@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:
It's not just Covid, that parents are objecting to. Parents are objecting to teachers and school boards forcing their white-hating, liberalism on kids instead of teaching facts.
There's a lot to unpack here - forgive the length:
@Raphjd: You are once again proving that your talking points come DIRECTLY from your Russian (or Chinese) handlers... whether you know (or admit) it or not!
First of all, you're conflating 2 separate things here:
- Parents who are getting angry and violent at school and school board meetings over the issue of requiring students to wear masks in school. THESE parents get angry and violent when their anti-mask views are often voted-down by school board members who actually look up the science and base their actions on sound science vs. Internet memes and falsified information.
- Other parents, in other meetings, getting fired up over a dog-whistle non-issue of Critical Race Theory courses being taught to their children in High School. Most of these parents go into these meetings hell-bent on making sure these topics are NOT being taught in our schools, and come out satisfied - because they never were to begin with... no violence here, just a lot of emotion over false information that was easily refuted.
While the issues are not totally unrelated (they do both have to do with schools), there is more similarity there than you might think:
- Both positions (that mask mandates are an effort by the Government to "control" the populace and/or inhibit "personal freedoms"; and that there are actually Critical Race Theory courses hiding in our public schools & teaching white children to hate their own race) are false-flag propaganda points fueled by American adversaries (China, Russia, Iran, N Korea, Afghanistan, ???). Their intent is to fuel anti-Government and underlying racial tensions in an ongoing effort to destabilize our country.
In my mind though, the CENTRAL ISSUE in both "fights" is the complete and utter lack of CRITICAL THINKING - not only by the parents who weren't taught how to think critically in THEIR schools 20 years ago, but ALSO by the students not being taught this basic skill in our schools NOW - out of fear that somehow they'll grow-up thinking DIFFERENTLY than their parents!
Students graduating from High School today (much less their parents) should be able to figure out:
- If my AirPods come with a USB-C to Lightening charger, and I only have USB-2 & USB-3 ports on my PC, but no USB-C - does that mean I have to buy an Apple to charge my AirPods? (no - any USB to Lightening charger will do just fine!)
- Is £20 too much to pay for breakfast in a street-side cafe? How about €20? (Simple math too much for you?)
- Is it reasonable to think that Republican Secretaries of State around the country conspired to steal the 2020 Election away from their own Republican candidate because they're all secretly Liberals? (in a word: no!)
- Is it reasonable to believe that countries around the world are all lying about the COVID-19 pandemic in a coordinated effort to make Donald Trump look bad and lose an election? (also, totally ridiculous!)
- It is reasonable to believe that a secret cabal of Jews control what films get made - even by Christian and Muslim filmmakers - and who gets cast in major movies in Hollywood? (again, unbelievably stupid - on its face!)
- Is it reasonable to believe that "Big Pharma" wants to give you COVID-19 shots to kill you? (Think: less overall people, fewer doses needed - now, or in the future... that would mean LESS profit!)
- Is it reasonable to believe that refugees from around the world want to come to the US - not for economic or freedom-based reasons, but rather in a coordinated (exactly by whom?) effort to displace and replace White Americans? (get real!)
But there are other examples that are less clear-cut:
- Is it reasonable to assume that "Big Pharma" has withheld an HIV CURE because the high-profit, expensive to discover/create, daily "maintenance" medications are just TOO profitable to give up?
- It is reasonable to assume that foreign adversaries (Russia, China, N Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, ???) may have learned from the US's (and many other countries - including Nazi Germany) great success at fermenting dissent by spreading false propaganda?
- Is it reasonable to assume that the COVID-19 makers want their vaccines to need boosters to "maintain maximum efficacy"? After all, even though they're sold to the US Government at a limited profit, they're still making a LOT of profits off of these shots!
You know: In order to TEACH critical thinking, you HAVE to EXPOSE students to wakko theories and let them figure out for themselves that they're bogus!
For example: I took an advanced Economics course in college. There was a term paper due at the end of the course. It was revealed AFTER THE FACT that students who supported the PROPOSED theory - supported vociferously by our professor in class - could receive no higher a grade than a B. Only students who DISAGREED and wrote their paper in OPPOSITION to her "theory" could earn enough to get an A in the class.
There were HOWLS of protest - but it all came down to this: it was an ADVANCED class! You were expected to USE YOUR OWN MIND (and knowledge) - not just regurgitate what the professor had said. The facts and figures, not to mention the sources, for the rebuttal to the professor's clearly (to those who actually listened) misguided position were right there in the course materials (AND lectures!)... In other words, a letter-grade in the course was based on the premise that you paid attention in class, but came to a different conclusion. There were only a small number of students who failed to see this coming - and they were quite loud in their protests... to no avail. The professor actually regularly won "Best of the Institute" awards from students!
Now, I know that @raphjd and his ilk are going to claim that this makes me a Liberal... nothing close though. What it makes me is someone who doesn't listen to crap and just believe it because of the source! I apply critical thinking (and problem solving) to every part of my day - every day!
A typical example: my uncle just forwarded me yet another Internet-sourced article decrying how Nancy Pelosi was going to rake in close to a $million in Government pensions when she retired.
If you believe the US Gov't and taxpayers are inherently stupid and crooked, this might be believable... after all, the source goes on to list all the "pensions" she'll get: $233K/yr for life for being Speaker, another $193k/yr for life for being Minority Leader, plus another $174k/yr for life for being a member of Congress.
Sounds believable? Not really - who in their right mind wouldn't foresee situations where politicians, of all people, might have several titles over the years. The US Gov't is inept, but it is not stupid.
- One, you can only get 1 pension from being an Employee of the US Gov't - whether elected or appointed
- Two, Members of Congress have the same retirement rules applied to them as every other Federal Government Employee - from White House doorman to POTUS! Same retirement plan (called FERS!)
- Three, those numbers are the full salary numbers. Federal Pensions are based on time-of-service - but can NEVER exceed 80% of your highest 3-year salary average.
So, rather than the $804K/yr in "pension" proposed by the Internet Idiot trying to stir people up, Pelosi will instead be eligible for up-to $164k/yr in "pension" - depending, as it does for everyone else, on how much she's entitled to under the "formula"... the same formula used for ALL US Gov't employees, MoC or otherwise!
Fun fact: your US Government pension is calculated based on years of service, and only starts after 5 years... thus, having never before served in the US Gov't, former President Trump gets NO PENSION (though, he does certainly get other former-President perks - like Secret Service protection and office staff allowances, etc.). Still, if Dumb Donny wanted to work in the Palm Beach Post Office for a year, he'd finally qualify for his Presidential Pension! 
(Personally, I think he should go to work for the Federal Elections Commission! LOL)
On the other hand, President Biden will, after just 1 term in office, qualify for a full Presidential Pension - based on his 40+ years of additional service to the US Gov't.
PS: Know who else gets up-to $164k/yr in pension? Former Speakers Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Dennis Hastert (in spite of his criminal convictions), & Newt Gingrich! (ALL Republicans!)
