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Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:58 pm
by zsn
F-ing secede already. Tired of these two States (among others) dragging down the collective IQ of the Country.
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 10:46 am
by twocoach
zsn wrote: ↑Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:58 pm
F-ing secede already. Tired of these two States (among others) dragging down the collective IQ of the Country.
We should sell Texas back to Mexico. We could pay off the national debt, end homelessness and feed the nation.
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 5:54 pm
by zsn
I think we need to pay Mexico to take back Texas. Probably worth every penny
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:35 pm
by sdoyel
Part of a thread I posted on the Poli Board… Worth a read.
https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/14 ... 81155?s=21
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:40 pm
by Mjl
Cool. Now stop infighting so these nuts don't keep getting elected.
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2021 8:47 am
by Deleted User 89
just heard that only ~50% of our country knows that we have 3 branches of government
sigh…
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2021 9:25 am
by pdub
Well, one of those branches had split and fallen to the ground only a few years back, so I get it.
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 2:48 pm
by Deleted User 89
yet more evidence that just because we
might be the greatest country on earth, we aren’t beyond reproach
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/trav ... D24E026F2C
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:43 pm
by Deleted User 89
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... 0continues.
Researchers identify 102 students who died at Native American school in Nebraska
School was operated by the federal government between 1884 and 1934 and was known for brutal punishments and hard labour...
(not to mention systemic, state-sanctioned cultural genocide)
i've got it on good authority that there are ~55,000 boxes of records in the federal archives stored in the Lee's Summit caves that still need to be checked and cross-validated to get a "full" accounting for all native boarding schools in the US
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:58 pm
by Cascadia
This is something that really interests me, why do people think the US is the greatest country in the world? What is this belief based on?
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:12 pm
by Deleted User 89
Cascadia wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 4:58 pm
This is something that really interests me, why do people think the US is the greatest country in the world? What is this belief based on?
ask mich
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:18 pm
by Deleted User 89
jmo, but here are two reasons:
1) in spite of the hurdles that remain, we have stories like Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley and numerous others…children of immigrants that have been able to succeed at incredibly high levels
2) our constitution is the oldest* active codified constitution in the world…the longest surviving written charter of government
(but as i’ve said numerous times…we have our faults that must be reckoned with, lest we repeat them)
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:31 pm
by Cascadia
TraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:18 pm
jmo, but here are two reasons:
1) in spite of the hurdles that remain, we have stories like Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley and numerous others…children of immigrants that have been able to succeed at incredibly high levels
2) our constitution is the oldest* active codified constitution in the world…the longest surviving written charter of government
(but as i’ve said numerous times…we have our faults that must be reckoned with, lest we repeat them)
I think it has more to do with our emotional and intellectual limitations. We seem to have a need to look at things like
1. Country A
2. Country B
3. Country C
4. Country D
instead of
Country A - Country B - Country C - Country D
Essentially this bizarre need to rank
everything
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:33 pm
by Deleted User 89
very true
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:39 pm
by Cascadia
And don't get me wrong, I love this country. I'm very grateful to be born here, even more so the fact that I was born a straight white male in this country.
However, that doesn't mean I look down at everyone else. There are a lot of great countries and cultures in the world. Some have aspects of their systems/cultures that are better than ours.
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:23 pm
by TDub
"that doesnt mean I look down at everyone else"
lol fuckin rich considering the source.
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:08 pm
by Cascadia
TDub wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:23 pm
"that doesnt mean I look down at everyone else"
lol fuckin rich considering the source.
I don’t look down at Trad.
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:32 pm
by Deleted User 89
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ls/620760/
A History Not Yet Laid to Rest
Indigenous people in Canada and the U.S. have been reckoning with the legacy of assimilationist boarding schools for years. Now non-Native people must too...
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:51 am
by Deleted User 89
Re: How we learned it in school
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 10:05 am
by ProudBoy
On this day in 1606…