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Red_Dragon

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 2:51pm

rgio

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 7:06am

 black321 wrote:

Saw a casual friend last night at a bar...they are retired but his wife runs a local charity, giving out meals and free preschool for those who need it.
The wife was informed a few days ago that all federal funding was cut. No warning, no grace period....they were forced to layoff two staff.

Maybe, there is an argument the fed shouldnt be involved in funding local charities...but how do you just pull the plug without warning? 

And then you mix that with the republican agenda to increase school vouchers, because "all" kids should have a right to go to a private school, right?
Well, do those vouchers provide enough for "all" families to go to those select private schools? No. 
So in effect, the kids from families who cannot afford it stay in the public schools, and the rich kids, most of whom already go to private schools, have their tuition subsidized by taxpayers.


Make the stupid more stupider, and get them to help pay for your kids education at a private institution, all while telling them it's about CRT, boys in the girls bathroom, and your ability to have a say in your child's education (given you've done so well for yourself).

You literally can't make this shit up.
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 7:05am

 black321 wrote:

Saw a casual friend last night at a bar...they are retired but his wife runs a local charity, giving out meals and free preschool for those who need it.
The wife was informed a few days ago that all federal funding was cut. No warning, no grace period....they were forced to layoff two staff.

Maybe, there is an argument the fed shouldn't be involved in funding local charities...but how do you just pull the plug without warning? 

And then you mix that with the republican agenda to increase school vouchers, because "all" kids should have a right to go to a private school, right?
Well, do those vouchers provide enough for "all" families to go to those select private schools? No. 
So in effect, the kids from families who cannot afford it stay in the public schools, and the rich kids, most of whom already go to private schools, have their tuition subsidized by taxpayers.






To me, private charities indicate a failure of the state to do its job.

All public money for public schools should go to public schools; not private school grifts.
islander

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 7:05am

 black321 wrote:

Saw a casual friend last night at a bar...they are retired but his wife runs a local charity, giving out meals and free preschool for those who need it.
The wife was informed a few days ago that all federal funding was cut. No warning, no grace period....they were forced to layoff two staff.

Maybe, there is an argument the fed shouldnt be involved in funding local charities...but how do you just pull the plug without warning? 

And then you mix that with the republican agenda to increase school vouchers, because "all" kids should have a right to go to a private school, right?
Well, do those vouchers provide enough for "all" families to go to those select private schools? No. 
So in effect, the kids from families who cannot afford it stay in the public schools, and the rich kids, most of whom already go to private schools, have their tuition subsidized by taxpayers.






This was the agenda. This is not surprising. This is what conservatives voted for. Nothing that is happening is a surprise (well maybe the speed and scope), this was all telegraphed well in advance.  You've been a big critic of the Democrats, but they were the alternative to this.
black321

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 7:00am

Saw a casual friend last night at a bar...they are retired but his wife runs a local charity, giving out meals and free preschool for those who need it.
The wife was informed a few days ago that all federal funding was cut. No warning, no grace period....they were forced to layoff two staff.

Maybe, there is an argument the fed shouldnt be involved in funding local charities...but how do you just pull the plug without warning? 

And then you mix that with the republican agenda to increase school vouchers, because "all" kids should have a right to go to a private school, right?
Well, do those vouchers provide enough for "all" families to go to those select private schools? No. 
So in effect, the kids from families who cannot afford it stay in the public schools, and the rich kids, most of whom already go to private schools, have their tuition subsidized by taxpayers.




Isabeau

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Posted: Feb 7, 2025 - 5:49am



haresfur

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 10:48pm

 Isabeau wrote:

Obsessive ruminating is very hard to stop. Like saying, "Don't think of Pink Elephants." 
Had no idea it is likely inherited. 


Actually, that's one of my techniques, although in the story I read as a kid it was a white bear. So telling myself not to think of a white bear makes me think of a white bear, which means I stop thinking about the thing I want to stop thinking about.

Sort of works
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 4:22pm

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Isabeau

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 8:48am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
Just a thought:

Stickiness of the mind is the term we use for a biologically based trait that is experienced as repetitive looping thinking, a sense of getting mired in worry, a talent for imaginative flights into catastrophic images and thoughts, and a tendency for junk channels of the mind to get loud and insistent instead of simply flowing by. It is highly heritable, so it tends to run in families, and it is sensitive to stress such as fatigue, illness, or chronic conflict. It also increases with positive stress like excitement. Stickiness is not a sign of mental illness: it is a characteristic that, once understood, can be incorporated into a full and meaningful life.

One very interesting facet of sticky thoughts is that they do not respond to direct efforts to get rid of them. In fact, resisting these thoughts by arguing with them, distracting from them, trying to substitute other thoughts, seeking reassurance about them, recoiling in horror, or admonishing oneself simply results in their return or the intrusion of even more distressing thoughts.


Obsessive ruminating is very hard to stop. Like saying, "Don't think of Pink Elephants." 
Had no idea it is likely inherited. 
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 8:04am

Go figure...
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 7:32am

Not a transexual, not an immigrant...
black321

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 6:53am

 kurtster wrote:


This is what you get for playing Weekend at Bernie's in real life.


Ha!

VV

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 6:25am

 rgio wrote:

He's only going away when the discussion focuses on facts that support Trump failures, stupidity, grift, or irrational support for the cult.

He will pop up when there is some sort of "whataboutism" that he feels justified in all of the above, because the Biden Crime Family Biden puppet regime was soooo much worse.

Apparently the price of things was just so unbearable under Biden that he had to vote for Trump... who is working to ensure inflation returns strong and fast.  On those facts, it'll be all crickets....   Later.... I'm out.    He might as well say "guilty as charged so I'm leaving", but his imperial highness says to never admit defeat.  


Spot on
rgio

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 6:02am

 VV wrote:
I thought you were going away?  

He's only going away when the discussion focuses on facts that support Trump failures, stupidity, grift, or irrational support for the cult.

He will pop up when there is some sort of "whataboutism" that he feels justified in all of the above, because the Biden Crime Family Biden puppet regime was soooo much worse.

Apparently the price of things was just so unbearable under Biden that he had to vote for Trump... who is working to ensure inflation returns strong and fast.  On those facts, it'll be all crickets....   Later.... I'm out.    He might as well say "guilty as charged so I'm leaving", but his imperial highness says to never admit defeat.  
VV

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Posted: Feb 6, 2025 - 5:36am

 kurtster wrote:

Y'all are going batshit crazy.

Now you are on the losing side and will feel what it was like to be on the other side the past 4 years.

Nothing you can do about it other than what your party leaders are asking you to do, get violent and confrontational.

One complaint I see over and over again is that Musk is now running the country.  I disagree.

But at least we see who is thought to be running the country now.

During the last four years Biden was, but he sure as hell wasn't running the country and none of you know who was and can say who was.

This is what you get for playing Weekend at Bernie's in real life.

You all might consider going commando for the next two years to keep from getting your undies in a bunch while you wait for the midterms.

Or pray that the next guy gets a better shot off.  But then you get J D ...

Don't call me unless you really want to hear from me.  And the way things are going I'll likely not respond.  For the same reason that Dave has chosen not to respond to me.

Twist and dangle in the breeze.  You'll get used to it.

Bye, bye.



I thought you were going away? 
 
Guess not...
 
Isn't it time to go reengineer the sound of some rare, shoddily pressed, Eastern European distributed ABBA album or some such?

BTW... you are on the losing side too... but just too indoctrinated to realize it.
NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Feb 5, 2025 - 10:13pm

Just a thought:

Stickiness of the mind is the term we use for a biologically based trait that is experienced as repetitive looping thinking, a sense of getting mired in worry, a talent for imaginative flights into catastrophic images and thoughts, and a tendency for junk channels of the mind to get loud and insistent instead of simply flowing by. It is highly heritable, so it tends to run in families, and it is sensitive to stress such as fatigue, illness, or chronic conflict. It also increases with positive stress like excitement. Stickiness is not a sign of mental illness: it is a characteristic that, once understood, can be incorporated into a full and meaningful life.

One very interesting facet of sticky thoughts is that they do not respond to direct efforts to get rid of them. In fact, resisting these thoughts by arguing with them, distracting from them, trying to substitute other thoughts, seeking reassurance about them, recoiling in horror, or admonishing oneself simply results in their return or the intrusion of even more distressing thoughts.

steeler

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Posted: Feb 5, 2025 - 8:05pm

 kurtster wrote:

So one last thing then.

You can quit pretending that you actually give a rat's ass about my political thoughts.

You'll be fine.

Yes. I will.

kurtster

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Posted: Feb 5, 2025 - 7:58pm

 steeler wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

Try not at all. Get used to it.

We will see. I say your identity here is inextricably tied to your reflexive support of all things Trump. You won’t be able to resist. You already have come back again to say “bye bye.” On the other hand, maybe even you are beginning to realize what is happening now is indefensible. 
 
So one last thing then.

You can quit pretending that you actually give a rat's ass about my political thoughts.

You'll be fine.
steeler

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Posted: Feb 5, 2025 - 6:55pm

 kurtster wrote:

Try not at all.

Get used to it.

We will see. I say your identity here is inextricably tied to your reflexive support of all things Trump. You won’t be able to resist. You already have come back again to say “bye bye.”

On the other hand, maybe even you are beginning to realize what is happening now is indefensible. 

kurtster

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Posted: Feb 5, 2025 - 6:48pm

 steeler wrote:
 Red_Dragon wrote:
Oh, but he will.

Not substantively.
 
Try not at all.

Get used to it.
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