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Democrats don't understand what it means to be educated

If you think your local public school is crappy, then get your community to improve the school.
What do you mean "get your community to improve" it? Like...how? What if the community itself is crappy? Should the few decent people in the community be forced to choose between moving or having to go to the crappy school? Maybe if the public school knew their funding would be cut and allowed to be kept by the decent residents in question so they can put it towards a private school, it would light a fire under their asses to actually get things done. Maybe then they'd actually improve rather than making all the decent residents move out and turning it into Detroit.
 
So why is there so much whining from the left about student loan debt? They should just use their degrees, earn the $, and pay it off instead of asking for a handout.
That is an issue... too many people getting degrees for non-existent jobs.
 
That is an issue... too many people getting degrees for non-existent jobs.
It all depends on the emphasis on "buyer beware" and how one views regulation. I didn't choose my post secondary education due to an advertisement on television, a billboard or a matchbook cover. If one chooses say pay an exorbitant fee to "attend" Trump University and then finds that a meaningless endeavor, where does the fault lie?
 
Liberals don't study engineering, the sciences, mathematics and many other subjects that require critical thinking and problem solving skills. In the early 80's I studied engineering at UPenn and was the only slightly left leaning "bleeding heart" liberal in the program and just about everyone was conservative. Liberals have always studied Gender Studies yet still can't define what a woman is, believe there are 200+ genders and it is perfectly fine if someone identifies as a mop. But they are the educated ones. If Trump created a virus that only killed college educated liberals the economy would actually improve. That's just how useful these college educated liberals really are.
Opinion noted,and laughed at.
 
I really hope the democrats push the envelope on this "democrats are smarter and vote better because they are college educated" rhetoric.
If they continue, they'll see what happens. They'll eventually lose their entire working class base. There was a time they encouraged, a time when the Democrats were humble. Now the party has become an echo chamber of arrogant neocon elites.
Imagine if you were waiting in line and overheard two people saying this. What would you think of them? That they are assholes? I would. Would you be convinced to vote as they do? I wouldn't, even though I too went to college. I would think that I don't want to be associated with a political party that is so bigoted against those without college degrees. But democrats will never think that way.
That's because they don't think beyond their own self-absorbed noses.
But they will tell you they are the party of equality and inclusivity. As long as you have a college degree.
They need to get it together or they're doomed. If they want to continue on the same path, their loss is inevitably MAGA'S gain.
 
That seems pretty sad to me. Sex is a natural desire of both men and women and there has been birth control pills for decades as well as condoms. Not all men have a sense of entitlement. Sorry that seems to be the ones you encountered.
How sure are you that sex is a natural desire of both men and women? When men have sex with women, they can get them pregnant and pregnancy can lead to childbirth. Some women die of pregnancy and childbirth related causes every year and some become permanently disabled from these. So a natural desire for men is to kill and cripple some women unless those men are pro-choice. In contrast, men don't die of having sex unless they already have some problem like heart disease.

Go online and find out all the women who are terrified of pregnancy and childbirth, who never want to get pregnant, etc. If all you want is an orgasm, you can do it yourself.

My reason for quitting wasn't just the men who had a sense of entitlement. It seemed to me that at least some healthy women needed to prove that sexual desire, unlike self-preservation, was not a basic instinct. I still think that's true. Celibacy has many recommendations behind it, in Christianity, Buddhism, and some forms of Taoism. No one who engages in it voluntarily is a pity case.
 
Why is then that the left used the FBI to frame Trump for Russian Collusion and then a ridiculous charge of withholding aide to Ukraine which is exactly what Biden did threaten and admitted it?
My understanding is that the investigation into Trump was done by the FBI when Trump was in power, and that Zelenskyy himself had to endure Trump/his representatives asking him to give the Trump administration information on corrupt behavior by Biden's son in order to get aid that Congress had already approved for the Ukraine. When did Biden ever threaten to do that, let alone admit it?
Why is it that is is the left that used their media lackeys to demonize Trump and conservatives?
My understanding is that "the left" doesn't have media lackeys. A lot of people in the media just ARE supporters of liberal causes. They just spontaneously think Trump and conservatives are subversive of democratic values because the latter say that they are and behave that way objectively.

PS Why do you suppose that such a large percentage of educated professionals is liberal?
Why is it that it was the left who controlled humanity with masks that have now been proven to be largely ineffective with no real =science behind them (except for coughs and sneezes)?> Why is it that it was the left who forced people to get vaccinated?
I never saw or heard about anyone on the left who "controlled humanity with masks" or "forced people to get vaccinated" - no one was forced to get vaccinated OR to wear a mask. People chose to do that because they didn't want to harm their neighbors or families.
Why is it that it was and is the left who is trying to control and curtail free speech by calling it disinformation?
When RW people lie and promulgate major whoppers and conspiracy theories as true without any proof and, when called on it, refuse to use reason and admit they have no proof, that isn't just free speech - it's deliberately promulgating lies.
Why is it that it was the left who had the FBI with dozens of people inside the town square called Twitter with thousands of agents on the outside demanding that they suspend or cancel 95% of conservative postings about masks, Covid and global warming? Why is it that the left colluded with the White House to get Trump for false entries, allegedly overvaluing his house, a crazy 20-year-old groping that wasn't by a loon, and that he orchestrated 1-6?
Trump is a convicted felon. He has deliberately repeatedly lied, shown disrespect for a judge in a court of law to the extent that the judge had to bend over backward not to jail him for contempt. NY had investigated Trump for years before it had enough guts to take him to court.
Why is the left uses the tactic of fear to control humanity?
The left doesn't use that tactic. Trump is literally gaslighting the nation and the world and getting away with it like Boyer did to Bergman in Gaslight. He's getting away with it, apparently till the Almighty finally finishes testing the RW to see whether they are salvageable or not.
 
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Frankly, ownership of a toilet doesn't sound like a trait at all. Sounds like an inventory report.
If you buy a gold toilet or keep one you've been given, it sounds like having cooties to me.
 
Yes, Paternalistic thinking, as in "they don't know enough to see what's best for them, so WE smart and knowledgeable ones will take them under our wings and guide them."

In reality this is assumption bias combined with a superiority complex mode of thought.
Trump: I'm going to protect women whether they like it or not.
 
So why is there so much whining from the left about student loan debt? They should just use their degrees, earn the $, and pay it off instead of asking for a handout.
No, it isn't like that. I myself, whom you would consider left, also wondered about the whining on this, because I have little respect for going into serious debt just to get what is, after all, a privilege. But then I read an article about how at least some of the student loan debtors were being victimized in a way so creepy it made me think of the film Gaslight. I'll try to find it for you.
 
The govermnent guarantee is juist a K=thru 12 education

Sounds quite elitist.

it's not that simple. And often when the community does get involved. such s by attending school board meetings and raise their voice on an issue or two, they get branded by the left as domestic terrorists. It's not like the old days when the Parent Teachers Association gave parents a reasonable level of influence.

Not up to you. Many states are already doing vouchers.
Whether or not you send your kid to a public school, the point of the school is for the public to provide a basic public resource to the community. Private school has other purposes. I don't think only parents should be involved, because if they had the resources by themselves, they could home school their kids. We have teachers who are trained to do a better job, and if they don't do a better job, people should get rid of them. But parents are sometimes ignorant - that's why teachers have to exist. At the same time, far left teachers in the school system are idiots.

States may be doing vouchers, but I myself don't want any public money going for religion.
 
States may be doing vouchers, but I myself don't want any public money going for religion.
Fortunately it's not up to you. It's up to the parents. And the private schools even religious schools have to be certified by the state just as do the public schools. Your aversion to religion simply does not matter. I choose not to prevent parents of any income group from having the option to send their kids to private schools.
 
Reading The Communist Manifesto a LOT makes one left wing. Not reading WaPo and the NY Times makes me proud of my ignorance of The Communist Manifesto.
If you are so ignorant as not to know what it says, how is it responsible to criticize it?
 
What do you mean "get your community to improve" it? Like...how? What if the community itself is crappy? Should the few decent people in the community be forced to choose between moving or having to go to the crappy school? Maybe if the public school knew their funding would be cut and allowed to be kept by the decent residents in question so they can put it towards a private school, it would light a fire under their asses to actually get things done. Maybe then they'd actually improve rather than making all the decent residents move out and turning it into Detroit.
I grant that some communities are crappy and moving is a sad but oh so American option.
 
Liberals don't study engineering, the sciences, mathematics and many other subjects that require critical thinking and problem solving skills. In the early 80's I studied engineering at UPenn and was the only slightly left leaning "bleeding heart" liberal in the program and just about everyone was conservative. Liberals have always studied Gender Studies yet still can't define what a woman is, believe there are 200+ genders and it is perfectly fine if someone identifies as a mop. But they are the educated ones. If Trump created a virus that only killed college educated liberals the economy would actually improve. That's just how useful these college educated liberals really are.
That's not true. What an overgeneralization!
 
I grant that some communities are crappy and moving is a sad but oh so American option.
Yes, the left's solution seems to be: keep everything shitty, make the decent people move out, keep all the criminals and have the city turn to shit.
 
I really hope the democrats push the envelope on this "democrats are smarter and vote better because they are college educated" rhetoric. Imagine if you were waiting in line and overheard two people saying this. What would you think of them? That they are assholes? I would. Would you be convinced to vote as they do? I wouldn't, even though I too went to college. I would think that I don't want to be associated with a political party that is so bigoted against those without college degrees. But democrats will never think that way. But they will tell you they are the party of equality and inclusivity. As long as you have a college degree.
Basketweaving, Woman's Rights and DEI in the workplace degrees have taken a bigger nosedive since Trump won and are on a par with the value of a Mexican Peso.
If you are so ignorant as not to know what it says, how is it responsible to criticize it?
Au contrare, unlike you, I read. I also read Trump's 2.025 statements 2025 times that he had nothing to do with it.

Look, Commyla and her twenty something campaign coordinators knew they were toast and had no message of plans and all they could was to demonize Trump and make people fear him. P2025 was just one of those fear tactics, which is that Trump would somehow ban abortions nationwide even though he had nothing to do with that and the SC ruled that abortion is a state's rights issue.
 
How sure are you that sex is a natural desire of both men and women? When men have sex with women, they can get them pregnant and pregnancy can lead to childbirth. Some women die of pregnancy and childbirth related causes every year and some become permanently disabled from these. So a natural desire for men is to kill and cripple some women unless those men are pro-choice. In contrast, men don't die of having sex unless they already have some problem like heart disease.

Go online and find out all the women who are terrified of pregnancy and childbirth, who never want to get pregnant, etc. If all you want is an orgasm, you can do it yourself.

My reason for quitting wasn't just the men who had a sense of entitlement. It seemed to me that at least some healthy women needed to prove that sexual desire, unlike self-preservation, was not a basic instinct. I still think that's true. Celibacy has many recommendations behind it, in Christianity, Buddhism, and some forms of Taoism. No one who engages in it voluntarily is a pity case.
If you were or are afraid of death due to child birth, that settles it. I doubt you are the norm there.
 
My understanding is that the investigation into Trump was done by the FBI when Trump was in power, and that Zelenskyy himself had to endure Trump/his representatives asking him to give the Trump administration information on corrupt behavior by Biden's son in order to get aid that Congress had already approved for the Ukraine. When did Biden ever threaten to do that, let alone admit it?

My understanding is that "the left" doesn't have media lackeys. A lot of people in the media just ARE supporters of liberal causes. They just spontaneously think Trump and conservatives are subversive of democratic values because the latter say that they are and behave that way objectively.

PS Why do you suppose that such a large percentage of educated professionals is liberal?

I never saw or heard about anyone on the left who "controlled humanity with masks" or "forced people to get vaccinated" - no one was forced to get vaccinated OR to wear a mask. People chose to do that because they didn't want to harm their neighbors or families.

When RW people lie and promulgate major whoppers and conspiracy theories as true without any proof and, when called on it, refuse to use reason and admit they have no proof, that isn't just free speech - it's deliberately promulgating lies.

Trump is a convicted felon. He has deliberately repeatedly lied, shown disrespect for a judge in a court of law to the extent that the judge had to bend over backward not to jail him for contempt. NY had investigated Trump for years before it had enough guts to take him to court.

The left doesn't use that tactic. Trump is literally gaslighting the nation and the world and getting away with it like Boyer did to Bergman in Gaslight. He's getting away with it, apparently till the Almighty finally finishes testing the RW to see whether they are salvageable or not.
You covered a lot of topics but I detect a theme in your posts about someone's education. You seem to think that those who attended a 4 year college are the only smart people in America and they should run everything because those in the trades are dumb. This is an elitist attitude and the reason your side lost. You are now the party of the snobbish college educated elitists who think you are better than all the rest.

The coup de grace by Trump to seal the deal was him wearing the garbage truck vest. That old the elitist snobs to take your college degrees and shove it where the sun don't shine.
 
Why change the subject? We're talking about degrees that cost $ and don't pay.
That is what I have been talking about.
 
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