Ok… for one: I am not a “lib.” That was a really weird response that didn’t make any response in the context of my comment.
I was simply clarifying that when you have a national population that is *shrinking* due to declining birth rates (people are consciously having no, or fewer, children… that’s just what the statistics show), in order to maintain a workforce and growing economy people need to come from somewhere… so if it’s not coming from procreation, it has to come from immigration.
But if you’re trying to convince yourself, or others, that the “great replacement theory” isn’t something created and amplified exclusively by Aryan nation groups you’re either willfully ignorant, or stupid, or (more likely) both.
Also: no one is trying to minimize, replace, or eliminate your culture. Stop being such a fragile little snowflake. 🙄
No, the concept of immigration being part of a solution to mitigating the effects of declining population growth from reduced birth rates is not a conspiracy. I find it unlikely anyone has ever told you it was.
It should be noted the title (or the content) is *not* a reference to the deeply racist “great replacement theory.” (Perhaps this is your confusion?)
Using similar terminology is not the same as being the same idea.
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You’re obviously very unfamiliar with the Inuit. They have had sunglasses for thousands of years.
You seem to forget over-exposure to UV light and radiation from that big bright thing in the sky we call “the sun” is infinitely worse for you than any of the things on your list. It causes damage to your eyes, and… the *big* killer that you should worry about long before WiFi: skin cancer from over-exposure to the sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_goggles?wprov=sfti1
Also, as someone with back problems I can confirm I’ve had *many* conversations with doctors about how sitting all day is bad for your health. And any doctor will agree negative thoughts affects your health…. There’s actually an entire discipline and area of study around it. They call it: psychology.
I hope you’re trying to be ironic… Docker and Kubernetes are the most invaluable tools at every stage of the development process, to deployment and operations.
You just made the case for sounding like a self-absorbed and selfish asshole without a fundamental understanding of:
A.) anyone that lives under circumstances other than your own.
2.) most basic purpose and function of a democratically controlled government, operated separate from the church.
America, and the fundamental values it was founded on are *definitely* not for you.
I recommend trying out living in a theocratic state that developed outside the effects of the reformation.
Try the Middle East. You’ll love it much more there. It’s much more your style.
Let’s table the whole “public services” (notably controlled and regulated by… the public) are a “means of tyranny.”
It’s great if you are able and can afford to home school, or send your children to private school.
What exactly do families do that are not able, and cannot afford these things?
What happens to the children of families where both parents work day jobs, struggling to make ends meet?
What do single parents do?
Your vision of what “should be done” and what public services are is deeply flawed and myopic, at best.
… wow… that went from MAGA crazy to Proud Boy Tiki Torch March faster than Tesla on fire…
This is the point in the conversation where I bow out with a simple: “well… I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion.”
Education available to everyone is literally exactly what it is… for lower education anyway. Higher education should be equally as universally accessible (without burying children in debt before they have a job).
So Is it perfect? No.
Is it toxic? Not remotely.
Should it be better? Absolutely.
Would destroying it completely directly lead to throwing us back to a time where only those who could afford it could learn to read? Without a doubt.
If something is broken, you fix it. Not destroy it.
The value that public education has, and has always had from it’s inception, is undeniable.
The cost of it’s absence would be incalcuable.
To deny the public assured access to education leads to the very things you seem to think already exist inside a system run by well meaning, hard working educators who are democrats and republicans, left-leaning and right-leaning alike.
No one is taught to hate their race. Or their country. Or their gender. Or whatever the latest MAGA talking point is.
Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams knew one thing: a public without access to a basic education is a recipie for tyranny. It gives every advantage to the rich and powerful, and leaves the general populace illiterate, and left in the dark, easy to control, and ignorant of when their freedoms and agency over their lives is co-opted by self-interested aristocracies.
This might come as a surprise to you, but in the United States *we* are the government (for now… though it appears it’s anyone’s guess if we continue that way).
That means each and every one of us. Regardless of if you are the one voted into office, or the one voting someone into office.
So if the “federal government turns everything to shit” *we* are the ones at fault.
You.
Me.
Your friends and family.
… and so on.
Reflect on that a little bit.
What?
I don’t know where you live… but.. no… none of these things happen in public schools. That is not how they operate. That is not what they are teaching… and it’s definitely not who they are run by.
They very much are publicly accountable and transparent (hint: that’s what “public” means).
Private schools? Home schooling? In those settings there is no transparency. No standards. A child can very much be taught any of those things.
But no…. This fever-dream you’ve invented is not an institution that operates in the US, or any western nation that I am aware of.
If your children are against you… I can pretty much guarantee the root cause is not public education….
Or if it really is public education that turned them against you… You might want to do more self-reflection, than projection.
But as for the rest of your comment, all I can say is….
…. What?
It’s out of date to teach basic literacy? You wouldn’t even be able to use the device you are currently on, read or write the words without public education.
If parts of it are out dated that’s not a failure of public education, least of all a reason to be “anti-public education.” It’s reason to do everything it takes to ensure our institutions continue to lead the world in free thought and innovation.
But in order to do that, it has to be universally publicly accessible.
No. It’s not. And yes, Ben Franklin HAD to be self taught, because he didn’t grow up in a rich aristocratic family.
Benjamin Franklin played a *critical* role in shaping early American public education through his advocacy, innovation, and institution-building. He emphasized instruction in English, modern languages, mathematics, science, history, and practical subjects like accounting and agriculture-preparing students for business, public service, and civic life, rather than solely for the clergy.
Franklin started the Academy of Philadelphia, which became the College of Philadelphia in 1755 and later evolved into the University of Pennsylvania. This institution was revolutionary in being independent of church and state, focused on preparing students for practical careers, and included innovative features such as teacher training and the nation’s first systematic instruction in medicine and botany.
Thomas Jefferson was a pioneering advocate for public education in the United States, believing that an informed and educated citizenry was essential for the success and preservation of democracy. He proposed a comprehensive system of free, publicly funded education for all (free) children, regardless of social class or wealth, as a means to equip citizens with the knowledge necessary to safeguard their rights and prevent tyranny.
The founding father’s effectively invented the idea of public education as we know it today.
The single most critical and important tool in creating a state that could operate independently of the church — rather than the church being the state, and arbiter of who would (or could) receive an education, and to what point.
And the creation of public educational institutions was not only one of their proudest accomplishments, it’s what created modern America.
Public education is what created a country where people came from all over the world to study at our schools, and many stay here and create everything from modern industrialization, to the internet, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
To be against something that is such a *huge* part of the country and world we live in today is absurd.
The last one confuses me a bit… Public education is one of the most significant creation that’s singly handedly lead to education being something reserved purely for the rich, elite, upper and ruling classes, to being something *literally* everyone can receive.
To the Founding Fathers of the United States one of the most revolutionary and core concept’s they created was the idea of a public institution that provided education to each and every person, regardless of race, gender, religion, or social class.
Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams all *strongly* fought for the creation of public schools, so that a person that grew up on a farm (who were historically left completely illiterate) could receive the same education as someone that grew up in the richest family, or the highest eschlons of society.
Without public education we might as well go back to the dark ages. When people attended church where mass was conducted in LATIN — so not only could they not understand the words spoken, but wouldn’t be able to verify them if they wanted to, since they couldn’t read the Bible.
Being anti-public education is to be anti-knowledge. Anti-learning. Believing that these things should be tightly held and kept secret by the ruling class, at the expense of the public as a whole.
These people are idiots.
