Virginia lawmakers on Monday passed a proposal that would require schools, if they teach students about the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to relay the facts of what actually happened, without including misinformation that the 2020 presidential election was stolen or that the attack was just a peaceful protest.
it is fucking sad that we even have to have a law requiring the truth. What kind of fucking world are we living in?
Facts Not Feelings (unless your facts hurt my feelings)
I look forward to every aspect of objective reality and lived experience having to be litigated. The future is so exciting!
I think America is due for some enforcement of reality
Oh America is definitely entering it’s FO phase. Ignore everything domestic for a second.
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Since attacking Iran, USA has removed all its military assets from other Middle Eastern states to protect Israel. Allowing Iran to bomb them with impunity. I expect there will be repercussions.
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Global trade is diversifying fast! India has signed trade deals with Canada and the EU. China has cut 60% of its US imports and is diversifying. Trade Blocks all over the world (Mercosur, CPTPP, ASEAN, etc) are accepting new members, including big players like China.
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Volatile oil prices and scarcity will incentivize other energy sources, reducing the demand for the USD as a reserve currency.
US soldiers deserve to die. How stupid/evil do you have to be to volunteer for this criminal military?
They don’t deserve that. They joined up as poor people needing to eat or, before, people hoping to do right by a country that deserved it back then.
Right now, though, they’re playing a bit of roulette as, overall, their chance of killing themselves later due to PTSD is far greater than the chance of them getting killed in-country now.
It may come as a surprise to you, but as recently as 18 months ago the US military was in a calm pattern of training and maintenance and wasn’t doing the level of terrible things for terrible people that they are required to do now or face court-martial.
Also, enlistment durations are longer than 18 months. But that’s just math.
Might be surprising, but the US military killed over one million innocent civilians in its unjust wars of the early 2000s. Anyone who joins up now is either signing up to kill people, or signing up to “serve” because they are ignorant about what our nation actually does. Why would I give a break to a poor US soldier that I wouldn’t give to a Russian, IDF, Iranian, or Nazi SS? We are all responsible for our own personal actions. The country and world would be better off if the poor killed their rich masters rather than each other for their masters. I’ll not forgive their willingness to be puppets.
If the choice is “be poor” and “sign up to be on call to murder brown people”, surely we can agree that “be poor” is the better choice.
I don’t know that I can fully blame every soldier for that. There’s plenty of kids who have no idea what they’re joining. There’s plenty of them they get disillusioned by their service, too. Do they all deserve to die?
Like, the military does massive propaganda campaigns to lure in young and impressionable teenagers. And some of the recruits are just people that need a place to live, sleep, and eat. I can understand why someone would be against all of them, but I don’t think I can. There’s a lot of extremely poor people that have few other prospects, and the way the US pushes success = status really makes it hard for me to think that the brainwashed deserve death.
You wanna stop the military? Give everyone a decent standard of living, and that’ll do it.
They deserve to die as much as any Russian orc who volunteers to go into Ukraine. Not all are evil, some are just ignorant/stupid, but all d code to willingly join an organization that has been killing innocents for as long as any of us have been alive. The US military might frame itself as a defender of freedom, but everyone paying attention knows that’s never been the case. We’re all victims of our situation, but at a certain point we also all have to be responsible for our actions.
How old are you? Like you’re not wrong, but you’re talking like someone who still thinks everything is much more simple than it actually is. No offense.
I’m an old millennial. I don’t make excuses for my own behavior, so I won’t make any for others. Not taking personal responsibility for our own actions is how we get to the fucked up world we have now. Everyone wants to make excuses for why people do evil acts. US service member is no better than one from any other nation. I’ll hold them to the same standard as I would anyone else. Russian soldiers are responsible for the orders they follow, same as IDF, same as the SS, and same as US soldiers. Just following orders isn’t an excuse, and “I kill people for 3 hots, a cot, and the GI bill” isn’t a valid excuse either.
Unless they signed up recently they couldn’t have expected this.
And they are mostly just poor people with no other option to get out of poverty, it’s not like they have to agree morally with what’s happening of bow to a shrine of trump daily.
So because they are poor, they eagerly sign up to kill other poor people on behalf of rich people? How about instead they do something productive and kill the rich people who order them to kill other poor people? Why are we so averse to persona responsibility? Were poor Nazi soldiers blameless? Are IDF soldiers? Russians in Ukraine? We need to stop with one standard for others and then a lower one for our own.
Nah. Chill bro. Theyre not the enemy. They needed socialism and suffer through horrible treatment to get it.
Some of them have no other way of getting a college education, housing help, a steady paycheck. Some of the young men just need to get away from their social circles and break the cycle of poverty for their family’s. I met a girl while I was there, she was 28 from a shithole town in Mississippi, she said the day before she left for basic, her sister was shot in her front yard. She had a kid and didn’t know what else to do.
And theyre not all killers blood thirsty assholes, and really the jobs offered (with a ton of benefits) are really really neat. Satellite communications, mechanics. hell even logistic jobs are cool af and people who are dumber than shit can get that job with only like a 28 on their ASVAB.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. What difference does it make if someone grew up poor with whether they push the button or not that kills 100 children? Like, sure, the person who gave the order is a piece of shit, but the “good” poor soldier who pushes the button still kills 100 kids. That’s not a good person in my book.
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As life becomes more safe and comfortable, we hairless apes tend to crave conflict to give us meaning, like Norway, one of the richest and highly educated countries also being the cradle of Satanic Black Metal.
In America, litigation is the last bastion of controlled conflict so all this makes absolute sense.
Schools should be required to only teach facts across all fields.
I agree with the sentiment of what you’re saying, but I think this is actually not quite the right rule.
Some things schools teach don’t really have a clear factuality, like skills. Sometimes it’s hard to determine the facts, like you might encounter in high school literature class, “what did the author mean when they said this” might have multiple reasonable answers, but the author died, so we can’t ask them. Sometimes there are even cases where we teach things that aren’t accurate, because the nuance is too complex, like teaching 3rd graders that you can’t divide by zero, because introductory calculus isn’t developmentally appropriate for their math skill. Even simplifications like “sex chromosomes are XX or XY, and that makes you a boy or girl” that can cause harm if people don’t learn the nuance, are an example of teaching things that aren’t really accurate.
I would say schools should seek to teach kids the baseline knowledge to understand the world, and the skills to sort fact from fiction, to analyze why people say and do what they do, and continue to learn and grow in the information landscape we live in.
Well we don’t do that and that is okay. For example in literature the real answer doesn’t matter it’s about critical text analysis and using appropriate tools to do that. You conclusion doesn’t has to be right. Just that you used the tools right.
It in chemistry we teach the orbit model because it is totally enough for most ppl even if it is wrong
We teach that the planets all orbit the sun in like circles which is wrong but easy to grasp and good enough.
The there is stuff that is not objective like religion or ethics, where there aren’t rly facts.
We teach a lot of stuff that is objectively incorrect. We just have to be correct where it matters like history
Why stop at that event? What about the classrooms that teach about “the war of Northern aggression”, or any of the other slanted views of history?
Back in the day, the Federal government mandated that all public swimming pools be open to all races.
Thousands of public swimming pools were filled with concrete.
https://daily.jstor.org/when-cities-closed-pools-to-avoid-integration/
Good. It’s sad it’s needed but I’m glad it’s being done
While I agree with this bill I don’t care much for the trend of mixing to politics and education curriculum. The country has a loose enough relationship with facts to let the politicians decide what should be taught.
Would it be better if the oligarchs who own the political right wing and the private schools were given exclusive creative control over the curriculum, while elected progressives and the popular majority they represent have none?
I wasn’t thinking of private schools when I made the comment but I wonder if it would be enforceable for them.
They aren’t deciding what is taught. They’re only deciding that, if you teach it, you can’t teach lies.
Politics is often involved with public education. Public education is run by the government. The government has to decide what is taught. The government is run by elected people. Elected people are called politicians and are involved with politics. Your local school board is decided by elections.
