The legal system is essentially purchased at this point (remember everyone gloating about how the Onion bought InfoWars?)

There’s a chance he might find a toadie judge and get something out of this. Or at least be obnoxious enough that others might preemptively comply with something.

Facebook was taking down links talking about Linux as cybersecurity risks a week or so ago.

Build the shitty Trump carving, let people pay to shoot tanks at it, and use it to fundraise to build the Crazy Horse monument.

That was the point. “We’re going to deface your heritage, in a way that will always be visible to you.”

Mount Rushmore was intentionally done to insult Lakota/Dakota people anyway. The “Six Grandfathers” were sacred, and Mount Rushmore was intentional defacement and sacrilege.

Middle English usage of Turkye or Turkeye is found in The Book of the Duchess (written in 1369–1372) to refer to Anatolia or the Ottoman Empire.[45] The modern spelling Turkey dates back to at least 1719.[46] The bird called turkey was named as such due to trade of guineafowl from Turkey to England.[36] The name Turkey has been used in international treaties referring to the Ottoman Empire.[47] With the Treaty of Alexandropol, the name Türkiye entered international documents for the first time. In the treaty signed with Afghanistan in 1921, the expression Devlet-i Âliyye-i Türkiyye (“Sublime Turkish State”) was used, likened to the Ottoman Empire’s name.

Türkiye had historical usage and precedent; “the Gulf of America” does not. Admittedly, Erdoğan was probably motivated by the same base nativist urges. But there’s something substantially different in saying “we want our nation to be called this” versus “we want to rename international territory.”

Is this another of those things where someone wrote some mild Substack post about “maybe the phrase black list does imply black = bad” that maybe five people read before conservatives decided that it represents the ideological position of all leftists?

American Idol winner, she did “Before He Cheats” which was on repeat on essentially every radio station in Texas and Oklahoma for two years. You could change the station and it would be on the next one. Obnoxious stupid song.

During the peak of the Second Klan in the 20’s, roughly 1/3 white people in Indiana were Klan members.

They don’t think the Civil War is over.

If your local college has a Kappa Alpha chapter, it is basically a cult dedicated to worshipping Robert E Lee. He appeals to that “war between brothers” tragic story type of “Lost Cause” narrative, and is ridiculously popular among dominionist Christians.

mostly guys says “hey” or the worse be :hey baby"

Can you perhaps understand why that might be as bad as getting no messages at all? How many dick pictures were mixed in? Many, many, many men use these apps to spam matching with everyone. Those “hi”’s rarely lead to actual connection.

You bring in a female CEO to take the fall. The narrative gets to be about her weak leadership.

Ellen Pao wasn’t even CEO for a full year. Reddit clearly put her in charge to take the heat - which they knew would be ample based on her sex alone.

The United States, being the bastion of free speech it is, has absolutely no censorship of its history.

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The article is about a bookstore in Manhattan, called “Little Red Books” though. Your link is an abbreviated translation of this article, which you might notice from the link at the bottom. I don’t know if that serves as the kind of linguistic evidence that’s called for here.

I think it helps to stop thinking of the subjects as silos. I teach science in a way that calls on writing skills (and I throw in lots of history of science references).

I’ve worked with students on all subjects and grades. In my teaching, the best experiences I have had have had two features:

1. small group size (working with a kid one on one is god tier - today me and student ended up chatting about video games, and I got to talk about the historical context of the Assassin’s Creed series/how Dragon Ball is inspired by the Journey to the West)

2. teacher autonomy - being able to pivot from curriculum that doesn’t work, being able to work with students to accept multiple forms of representation

I think both of these factors are the root problems. It’s not about “what” we are teaching them, it is that we are herding them through school buildings like cattle and flashing “educational content” at them through laptop screens. Switching the videos they are watching isn’t going to fix the problem.

Like, when it comes to learning to read - it does not matter what the kid likes to read. All reading is good reading. You build your curriculum around books they like and engage with. If you build reading skills, so much of the rest can follow.

Prison School is basically femdom soft core porn.

I thought it was hilarious for the same reason, but I don’t think anyone in Chinese refers to that book as 小红书. It’s the 红宝书. I’ve never been to China and perhaps google/Baidu/Pleco isn’t going to perhaps pick up that kind of usage, but I think it is more of a cross cultural accident.

After I was outed at the middle school I worked at (and it is currently illegal for me to use a men’s restroom - which I do, because if you put a fedora on me I’d look like a professional 2010s r/atheism “quote maker”), I found another job. I went through a week of training; after my background check came in the fired me. Not only fired me, but tried to not pay me for the training. Spent months fighting to get a check. Was pretty desperate too - the divorce process was also wonderful cognizant of my status as a queer/second class American.

When I was in college, I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I had to give my drivers license to the day labor director once for a W2 or something - it still said “F” because surgery was $5500 (insurance don’t cover - lol) - I never got a gig again after that. Turned to sex work to make rent. Have genuine PTSD, but it’s not the kind you can talk about in polite company.

I think I’m pretty fucking bright and capable - but living in a world where someone digging up a picture of me in my high fucking prom dress could get me fired is kinda breaking my brain at this point. I’d love to be able to move to a place where the fact that I have a vagina isn’t a massive handicap and I can do the job I love and was born to do and am really fucking good at - but wait, the resources to be able to do that are based on hiding, being exploited, or that case where I am too fucking useful to let go. I’m just going to have to burn myself out until I can afford to move to someplace where I’m not terrified that my pharmacy will stop filling my hormone prescriptions.