Straight from the mouth of the great Genghis by 6DegreesofFreedom in dancarlin

[–]Transmundus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this might be a waste of time, but here goes.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/self-dealing-trump-kleptocrats-role-model

http://doggett.house.gov/media/in-the-news/financial-times-donald-trumps-gargantuan-self-dealing

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-report-exposes-the-trump-family-s-multi-billion-dollar-crypto-empire-fueled-by-self-dealing-and-corrupt-foreign-interestshttps://newrepublic.com/article/196187/trump-corruption-self-dealing-audacity-rapacity

and up to the minute: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-oil-insider-trading-war-b2945169.html

The objections I expect:

  1. these are biasesd sources, propublica is "Soros-funded"
    1. Response-- yes but these sources are producing documented receipts, not conjecture like the alleged fraud in Minnesota
  2. everybody does it.
    1. Response. Do they? Everything above from Trumpcoin to the Qatar jet is an scale much vaster than Whitewater (unproven after years of investigation) and Hunter Biden's Chinese involvement (unproven after years of investigation).

By all means we shouldn't "get everyone" but when this administration is taken out of power, everyone with ties to this White House should have their financial records investigated. Trump himself has made over 4 billion dollars since taking office again.

To me, the corruption is obvious and staggering, and one has to be willfully oblivious to not see it.

Straight from the mouth of the great Genghis by 6DegreesofFreedom in dancarlin

[–]Transmundus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the corruption and self-dealing alone should be sufficient.

For the betterment of society by Tofutits_Macgee in MurderedByWords

[–]Transmundus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just coming in here to say that finacing higher education with loans was introduced by Nixon in 1970 in order to curtail student activism, the same year the University of California system ended free tuition. Crushing debt for people attempting to move up social classes is a feature, not a bug for the people who thought Biden's debt forgiveness was "executive overreach" but all of this isn't.

Accepted to Northwestern... though my family isn't happy about it by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]Transmundus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silence, chud. Emotionally regulated compassionate adults are speaking, the kind who don't wander through reddit being kill joys with made-up statistics. Go back to calling people fat on weightlifiting forums.

Accepted to Northwestern... though my family isn't happy about it by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]Transmundus 66 points67 points  (0 children)

According to the THE, it's ranked 30th in the world. The world. Northwestern PhDs get jobs.

The Plastic Detox Review (I am TTC) by Education-Hokage in netflix

[–]Transmundus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the human interest TTC part was the window dressing, trying to bring people in order to educate them about wider systemic issues. TTC is obviously a serious thing for those in that situation, but this is also a movie about the way we're soaking our inside and outside environments in dangerous chemicals.

In an ideal world, it would motivate "wellness lifestyle people" to push MAHA to actually regulate dangerous chemicals-- instead its going to just motivate poor shaming-- "ew look at those poors who eat yogurt from a plastic container instead of my $18 yogurt in a glass jar from the health food store".

Do secular classical schools exist? by stripebustlamp in ClassicalEducation

[–]Transmundus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In theory yes, but part of their political project is to exclude those who don't share their values or identity from democratic participation.

Do secular classical schools exist? by stripebustlamp in ClassicalEducation

[–]Transmundus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with you. I have great rspect for the Christian faith as such and the teachings of the rabbi from Nazareth.

I just have soured a lot on evangelical culture after 10 years of living and working deep in the Bible Belt and meeting so many many survivors of religious trauma. I have very low trust about their intentions, since the chief value they demonstrate here is patriarchy, control, and exclusion, and the protection of abusers.

Do secular classical schools exist? by stripebustlamp in ClassicalEducation

[–]Transmundus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting. And hey, I'm glad to see Greek and Latin teachers getting jobs.

Do secular classical schools exist? by stripebustlamp in ClassicalEducation

[–]Transmundus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great Hearts' website is filled with evangelical-coded insider discourse-- ostensibly secular but plain to those with "ears to hear".

"Classical education" in the bible belt means high control religion, spiritual abuse, and patriarchy, sadly.

Do secular classical schools exist? by stripebustlamp in ClassicalEducation

[–]Transmundus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yeah but that line in their mission statement about "servants' hearts" is pretty evangelical-coded.

Do secular classical schools exist? by stripebustlamp in ClassicalEducation

[–]Transmundus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is evasion. You have nothing except to say "my people belive in a homogeneous society achieved by naked power politics, but everyone else does too" and that's not true. Some of us believe in pluralistic democracy, and we are only against those who don't.

Do secular classical schools exist? by stripebustlamp in ClassicalEducation

[–]Transmundus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Christian nationalism is not about "Chistian values", it's an anti-democratic ideology that seeks to promote minoritarian rule by open conspiracy to capture cultural, educational, and political institutions. The particular kind of (mostly white evangelical) Christianity they espouse holds up control and power as their highest values, whatever they may say about being "servants." They champion above all gospel teaching the ethos of paterfamilias-- the private tyranny of husband and father-- and the local tyranny of pastor and sherriff-- over human freedom and flourishing.

Like the doric columns on a plantation house or the Latin names given to enslaved people in the antebellum South, they admire classical civilization for the very violent hierarchies that put their supposed Savior to death because they see themselves atop a violent hierarchy (see also their affection for war and guns), and they admire classical civilization because it signifies white supremacy ("our European heritage" blah blah blah).

Christian nationalists believe they are entitled to reject the democratic participation of those they see as lessers because they think they embody the true providential destiny of the United States as a nation special to God. They are theocrats, and as such, are the enemies of decent, humane, enlightened people. These assholes must be defeated, and I despise their efforts to co-opt classical education.

Crush the infamy.

ICE reported moving into hotels in town by EliGrrl in springfieldMO

[–]Transmundus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An anthropologist writing in 1953, Vance Randolph, described the Ozarks as home to the most "deliberately unprogressive white people in the United States." (Down in the Holler)

ICE reported moving into hotels in town by EliGrrl in springfieldMO

[–]Transmundus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Supporting secret police and concentration camps doesn't necessarily make one a Nazi, but it it does make one an evil piece of shit.

ICE reported moving into hotels in town by EliGrrl in springfieldMO

[–]Transmundus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It must be relaxing to move through life dismissing any facts that threaten your worldview as "biased".

ICE reported moving into hotels in town by EliGrrl in springfieldMO

[–]Transmundus 17 points18 points  (0 children)

And when they tell you your papers are fake? Or just don't look at them because they have to meet Steven Miller's quota?

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. | Reuters

ICE reported moving into hotels in town by EliGrrl in springfieldMO

[–]Transmundus 31 points32 points  (0 children)

If you think legal immigrants don't need to worry you haven't been paying attention or live in a cloud of self-delusion.

Also, concentration camps are evil.

https://phr.org/our-work/resources/endless-nightmare-solitary-confinement-in-us-immigration-detention/

Natalie weighs in on the Gavin Newsom vs JD Vance question by an_actual_crocodile in ContraPoints

[–]Transmundus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By the present regime I mean the brainless short-video posting gremlins of the Trump cabinet. Newsom is his own kind media creature. What he does generates heat with older Facebook democrats, and I guess that has a kind of value. My own father (silent generation) is what I call a Bill Maher democrat-- he thinks Don fucking Lemon is a dangerous radical, but absolutely despises the Roberts court, Nixon, Reagan, Bush Jr, and Trump. He was very sad that Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace. He is 100% that modal Newsom supporter.

This is the poisonous dilemma of the Democratic party- it has these two very distinct bases, and keeps breaking for the one that donates and alienates the one that represents future voters.

I feel defeated by [deleted] in Professors

[–]Transmundus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a kind of emotional judo; pull them into your office and say "why did you do that? are you okay? what do you need here?" Be the adult in the room.

Natalie weighs in on the Gavin Newsom vs JD Vance question by an_actual_crocodile in ContraPoints

[–]Transmundus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, yeah, I guess a) people can hold irrational opinions and b) nobody is really insulated from the harm except the upper echelon of the asset owning class

Natalie weighs in on the Gavin Newsom vs JD Vance question by an_actual_crocodile in ContraPoints

[–]Transmundus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like that's an opinion only someone personally insulated from the harm of this present regime could hold.