US may have killed Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani

[Rickyvol77]

Effing stupid to generalize like that.

You’re talking about a very small number of people and depending on point of view, your generalization encompasses a very large percentage of people.

What is rich? Millionaire? Multi-millionaire? Billionaire?

All rich white people are to blame? Half? A third? A quarter? A tenth?

About as ridiculous as the whole white privilege nonsense.

It’s amazing there are supposed “educated” people who think that way

 

[KB5252]

Useful idiots.

The left doesn't have the monopoly on useful idiots. They just own what we use to call journalists and educators.

 

[Orange_Crush]

Bolded = truth.

This got started because PersianVol interpreted Trump's tweet to mean that was the plan. I'm 99.9% sure that's not the plan. I doubt that's even what is being implied.

PersianVol clutched his pearls because he's afraid Trump may have offended the grassroots population that flood the streets and teach their kids to chant "death to America" on holidays.

 

[Rickyvol77]

Wasn't profitable enough.

No people turned away from obvious bias and the medium was obsolete and didn’t keep up with the times

 

[hog88]

PersianVol clutched his pearls because he's afraid Trump may have offended the grassroots population that flood the streets and teach their kids to chant "death to America" on holidays.

The average Iranian isn’t that person voluntarily.

 

[AshG]

The left doesn't have the monopoly on useful idiots. They just own what we use to call journalists and educators.

Sigh. Could you cut the schtick about educators? The overwhelming majority of us are hard working people who teach what we're paid to teach, try to give our students memorable experiences applying what they've learned, and keep our politics of the classroom.

The constant harassment because of one tenth of one percent being idiots is demoralizing and it's perniciously killing the profession.

 

[hog88]

Sigh. Could you cut the schtick about educators? The overwhelming majority of us are hard working people who teach what we're paid to teach, try to give our students memorable experiences applying what they've learned, and keep our politics of the classroom.

The constant harassment because of one tenth of one percent being idiots is demoralizing and it's already killing the profession.

Get rid of the 1/10.

 

[AshG]

No people turned away from obvious bias and the medium was obsolete and didn’t keep up with the times

People turned away from obvious bias to even more overt bias and bias as a selling point?

Yeah, I can see that.

 

[volinbham]

PersianVol clutched his pearls because he's afraid Trump may have offended the grassroots population that flood the streets and teach their kids to chant "death to America" on holidays.

I don't blame PV since it did make a reference to cultural importance but I'm highly skeptical that means historic sites/relics.

 

[AshG]

Get rid of the 1/10.

Do the same with cops. And the military.

We're trying. Administrators too lazy to do their paperwork is the problem.

 

[Orange_Crush]

The left doesn't have the monopoly on useful idiots. They just own what we use to call journalists and educators.

Lenin also feared that unless other countries went communist, his own revolution would be doomed to collapse under economic failure.

This drove him to try something new at the time: a special corps of "useful idiots." (The term is actually not Lenin's, but that of economist Ludwig von Mises.) These foot soldiers would push his revolution in every country — co-opting and subverting democratic processes, fomenting strikes, installing secret armies and, above all, propagandizing according to Moscow's dictates.

https://www.investors.com/politics/...eful-idiots-to-spread-propaganda-to-the-west/

By the cold war, the term referred to those outside of the Soviet Communist circles that worked to establish communism in the West, thinking they would be in leadership after the revolution, but who would be first to the gulags/execution because Soviet leadership knew they'd be a political danger after they saw the reality of communism against the backdrop of the picture they'd been sold.

 

[volfanhill]

Do the same with cops. And the military.

We're trying. Administrators too lazy to do their paperwork is the problem.

The Union is the problem...and I say we cut far more then 10% out of military funding

 

[hjeagle1vol]

Do the same with cops. And the military.

We're trying. Administrators too lazy to do their paperwork is the problem.

Unions?

 

[volinbham]

Sigh. Could you cut the schtick about educators? The overwhelming majority of us are hard working people who teach what we're paid to teach, try to give our students memorable experiences applying what they've learned, and keep our politics of the classroom.

The constant harassment because of one tenth of one percent being idiots is demoralizing and it's perniciously killing the profession.

Having been in the profession for over 25 years I can definitely say that viewpoint diversity is not value and is often treated with hostility. Further the administrative structure clearly favors one world view and over my history in the system the power of the administrative structure has grown massively.

In my view it is not harassment from the outside that is killing the profession - it is the massive growth in the administrative structure.

Yes individual faculty are not indoctrinating students. However the system encourages coalescence around a single world view.

The existence and growth of the Heterodox Academy is both evidence of and hope against the phenomenon. Welcome to Heterodox Academy - Heterodox Academy

 

[rjd970]

I always vote third party out of principle and that won’t change in the next election, but you have to give Trump props on this. He’s playing this beautifully. The Iranians are saber rattling and throwing threats out like candy and he’s shrugging his shoulders and standing over here just like “try it and see what happens.”

 

[Orange_Crush]

I don't blame PV since it did make a reference to cultural importance but I'm highly skeptical that means historic sites/relics.

I don't blame him. I just think he's being pretty selective in his pearl clutching. And I'm expressing my own opinion that I'm not too worried about a strong stance from our leader offending or "alienating" the "entire nation" of people that have been calling for the end of our culture for 40 years or so.

I don't think a red line from our president is going to "alienate" those alienated people.

 

[volfanhill]

I always vote third party out of principle and that won’t change in the next election, but you have to give Trump props on this. He’s playing this beautifully. The Iranians are saber rattling and throwing threats out like candy and he’s shrugging his shoulders and standing over here just like “try it and see what happens.”

Depends on how he plays it. If troops on the ground end up in Iran he is done.

 

[Hunerwadel]

I believe they should tell us what this guy was planning.

 

[AshG]

The Union is the problem

I spent fourteen years as a Tennessee Education Association representative. My father in law was state President (before I met his daughter). I can assure you that, at least in Tennessee, the "union" is not the problem.

Both our side and the state agreed to a set of common sense policies and procedures that would make getting rid of bad teachers with tenure a simple case of filing paperwork and meeting a burden of proof. In several cases, a couple of which I was personally involved in, the principal had failed to submit the paperwork to Central Office and could not find it. This includes for a teacher who left a student at a mall on purpose - they stayed in the classroom another year because adminstration dropped the ball.

I thought unions were a pile of garbage until I ended up in a field where an angry parent could end my career with a well-crafted fake complaint. And the insurance rider most people push instead does absolutely nothing to help.

 

[hog88]

Do the same with cops. And the military.

We're trying. Administrators too lazy to do their paperwork is the problem.

I’m 100% on board with that.

My daughter is a teacher and I’m doing my best to get her to change careers. She cares entirely too much, invests herself and her money and she gets exactly the same monetary reward as those who do the bare minimum.

 

[C-south]

Do the same with cops. And the military.

We're trying. Administrators too lazy to do their paperwork is the problem.

It’s not an equitable problem.

 

[volinbham]

I always vote third party out of principle and that won’t change in the next election, but you have to give Trump props on this. He’s playing this beautifully. The Iranians are saber rattling and throwing threats out like candy and he’s shrugging his shoulders and standing over here just like “try it and see what happens.”

As I said earlier - four decades of doing it the other way hasn't changed squat. It may not be couth or play well at the cocktail parties but it is the language our adversaries use. Why expect them to adapt to our culture?

 

[CagleMtnVol]

I don't always agree with Clay but....

 

[volinbham]

I thing they should tell us what this guy was planning.

Tell us or the appropriate Congressional committees?

 

[AshG]

I’m 100% on board with that.

My daughter is a teacher and I’m doing my best to get her to change careers. She cares entirely too much, invests herself and her money and she gets exactly the same monetary reward as those who do the bare minimum.

I am in teacher preparation. I had twelve student teachers or half time interns under my care this past semester.

The last day of class, I pointed at the door and told them they needed to walk out and not come back this spring if they don't plan on giving every bit of themselves to their students when they get to the classroom. I was dead serious. I think I hit my fist on the lecturn at one point.

If you're not going to kick ass, stay out of my profession. If you want a steady paycheck and no real challenge, someone has to bag groceries at Kroger.

Blessings to your daughter. I wish her grace and strength - and sanity for you!