🤢 As someone who just went through a very lengthy adoption process to rescue my niece and nephew from the system, that first line makes me feel extra sick. How the fuck can you be so full of nastiness towards parentless children who got into the system through life circumstances they couldn't possibly help.
America really needs a better schooling system... Here in Switzerland the ETH, (which is rated 10th place of the best schools in the world I think) is only 800.- (about 1-2 week's worth of salary) per semester, which is nothing compared to what private schools in the US demand, whilst still having quality education.
So I believe the biggest issue is the quality difference between state-owned schools and private schools, as private school should be allowed to charge whatever they want, but the state has the responsability to provide quality education to everyone for a decent price.
Student loans should be payed back. Hate to say it but yeah you signed on the dotted line and took the banks money knowing full well you would have to pay it back plus interest down the line. Thats just how signing a contract with the bank and taking their money to get what you want now but cant afford, works
Instead, student loans and hell even credit cards, should be illegal to give to anyone below 21. It should be illegal to even put a 17-18 year old in the position of pressuring them into taking tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt right out of high school, when their brains aren't even fully developed, and for what is most likely a useless degree they will never apply in the real world. We can't expect kids to not be dumbasses that make poor financial decisions, so we should hold off those decisions until they can think their options through. Im willing to bet theres a lot of college graduates working minimum wage jobs paying off huge debts right now who wish they could have invested the money better, and probably would have if they weren't pressured into college as a fucking idiot teenager.
probably would have if they weren’t pressured into college as a fucking idiot teenager.
I think this is the key problem here. True, you should honor contracts, and there are many other systemic issues around the costs of higher education, but the way student loans work are really messed up and a lot of adults don't understand what's in those agreements, much less some "fucking idiot teenager." But the pressure has been so high for the past several decades about college degrees being necessary, people just think to get the degree first and figure things out later. Heck, I remember sitting through a presentation as a teenager about how going into debt for university is normal.
The student loan system (and higher education in general) needs to be fixed, but while people try to fix the broken system, why not try to make right the people who were hurt by that system?
As a American who was forced into choosing between military and college at 18 and wasn't ready for either, I'm inclined to agree -except college should be free and we should tax the rich to pay for that & more.
Those who are poor shouldn't be burdened for trying to change that.
When you raise the legal age to do a thing, you just delay the stupid decisions that come with a lack of experience. It doesn't accomplish anything by itself.
TBF they still don’t give a shit about you, they’re just fixing things for themselves and the collateral damage is that it helps others in similar situations.
“The sister of a Dutch bishop in Limburg once visited the abortion clinic in Beek where I used to work in the seventies. After entering the full waiting room she said to me, ‘My dear Lord, what are all those young girls doing here?’ ‘Same as you’, I replied. ‘Dirty little dames,’ she said.” (Physician, The Netherlands).
This story is my favorite of the ones in there. Very much a "morals for thee, not for me" worldview.
Of the many, many reasons I have to criticize her, being adept at blowjobs would not be one of them unless she was preaching that they were sinful. I know there's a faction out there of only missionary position within the confines of marriage solely for procreation, but I don't know if she was in that camp.
There was a website that estimates IQs (emphasis on estimate) based on writing. It estimates that news reporters averaged 100-120, Stephen Hawking's last work was in the 150s, Alexander Hamilton had works in the 160s, and Qanon conspiraters on Facebook averaged 75-89. Obviously they're estimates, but it seems rather accurate within margin.
Edit: found it!! so you guys can try it yourselves!
I entered sections from my papers I wrote during my master's and I guess I range from 128-151 as my lowest and highest during that time. Great ego boost for the day lol.
Rock Hudson called up Nancy and Ronnie after he was diagnosed with AIDs - they had been friends for a long time. He asked them to help him get treatment from a French hospital, to send some sort of message or advocate on his behalf. They refused.
Ronald Reagan’s inaction on HIV/AIDs is what turned it into a pandemic. There was a refusal to fund research or advocate for preventative practices, because it was the “gay disease.” Nancy and Ronald can rot in piss.
when a congressman suggested to his colleagues that we even look into what AIDS is, he was laughed off the floor because "Why do you care? Are you one of those people?"
Practices astrology - something that gets tagged as "satanic" by the evangelicals and their entertainment industry - to the point that there is one an astrologer in the White House or Reagan payroll, gets praised by all the evangelicals anyway. Fishy, fishy people that they are. Stinky and slippery.
they would order air force one to delay landing if the astrologer told them landing too early was a bad omen.
they gave the astrologer classified information, which she then sent to "people with computers" to analyze their relevance to star charts.
the astrologer gave ol' throat-goat Nancy the idea to be tough on drugs "in the community," but like, not the white communities.
even when Ronnie was almost assassinated, the astrologer said she totally saw it coming... but didn't say anything.
it's almost like there's a chimp-with-a-machine-gun methodology for the GOP to hire the most inept people, and end up hurting themselves in the process of using the country and citizens as pawns and property.
Being able to understand other people struggles is only called "empathy" if you are capable of doing it without actually being in their situation. Otherwise it's just sparkling hypocrisy.
This is the biggest problem with the GO, iif you forgive the racism, gaslighting, lying, faciast, authoritarians, war mongers, idiots/morons... ect. The issues are too big for everyone one else to wait til an issue actually affects you.
Those who don't give a shit about things until it happens to them, make the circle ever tighter in that respect, make every solution arrive too late for all of us, and that's a group that encompasses... all of us.
Normally we wouldn't give the time of day to these idiots. But these idiots have a disproportionate amount of political power, and they blare their propaganda with divide-and-conquer obfuscation and outright lies at the masses, and always seem to snatch a scary amount of mindless ignorant narcissists, either maga or bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.
yeah its like a baby. if it doesn't affect me it doesn't exist. lots of people in power share the exact same mentality. that's why most of them act like babies all the time.
That's because our current system rewards politicians with money and power. Capitalism is driven by accumulation, this is a necessary function of the Capitalist mode of production. Once Humanity advances beyond it, representatives can be selected for without allowing them to amass Capital.
The power to do...what? That's the question. You can say that Bernie Sanders is only interested in power, and you'd be superficially correct. What he wants to do with that power would help people like me, and that makes all the difference.