Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #2F95  
That’s the very basis of demand-side economics though. The keynesian approach used to work well, then neoliberalism arose and here we are now.

@Ereiam  
Demand side economics has never been as simple as just give people more money and economy does good. It’s more complicated then that, even traditional Keynesians realized this.

@Goku Black  
I wasn’t aware it came from ancient Prussia, but I knew the rest.

@Goku Black
 
Not quite. It was more to prepare kids to work in factories when they left schools. It’s why I rage against Prussianised schooling…besides the usual exacerbates bullying, reinforces negative societal norms, and causes school shootings reasons, and that is because it’s an industrialising school system operating in a post-industrial society. A lot of the factories we build today don’t require a lot of workers, and the workers they do require have skills beyond rote repetition.

@Ebalosus  
Which is why school choice is a good idea. Yes even charter achools are generally in that mentality but they do have a little more freedom. Maybe given time we can find a better way to teaxh our kids then cramming them into desks for 8 hours and punishing them when they don’t sit still.

https://archive.is/9A4k9
 
It would appear that the EU continues to be as spineless as ever regarding basic user rights and went full retard into catering to copyright mafia with this earmarking thing.

If Knowing Better or the sources it credits are anything to go on, a majority of charter schools perform anywhwere from just as well as (44% or so) to worse (36% or so) than public schools. Only 17% do better.

@Vivace
 
That’d equal out to a -19 spread, meaning that statistically your chances would be 19% or so worse after graduating from a theoretical generic charter school over a generic public school.

@DarkBrawlerCF1994  

 
Of course you do, because in the financial, service markets all you got left to produce is intellectual property.

@Background Pony #2F95  
It’s a short post, not a thesis paper. Of course it’s simplistic and other factors are going to be involved, but the basic principle is unquestionably sound. In their efforts to avoid paying their employees a good wage, American companies forget that they need people to have enough money to buy their products.

I can’t be the only one who’s noticed how much of a scumbag rat Justin Trudeau really is right?
 
That his whole “Canada’s Nice Guy to America’s Asshat Trump” image was just for show.

@CaptainXtra
 
TBF it’s the same here in NZ with Jacinda, in that she says the right things, but doesn’t do much of substance. I guess all the nurses in the country going on strike today over pay and being overworked don’t appreciate what a “kind” and “compassionate” PM she is…

Ol’ Terry McAuliffe is leading in the Dem primary results here in VA. To no ones surprise, mind you. It was his race to lose and he didn’t do anything to lose it.
 
 
He was a pretty popular governor during his tenure, and led VA into the financial boom that built up the outter parts of NOVA. He also has deep pockets and deeper fundraising skills.

Fox News says the quiet part out loud: The poor, minorities, and disenfranchised aren’t worth $15 hour.
 
The kicker is that it’s Art Laffer who said it. The same economic advisor of - drum roll please! - Ronald Reagan.
 
Yep. The same dipshit who ended America’s “Golden Age of Economic Prosperity”, ushered in neoliberalism, and architect of Trickle Down Economics, says that if you’re poor or non-white you don’t deserve money.
 
Well with credentials like that you understand why Fox News thinks his opinion means something.

I’ve done some musing.
 
 
We’ve created a society so obsessed with a warped sense of “personal responsibility” that we’ve become the ultimate authority in cutting off ones nose to spite their face.
 
 
Take drug offenders. People act like recidivism only hurts the offenders, and all that matters is that they get personally punished.
 
When in truth it hurts us all. Not only because it keeps the crime rate elevated and wastes resources, but because it deprives us of our most vital of assets, people.
 
Repeatedly throwing people in jail may make us feel good, it “removes” them from our sight. But does it really help? No, all it does is waste a lot of time and money, while preventing that person from becoming something that benefits us all.
 
 
What’s better, a system of punishment that expends vast amounts of resources for absolutely zero gain, or a system of rehabilitation that at the very least means that a portion of that population is kept out of trouble.
 
 
You’ll never be able to fix everyone. But I’d take a system that’s only 10% effective vs. one that’s 0.

In more “Meet the new boss, same as the old” news, Kamala Harris tells Guatemalans to stay away from our country.
 
Context doesn’t make it better. She’s basically saying ‘Yes we know your country is shitty. Yes we know people want to live better lives. But we don’t want you here.’ Especially galling since, as AOC points out, America is of course responsible for much of Guatemala’s issues.
 
Someday we’re just going to have to drop off the pretext and either sponge off that Lazarus poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, or just chisel in “LOL” at the end of it.

I have Education and Charter Schools indexes.
 
“Charter Schools are a strategy for undermining teacher’s unions, privatizing public education and shifting and cutting education expenses from business and the community at the expense of the poor and the working class. With 30 years experience, they do not produce better results, let alone the extraordinary results cherry-picked by their advocates. They are primarily promoted by plutocrats, and serve to distract from the real causes of low achievement: especially poverty. The rich do not want to spend on fixing poverty.”

@Violet Rose in The Rain  

 
Because it takes away from their precious money they’re not using.
 
Also, I’m not sure what charter schools even are…

@Wiimeiser  

 
Private schools.

@Dustcan  
I’m sure this has nothing to do with Guatemalan protestors telling her to fuck off when she arrived there.

@Wiimeiser  
Charter schools are essentially private schools that use public funds.

@Goku Black
 
I consider them the doing socialism better version of Prussianised education. I have more respect for Montessori schools than I have for charter schools.

An Ohioan anti-vaxxer recently stated during house health meeting that the COVID vaccine is now causing people’s skin to become magnetised and is allowing metal to stick to their skin
 
You know saying “the vaccine will allow you to control metal like Magneto” would only make people wanna take it more right?

@Background Pony #1F81  
These anti-vaxxers really need to be thrown into an insane asylum.

@Background Pony #1F81  
Sweet. I’m gonna be Iron Man.