oh basically just that it’s curated green space and that’s better because it’s not a parking lot or strip mall or etc.

sure, but it’s on the homeowner to move then.

sometimes life is unlucky.

my local subreddit once had a golf war thread. the golfers were adamant about how accessible their sport was and how amazing for the environment it was.

why have common sense when you can hire a lawyer to sue the golf course?

there is probably a law about them being gamebirds or something.

In my state it is illegal to kill a turkey, outside of designated hunting season w/ license in designated hunting areas.

So if you go to the state park with an orange vest with a gun in November, you’re good to kill them. But if you say, beat one to death on your lawn in March, you will get written up on charges and probably face fines and jail time. Both cases, cooking and eating is irrelevant.

so if a black single mom of 3 voted for Trump because she felt he would lower her bills, is she is a facist?

Who does? You? Are you the only true leftists who determines who is truly a leftist?

or is there a standardized test I have to pass? like a driver’s license test?

What happens when the leftists become the fascists?

corporate Dems have power, leftists don’t, and never will because they’d rather sit around bitching and whining and agonizing about what is ‘really leftist’.

Trump won in '24 because of inflation. It’s that simple. People hated the economy under Biden and walked to ‘go back’ to the Trump years when things were better.

And Harris didn’t basically told voters the economy is great let’s not change a thing… and most people who weren’t die hard liberal/leftists were disgusted by that because they saw prices going up and their wages staying the same.

angry atheists think anyone who follows any religion at all is automatically idiot… meanwhile they usually are religious themselves about something else that is traditionally a religion. like the ‘new atheists’ crap.

religious belief is a basic aspect of being a person, no matter how much people deny it.

because conspiracy theory nonsense and the government is inherently evil, or something.

apparently ‘freedom’ is living in the backwoods your entire life as an undocumented citizen or something.

and medical care and social security are ‘evil’.

because in the USA we hate teachers. it’s really that stupid and simple. and we hate poor people even more than we hate teachers… and most public teachers are automatically poor people due to horrible wages.

teachers are now viewed as professionals worth of respect. they are seen as losers who failed at life and deserve to be punished and hated for it. they are seen as inherently lazy for choosing it as a profession. teachers are public servants, and public servants are all leeches on society.

it was this way growing up for me, and it’s even worse today. and all our public policies and funding around education reflect this.

our society loves to go on about education, but in practice is essentially anti-education.

the last time the USA made public investments in education was post ww2, because of the Soviets. Then we rapidly clawed it all back during the 1980s and it’s been in decline for 50 years now. we did that because we had an existential threat and were in competition with the Soviets. Once we ‘won’ we no longer had any need to care about education and we essentially have a two-tier system of seduction, one for the rich that is the best in the world, and one for everyone else that is on par developing nations.

If you come here and got to spend a day in a rich school vs a poor school, your mind would be blown. One will be doing amateur rocketry, and the other can’t even do basic arithmetic or reading.

they are happy to spend money on technology and shiny new buildings.

they aren’t spending money on teaching staff. teaching staff who are now more credentialed than ever, but know less than ever.

the issue is the metricization of education. everything must be measured… and this creates a perverse system where everything is now about increasing the metrics, regardless of improving education.

not to mention the changing in parenting where ever parent things their child is a genius and it’s the ‘school system’ that’s failing their kid, instead of their kid being a dumbass jerk who refuses to learn or participate in their own education.

or maybe kids should learn to do that on their own free time as it interests them and focus on more basic skillsets.

you can’t code if you can’t read or do math. you can’t do graphic design if you don’t know how to draw and the basics of color theory and all that.

one of the greatest mistakes in modern usa education is forgetting the idea that skills build on one another and you can’t do more advanced things without mastering the basics first. but today we shove kids forward no matter their level of competency because we are not allowed to punish or poorly grade those who fail to learn new skills. we punish the teachers for holding the students accountable to standards, and we reward the teachers/schools who shove kids through the system and ‘innovate’ new ways for them to inflate test scores.

the problem with American education is cultural. other countries have stronger cultures around education.

and certain groups in America have very strong cultures around education, mostly Asians and wealthier people, but those are minorities in the broader culture which basically sees education as annoying and stupid crap they have to do to get a job, that they want to do in the cheapest way possible.

if being a teacher started at a salary of 80-100K, things would be a lot different. But it takes a decade or more of teaching to get that level of pay. The only people paid well in education are administrators, who are the ones who give themselves raises and stagnant teacher pay to their own benefit.

and it’s the same at all levels of education, because American culture says ‘be a greedy shitty person on top who enriches yourself at the expense of everyone else’. and we see the classroom as place to wage a culture war first and foremost, and education is much lower on the priority list.