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Comment Re: Oops.... (Score 1) 521

Functional illiteracy is rampant in public high schools now as a direct result of GWB's "no child left behind" whereby there are no consequences for students who fall short of educational standards. They cannot be held back grades in elementary, middle, and junior high school so you have freshman classes with compounded disparities between the overachievers and underachievers which teachers can't hope to deal with, especially in the 30+ class sizes that are the norm. This is to say nothing of the significant portion of parents who treat public school as daycare and nothing more.

Comment Re: We have plenty of graduates already (Score 2) 213

"Common Sense" regarding an mRNA vaccine? "Common Sense" would tell you that a combination of chlorine and sodium would be poisonous and that a combination of hydrogen and oxygen would be an explosive gas. Masks absolutely work, or maybe tell your surgeon not to bother wearing his or hers so they can exhale some pathogens directly into your abdominal cavity. I assume that you're playing your favored role of ignorant troll, but no one promised that masks are 100% effective, nothing is, and different masks have different purposes. Surgical masks don't prevent you from breathing pathogens in, but they do keep breath droplets and sputum from going into others' eyes and lungs. But fuck everyone else, right? That's what America stands for to people like you.

Comment Re: Like the laws of motion (Score 2) 132

Your combative tone, frequent ad hominems, and lack of citations don't help your cause and your accusations of sophistry elsewhere on this thread could be just as easily leveled at you. You come across as someone desiring to prove his own superiority via bombast rather than having a meaningful discussion that may prove persuasive to others. Surely there's a better use of the finite grains of sand in your hourglass.

Comment Re: Okay. So let's say this is about expediency (Score 1) 117

We are not defined by our genitals, nor can we change our genes to our liking, but our lives are so comfortable and idle that people spend significant amounts of time creating reasons to be upset. If you're male and don't like sports or cars or woodworking, fine. If you're female and don't like baking or fashion or gardening, fine. It doesn't mean there's a "gendered soul" in conflict with your biological genitals. It means we're human, with all the good, bad, and indifferent variation that entails. Everyone is a minority of one, trying to find enough commonality to work together effectively as a society.

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