Captain Rex

Republican. Served in Legion 501/Torrent Company

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@JimPethokoukis @TheEconomist at least we know this doltish garbage wasn’t written by AI

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@NathanJRobinson @olivertraldi seems like an ideal way to decide who gets the best teachers. if i am fundamentally bad at a sport, why should i get the best coaches?

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@NathanJRobinson @doctor_bombay she chose to send her kid to a school that gratuitously wastes taxpayer dollars under the pretense of education so she could live under the pretense of being a social justice warrior.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@EdrowScape @CoreyLeander @NathanJRobinson Private schools are better because the kids that go there are smarter and better behaved than typical public school kids. The spending itself isn’t the cause; it merely keeps out kids whose parents don’t value learning. Magnet public schools create the same environment

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

I think all citizen should be entitled to a childhood education and should be given baseline funding to support it, but they can’t be guaranteed an outcome because their families are free to weaken their side of the bargain and many do via self-defeating behaviors

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

Kids will go to a good school if a parent of theirs is willing to exchange the value of a good teacher’s time, and/or the children are pleasant to work with.

Many kids don’t get this because neither condition is met.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I notice none of Nikole Hannah-Jones' critics try to answer to the basic question she wrestled with, which is: Why should my daughter get to go to a better school than other people's kids just because I work for the New York Times?

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

No one should be forced to work with hostile or disengaged children if they don’t want to.

Likewise, teacher’s should be able to respond to compensation.

Hence, richer or nicer families often get better teachers.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@NathanJRobinson Kids will go to a good school if a parent of theirs is willing to exchange the value of a good teacher’s time, and/or the children are pleasant to work with.

Many kids don’t get this because neither condition is met.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@_ZachFoster he didn’t do anything of the sort. you’re a liar.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@zarahsultana how about the 14k years of Muslim genocide against Christians and Jews! can you name it?

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@zarahsultana how about 14k years of Muslim genocide against Christians! can you name it?

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@paulnovosad Her errors were many: a) systemic anti-Black racism exists today b) it explains low Black test scores c) White people and their kids are racist d) teacher’s unions are good for society e) $ and her presence at a school is enough to make it good f) your kid’s life is <partisanship

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

Left wing Black women think White kids are all racist; in fact, approximately 0 are. Black kids in majority White schools are often popular and well liked.

Their deeply mistaken analysis motivates them to ruin their own kids’ education by keeping them in ghetto schools. Tragic.

[Cate Young ➡️ TTFF @battymamzelle]

if she had put her kid in private school from the start and ended up with an anxious kid beaten down by racism you'd have said she should have known better than to have her around white people's children. the literal point is that there *are* no good choices for black families.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@CoreyWriting no it isn’t! anti-black racism at US prvt schools is non-existent!

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@rutgerbregman @DAcemogluMIT This is idiotic policy. Extractive government, enabling theft from the productive to the unproductive, just like Acemoglu’s historical examples of bad institutions.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@RaymondIbrahim5 I just found your work and podcast on Audible. I’m buying all your books. great stuff. telling my kids all about it.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@DanFriedman81 Mostly agree, but it is not really about competition but valuing learning and what your kid can do with it. It’s positive sum.

But when other kids despise learning, it’s negative sum. They drag down others.

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

It’s so funny to me that people fall for this.

In a marathon, the front runner says to those on his heels: “guys, we should slow down before we hurt ourselves.”

“Great idea”, they say.

The first one to actually slow forfeits the race to the one who merely feigns agreement.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Dario is right

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@charlesmurray people told her on Twitter every day for years, and she called them all vile Nazis, and now she feels bad for destroying her daughter’s childhood

[Captain Rex @CptRexRepublic]

@thomaschattwill wow, this tragically confirms that HN Jones’s core ideas—the ones she has so loudly shouted from the NYT—are just absolute garbage, self-destructive garbage.