Trausti
Illuminator
"Let them eat cake!"
Hey, you know that thing where we tax and spend billions of dollars and get the same result? Let's keep doing that. It may not do any good, but it makes us feel good. And that's what really matters.
"Let them eat cake!"
And libertarians like you always make the assumption that unfettered by regulation, people will always be excellent at whatever they choose to do, and they will always choose to do the best thing under any circumstance.Along with reverance for the blank slate, our friends on the left often reject that people are responsible for what they do. It is always easier to blame someone else than yourself. If you opt to put your child in front of a video screen instead of reading to him, that is a choice you've made about the education of your child.
And libertarians like you always make the assumption that unfettered by regulation, people will always be excellent at whatever they choose to do, and they will always choose to do the best thing under any circumstance.
People aren't like that. People are selfish, lazy, and will take the easy way out every time. Giving a child an education is hard, as a lot of people found out during lockdowns.
The libertarian ideal is so ridiculously unrealistic, I'm astounded that anybody still thinks the idea has merit.
Tell me you don't have children without telling me you don't have children.I'm not a libertarian. I just think it's stupid to blame invisible power structures for a person's own choices. And, yes, people can be lazy and selfish. Are you new to the planet?
Tell me you don't have children without telling me you don't have children.
Tell me you don't have children without telling me you don't have children.
Nothing stops parents from reading to their children. Nothing. Schools are just public daycare. Blaming schools for a child's illiteracy is dumb.
If the local polity is permissive of crime, few businesses will want to open there.
FFS. Arrest and prosecute them.
One of the left's favorite conspiracy theories.
Who elects these folks?
The race of these "power structures" is invaribly the same as the constituents. E.g, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.
You have got to be kidding. Every parent can teach their child the alphabet. Every parent can teach their child sight words. Every parent can help their child to read. There is no substitute for putting in the time. If you have time for Netflix, you have time for your child. Pedagogy and teacher accredition are meaningless if the parent is not invested in their child. My children could read before they started school and now read well above grade level. No one will care more about your child than you.
Absolutely. A demonstrably failed politico-economic ideology.And libertarians like you always make the assumption that unfettered by regulation, people will always be excellent at whatever they choose to do, and they will always choose to do the best thing under any circumstance.
People aren't like that. People are selfish, lazy, and will take the easy way out every time. Giving a child an education is hard, as a lot of people found out during lockdowns.
The libertarian ideal is so ridiculously unrealistic, I'm astounded that anybody still thinks the idea has merit.
Did you send your children to school?Well, I'm married with children. It is what it is.
Another update on the 18 mass shootings that occurred in the four days after the Maine mass shooting. I challenged fellow forum members to use those random 18 mass shootings to highlight the examples of white mass shooters that they claim I ignore. No one has bothered.
2 more suspects have been arrested in the Ybor, Florida mass shooting – both of them are black males.
I will update the list below, feel free to contribute and show everyone all of these white mass shooters I keep ignoring.
18 mass shootings.
2 Latino males.
12 black males.
October 26 – Clinton, North Carolina – 5 killed – Drug-related
October 27 – Mansfield, Ohio – 2 killed, 4 wounded – House party
Black male – Cyrus J Ellerbe (Check back for more)
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news...-year-old-for-party-shooting-that-left-2-dead
October 27 – Little Rock, Arkansas – 1 killed, 4 wounded – Gas station parking lot
Black male – Kamarion Stokes
https://www.facebook.com/permalink....YD9aX9Y4PwHpZS574p1ijXkX4l&id=100064510014252
October 28 – Chicago, Illinois – 4 wounded – Drive-by
October 28 – Texarkana, Texas – 3 killed, 3 wounded
2 black males – Breoskii Warren & Devon Hayden
https://txktoday.com/crime/two-arrested-in-shooting-that-left-three-dead/
October 28 – Chula Vista, California – 4 wounded
Black male –
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/l...arge/509-c6ca7eb2-ae7f-454a-a8f4-014095f3f545
October 28 – Decatur, Georgia – 4 wounded – Drive-by
October 28 – Cumberland, Maryland – 1 killed, 3 wounded – Outside of club
Black male – Devonte Warfield
https://www.times-news.com/news/loc...cle_7423fd22-7781-11ee-9e1f-cfaa83282cea.html
October 28 – Las Cruces, New Mexico – 7 wounded – Drive-by
October 28 – Lake Charles, Louisiana – 6 wounded
Black male – Artavien Green
https://www.kalb.com/2023/10/30/suspect-apprehended-bruce-drive-shooting/
October 29 – Azusa, California – 4 wounded – House party
October 29 – Chicago, Illinois – 15 wounded
Black male – William A Groves
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/10/chic...hooting-wiliam-groves-charged-background.html
October 29 – Wiggins, Mississippi – 1 killed, 3 wounded
Black male – Montrell Malik Quinn II
https://www.wdam.com/2023/11/02/sus...n-deadly-weekend-shooting-195-fruitland-park/
October 29 – Tampa, Florida – 2 killed, 15 wounded
Black male/mixed-race – Tyrell Stephen Phillips
https://www.pinkvilla.com/trending/...and-charged-with-second-degree-murder-1255221
Black male – Kaydn Abney
https://www.wusf.org/courts-law/202...unfight-ordered-to-remain-in-jail-until-trial
Black male – Dwyane Eugene Tillman Jr
https://www.tampabay.com/news/break...a-police-make-3rd-arrest-ybor-city-shootings/
October 29 – Atlanta, Georgia – 4 wounded – Gas station parking lot
October 29 – Indianapolis, Indiana – 1 killed, 9 wounded – House party
October 29 – Dodge City, Kansas – 2 killed, 2 wounded
Latino male – Ricardo J. Cadena-Garcia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...-shooting-dodge-city-man-arrested/ar-AA1j2MsK
October 29 – Wilson, North Carolina – 4 wounded
Latino male –Braulio Fuentes-Martinez
https://www.wect.com/2023/11/01/high-school-student-wanted-shooting-four-people-caught/
If the assumption is that the majority demographics of gun killers is the cause then you only need to address the potential cure at those demographics.
If you agree skin colour is irrelevant as a cause then yes you wouldn't restrict 'a cure' on that basis.
Personally I think taking all Americans out of poverty wouldn't just give a reduction (not an elimination) in Gun Crime but it would bring many other benefits to US society. .
The mother of the Oxford, Michigan school shooter has been found guilty of manslaughter in a jury trial. On more than one occasion she was made aware of and mocked or dismissed warning signs of her son's potential mental issues and violent thoughts, including on the morning of the rampage at a meeting in which she was asked to take her son home and declined.
I'm wondering if people find this appropriate or harsh? I believe I heard she is facing 60 years.
Several people were wounded in a shooting near Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, at the conclusion of the Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade Wednesday, police said.
The Kansas City Police Department said on social media that "multiple people were struck" when shots were fired west of Union Station near the garage. Two people who were armed were taken into custody for further investigation, police said
The shooting occurred shortly after the Chiefs Super Bowl parade ended