Kulturkampf

[Alpacx]

[Nintex]

The turning pointers are not happy with the new management mister President

 it's what Charlie would've wanted fellas

[HaughtyFrank]

There really is a strange impulse on the left to treat foreign cultures at absolutely sacrosanct while the own culture is treated as disposable

[benji]

All you're saying is that your position is so bad you can't defend it against the worst opponents.

[Alpacx]

All you're saying is that your position is so bad you can't defend it against the worst opponents.

It worked so well for the trans movement!

[benji]

[benji]

[Alpacx]

[HaughtyFrank]

"this is colonizing"

https://time.com/6205084/phonics-science-of-reading-teachers/

[Alpacx]

"this is colonizing"

https://time.com/6205084/phonics-science-of-reading-teachers/

This is what a Nepenthe run school system would look like.

[Ribosome]

If only there was an easily readable sign that this was coming like years of Tweets from his fellow right-wing travelers.

[benji]

Where's the genocide supposed to come from? Democrats are white too. And the only Civil War was between whites. (And wasn't inevitable, the Union could have let them leave.)

[benji]

[Ribosome]

Oof.

[simiansmarts]

The next democrat president should get a free pass for adultery with how far professional standards have fallen for people in the highest office in the land. Bill Clinton getting sloppy toppy in the oval office is small fry compared to what's going on now.  
 
If President Newsom wants to have ten mistresses in the white house, let him have it. 

[Potato]

"this is colonizing"

https://time.com/6205084/phonics-science-of-reading-teachers/

Fucking teachers man...

[Nintex]

Someone is

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

The whole debate surrounding the Somali immigrants got me thinking.

Like the defense for immigrants always seems to be that they're actually incredible valuable, the backbone of the community etc. etc. and that's always a nice sentiment but what if it's sometimes just objectively not true?

Like in this case it just seems objectively impossible that Somalis are an integral part to everything that happens in Boston because there's actually way too few of them.

In defense of the Minnesota Somalis there was this tweet saying that they're paying 67 million annually in taxes which is nice but also considerably less than average Minnesotans of a same sized group would pay

I don't mean to say with this "well kick them out" and there are likely various explanations, like poverty and lack of education, but I feel like those issues need to be talked about instead of pretending that every immigrant is instantly an economic net benefit.

[Alpacx]

https://www.thetimes.com/article/86979a45-6313-4075-86ae-b88da618c4b5
Why have ‘patriotic’ banquets become the latest front in France’s culture war?

Géraud de la Tour and Pierre-Alexandre de Boisse, both 32, have been accused by leftwingers of promoting reactionary values. Some radicals say the rendition of the national anthem before the meal is nationalistic and that the set menus featuring pâtés, hams and other meats ostracise Muslims and vegetarians

[Uncle]

I don't mean to say with this "well kick them out" and there are likely various explanations, like poverty and lack of education, but I feel like those issues need to be talked about instead of pretending that every immigrant is instantly an economic net benefit.

likewise metrics for determining whether "diversity of thought and experience" has really provided measurable benefits, considering the many homogeneous cultures that lack that diversity and keep on truckin' successfully like it's no big deal

"we should give star wars to kathleen kennedy, a woman, for her unique woman's perspective, which will surely broaden our audience and bring us success"

[Nintex]

Soooo the Khive can sleep around have fun with their hoe phase.

And yet they sit on their high horse going after Jeff and Bill who did just that


Anyway we have the 2028 front runner platforms

Trump: nuclear battle ships

Kamala: just be a hoe *cackles*

[benji]

So it was just a simple mistake that he targeted and killed Jews, dumb Zionist and right-wing media yet again.

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

Good news black people, there's no reason to worry about sickle cells anymore.

Also good news white people because it's not racist anymore to allocate too little research towards sickle cells

[Potato]

So it was just a simple mistake that he targeted and killed Jews, dumb Zionist and right-wing media yet again.

They only targeted the Zionist ones. 

Anyway, the response to this in NSW is: 

• further restrict law abiding firearms owners through implementing laws that have circumvented usual parliamentary processes like consultation, committee review and common sense
  
• removing basic legal rights of firearms owners to appeal licencing decisions through the courts
  
• implementing laws which allow the government to ban peaceful protest and demonstrations without justification
  
• effectively making Olympic and Paralympic biathlon athletes unable to compete and train in their chosen sport
  
• making it extremely difficult for anyone to get a start in shooting sports (at which Australia has been very successful at Olympic and international level).
  

The elephant in the room is the NSW Government and Federal Government doing absolutely nothing to target the extremist islamic preachers in the Wester Sydney ghettos preaching violence and hate or to deal with the fact we have clearly been ineffective at scanning for these people as part of our immigration processes. That is in the too hard basket. The Federal Government is also resisting the call to form a Royal Commission to examine the failings that led to this occurring.

The fact remains that this was a massive failure of intelligence services and the NSW Police firearms licencing branch but, as usual, it's the law-abiding people who pay the price.

Regardless of whether we have a Royal Commission, there will definitely be a Coroner's inquiry which will make for some super interesting reading when they delve into the firearms licencing and intelligence sharing failures which allowed the father to obtain a firearms licence in 2023 after his son was investigated for links to convicted terrorists in 2019. I'm sure the recommendations will be to further punish law-abiding firearms owners rather than address the government failures, but whatever...

[Potato]

I don't mean to say with this "well kick them out" and there are likely various explanations, like poverty and lack of education, but I feel like those issues need to be talked about instead of pretending that every immigrant is instantly an economic net benefit.

likewise metrics for determining whether "diversity of thought and experience" has really provided measurable benefits, considering the many homogeneous cultures that lack that diversity and keep on truckin' successfully like it's no big deal

"we should give star wars to kathleen kennedy, a woman, for her unique woman's perspective, which will surely broaden our audience and bring us success"

Diversity coupled with competence can be a very successful combination, bringing a greater mixture of ideas to the table and alternative perspectives. However the important part of that equation is "coupled with competence" and that most often gets left out.

Unfortunately, like the case with Kathleen Kennedy, it is diversity for the sake of diversity. Any white male who killed the Star Wars golden goose, then ran over it in his car while exploding its remains with dynamite like she did would have been fired so hard his kids would probably be unemployed.

[HaughtyFrank]

They sort of accidentally shut down one of the hate preachers. Though I'm sure he'll pop up somewhere else

[Uncle]

I don't mean to say with this "well kick them out" and there are likely various explanations, like poverty and lack of education, but I feel like those issues need to be talked about instead of pretending that every immigrant is instantly an economic net benefit.

likewise metrics for determining whether "diversity of thought and experience" has really provided measurable benefits, considering the many homogeneous cultures that lack that diversity and keep on truckin' successfully like it's no big deal

"we should give star wars to kathleen kennedy, a woman, for her unique woman's perspective, which will surely broaden our audience and bring us success"

Diversity coupled with competence can be a very successful combination, bringing a greater mixture of ideas to the table and alternative perspectives. However the important part of that equation is "coupled with competence" and that most often gets left out.

Unfortunately, like the case with Kathleen Kennedy, it is diversity for the sake of diversity. Any white male who killed the Star Wars golden goose, then ran over it in his car while exploding its remains with dynamite like she did would have been fired so hard his kids would probably be unemployed.

but see from where I'm sitting, part of this whole discussion would be that competence often leads people to arrive at similar conclusions, the categorically best way to achieve something

so if competence is part of the equation, paradoxically you end up with less diversity of ideas, but maybe that's better because you don't want diversity for diversity's sake, you really do want to make the best decision

[HaughtyFrank]

The elephant in the room is the NSW Government and Federal Government doing absolutely nothing to target the extremist islamic preachers in the Wester Sydney ghettos preaching violence and hate or to deal with the fact we have clearly been ineffective at scanning for these people as part of our immigration processes. That is in the too hard basket. The Federal Government is also resisting the call to form a Royal Commission to examine the failings that led to this occurring.

This is the sort of thing where the west needs to pay some attention to majority Muslim countries because those countries, at least those who aren't run by religious extremists, don't fuck around with ISIS preachers. Egypt didn't even give an inch to pro Palestine protesters