Just think, if you work hard, take on massive student loan debts, and crawl on the backs of countless others, you too can live in luxury (maybe, probably not, and if not, clearly you are a failure at life). /sarcasm
The #TrumpShutdown is a manufactured a crisis where there is none.
The real crisis today is the horrific violence and persecution faced by desperate families who have fled their homes because they have nowhere else to go to seek safety.
The U.S./Mexico border wall wouldn’t just cost us billions of dollars — the human cost, in tribal lands divided, families torn apart, and lives lost in dangerous border crossings — would be immense. http://fal.cn/r0LW#NoBanNoWall
Sometimes, people talk a certain way about science and social responsibility, and I want to remind them “Carbon emissions are terrible for the planet and wind/solar energy are much better, and there is no fundamental ideological reason for that. There is no way you could have deduced that from social theory, from Marx or Engels or listening to marginalized people or respecting the subjectivity of others or anything else. It is an absolute coincidence. If the facts of physics or biology or chemistry were a little bit different, it could have turned out that carbon emissions were fine and wind or solar were terrible. Please realize that you too, as a Smart Social Commentator, are subject to Gell-Mann amnesia. You could not have known. Have at least a little respect for the, ahem, way of knowing of the people to whom we will (if we make it out of this) owe our continued survival as a species.”
Just a little salty about this.
I’ve often wondered whether it’s good or bad that needed environmental policy has such a big but not total overlap with pastoralist aesthetics. On one hand, it means that so many of the people pushing for the policy are doing it for aesthetics, and for the ability to moralize at their cultural enemies, which is not ideal in terms of getting the correct solutions. It’s why we have so many people supposedly ‘on our side’ against nuclear energy and carbon capture. It’s why the Sierra Clubs of the world routinely block new hydro, wind and solar projects and even electrical grid connectivity projects. On the other hand, that same set of observations suggests pastoralist motivations are much stronger than world-saving ones, and if there was no overlap, perhaps very little would get done at all, and the people yelling about global warming would be totally marginal to the world’s politics.
I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this. There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways. I can tell you when, though.
The Trump administration ended DACA. It’s now in the hands of Congress, but Trump tweeted (yes, tweeted) that he will “revisit” issue if Congress doesn’t legalize DACA in six months. You can donate to help some Dreamers whose permits are expiring prior to March 5, 2018 here.
If every working-class person in the world decided this afternoon to install solar panels on their roofs and started biking instead of driving, the ice caps would still melt and the human race would still die off. It simply isn’t possible to end climate change while working within a system that sends all your products overseas in massive supertankers wrapped in unrecycled plastic that will be thrown in a landfill the moment it hits land - and practices like that aren’t going to go away because of your purchasing habits.
Nor are we gonna hit some magical point where using clean energy and reducing waste are suddenly the cheapest or most profitable option and so all the world’s big companies fall over each other to switch over. That has never been the case and never will be - the “free market” isn’t going to save us.
The fact of the matter is, this system needs to be torn down if our species is to survive. We don’t have time to delay the revolution anymore. Capitalism is extinction.
So I’m wasting time on Reddit, as one does and I came across this post in another subreddit
Utterly moronic, right? Like who tf is trying to teach 5 year olds about sex?
So anyway, because I’m an asshole in my 30s who no longer cares about life, I went to the original post and commented
So ~20min later I get this
Only took me 1 whole comment. Who are supposed to be the “snowflakes” again?
@willingsubsocal
Alright, I had to reblog this because the replies are too short and I wanted to break it down why this ain’t it, Fam
Tell me you didn’t read your sources w/o telling me you didn’t read your sources:
1st link: For starters, it’s an opinion piece. Secondly, if you read the actual material being complained about, it clearlysays kids grades k-5 would only be learning Anatomy and Physiology and Puberty and Adolescent Sexual Development. Which is already commonly taught at that age (that’s when I learned about it in school).
2nd link: Students (at a private school, mind you) were shown a cartoon designed for little children discussing proper names for body parts. I watched the cartoon (which was linked in the article). It’s fine. One of the kids mentions he sometimes touches his penis and his penis gets hard, and the adult character explains that there’s nothing wrong with that but that should be done in private and that private parts should always be ‘private’/covered. At no point is anyone taught how to masturbate or anything of the sort. Sex isn’t even mentioned. It’s all presented from a health standpoint.
3rd link: Kids K-2 would only learn personal safety and respecting others. No sex.
4th link: More of the same. K-2 would learn personal safety and body parts, appropriate touching, etc.
So, you’ll get that $20 when you show me an example of teachers trying to instruct 5 year olds about sex. Not about their health or development. Not about consent or appropriate touching, which all SHOULD BE TAUGHT AT THAT AGE. Show me this “promoting LGBT”, you were talking about.
Imagine being this fucking pathetic
Like seriously. Imagine it. It’s one Hell of a self esteem booster. Gotta love the dog whistle of “your kind”
“Local man disproves his own argument and thinks that’s a good look!! More at 9.”
Anyway, I’m now making my offer officially public.
Provide me with a verifiable source of children in the state of Florida are being taught about sex at 5 in school and I will Venmo you (CashApp, PayPal, Zelle, what the fuck ever) $40.
I’m being entirely serious. I’m open minded and not above admitting when I’m wrong. Buuuut thus far no one has proven me wrong on this. Wonder why?
Hint: Don’t use the same sources Fuck Face Von Magee used. I’m just gonna laugh at you.
Or you can always admit you hate gay people and keep it moving
What? Guess who’s been doing a whole chunk of Oklahoma’s COVID-19 outreach? Have they been doing it on the state’s dime? I didn’t get the impression it was all self-funded, or even mostly.
