US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[mandatorylurk]

Kamabla talking to a beta, the son seems like he doesn't care for her, but it also has a whiff of dumb white guys like with Walz

This is making the rounds, Trump talking with the special olympics medalists at the white house. Trump takes an awkward moment and turns it into a W.

 

[blue gopher snakes]

That simple change probably isn't justified by a basic utilitarian calculus, because girls do so much better in school than boys anyway, so any improvement for the girls will be washed out.
The actual solution is sex segregated education that's properly tuned for boys, but I don't think that's going to happen... Probably a higher proportion of male teachers would be good for boys too, but that's way too close to affirmative action and quotas to be viable.

I’m not male so I can’t speak to the suitability of education as it exists now for boys from personal experience, but I have a boy child so this does interest me. Aside from increasing the number of male educators, what other changes could be made that would benefit male students?

 

[Vecr]

I’m not male so I can’t speak to the suitability of education as it exists now for boys from personal experience, but I have a boy child so this does interest me. Aside from increasing the number of male educators, what other changes could be made that would benefit male students?

I don't know. I could guess based on how I learned things, but that's not general. Probably an earlier introduction to spaced repetition, maybe around age 9 or 10, with monitoring of the forgetting curves (to make sure it's doing anything, if not wait 6 months and try again). Children need to understand that some memorization is needed, and that's a lot easier if we don't make it awful for them.

I forgot to say, but most people don't use spaced repetition until college or med school, and even in college in many cases you can just study in an intentional manner that lets you pass the test without really remembering long term. So there's going to be a lot of people on an absolute level that never use it.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

I’ll speak in defense of Kam here: people forget that she moved to Canada when she was about 12, and lived there till she went to college.
I would submit that she is hiding her true self: hiding that she is, in fact, a Quebecois Canadian.

she lived in west montreal, which is where all the rich anglo who hate quebecer live. Basically as close to faceless, rootless globohomo town as you can get. The dominant culture there is being rich gay green faggots

 

[Back me up!]

Oh hey new Barron lore drop:

Turns out he is the reason why Trump has been going on all these podcast. Kind of love that the old man is actually listening to his son on ideas on to reach Gen Z people.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

Girls perform better academically in single-sex education than in a co-ed environment.

Never seen any evidence for this beyond the personal assessments done by teachers.

I believe I have read that boys typically perform better in co-ed environments

Nor this.

 

[Puff]

I don't know. I could guess based on how I learned things, but that's not general. Probably an earlier introduction to spaced repetition, maybe around age 9 or 10, with monitoring of the forgetting curves (to make sure it's doing anything, if not wait 6 months and try again). Children need to understand that some memorization is needed, and that's a lot easier if we don't make it awful for them.

I forgot to say, but most people don't use spaced repetition until college or med school, and even in college in many cases you can just study in an intentional manner that lets you pass the test without really remembering long term. So there's going to be a lot of people on an absolute level that never use it.

You're overcomplicating it. It's literally just an interest issue. The subjects are taught in a way more likely to interest girls, and the focus has become humanities heavy

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Turns out he is the reason why Trump has been going on all these podcast. Kind of love that the old man is actually listening to his son on ideas on to reach Gen Z people.

Wow, what a W for Barron. Nice to know he's good at least some head on his shoulders.

 

[Soycast Guy]

This might sound silly, but how did you guys and girls learn about politics, and when did you become conservative?

Back during the 2016 election was my first real introduction to politics. My parents are conservative, so naturally I’ve been conservative ever since I got into politics.

Funny thing back then is I thought it’d be fine if Hillary won because she would be the “first woman president”. If you guys ever wanna know how effective propaganda is on kids minds, there’s an example. I was too young to understand the gravity of an election. Over time I’ve learned a lot more about politics and I consider myself much more politically literate than others my age.

 

[ShitLurker]

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Night and fucking day right here.

 

[Vecr]

You're overcomplicating it. It's literally just an interest issue. The subjects are taught in a way more likely to interest girls, and the focus has become humanities heavy

That's part of it, but it is possible to memorize things you don't really care about using spaced repetition (automated on Anki or whatever, if you're not interested you probably won't do on-paper book keeping), though your forgetting curves will be pretty terrible. I've done it, but it probably won't work for someone under 9 or 10.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Funny thing back then is I thought it’d be fine if Hillary won because she would be the “first woman president”. If you guys ever wanna know how effective propaganda is on kids minds, there’s an example

I had a teacher in high school who was retiring and gave 0 shits and one day he told the entire class, that no matter what we do in life "If Hillary Clinton ever runs for President, DO NOT VOTE FOR HER. She is a power hungry megalomaniac and will do awful things if ever elected President." and that stuck with me the rest of my life. I thought Trump was a joke in 2016 and said "Fuck it, for the lolz!" and he's been the best President of my lifetime. I had no idea back then what that would someday devolve into.

 

[ShitLurker]

I’m not male so I can’t speak to the suitability of education as it exists now for boys from personal experience, but I have a boy child so this does interest me. Aside from increasing the number of male educators, what other changes could be made that would benefit male students?

I'm no expert, far from it, but it isn't the first time I've heard that men learn differently than women. Women tend to favor working in education so I don't find it too surprising that education tends to favor systems that flow better with women. But this is just stuff I've read in passing a few times. So I can't really say much else outside of suggesting you search for articles and papers related to how men and women better process knowledge.

Was doing some quick searches and found a lot about male and female brain differences, but nothing that was specifically focused on education.

 

[Alter Ego]

Turns out he is the reason why Trump has been going on all these podcast. Kind of love that the old man is actually listening to his son on ideas on to reach Gen Z people.

One step closer to the dream of Barron telling his dad to get on MATI.

 

[LurkTrawl]

it's only as effective as it is because half the population hasn't matured past the high school cafeteria lunch table.

Made worse by the fact that the other half is convinced they have, but haven't.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Kek I'm surprised how many times gamer gate has come up in yalls conservative origin stories

For a lot of people it was a wake up call. I think Null has mentioned Trayvon was his wake up call (/pol/ was so fun during that and Michael Brown).

2012-2015 was kind of a great awakening because they realized that Obama was a giant piece of shit (bad policy, racial tension stirring, and not even trying to fulfill his campaign promises) and some people realized that Stewart/ Colbert were propagandists rather than heroes of their teenage years.
The Internet was not as censored and people were just trying to break into their careers. You could talk about shit in a lot more places and could tell furfag liberals to kill themselves without being banned.

I basically have always been pretty Conservative. I never understood why people hated Nixon and dug into the Kennedy Assassination since I was a kid. I got really into the leftist cult terrorist shit in the 70’s and how the militia movement of the 80’s-90’s was cracked down on with more prejudice despite rarely doing anything.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

One step closer to the dream of Barron telling his dad to get on MATI.

We can FINALLY know what's his favorite cheese

 

[Necrosan]

One step closer to the dream of Barron telling his dad to get on MATI.

Well, we really need to do something about American cheese and I do not know anyone who can convey that better than Null's vitriol for it.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

This might sound silly, but how did you guys and girls learn about politics, and when did you become conservative?

The Obama admin. Well, Bush the second technically. Was active on DU at the time until they persecuted a friend for wrongthink. Saw all the media talking points about how Bush was giga-hitler but the stuff they called him out for obeme doubled and tripled down on and was praised for. Boiled over whith nasty nancy's "you have to pass this law to see what's in it" bullshit. Pissed me the fuck off that a lynch mob didn't instantly form and escort her to the nearest lamp post for that kind of tyranny.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Well, we really need to do something about American cheese and I do not know anyone who can convey that better than Null's vitriol for it.

American cheese is fine and necessary for grilled cheese and cheeseburgers. Other cheeses just aren't the same.