’d be seeing less of the absolutely bonkers conspiracy theories from the fringes.

Personally, I don’t want my tax dollars going towards beating a dead horse like Fauci over and over again through investigations and hearings for the next 2 years. His missteps with masks were avoidable and unfortunate. As anyone in the medical field will tell you about masks, bottom line: Yea, a high-quality mask like an n95 or kn95 will help you IF you wear it properly and consistently, especially if everyone in the room does the same. But reality doesn’t usually result in situations like that. People wear them under their nose, they take them off to scratch, they touch them with their hands constantly, etc. Basically makes the whole point null. And cloth masks don’t do much.

Should’ve just leveled with that stuff from the start. Our leaders here and across the world bungled the response and messaging, and in doing so they created fertile ground for conspiracies and gullible people to question science and medicine anew.

I agree with you on the Trump thing, but I also think you should follow your own advice about blanket statements.

The CDC is full of people who are working damn hard to do their best at providing good guidance to save the most lives. At the start of the pandemic, they were using the little knowledge available to do what they thought best.

It’s easy to criticize after the fact. They were definitely too draconian with some stuff. The 6-foot thing for an airborne virus is obviously ridiculous. Schools should have reopened sooner. And their messaging over vaccines was way too hopeful and allowed people to twist it as vaccine=never going to catch Covid, which anyone with an ounce of intellect could’ve guessed wasn’t going to be the case even with a highly effective vaccine.

But high-quality masks do work IF you wear them properly and consistently. Do kids do that? Nope.

But we all need to stop taking these far positions on everything, especially those of us who can be big enough to admit that very few issues are so cut and dry.

Anyway, you seem intelligent, so it just kinda sucked to see you throwing unequivocal shade on an organization that largely does some amazing stuff alongside some mistakes, with guidance evolving as more information is learned.

This was still for 2020?

I agree. “It’s easier to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“Covert campaign” is a pretty accurate way to put it.

You got owned, good sir or madame. Take it on the chin and move on. I won’t tell any of your friends, I promise.

I will eat that pretzel if you’re not going to, though. I like a little mustard on my pretzel. Unless it’s Aunt Anne’s, then nothing else is required.

I have a handful of family and friends who are teachers. They prepare lessons all of the above, basically: outlines in the summer, but then day-to-day based on the needs of their classes and how things are going. And yea, they definitely recycle stuff from year to year, mostly the stuff they thought went well.

As a parent, I trust the teachers my daughter has to know what they’re doing and be the educational professionals they went to college to become. I’m not a teacher, I’m sure about that lol, so I’m gonna leave the academics to the people who know best and who have the experience.

If you feel you know better than the teachers, I suppose that’s a point you and me won’t find common ground about. I don’t think the teachers should make their lessons at the “behest” of the parents, as you say. The parents aren’t the teachers and the majority of parents don’t know the first thing about education, especially in the higher grades and high school. I couldn’t teach my daughter polynomials lol

I’ll let the teachers teach and the parents parent.

So, teachers must: teach, monitor, discipline, lesson plan, grade, and “run by” every topic they plan to cover to the parents of of their students? Do you require daily lesson updates? Who should supply the lessons if the parents have ultimate say over what is covered, the teachers or the parents? I don’t have enough time in my day to be sending lesson plans to my daughter’s school every day. I didn’t go to college to be a teacher, my degree is in something entirely unrelated.

And many teachers in my daughter’s district have well over 100 unique students in a given semester.

Where do you propose teachers generate extra hours in the day to get all of this work done, and/or what should I do with my kid when all of her teachers quit due to such impossible expectations? I can’t miss my own job to stay home and do a bad job of trying to homeschool her.

What if parents disagree on what the students should learn?

Isn’t it the job of these institutions to teach? Should the parents just become the teachers and librarians, maybe?

There are a lot of books like that in a lot of institutions. What do you believe is the solution?

What book? Why was it there? How was it found?