Lewis2
2d ago
YouTube used to be very good at recommending interesting, relevant content. It still occasionally recommends a gem that I would never have known to search for otherwise.
Lewis2
3d ago
I agree with most of your comment, but this:
Even for non-catholic groups, they were still Christian
is kind of a funny framing, given that America was a mostly Protestant nation that begrudgingly accepted Roman Catholics. It would have been more accurate to say, “Even for non-Protestant groups, they were still Christian,” though not all Protestants would have accepted that designation.
Lewis2
4d ago
I think the assumption is that public school administrators are, which seems broadly fair at first blush.
Lewis2
5d ago
Sticking with the Simpsons, I’d love to see the nature film “Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory.”
Lewis2
5d ago
You probably already know this, but “What’s My Crime” was a parody of the popular show “What’s My Line,” which originated in the United States, but which also spawned over a dozen international versions. Almost all known surviving episodes of the US version can be found in their entirety on YouTube.
Lewis2
21d ago
Your view contrasts interestingly with the usual view (which I favor) that leftists see violence as a dial that can be turned up or down at will, while right wingers see it as a switch: either fully on or fully off.
Lewis2
21d ago
I don’t use Reddit, but I’ve been checking /r/politics periodically over the past 24 hours to see the reaction there. The reaction from the mods has been to delete every post about his death. Most of the comments I saw before the posts were deleted were either celebratory or smugly satisfied.
Lewis2
24d ago
Lewis2
30d ago
The Republican one seems to me to have the ring of truth to it, but this one:
The current Democratic president is Star Trek Jesus with sprinkles, the last one was a corrupt liar who wasted his vast potential, and the one before that was a Republican.
does not.
The Dems were fortunate to have two very popular, charismatic presidents in Clinton and Obama, but I don’t think anyone would use terms like “Star Trek Jesus” when talking about Biden or Carter. Likewise, I’ve never heard anyone say anything remotely bad about Carter as a person or call him a Republican in disguise. Before that you’ve got LBJ (a charming scoundrel, but no Republican), JFK (a different type of charming scoundrel, still deified by Democrats today), Truman (who’s too forgettable to engender any strong feelings one way or the other), and FDR (who is of course the OG Star Trek Jesus).
Lewis2
1mo ago
Tax deductions for condoms I understand, but why the deductions for sex toys?
Lewis2
1mo ago
But as far as these kids know, the person asking them to send nudes is roughly their age. They don’t know they’re talking to a 40-year-old. Plus, I would say that, in general, kids are desperate for the approval of the adults who are already in their lives, not of random adults whom they’ve never met.
Lewis2
1mo ago
I don’t want to publicly accuse anyone (especially since I didn’t make the connection myself), but isn’t Darwin still with us under another alt?
Lewis2
1mo ago
A school near me has one of the highest reading test pass rates of any school in the state. I recently got into an argument with a parent whose children attend the school. She is adamant that the scores are fake and that the school is just cheating—in precisely the same way that Mississippi is “cheating”—by holding back any students who don’t pass the test. Like you, I think that argument is insane, but I know a sizable minority of parents disagree with the school’s approach.
Lewis2
2mo ago
Not the greatest comment for two reasons. First, it’s too snarky by half. Second, my word, that’s a lot of unnecessary tracking info. In case you don’t know, you could have deleted everything after the first “&” and been fine.
Lewis2
2mo ago
People thought they defeated Political Correctness in the 90s too. Just give it a generation.
Lewis2
2mo ago
Faithful Executioner
That has been on my reading list for several years now, but I’ve never gotten around to picking it up. Would you still recommend it despite your somewhat tepid review?
Our sizable underclass of drug-addled, criminally-inclined, antisocial losers, many of whom come from broken homes and shitty communities. As Europe imports the third world, I expect it to struggle with many of the same issues.
Lewis2
2mo ago
hell-on-earth shelters
Are yours actually that bad, and not simply because the homeless people themselves are shitty? I ask because I’ve heard plenty of complaints about the ones in my area, but when I’ve asked what the specific problems are, they tend to boil down to
- They have strictly-enforced rules against bringing in drugs and alcohol.
- If residents behave erratically, they’re given drug tests and are expelled if they test positive.
- The residents are kicked out during the day (the place needs daily cleaning and the residents are supposed to be out working or looking for work).
- There aren’t enough beds.
And of course
- The shelters are all run by Christian organizations, and they strongly encourage (but don’t mandate) church attendance.
For most critics, this last-named is the greatest offense of them all. Of course, suggesting that the complainers considering funding a secular alternative just makes them irate.
Family stories? The school I attended had corporal punishment into the late 80s. The teachers who practiced it are still living, and the last cohort of students to experience it are only in their 40s.
ETA: I had those same teachers in later years. They found some creative alternatives to the paddle and the rod once those were banned. I think I might have preferred a quick paddling to the more protracted punishments they used instead.
Clean-shaven privates just look better. I’m pretty sure that’s all there is to it.
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