US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

STFU about not being able to do both. I swear the austismu is off the fucking charts lately.

 

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I saw the funniest thing earlier today in light of recent events: a Tesla with a Harris/Waltz sticker. I'm curious if the owner is looking over their shoulder for mostly peaceful protest to gather around their vehicle.

I'm reminded of some brilliant fucker who walked down near where Antifa was rent-a-rioting during the summer of love and slapped Trump/Pence and other GOP bumper stickers on a bunch of cars in a lefty neighborhood / where some of the protestors had parked. The rent-a-rioters went through and fucked up all the cars in a great friendly fire exercise.

The ATF still exists and the FBI/CIA has been proven too rotten to just reform. I get he is afraid of just nuking them, but he really should just pull off the bandage.

Gutting USAID has helped a lot however.

He has to make it past the midterms. Once the state of play it clear then some of the more politically costly things can be done.

...infants don't even have a grasp on object permanence, yet they're expected to know their gender identity? Da fuck loony toons bullsh!t is this?

Whoever came up with this questionnaire, send them to the gulags.

To be fair, lets be honest -- they're asking the Munchausen Proxy parents what they WANT their children to have. Not what the children actually have, because newborns obviously do not have a gender identity.

 

[invisibult plus+]

White House showing Trump in pure gamer mode in attacking the Houthis while golfing.

It will be amazing when the real Luffy kills the Luffy imposter who Hasan was jerking off on his livestream.

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I love that Trump walks around with a signed MAGA hat just to give it away to someone, that's a new level of class.

Soon we’ll get another “AI Presidents Play” but it’s just Trump directing drone strikes.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

Yup. Schools don’t teach kids how to make beautiful art, just ugly modern art. They don’t teach kids how to make beautiful classical music, just nigger rap music. They don’t have kids read actual useful books like The Art of War, but instead they are force fed Ibram X Kendi.

It is quite sad. I will forever be greatful I encountered a thoughtful librarian who ignited a love for learning in me by recommending I read the Gateway to Great Books.

It provided a framework to understanding how to read "Great Books". But more importantly, it explained how to learn how to learn and put knowledge in context so it is useful to you.

Warning! This will put you at odds with traditional school curriculum.

There should be a guide explaining to disagreeable austismo autodidacts on how to function and navigate "normal" society.

 

[Justin Igger]

It is quite sad. I will forever be greatful I encountered a thoughtful librarian who ignited a love for learning in me by recommending I read the Gateway to Great Books.
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It provided a framework to understanding how to read "Great Books". But more importantly, it explained how to learn how to learn and put knowledge in context so it is useful to you.

Warning! This will put you at odds with traditional school curriculum.

There should be a guide explaining to disagreeable austismo autodidacts on how to function and navigate "normal" society.

My fondest memories from my time in the concrete jungle were just going to the library alone and finding good stuff to read, away from my judgmental CUNT teachers.

 

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It is quite sad. I will forever be greatful I encountered a thoughtful librarian who ignited a love for learning in me by recommending I read the Gateway to Great Books.
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It provided a framework to understanding how to read "Great Books". But more importantly, it explained how to learn how to learn and put knowledge in context so it is useful to you.

Warning! This will put you at odds with traditional school curriculum.

There should be a guide explaining to disagreeable austismo autodidacts on how to function and navigate "normal" society.

I can't find it in print anymore (did Encyclopedia Britannica get gutted by Venture Capitalists?) but I did find this bundle of the books referenced that are public domain now: https://standardebooks.org/collections/encyclopaedia-britannicas-gateway-to-the-great-books

Looks like they were available up to last year. $290 for the 10 book set ($29 a book isn't horrible) new, or ~70-100 for vintage versions off eBay. Hm.

 

[Toy Soldier]

My fondest memories from my time in the concrete jungle were just going to the library alone and finding good stuff to read, away from my judgmental CUNT teachers.

My schools, all of them, wouldn't give you any designated time to go to the library, it was limited to before or after school which meant most kids just never fucking went. If there was a class that happened to be in the library you also couldn't check out a book, or during lunch, so I have no idea what the fuck we even had one for.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

My fondest memories from my time in the concrete jungle were just going to the library alone and finding good stuff to read, away from my judgmental CUNT teachers.

A lot of my foundational memories are going to the library with my mom once or twice a week. I'd rent out the max amount allowed for kids, read them all, and go back for more.
We'd spend hours there if it was a weekend, and it was one of the coziest places in my entire memory. They had a giant circular fireplace thing surrounded by comfy chairs too so I'd read a lot there especially in winter.
I decided a long time ago I needed to live somewhere with a really cozy library I could bring my kids to.

 

[Justin Igger]

My schools, all of them, wouldn't give you any designated time to go to the library, it was limited to before or after school which meant most kids just never fucking went. If there was a class that happened to be in the library you also couldn't check out a book, or during lunch, so I have no idea what the fuck we even had one for.

Nowadays the library is where you go to watch drag queens teach you how to insert and remove butt plugs

 

[Justin Igger]

A lot of my foundational memories are going to the library with my mom once or twice a week. I'd rent out the max amount allowed for kids, read them all, and go back for more.
We'd spend hours there if it was a weekend, and it was one of the coziest places in my entire memory. They had a giant circular fireplace thing surrounded by comfy chairs too so I'd read a lot there especially in winter.
I decided a long time ago I needed to live somewhere with a really cozy library I could bring my kids to.

It’s really sad seeing what passes for “libraries” now in the large liberal city I live in. There’s like, a giant anime section, an even larger chink language section, and then like 8 stacks of actual human books, and that’s it. The rest is computers for homeless pedophiles to use.

At least my public elementary school library was carpeted, and had this pyramid of giant steps you could lounge on and lots of little nooks to sit for hours.

 

[Cemetery Support]

I can't find it in print anymore (did Encyclopedia Britannica get gutted by Venture Capitalists?) but I did find this bundle of the books referenced that are public domain now: https://standardebooks.org/collections/encyclopaedia-britannicas-gateway-to-the-great-books

Looks like they were available up to last year. $290 for the 10 book set ($29 a book isn't horrible) new, or ~70-100 for vintage versions off eBay. Hm.

Anna's Archive has them.

 

[NSA Intern]

My fondest memories from my time in the concrete jungle were just going to the library alone and finding good stuff to read, away from my judgmental CUNT teachers.

Mine got some stupid idea about how you had to read a small book a week, like 50-100 pages, from second grade and that they each had a 'difficulty tier' which you must read a certain number of before being ALLOWED to read more advanced books. Me being an earnest reader from early on to today found all the stuff in the lower tiers completely boring and I'd just ignore it and go raid the school library for the fifth-grade section fantasy books at recess to take home. They'd then get annoyed I wasn't reading lmfao
I get the drive to get kids to read, and to learn to read, but to stifle people who enjoy it probably did far more harm than good. Also the books for this was in its own area away from the library and each tier was something like 25 books all told so if you didn't like any of them you're shit out of luck, which probably put some kids off reading entirely.

 

[Clobber3]

Every day i think to myself - im tired of winning, it just cant get any better, its all downhill from here - then god emperor trump surprises me with more and more gifts straight from the heavens. May God bless our troops - especially all seamen in and around the red sea!

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

Mine got some stupid idea about how you had to read a book a week from second grade and that they each had a 'difficulty tier' which you must read a certain number of before being ALLOWED to read more advanced books.

This type of shit is the absolute worst. My school had a system where you could only take books at your grade level or one grade above. They wouldn't even let you bring in your own books from home (even with parental permission) because they "couldn't vet it".

I was reading 3 or 4 grade levels higher and was bored out of my fucking skull due to this system during any reading time at school. In my opinion if a kid can tell you what's happening in the book and are engaged in the story, they're reading the right "level" for them even if they may not be picking up all the nuances an older reader might be able to.

Schools really need to make room for advanced readers or they run the risk of turning them off reading entirely. Luckily, I had other book sources to read instead, but if others didn't have parents who had time to take them to the library they would be shit out of luck.

Same for math and other subjects honestly. I knew other family members (cousins etc) who got into trouble at school because they would get bored. The teachers would be teaching to the lowest common denominator leaving the smart students unchallenged and miserable. It's a serious problem especially nowadays.

A lot of methods for example make the "method to use if the student isn't naturally good at it/a quick learner" the standard. It might help some slower students but leaves everyone else bored as fuck and unengaged. I'm a big proponent of the idea that if it's not genuinely fun or interesting, learning is more difficult. See: common core.

 

[Justin Igger]

Mine got some stupid idea about how you had to read a small book a week, like 50-100 pages, from second grade and that they each had a 'difficulty tier' which you must read a certain number of before being ALLOWED to read more advanced books. Me being an earnest reader from early on to today found all the stuff in the lower tiers completely boring and I'd just ignore it and go raid the school library for the fifth-grade section fantasy books at recess to take home. They'd then get annoyed I wasn't reading lmfao
I get the drive to get kids to read, and to learn to read, but to stifle people who enjoy it probably did far more harm than good. Also the books for this was in its own area away from the library and each tier was something like 25 books all told so if you didn't like any of them you're shit out of luck, which probably put some kids off reading entirely.

Great idea from the department of education. The gamification of reading is so annoying, it’s worse than not encouraging it at all. You breed a bunch of snobs who see reading as a status symbol, the “I read 200 books a year” kind of faggots who don’t even give a shit what they’re reading, don’t think or analyze it, they just speedrun it so they can add it to their goodreads list and show it off to others. They proudly display their books on their shelves in color-coded order to make it as aesthetic as possible. I like to re-read my favorite novels over and over, discovering new layers each time, and to these people it’s pointless because it’s not about knowledge or even enjoyment.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

I can't find it in print anymore (did Encyclopedia Britannica get gutted by Venture Capitalists?) but I did find this bundle of the books referenced that are public domain now: https://standardebooks.org/collections/encyclopaedia-britannicas-gateway-to-the-great-books

Looks like they were available up to last year. $290 for the 10 book set ($29 a book isn't horrible) new, or ~70-100 for vintage versions off eBay. Hm.

Archive.org has them available for check-out on their Open Library. Annas-Archive.org has downloadable PDFs.

Standardebooks.org is similar to Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org) in that they only host public domain content. Standard E-Books put effort into formating their collection to look aesthetically pleasing and professionally laid out. They have fewer books. Gateway to Great Books is not in the public domain (not until 2059).

If you want a physical collection, I would personally buy used (pre-owned). I wouldn't trust modern editors not to meddle. You could probably buy a set for $50. Library sales and estate sales will keep the secondary market saturated for a while.

 

[Rykel22]

Mine got some stupid idea about how you had to read a small book a week, like 50-100 pages, from second grade and that they each had a 'difficulty tier' which you must read a certain number of before being ALLOWED to read more advanced books

Think mine had that, but I can't recall the details. All I recall about reading in my youth in terms of school books was taking out the Garfield Comic collections, a suspense/horror anthology book, and some book that featured a wimpy kid(not that one) who moved and joined the wrestling team to improve himself.

 

[The Ugly One]

The problem is that you can't directly leverage that with money, offering cash to universities just engenders fraud. The real problem is that they want a bunch of compliant low-IQ niggercattle, or maybe East Asian bugmen, these types of people do not produce good science. Only free men of White stock are capable of scientific innovation.

The problem is that only one in ten people can be in the top 10%. Giving everybody a university degree doesn't change that.

 

[#lurker]

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Now that's the Alex Jones we know and love. Gave me a genuine laugh.

 

[NSA Intern]

This type of shit is the absolute worst. My school had a system where you could only take books at your grade level or one grade above.

Same with ours. I just ignored it lmao and read the most advanced books I could find from the moment I had access to the library in first grade.
The library was split into an upstairs and downstairs section and anyone grade 3 or under couldn't go to the upstairs section, but I just did it when they weren't paying attention. We didn't even have a check-in-check-out system either, it was just trusted that you'd bring the books back to the return pile as each book was labelled with its Dewey number for easy filing (guess the ethnic makeup of the school) and so it was pretty easy to get away with.
Once again, the bureaucrat stands in the way of the human. Maybe Kafka made a few salient points.