Bullets for Ballots

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Tuckerfan, Mar 26, 2022.

  1. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    How far does this go?
    Christian Science people believe reality is The Matrix, and sickness is damage points from The Devil, and prayer is a Zelda healing potion, and real medicine is fake.
    Sending a hurt or sick kid to the goddamned nurse is "undermining" these whackos.
    You gonna let whacko parents kill their kids?
    How far you wanna go?
    How sacred is this value to you?
    Cuz it seems like you only want a carve-out for racist parents who want history censored.
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  2. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    so intentional cognitive dissonance and impossible criteria it is, eh?

    Like, your reactionary biases in this have been obvious since the get go as evidenced by your continued misrepresentations of actual applications in education. So how could you possibly offer objective observations?
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  3. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Inject anti-freeze.
    :smooch:
  4. RickDeckard

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    That's fucking tragic. Your job sucks.
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  5. matthunter

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    So I can view those vids?

    No?

    Then you don't get to demand you can see vids of teachers.

    We're accountable to the folk who sign our paychecks.

    Again, you're saying teachers are doing this based on... what? Politicians and other wonks telling you so.

    Well, someone told me the FBI all shoot up with heroin in their offices.

    I demand video evidence to the contrary!!

    See how that works?

    Fuck off.
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  6. matthunter

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    Also, I notice our resident Freedom Freak has zero concern over his bosses videotaping him all day.

    That would be a major fucking red flag to most folks regarding an employer, yet Mister Ma Rights is seemingly fucking dandy about it.
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  7. RickDeckard

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    He seems almost proud of it. If there's one aspect of his behavior he's consistent about, it's being a corporate lickspittle.
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  8. Jenee

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    then those parents can homeschool their little racist bastards.
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  9. matthunter

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    It's the Libertarian "Invisible Hand" shit.

    Yeah, we know where the Invisible Hand is.

    [​IMG]
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  10. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    If you are a public servant, you are subject to public scrutiny, period.
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  11. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Oh go fuck yourself. I'm supposed to be ashamed of earning my keep instead of sitting on my ass, getting fat and wailing about the injustice of it all. Useless people asserting unearned moral superiority. Fuck's sake.
    :jayzus:
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  12. Uncle Albert

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    This is where a reasonable person would recognize the difference between public and private property.


    Yes, henry. I know. Propery is theft. :hammer: :dayton:
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  13. RickDeckard

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    That's a false choice. You're very fond of that fallacy.
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  14. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    I suppose you "no recording meee" people are against police wearing body cams, right? :brood:
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  15. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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  16. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    The "liberty" in Libertarianism is like the "science" in Scientology.
    Their names are antonyms for what they really are.
    And what they really are is authoritarian cults.
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  17. matthunter

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    Cops get taped because they can arrest you and the tape is evidence, so it HELPS them perform their duty.

    I'm sure UA wasn't implying they were being taped because they might, y'know, plant evidence or kill someone.

    In actual fact, I am recorded giving my lectures, so students can revise.

    No, you can't view those lectures willy-nilly. Nor can you just roll up and demand a cop's bodycam footage.

    You also can't demand public CCTV footage either, without a court ruling (i.e. if it might absolve you of a crime).

    Yet UA wants unfettered access, because he really fucking hates fetters or indeed any form of rules or regulations.
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  18. Uncle Albert

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    Also the ones who's beliefs don't align precisely with some asshole teacher's pet cause, apparently.
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  19. Uncle Albert

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    It can also help hold them accountable for misconduct.

    Sometimes they do, and I'll trust video footage way more than eyewitness accounts.

    It would be available on a public access server if it were up to me.

    I would need to know who pays for the camera to deliver a ruling on that.

    You're all over the map with that one. No, I don't hate all forms of regulation or all assertions of privacy. But neither public servants nor civilians on public property have any sacred claim to concealing their activities. You only get to decide that on your own property and your own time.
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    Not just any paychecks, shitty paychecks! Damn that must suck

    That I do agree with however
  21. Uncle Albert

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    I think it's more to prevent theft, and people sneaking off to :bong: in some dark corner (this isn't Gamestop or Starbucks. there are forklifts and manufacturing equipment operating everywhere). I don't recall ever being hassled for something they saw me doing on camera.
  22. Spaceturkey

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    well yeah. but they never really did in the first place, so...
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  23. tafkats

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    Next up: Why @Uncle Albert should be entitled to see a list of all the library books you've ever checked out!
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  24. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Oh, please flip me that horseshit while most people gleefully hand over their entire fucking lives to social media data mining sites with convenient location-tracking mobile applications.
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  25. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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  26. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Was it wrong to undermine these parents?

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  27. Uncle Albert

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    :lol:
    Yep. Wordforge is equivalent to Facebook. You got me. :techman:
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  28. Uncle Albert

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    Nope. Now if you want to be less disingenuous and supply a specific topic where the question of undermining parents might arise, I will provide a specific answer.
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  29. Jenee

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    I had a teacher who told us fat cells never go away. They just go flat. But they are always hungry wanting to be fed so they can get big again. Which pet cause do you suppose that was?

    Whatever it is that teachers are saying in schools that is not in the curriculum is not indoctrination. It’s a teacher’s opinion. The very idea that it would be “indoctrination” is propaganda from those who want to be able to keep their status as a privileged race.
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  30. Bailey

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    If you don't think Google and the like can piece things together from places like this I've got some bad news for you.
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