> but the fascists got the trains running on time...

They actually lied about that, jailing reporters who criticized timing.

> School teachers don't have a 1st Amendment right in the classroom, just as I didn't have a 1st Amendment right while in my US Army uniform.

Apples and oranges. In the military one has to learn to STFU or the enemy can hear where you are. A teacher simply describing what LGBTQ+ concepts are shouldn't be an exception to the 1st. There's no logical reason other than religious offense, which then has the church sticking its peanut butter in secular chocolate.

> How do we resolve this [restroom & shower issues]?

There are ways to compromise, but that's a longer topic.

> If the teachers want to express their beliefs

That's NOT what I proposed.

> While in the classroom the teachers should be expected to follow the state specified curriculum or expect to be fired.

It's realistic to answer a simple question from a child, even if it offends religious troglodytes.

All people respond to incentives, for me the role of the state in the economy is recognizing market failures, externalities and perverse incentives and correct them.

The hodgepodge American system is just a basketcase of all of those. And it's the most expensive to boot!

Too little too late, and I've made my stance on charters clear.

It just might be the case that it's good for a society for it's people to be healthy.

The fact anyone in the USA wakes up sick or their kid is sick or they have a bad diagnosis and they might have the thought "can I afford this?" is a public failure.

Healthcare was what radicalized me out of libertarian-ism.

Necessitous men are not free men

im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.

This started about Sweden, you said "Those sources are bullshit" and then just decided to move to NYC. And to cap it all off you didn't even have the common courtesy to post links.

Nah, you and me, we're all good mate.

Press wasn't asleep at the wheel. Anyone who spoke ill of the chosen one Lord Orange was fired. I watched a couple dozen journalists get dog walked. It was so bad we came up with a new term to describe it, sane washing

Nobody chooses their parents, not everyone gets your dad, some kids don't get any dads. Well fed kids do better, there is a ton of evidence to that. The school isn't there to make an ideological point about the nuclear family their job is to educate children.

The language requirement can be anything to me, I think it's pretty well proven if you can learn a second language it's way easier to learn more, more about the method of having to process that in your brain. Spanish is the obvious choice especially because it's very easy to find people who can converse in and it's very useful it but Mandarin also has a lot of utility today.

I was more comparing the learning an instrument to a language but yeah agree that it should be available, like you said we have access to good enough cheap instruments that money shouldn't be an issue for a kid. I think piano would and should be the most learned at the start, it seems like it's so fundamental to music it's a launching point.

The NYT comment was to drive a point because it's not (although I would say it's not liberal really either). Also Eric Adams is supposed to carry some weight with me? Why? Will Mamdani's opinion carry weight equal weight with you?

If you're going to use the NYT as a primary source but discard these, that's just "I don't like it", these are all reputable establishments. That means you can disagree on their statements of facts or opinions and not on your bias against them but discarding them like that. The WSJ absolutely leans conservative but I am not going to discard them.

For the record I don't really care about charter schools so long as they have to play by the same rules public ones do. No additional funding than the public schools get, they have to take in any student like a public does including special ed, no additional tuition on top of that and they should be non-profits, there are too many perverse incentives if not.

So there's your rationalization.

The right wing is about hierarchy and structured order with some people at the top some people at the bottom and of course never ever ever anyone on the right wing at the bottom.

Trump can do whatever he wants for the exact same reason God can do whatever he wants. It's literally Divine command theory.

If Trump does something it is good because Trump did it and if you think it's bad it's just that your feeble mind can't comprehend the 8d chess

It's the same reason the tribal war god of Abraham can commit multiple genocides and endorsed slavery and turn women into property and it's all okay because it has to be because God did it and God is inherently good.

And is willing to State on the record that this is wrong and they fucked up voting for him? Is there anyone who brought us here to this state and is willing to take responsibility?

I am guessing not but I got to admit I am curious. Comment below.

Thanks for the handwave dismissal of sources you just don't like. I think the NYT is conservative so that doesn't count. It's so easy!

Also sure if we want to go to for that on charters I can also point out plenty of failures in the US but you've already turned this into an ideological issue so who cares.

Globalization made America the wealthiest nation in history.

What we chose to do with that wealth is at issue.