uncle bernard

Russia's been bogged down in a war with a much smaller country for over a year with no end in sight. That's the type of result the IDF is afraid of.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hillsdale-college-1776-curriculum-k12-education-conservative-rcna93397 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html https://newrepublic.com/post/174762/floridas-new-school-curriculum-designed-make-kids-conservative "But according to the group’s founder, conservative radio host Dennis Prager, it’s actually OK to indoctrinate kids … as long as you’re making them conservative. “It’s true we bring doctrines to children,” Prager told the right-wing audience. “But what is the bad about our indoctrination?”" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/desantis-florida-trump-education-politics.html "Chaya Raichik’s account Libs of TikTok has amassed more than 2 million followers — DeSantis once invited her to stay at the governor’s mansion in Florida — partly by finding posts by left-wing teachers on social media. Her audience has come to see these cherry-picked examples as representing the normal experience in an American classroom. In response to a post by a teacher with brightly dyed hair and tattoos appearing to pledge allegiance to the Pride flag, National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry commented, “Don’t laugh — this pledge is probably coming soon to blue jurisdictions.” In apparent response to a viral but false Libs of TikTok post claiming a school was placing litter boxes in the bathroom for children who identify as cats, North Dakota’s House passed a bill that would, among other restrictions, forbid any “policy establishing or providing a place, facility, school program, or accommodation that caters to a student’s perception of being any animal species other than human.”" (I bet you believed the litterbox story lol) https://www.cpr.org/2023/01/12/woodland-park-school-district-american-birthright-social-studies-standards/ "American Birthright standards are crafted by a national conservative coalition, the Civics Alliance. The standards focus on Western civilization and American exceptionalism and highlight patriotism and Christianity — and have drawn sharp criticism from teachers and national social studies groups. Critics say the standards are too narrow, presenting a single, glorified narrative of U.S history that minimizes the perspectives of many." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html This is a great article examining the way different states edit the same textbook. Absolutely dying at the Texas version of the Harlem Renaissance: "Here’s another example: Teenagers in both states will learn about the Harlem Renaissance and debates about the movement’s impact on African-American life. But Texas students will read that some critics “dismissed the quality of literature produced.”

Do any of you actually remember what history class was like? It’s not a graduate seminar lol ”why didn’t they focus on the slave owner who was really nice to his slaves?” idk because that’s not the norm or representative of the period and there’s a limited amount of time and attention span when you’re teaching 30 bored teenagers.

Okay but you’re taking about strange outliers and putting that on a level with an entire system where millions of black people were enslaved. That’s poor reasoning. And yes slaves were sold by Africans. That’s not covered up history.

1) Gina Carano’s number one problem is that she can’t act. 2) I think we’re overstating the scale of this problem considerably. Yes there are isolated incidents of overzealous people on both sides. But 99.9% of this country will never have to worry about cancel culture. There is also a solution to this. Let’s end at-will employment and get everybody in a union who will protect their rights. No more getting fired for personal views. I’m sure the right will be lining up to do just that!

1) infant beheadings didn’t happen. there is zero evidence. also, what happens to infants heads who are hit by bombs? 2) Conservative states are rewriting curriculums to not focus on things that make us look bad like slavery and indigenous genocide. 3) sorry i don’t think teachers explaining what trans people are is ruining kids’ lives. i’m normal.

fwiw, Sy Hersh , who is not a perfect source but does get enough right to take seriously says his sources say Israel really really wants the civilians to move south (preferably into Egypt). Once they do, they feel they can unleash a torrent of bunker busters, destroying most of north Gaza where Hamas is concentrated, and kill enough fighters in the tunnels to make a ground invasion and annexation more tenable.

Probably continuing strikes for a while. There have been leaks out of the IDF that top command is very nervous about sending troops in. There are some serious doubts about the fighting capability of IDF infantry and an inexperienced and untested force might not fare well in a ground invasion on Hamas’ home turf. The IDF has operated as a glorified police/security force for a long time, mostly in the illegal West Bank settlements. And to be frank, Hamas wants it more. A huge portion of the IDF are kids doing their mandatory service time who want no part in a brutal war where they can actually die.

And also needs to be said both sides have a history of lying about these things, even within this incident. It appears the damage and death toll may have been exaggerated (hopefully). and in the aftermath, the IDF trotted out multiple videos claiming proof that it was Hamas that it later had to delete when they were shown to be at a different time than the strike. Truth was not the foremost thing on either of their minds. They’re trying to win and it’s important to remember they have no problem lying in service to that. I certainly got swept up in it and own that. I still maintain my overall position on the conflict: ceasefire now!

1) They’re claiming one failed rocket launched from two different sites. That isn’t possible. 2) Sure, but there are other issues with the video than that. On a basic level, we’re supposed to believe Israel didn’t know 1000s of fighters amassed on the border for an attack that had been planned for 2 years, but were able to obtain a recording on an unsecured channel admitting to fault within a couple hours of this strike? 3) Sure, but we have no evidence of that and we haven’t seen that occurrence elsewhere in Gaza either. 4) True. I think JDAM is out. But that isn’t the only munition Israel uses. It has air-bursting munitions that don’t cause the same kind of structural damage or craters as JDAMs.

Failed rocket certainly isn’t consensus at this point. None of the evidence Israel has presented stands up to scrutiny. The audio recording it presented has been shot down as a likely fake by arabic experts. The two “hamas” agents aren’t speaking the right dialect among other issues. And Israel can’t decide where the rocket launched from. They have two separate locations in their presentation without realizing. FWIW, al jazeera has a breakdown of the Israeli claims here: The only possibility I see from the video of a failed rocket is if the debris from the intercepted rocket fell on the hospital, but that wouldn’t match the explosion would it? Why didn’t that happen with the other thousands of iron dome interceptions?

I’m sorry, THIS is what you’re shitting your pants over??? lol i can tell you’ve had your brain melted by the internet. nothing in that video is scary. meanwhile, conservatives groups are trying to stop teachers from teaching basic US history because it doesn’t all glorify our great nation. you guys don’t want to live in a democracy. you want to live in christian saudi arabia.

This whole thing is just a bunch of people sitting around the campfire making up stories to scare themselves. And half of them don’t even have kids (like willie). unbelievably pathetic weirdos.

1) i doubt it 2) wtf are you talking about? ruin kids lives? all these kids have smart phones and see stuff 1000x more graphic on the internet every day. like give me an example of someone who got their life ruined by a teacher doing…what exactly?

if it’s so absurd, surely you can find one example of a mass firing to show me. just one. does the “they had to pull it off tv” bs you just fell for give you any pause here? any introspection? maybe you’re just seeing tweets from people in your right wing media bubble and believing everything they say?

1) translation: i couldn’t find them 2) sure there have buddy 3) Yes. If there are so many incidents of people getting fired for conservative beliefs, let’s see them.

because i don’t believe in cancel culture like you!

that didn’t happen. you are so ***duck duck goose** gullible lol they briefly put a viewer discretion warning on the screen because they were discussing topics of a sexual nature…in the proceedings on sex ed.

I’m looking. I can’t find a single example of “mass firings.” Have you ever actually seen an example or did you just see a tweet that alluded to it happening and it felt right to you?

Conservatives certainly want them to!

People don't know this, but Willie was a huge Michael Dukakis guy. Shame the party went WOKE.

Same guy who complains about Palestinians using violence says this about their attempt to secure their rights peacefully lol. Perfect example of why people turn to Hamas. It's completely clear that there is no current avenue to justice through legal and/or peaceful means.

You haven't provided a single example of liberals doing this either

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/speech-pathologist-texas-israel-oath.html

I'm sure they were "created" by the Salvadoran government and then trained at Ft. Bragg before assisted by US Special Operatives in the field in El Salvador. If you think this is somehow a work around for you, you're an idiot lol.