Funny events in anti-woke world

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So, Hitler Youth 2.0?



Trump opens up a new war on public schools
MAGA leaders promise an "educational insurgency" to create "boot camps for winning back America"

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This time, he simply needs someone who will stand aside as an army of far-right Christians, emboldened by the rise of groups like Moms for Liberty, take the lead in attacking the very foundations of free, secular education.

Christian nationalists aren't even waiting for Trump to be sworn in for a second time before they make their move. Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host who Trump tapped to be Defense Secretary, was on a Christian nationalist podcast last week that described the vision. "I think we need to be thinking in terms of these classical Christian schools are boot camps for winning back America," explained the host, who is closely linked with Douglas Wilson, a far-right pastor who advocates for theocracy.
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Oklahoma's state superintendent, Ryan Walters, wasted no time in harnessing the taxpayer-funded school system to push the Christian nationalist agenda. Mere days after Trump's election, Walters announced a new public department with an Orwellian name: "Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism." Unsurprisingly, the goal is to attack religious liberty, by forcing his brand of Christianity on students. Walters then mandated all schools show kids a video where he lambasted the "radical left" and the "woke teachers unions." He also attempted to lead a prayer, saying, "I pray in particular for Donald Trump."
 

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Educational insurgency? That would be teaching them to oppose Trump's rule, surely? Ok, they probably just called it that to sound cool...and they'll be working against teaching people to think enough to notice, I guess.
 

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Educational insurgency? That would be teaching them to oppose Trump's rule, surely? Ok, they probably just called it that to sound cool...and they'll be working against teaching people to think enough to notice, I guess.
Congratulations, you have now discovered that everything you think sounds cool (but only when you agree with it) always sounded either horrific or stupid.
 

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Love how being the bigger person and not stooping down to their level is now race betrayal.
Do you not understand deterrence? If you don't give people consequences for their actions, they tend to take advantage of you, which has broader implications for your demographic.

If they had both shown up in court, she would win on account of pretty young white woman privilege, and he wouldn't have, according to a reddit comment on the UCLA subreddit. That's why she said, Call the police. I don't care. And why he was too much of a cuck to press charges on a pretty person who was a top-scoring sorority girl.

He was unable to sacrifice losing in court but sending a message and shaming her. No race should accept such a coward.
 

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Why would foreign investors have to pay unrealized capital gains tax when they already don't have to pay realized capital gains tax?
The government could implement a system similar to dividend taxes (with a DTA and tax-credit system) to levy either capital gains or unrealised gains tax. Whether they would is another question altogether.

Though one question arises: do you also object to capital gains taxes on the same basis (that foreign investors, not paying US capital gains, are unfairly advantaged)?
 

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So, Hitler Youth 2.0?



Trump opens up a new war on public schools
MAGA leaders promise an "educational insurgency" to create "boot camps for winning back America"

....
This time, he simply needs someone who will stand aside as an army of far-right Christians, emboldened by the rise of groups like Moms for Liberty, take the lead in attacking the very foundations of free, secular education.

Christian nationalists aren't even waiting for Trump to be sworn in for a second time before they make their move. Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host who Trump tapped to be Defense Secretary, was on a Christian nationalist podcast last week that described the vision. "I think we need to be thinking in terms of these classical Christian schools are boot camps for winning back America," explained the host, who is closely linked with Douglas Wilson, a far-right pastor who advocates for theocracy.
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Oklahoma's state superintendent, Ryan Walters, wasted no time in harnessing the taxpayer-funded school system to push the Christian nationalist agenda. Mere days after Trump's election, Walters announced a new public department with an Orwellian name: "Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism." Unsurprisingly, the goal is to attack religious liberty, by forcing his brand of Christianity on students. Walters then mandated all schools show kids a video where he lambasted the "radical left" and the "woke teachers unions." He also attempted to lead a prayer, saying, "I pray in particular for Donald Trump."
They keep using that word patriotism. I do not think it means what they think it means
 

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The government could implement a system similar to dividend taxes (with a DTA and tax-credit system) to levy either capital gains or unrealised gains tax. Whether they would is another question altogether.

Though one question arises: do you also object to capital gains taxes on the same basis (that foreign investors, not paying US capital gains, are unfairly advantaged)?
The government could do a lot of things. You could use that argument for like anything.

No, because they go by their own country's taxes, which could be more or less depending on the tax laws. The US unrealized gains tax would just be to the US since that tax is very rare.
 

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Gonna be fun watching American conservatives pretend they're still the underdog (insofar they ever were)