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@educatedandfree @ClarksonsFarm1 Are the Easy Care humans are less work than the Easy Care sheep....?

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@Jonathan_Hinder @JamesCleverly There's nothing to propose. You can either reduce spending or do a bunch of silly stuff like a wealth tax to make the economy worse and then reduce spending. There aren't actually many other options, especially for the UK.

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@peterrhague They would need a growth mindset. The have instead a degrowth mindset.

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@ClickingSeason Seem reasonably clear you don't need Christianity for a workable social order and also clear the Western atheists presume a Christianity-without-God moral center is the default state of humanity, and thus see no reason to familiarize themselves with human nature.

[Sock Puppets United @ReasonedCenter]

Probably should have checked the history of medical research first on this one...

[Wonderbeard @WonderbeardShow]

I would be a lot less annoyed at "the other side is worse" if it wasn't painfully obvious that Democrats and Republicans alike think that's an excuse for them to be unacceptably horrible. You should want to be more than marginally better than people you call evil.

[Sock Puppets United @ReasonedCenter]

Capitalism is famously against people buying stuff. 🤦

You can't let the money makers run wild, but you also can't get around the reality that economic system aside, the market exists and sets prices whether you wish it or not. Work within that framework.

[Richard @ricwe123]

One day you realize...

Capitalism always wants housing to be unaffordable.
It always wants Healthcare to be unaffordable.
It always wants water to be limited.
It wants to charge you as much as possible for as little as possible.

It doesn't want to make life better.

Just make the richest even richer....

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@EricsElectrons Good argument for a separation of politicians from state, too...

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@jmhorp Hence the term "social welfare," from which the shorted "welfare" nominclature comes. Medicaid, et al are programs aimed at the welfare of society and appropriately categorized as such.

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@RogerSeverino_ The obvious conclusion of the argument seems not to have occurred to him.

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@travisakers Bro, budget expenditures are public knowledge...

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In case you needed any more evidence of how self deluded these smart fools are...

[Jacobin @jacobin]

"Socialists not only understand economics just as well as capitalists... but can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles." — @ZohranKMamdani

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@luke_metro Dallas suburb? Half of Texas is barely survivable scrub land...

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Which is not an argument to change the Constitution, but rather, to recognize that the political other has practical concerns that need minding through policy means (not moralizing).

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It seems to me that the argument that America is built in a magic idea would lead to the conclusion that to be American, one must be committed to the magic idea, which is not birthright citizenship. I don't think you can moralize around the practical policy limitations here.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Birthright citizenship is especially noxious to the populist right. They scorn it as relying on magic dirt — the idea that there is something inherent in American soil that makes a person an American citizen.

Yet the same populists seem to believe in something like magic blood — that one’s lineage can make one superior.

America doesn’t have magic dirt, and it certainly doesn’t have magic blood. But it does have a magic idea — the creed that declares “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” https://t.co/lDocJeovCh

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@DavidAFrench Babies aren't born with commitment to the magic idea by virtue of living here, so that's probably not the operating principle you wish to invoke. The Constitution says what it says - SCOTUS probably gets this right - but the practical wisdom of the policy seems to me dubious.

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A big part of safeguarding is understanding the boundaries of your role. Teachers should not be promising confidentiality from parents because it is not their role to do so - of that's a problem for one of the parties, then the conversation should not be happening.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

I trained as a teacher initially - qualifying in 1998.

The first thing I learned in safeguarding training?

If a child says they want to tell you something but asks you not to tell their parents, you explain that you can't promise confidentiality.

Now It's one thing not to tell a parent that their child forgot their PE kit or had a minor falling-out with a friend.

It's quite another to keep secret the fact that a child is questioning their gender.

Because gender distress is a significant safeguarding issue. Children who are questioning their gender may also be experiencing other emotional or mental health difficulties, and in most cases their parents/carers are the people who know them best and are best placed to support them.

Yet we're now seeing school policies that encourage staff to keep information about a child's gender questioning from parents. And MPs advocating for policies that would reinforce that approach.

Schools should be setting the gold standard for safeguarding, not lowering the bar.

And if we accept lower safeguarding standards in schools, where else will we accept them?

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@simonowens Weird thesis from a guy who's pretty block happy.

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This is what happens when high school debaters aren't forcefully told to sit down, shut up, and learn stuff.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

At Harvard, a student thought A Clockwork Orange was written in “Old English” and used AI to “translate” it.

Others “view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge” and think professors who ask them to do it are “arbitrarily withholding information.”

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Hedonism isn't a good political philosophy.

[PNW Conservative @PNWConservative]

I’m going to continue posting this every week.

Senator Jamie Pedersen said if little girls as young as 8 who can menstruate, her parents have no right to be involved in her s*xual decisions.

He leads the Democrat LGBTQ Caucus