Post a quote, that could have just been text but instead for some stupid reason is an image, entertain me!

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Y'all just going to quote H. L. Mencken and not blink at his antisemitism huh?

Let me try.

“The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered, they lack many of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom.” - H. L. Mencken

After reading Dark Money, I give zero f*cks what anyone who spouts libertarian ideology talking points that have been laundered through tax shelter foundations and think tanks by billionaires so they can pay lower taxes. Too many red flags.

Ignore

DeThroned wrote:

Ignore

Too late. The Cabal has already seen it. Now you're on the list.

He was already on the list. For reasons.

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maverickz wrote:

Y'all just going to quote H. L. Mencken and not blink at his antisemitism huh?
Let me try.

Obviously, because historical figures cannot have anything important or insightful to say if they held offensive opinions. Like this:

Karl Marx wrote:

Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. ... The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general."

It’s always in the post a quote thread that I find Aetius grinding that axe.

Aetius, your post isn't making the statement you think it's making.

Seth wrote:

It’s always in the post a quote thread that I find Aetius grinding that axe.

It's because I come here to be entertained, not preached at. D&D occasionally leaks here, and it's annoying.

You posted the politically charged image.

(Not that I think a little light politics is unacceptable here, but you can't have it both ways. If you don't like us sharing images that express our views, maybe think twice when doing it yourself?)

zeroKFE wrote:

You posted the politically charged image.

I did ... as a response to the anti-capitalist screed right before it (the George Carlin quote, in case you're confused).

Aetius wrote:
zeroKFE wrote:

You posted the politically charged image.

I did ... as a response to the anti-capitalist screed right before it (the George Carlin quote, in case you're confused).

The answer for gross economic inequality is "people don't trust the government"? What a strange "refutation".

Yeah, case in point.

If you don't like light political content (and don't want to have yours responded to), then it might be more healthy to ignore it and move on.

Or to repurpose a way it's already been said much better:

maverickz wrote:

Aetius, your post isn't making the statement you think it's making.

And as penance for playing a part in dragging on this nonsense longer than it deserves, I offer up a palette cleanser from a meme channel on one of my favorite discord servers:

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Valmorian wrote:
Aetius wrote:
zeroKFE wrote:

You posted the politically charged image.

I did ... as a response to the anti-capitalist screed right before it (the George Carlin quote, in case you're confused).

The answer for gross economic inequality is "people don't trust the government"? What a strange "refutation".

No, no, the answer for gross economic inequality is privatizing more public good services so more oligarchs can compete for how gracious they will be with donating their taxpayer winnings to their personal foundations.

Also, as a hard-working government employee, I think I speak for several other government employees here when I say, "LOL, f*ck you, dude."

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Mixolyde wrote:

Also, as a hard-working government employee, I think I speak for several other government employees here when I say, "LOL, f*ck you, dude."

Strong argument.

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Mencken was the most vile of a long line of attention seeking commentators. I was not quoting him approvingly, but rather to clarify that his meaning was not exactly what had been first posted.

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farley3k wrote:

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The problem with this is that teachers don't have enough time to teach everything as it is. Hell, they don't even teach cursive anymore due to lack of time. We really need to go to year round schooling. It would help spread out the curriculum and give parents child-care relief during the summers.

Nevin73 wrote:

Hell, they don't even teach cursive anymore due to lack of time.

At least SOMETHING is getting better. What a useless skill to have learned.

polypusher wrote:
Nevin73 wrote:

Hell, they don't even teach cursive anymore due to lack of time.

At least SOMETHING is getting better. What a useless skill to have learned.

Sometimes you have to handwrite and cursive is a lot quicker than block.

polypusher wrote:
Nevin73 wrote:

Hell, they don't even teach cursive anymore due to lack of time.

At least SOMETHING is getting better. What a useless skill to have learned.

My youngest, an 18 year-old senior, can't write cursive beyond his name. I think he'll be fine. I was surprised when his teachers adopted the no-deadline practice during the pandemic, but that also seemed to work out. When we let the experts innovate in their fields it's amazing what can happen.

Aside: I was surprised to see JL hand-writing letters in the season 3 premier of Picard. Of course, he runs a vineyard and rides horses, too, so no reason he can't adopt other archaic hobbies in the 25th century.

Nevin73 wrote:
farley3k wrote:

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The problem with this is that teachers don't have enough time to teach everything as it is. Hell, they don't even teach cursive anymore due to lack of time. We really need to go to year round schooling. It would help spread out the curriculum and give parents child-care relief during the summers.

I don't know as much about other subjects, but much of the US math curriculum is spiritual (meaning the same concepts get taught in multiple grades, with the understanding that if you didn't get it in 3rd grade, you will see it again in fourth and fifth). If you removed this element and teach the concepts right once, with some minimal review you can get through the entire math curriculum and then some.

The key is to limit the number of concepts taught at each grade level, and teach them to mastery, not just "cover" them and move on.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

The key is to limit the number of concepts taught at each grade level, and teach them to mastery, not just "cover" them and move on.

As the parent of two children I have been shocked at how horrible the school system is compared to when I was a kid.
For me, the "key" is to scrap what we use, go to evidence based teaching and start from the ground up. We are way, way, way to rooted in "it worked for me when I was a kid" type thinking.

farley3k wrote:
UpToIsomorphism wrote:

The key is to limit the number of concepts taught at each grade level, and teach them to mastery, not just "cover" them and move on.

As the parent of two children I have been shocked at how horrible the school system is compared to when I was a kid.
For me, the "key" is to scrap what we use, go to evidence based teaching and start from the ground up. We are way, way, way to rooted in "it worked for me when I was a kid" type thinking.

Agreed. When I was in teacher education, I would often say that no one wants you to practice medicine on your kids the way they did it when you were young. Or dentistry, or car safety, or...

But we can't use 20 or so years of research from when you were in kindergarten to improve your child's kindergarten?