Joe Biden was the one who signed this into law, and many Republicans stubbornly opposed this, and yet so very many of these veterans are hard-core Republicans.
We don’t need rent control. We need them to stop allowing single family dwellings to be owned by huge conglomerates, and particularly foreign interests. It’s insanity.
Yes, lack of housing is the bigger issue. Here in the Boston area, it’s pure supply and demand. Neighborhoods are full of triple-deckers just off the city center that could be denser apartment buildings. Landlords can charge whatever they want, because they know that anyone who wants to live in the area will have a hard time finding another place.
There’s also the question of transit infrastructure. Even with less dense housing, if there were easy ways to get around other than cars, proximity would be less of an issue.
because they know that anyone who wants to live in the area will have a hard time finding another place.
I mean, you’re just saying supply and demand still. They’re charging that because that’s what someone is willing to pay.
Even with less dense housing, if there were easy ways to get around other than cars, proximity would be less of an issue.
Agreed, the U.S. as a whole has had incredible incompetence with government officials regarding public transit. If we had reliable train and bus systems, we’d be in a much better position.
Investors buy on the order of 25% of all residential real estate available. Big money uses its leverage to do this in order to raise the prices (due to the scarcity that they are helping create), which they then use to drive up rents or flip properties at a profit. This cycle has been on repeat for several years now. This is why you see people doubling and tripling up living together and it won’t stop until they can’t do it anymore or our legislators decide to do something about it which I don’t even know why I bother saying it like there’s any chance they will.
Foreign ownership of US property is certainly a significant percentage of that equation, but there are other reasons why its important to pay better attention to foreign ownership. Allowing foreign interests unrestricted access to property in the States ends up giving us stupidity like Saudi Arabia feeding its cattle alfalfa grown in Arizona. One of the most water-intensive crops in existence that its own government won’t allow it to grow itself, is grown instead in our desert, while our own citizens get their water cut off.
Edit: it may technically be “supply and demand” when 25% of everything available is bought with the intention of making a profit on it rather than providing a place to live - but it isn’t beneficial to the citizens of this country when the whole world and all its big business interests can compete with individuals to buy housing.
As a conservative, I’m fine with some broad anti-‘woke’ policies, but banning how people dress is absurd, and the insane focus from some candidates is wild.
what about the parents that want their kids to learn the facts so that they have some empathy for their peers that are lgbtq+ or learn that they are ok being lgbtq+?
what about the parents that want their kids to learn the facts
Then ya know…the parents should teach their kids that. It’s not schools responsibility to push social ideologies, it’s their jobs to help kids learn basic studies like math and reading.
Nobody is questioning existence, we just don’t care for it being pushed at schools.
If I want my kid to learn solely about MAGA ideologies, should that be forced on every other kid in their class? Or, should I take some responsibility and teach my kids that myself?
kids are gonna learn these things regardless, especially these days. its best to help them rather than hinder them. the ones that are lgbtq+ need to know they are fine and its ok for them to be who they are.
Why? Why not let kids learn about society by…ya know, being part of society. Over representing these issues in schools despite parents wanting schools to focus on education that helps the students future is just the government pushing their own values. That’s what we don’t want, the government just taking our kids and pushing their morals, that’s literally what indian boarding schools were about.
its best to help them rather than hinder them.
How is telling kindergartners that they should cross dress helpful to our society?
the ones that are lgbtq+ need to know they are fine
Okay, so on day 1 teachers can say ‘hey if you aren’t straight or question gender, you’re fine’ then you’d be okay with it if the teachers never talked about sexuality and gender for the rest of the year?
its ok for them to be who they are.
Why shouldn’t the teachers be telling young christian boys it’s okay for them to be who they are?
Every time I’m asked this, and show them the proof, their response is ‘oh well what’s wrong with that’ - so if that’s your response, you can just skip it.
Would you be saying the same thing if the k-5 education was about how much healthier and better off straight people are? Do you think teachers should spend health class saying how kids who think they’re gay should be straight instead?
Does it literally say that trans people are healthier and better off than cis people? Please tell me which video and give me a timestamp. I’m not watching all of them just to find out that wasn’t true.
So, I’ve only seen the kindergarten video so far. They define the words acceptance, compassion, gender, gender role, and unique. A kid came out as trans girl. A direct quote is: “I don’t care if you’re a boy Teddy or girl Teddy. What matters is that you’re my friend.”
I fail to see how this pushes children to be trans.
See, right there! At first it’s 'no it’s not happening anywhere!! then once we show you it is happening you say ‘okay it’s happening, but what’s wrong with teaching kindergartners how to crossdress??’
Why teach kindergartners that cross dressing is fun, instead of, ya know, teaching kids useful stuff?
Our education system spends more per full time student than any other country in the world, but our test scores are shitty.
Do you think maybe there’s be less push back about teachers trying to parent our kids, if the teachers actually showed they can teach our kids reasonably?
You can’t handle that people are different than you and by having the school even mention them it sends you to a rage. It’s religious grooming that fucked you up. Lots of parallel to racism. You know this thing called freedom means you won’t always like everything to come of it. We put up with your stupid ass religious horse shit. You’ll just have to deal with seeing gay people from time to time.
You can’t handle that people are different than you and by having the school even mention them it sends you to a rage
I love that people are different than me! I just don’t value anyone higher than any other individual based on their race, sex or sexuality. Those qualities don’t determine how I treat people. People are people and pushing ideologies based on our differences is absurd.
It’s religious grooming that fucked you up.
HAHAH who hates people that don’t think like them, now? Also, I had 0 religious push in my childhood.
All LGBTQ people are asking is for basic rights. The republicans are passing laws to literally ban the words gay from school books. Literally banning books lol. You have no rights on what other people’s kids are not allowed to learn about. If you want to take your kid out of school do it. Otherwise ur just a bigot
The republicans are passing laws to literally ban the words gay
What proposals have republicans come up with to ban the word gay from school books?
You have no rights on what other people’s kids are not allowed to learn about.
You’re right. But people who pay for the school property, maintenance costs, improvement costs, school supplies, teachers salaries, admin salaries should have a say in their kids education. Public schools are locally funded, and forcing programs in the schools counter to what the parents want is totalitarianism similar to indian boarding schools.
If you want to take your kid out of school do it.
You say that, but you prevent any attempt for parents to have an alternative to public school.
If 100% of parents in a school district didn’t want a book in their 3rd graders library, should it be there?
Yes. Parents are idiots. Just because a couple religious bigots don’t want a book is meaningless. Parents don’t know how to teach kids or what the data says about what is important to learn. Parents don’t set the curriculum and they shouldn’t because by and large they are idiots.
You’ve at the very least buddied up with a bunch of bigots who would be fighting to keep black people out of their schools of this was 60 years ago.
All you’ve shown is that you are for government forced re-education. See, this is why conservatives have a problem with the current education system, because they’re just rebranded indian boarding schools.
Just because a couple religious bigots don’t want a book is meaningless.
You can keep saying this, but it’s an overwhelming amount of the public you’re fighting against.
Parents don’t know how to teach kids
And the fact we spend much much much more money per student on public education and constantly rank terribly in quality of education shows teachers don’t know how to teach kids or what the data says is important to learn either.
Believe it or not, teaching the little first grader named timmy that he can dress like cindy and call himself laquisha and be a girl doesn’t help math scores.
Parents don’t set the curriculum and they shouldn’t because by and large they are idiots.
And instead of leaving it up to parents, we should leave it to the government? That’s where your thoughts nad mine differentiate, the government and public systems should be meant to serve the public, not overrule them.
You’ve at the very least buddied up with a bunch of bigots who would be fighting to keep black people out of their schools of this was 60 years ago.
If that’s true, then that means you buddied up with the side that fought for slavery 200 years ago.
lol typical bigot thing to say. BUT 200 YEARS AGOOOOOO…
Nah you loser… BTW those books aren’t for you or your kid. They’re for kids who are confused about why they are different. It’s that fucking simple. Just like the products you scream about in Target aren’t for you…they are for people who would want them… Which there are a lot of.
I was jerkin off to cosmopolitan magazines by the time I was 8. You want to kids to be ashamed and repress any feelings they have that are part of being a normal human. The 3 books in a school library that talk about gay and trans are for those kids who are going through that.
No one is teaching Timmy to dress as a girl. You have been groomed by propaganda. Literally it’s not happening in any meaningful way you are just a literal bigot that has taken the side of religious whackos based on actual false information.
You’re one of the idiot parents that definitely shouldn’t have shit to do with what happens in the education of ANYONEs kids. I feel sorry if you actually have one. I’d bet you are actually just a loser incel that pretends shit’s happening in mass based on some dumb ass pod casts you listen to.
Might want to learn about actual journalism that has backup sources and data. Where you’d find literally none of the shit you think is happening is happening. Instead you’ve chosen the weak minded bigot route. You’ve been groomed and continue to this day to be groomed… It’s all republicans have. They want to dumb you down as fast as they can because if not you’d realize they are trying to strip all sorts of rights away. 1st amendment, 14th amendment. Meanwhile they pass 0 actual useful legislation. Completly deny the existance of climate change and think the earth is 6000 years old.
looolll… You’re parents fucked up with you. Hope to shit you don’t actually have a kid because you are already fucking up with it.
No you are a bigot for wanting the government to burn books and pass laws that break the first amendment. You are the clown. Go hang out on your pod casts and figure out who else you can hate.
No you are a bigot for wanting the government to burn books
Where did I say this?
pass laws that break the first amendment
Where did I say this?
Go hang out on your pod casts and figure out who else you can hate.
I listen to some oligies with my girlfriend, that’s about it. Just because people have thoughts differently than yours, doesn’t mean they’re brainwashed and you are just right about everything. That’s the problem with the left now, it’s anything that you disagree with, is some grand conspiracy and your views are so holy and flawless. Listen to others thoughts, and analyze your own in comparison to theirs. That’s how you learn, not by attacking people that think differently than you.
dude you are legit stupid. I’m done arguing with you. Banning books is a 1st amendment violation. Parent’s dont have a right to do that. Period. You can deal with YOUR kid… not other’s and not pass laws that literally ban any book that says gay.
You are on the side of actual shitty people. Own it, you fucking loser.
You mean the Parental Rights in Education act? Your bias is showing.
It prevents teachers from discussing sexual orientation at all before 4th grade.
No it doesn’t, it prevents instruction on sexual orientation. I don’t want teachers instructing my 1st grader how to cross dress, and I’m not afraid to say it.
Yeah that’s the one I mean. Instruction in teaching generally means teaching about a topic in general, so a discussion with the intent to teach would be covered by this.
discussion with the intent to teach would be covered by this.
See right there, you just explained the difference. Discussing is fine, discussing with intent to teach is instruction. See, not that hard to actually say the truth.
Ah, so here’s the Antifa who really tried to enact a coup and overwhelmed the peaceful, Republican protesters. This attorney talking about stolen elections and ripping Nancy Pelosi to pieces. Yep, we all know Antifa is all about that stolen election.
Should have just let the south go… but I suppose we had to end the slavery as slowly as we could. They could be the southern United States and I would have a problem with it.
Yes, DeSantis schtick is getting old. It’s not a real policy. Most people don’t even have a clear view of what woke is even supposed to mean.
Even Trump doesn’t care for it.
“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke woke woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Donald Trump
There’s no reason anyone would expect Musk to have exclusive streaming rights in the first place, which is what’s so bizarre about this post. In terms of first-party sources, Zuck has 3 platforms to stream this to and Musk has 1, which is currently bleeding users. Nobody is going to go to X to watch this.
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