So, I don't know if any of you guys have heard about this or not, but in the state of Arizona, in the US (Where I live) about 99% of teachers went on strike. Honestly, I'm surprised this hasn't happened in the last half-century, considering the fact that the government takes fat shits all over the benefits and paychecks of people who have to LITERALLY deal with retarded 3rd graders. Every day I go to school I see an absolute mess. The kids at my school play Fortnite Mobile most of class, and screech like goddamn seagulls. And my teachers all have to deal with them. While there are problems with the school system in general, and there's the fact that the principal at my school is a surveillance blimp, the greatest one stems from the fact that the government doesn't give two flying fucks.
TL;DR I go on vacation and have fun because the US government is retarded.
Probably Homeless_Plant. Though I'd rather it not come to that!
I don't give a shit about this, but since no one else does, I want to know how radical, un-American views you have.
I personally believe that Freedom of Speech is bullshit, considering the fact that there are literally Nazis in the fucking country. I believe in cruel/unusual punishment, because prison has better living conditions than many slums here, giving people an incentive to be criminals. I believe that people should be able to do drugs and smoke and drink alcohol, as long as they know the consequences. If you're so stupid that you think doing meth is gonna be good for you, you may as well just OD and die already. I believe that capitalism is a rigged and flawed system, and that socialism is ideal (Although, on this one, I don't mind so much because I want to set up in the weapons industry and be in the 1% and be able to exploit poor people and shit. Socialism wouldn't really allow me to do that). I believe that the US needs to stop fighting wars in the Middle East (Although from a practical standpoint I prefer it, due to aforementioned reasons), and that we should just invade North Korea and brutally destroy it already, because it pisses me off. I believe that we should have stricter gun control, but only along the lines of more thorough background checks and stuff. Otherwise, I believe that Americans should have higher accessibility to more powerful weaponry, such as fully automatic rifles, because why the hell not? I believe that the education system is in shambles, and doesn't help discipline children or prepare them for life, it mostly just inflames whatever part of their brain that makes them irrational, impulsive, and stupid. There should be better education for those that care about it, and those that don't care should just be sent to work at a McDonalds or in a child sweatshop. I believe that Russia is a weak-ass country that we should invade and take over, deporting all of the citizens into Ukraine for shits and giggles, and lastly, I believe that we should make a law that forces Bungie to make Destiny 3 into a REALLY good game.
And there we are, plenty of evidence that you're not only retarded, but fairly evil as well.
Tell me, how am I evil?
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I forgot to mention that I hate liberals, and think that there are only two genders. Also, I think transgenders are people with a mental disorder, and I feel bad for them, and hope that a cure is invented sooner or later, because if you're born with a dick, you're a guy, no way around that. And while I would say that gay people and lesbians are unnatural, I have nothing against them since they solve the overpopulation issue (Also I think one of my close friends is gay).
You want to exploit the poor in a rigged and flawed system, you want to deport people to the Ukraine for shits and giggles and you want to send kids to sweat shops. That's all evil.
The anti-free speech stuff, the punishment stuff, the Russia stuff, the North Korea stuff and a good bit more is all mind numbingly retarded and would lead to the end of humanity, but at least it could be argued you're just retarded and don't know that.
Well, the world is evil, so you have to deal with it, and if the only way to deal with it is by being evil, then you have to be evil.
Ideally, everyone would live in a happy communist utopia, but we don't, so I'll just stick to getting into college, making money, and killing myself at the age of 30 or so, unless for some reason I enjoy life, in which case I might die of natural causes.
No, I'm not evil, and the world as a whole isn't evil. You're just a brain dead sociopath and exactly the kind of cancer that plagues the world. Your death will benefit the world, so off yourself sooner, rather than later.
I'm interested, what country do you live in?
Ireland.
Ah, well I live in a country where:
Pharmacuetical companies put life-saving drugs behind such high prices that people die all the time because they cannot afford their own treatment, or they go bankrupt to afford it. These companies also block the development of faster ways to cure certain diseases, such as cancer, because chemotherapy is a really good way to make money. Also, energy companies, in an effort to make money, actively bribe politicians to prevent the popularization of technology like solar panels because solar panels and electric cars wouldn't make them money. So, they trash the planet and the ozone layer, worrying too much about their net worth in the present, and trying to add more zeroes to it, all the way until they'll finally get flooded by the ice caps that they melted! Also, the gun industry profits so much from sales of firearms that they will do anything in their power to stop gun control, and the idiotic masses follow them like sheep, even as children are brutally murdered by AR-15s. Those are some of the more prominent problems where I come from.
Cool. This is because shitty, evil people like you exist, who even though you see a system as corrupt and evil, decide "Fuck it, I'll do it for cash" and then does absolutely evil shit in order to do so.
But yeah, problems exist. That doesn't make the world evil.
Because what can I do to stop it? I'm one person, all I can do is live my life to the fullest, hopefully being upper middle-class, with a caring wife and several children. I'd rather not do anything to endanger myself or my loved ones, and I'd prefer to live happily and make money. Since I'm really lazy, I'll just do the easy thing and develop weapons. Maybe I'll work at NASA, if Trump doesn't cut funding to it.
No, you can avoid selling weapons and exploiting people like a decent human being. You can fight back against things you find repressive in any way you can rather than contributing to it, you slimeball. Hell, you could slink into your bathroom and slash your wrists, that'd be better than doing something you know is evil. To side with evil out of convenience is perhaps the most despicable someone can be in. At least people like fucking Stalin and Hitler thought what they did was for a greater good. You're the lowest wrung on the totem of evil fucks, and by far the most pathetic.
Ehh, I don't find weapons evil, and I'm not saying that I'm gonna exploit people. I actually enjoy shooting firearms, I'm quite good at it as a matter of fact.
No, you are, retard. " I want to set up in the weapons industry and be in the 1% and be able to exploit poor people."
Hmm, I did say that. I really should take a nap. I've never managed to argue with someone for this long. It's really easy to get you riled up, isn't it Steve? Because I'm not really sure how you can exploit poor people in the weapons industry.
You consider this long? Weird. Anyhow, I'm not so much riled up so much as I enjoy arguing. I've been talking with other people about the joys of a reality tv show based around murdering Tacocat to replace her with twenty African children and about the legalities of prostitute murder. This is just another thing I'm doing.
Anyhow, you're a retard who doesn't know what you're saying, you're a waste of human life and you are ultimately the cause of all the evil you whine about, you raging faggot. Your unhappiness is your own fault and you deserve it.
Ah, Steve, you are like a ray of sunshine in a forest of sane and good people. You sure know how to bring a smile to my face!
If I'd be gay for anyone, you'd be the third person I'd be gay for.
I'm somewhat grossed out that I'm the person you must want to fuck you in the ass, your parents excluded. You're not my type.
I'm a strictly platonic person. Also, I said "third person I'd be gay for"
And I said "your parents excluding." Your mom being first, your dad being second, myself third, and excluding your parents, I'd be first, faggot.
Well, I can't be gay for both parents, because my parents are of opposite genders. Steve, you should take a biology course.
Also, I wouldn't be gay for my dad. Incest is not wincest, despite what Alabama has to say about it.
The implication was that your mom had a big old cock that she used to plough your father at night. Your wits are slowing, cunt.
Again, biology. That would imply that my dad is either gay or a woman, which once again, DOES NOT WORK.
They stole the afterbirth from a hospital dumpster and raised it as their own.
In which case it would not be my parents, but in fact would be my parents.
Also, I'd take it as a compliment if you're saying that I'm tough enough to have survived in a hospital dumpster as an infant.
"But in fact would be my parents". Real fucking literate, spastic. Parents don't have to be biological, retard. Adoptive parents, for instance.
Tough like a cockroach, or a fungus, perhaps.
I meant to say guardians, not parents.
Also, cockroaches and fungi have thrived for millions of years, and we have no good way to exterminate them. Just as you have no good way to exterminate me, ha!
Still wrong, they'd be your parents as well.
Nah, I picture Ukranians as also super depressed, but in such a manner that they wouldn't cheer up to receive Taco's fedoras and trenchcoats.
Ukrainians aren't depressed, they're just really poor and live in dumps. I'm sure they'd cheer up if they recieved free clothing though!
49th worst education in the US, whoo.
Oh yeah, agreed. Going on strike is meant to force the employer's hand by depriving them of your labour. In most cases, the only person getting harmed is the employer, who doesn't make profit. In cases like teachers, kids are being deprived of learning and their parents are being forced to deal with them, so it quickly becomes a fucking chore and people get pissed with the teachers for starting it.
I don't honestly think that the Earth is flat. That's just something I said for argument's sake, because really, all the fucktards who think that the Earth is flat don't listen to reason. They're like: "Oh, all those pictures from the ISS are government fakes because all those rocket launches are actually nukes sent to destroy the Martians" or some other gay shit.
Also, the concept of teachers going on strike really DOES NOT help anyone, it's mostly to make a statement, so if the State calls their bluff, they're screwed. Which is really sad because I love some of my teachers. After all, I learned how to play D&D from my Social Studies teacher!
I’ve been busy all weekend and have thus been largely unavailable to throw my two cents in in most of these threads, but Wizzy’s idiocy has managed to pull me out of scrambling for graduation enough to say one thing.
You, my ignominious friend, are a complete retard.
Wow, I'm really stirring the pot here aren't I!
On a side note, you’ve proven yourself to be quite, ah, forward with your last few posts. Might I suggest continuing the trend? There’s a certain way to stir the pot even more, and has a 100% guarantee of EndMaster throwing his two cents in as well.
You need only tag him three times and he will contribute to the conversation in a meaningful manner guaranteed.
@WizzyCat
Hey. I'm past my three-year anniversary on here, I was here during CYS classic. The forums are way too boring nowadays :P
Teaching is a very hard job, because in those 200 days, teachers also work after hours. Some teachers have to do grading over their VACATIONS, so they do just as much work, if not more, over the course of those 200 days. You have to respect that. Also, a good teacher can be someone you can go to for advice or counseling.
Most of the teachers at my school (The good ones that is) usually work a good deal after school. Sure, they might not work as much as the average American (According to your standards), but I would say that they also have a much harder job than many average Americans, and they definitely don't get paid enough. There are so many awful people at my school, and teachers have to deal with them somehow.
Teaching certain subjects can be challenging, even if you know what they are about. You also have to help good students, and deal with shitty ones. My mom is a teacher, she's told me all about it. Plus I have experience from analyzing situations that occur in classrooms at my school.
I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic.
Wow. You should at least stick to insulting me, since I've actually done something to piss you off.
As if there's anything to understand around here. On the forums it's a bunch of people generally talking about pointless things, and none of the storygames really have any sort of moral or depth to them. On the other hand, I've read classical literature, and can grasp some meaning from it.
Also, I don't want to stop posting because I really enjoy pissing people off, and I'm bored right now and have nothing better to do. It's too hot outside to exercise, I've done all my homework, I don't feel very inspired to write, and I'm waiting for my friends to log on in about an hour to play some R6S.
Alright, let's do this. Go on, regale us with some shit you read.
Okay, I wouldn't say I read like, really classic literature, like the Iliad and the Odyssey, but I've read TKAM, I've read R&J, Macbeth, Starship Troopers, Of Mice and Men, LotR, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, I'm currently rereading Ender's Game, and I've also read some Russian stuff. I've probably read more, but my memory is bad.
Also I like to read and research scientific shit, I've read several books on the microbiome and I've done lots of research on random astronomy stuff.
Oh fuck off, you absolute faggot. You start gloating about reading classical literature, and this is what you come up with? Two Shakespeare plays, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer and Of Mice and Men are shit that you read at twelve years old in school, in addition to shit like 1984, Animal Farm, Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights and every other one of those shit books. I had to read every single one of those before fourteen, in addition to a tirade of other shit, and that's the best you have to offer? That's fucking pathetic.
Lord of the Rings is something every nerd in the world reads, as is Ender's Game and Starship Troopers. Fucking hell, that is a pathetic score of utter bullshit.
But no, let's continue. Please, explain, let's see your thoughts on the books. What deep morals and messages did you get from them?
Clearly, I'm not, since I've gotten all of my points, which used to be at 300 something, removed, and I've started several arguments with people aside from Steve (Who's way too easy to throw into a hysterical fit), such as yourself.
Hey, it's still something.
Lol a diamat tankie talking about morals and depth.
OK, even if she is biased, I don't care. She lived in the Soviet Union over half her life, and worked as a teacher there. And, even living in the Soviet Union is an accomplishment.
Socialism!
It doesn't. Just because children grow up someplace else, it doesn't change how they learn. If anything, school in Russia is harder than in the US, and it used to be even harder (In high schools, everyone was trained how to use AKs and other military technology).
It's called brainwashing.
Well no, it does. Children who grew up in Nazi Germany were heavily taught in Nazi ideals, for example.
Public education is a sham.
Alright, shoot, what's your logic?
Public education consists of equal parts education and indoctrination.
There was zero attempts to indoctrinate in my public school. Any evidence for that?
I find that the teachers (in high school, not university) who teach more overtly political classes such as Economics or Civics tend to be more conscious of their biases. At least where I went to high school, the English and foreign language teachers were the worst offenders.
Unfortunately. They don't even get in depth about [i]why[/i]
Oddly, I can really only think of one teacher I ever had that was actively pushing a bit of a political agenda and that was a teaching assistant for English 101 in college. First semester ever in college, the professors were on strike so some of the classes I was taking at the time got cancelled on the first day. However, teaching assistants weren’t union so they were still teaching. However, the English TA I had was trying to organize them anyway so she came in and told us all to go home. (The strike only lasted about a week anyway) Afterwards, based on some of the things she had us read and things she said in class, it was pretty apparent she was really into the whole labor union/socialist stuff. Not really obnoxiously so, but it was obviously there. In any case at one point she offered some extra credit if we attended this socialist poetry reading on campus. Fuck it, I can sit through rhyming rants about the plight of the workers for a few points. Turned out though it was more just a bunch of regular old poetry rather than having any sort of specific socialist bent. I think she was a bit disappointed about that. Most of the other professors/teachers I ever had might have had a casual opinion about something here and there, but they mostly just did their job. (Or didn’t give a shit enough to do their job, let alone push an agenda)
Same as Bucky. My teachers in high school and professors in college are constantly shutting on Trump and expounding on their far left ideas. If you’re already a liberal, you won’t notice that though.
I guess so, if that's actually a big thing over there. I mean in public school, teachers just kind of taught things. The only teachers I can recall who properly got into stuff off topic was my English teacher, and he was pretty apolitical, he just went on about how much he hated various things in varying details. Like exercise balls. The dude fucking hated exercise balls.
I get that. In college, I have a lecturer who took time out of a criminal class to show us slides on why rape jokes weren't funny and were super offensive.
What's worse was that myself and a few lads were genuinely bricking it at the example rape jokes she showed.
OK, so it's gone from "Public education is indoctrination" to your point literally evaporating to "Teachers can push ideas", given you mentioned the professors in college, which isn't public education. So yeah, if your point was "Teachers have a bias", yeah, that makes a bit more sense than "Public education is indoctrination".
I go to a public university which everyone is forced to pay taxes for.
Alright, I've heard the same political bias from private schools.
With private schools you get to at least choose which type of bias you want to hear or, in rare occasions, just get actual education.
Choosing bias is still indoctrination, dipshit. Hell, it's worse than getting bias you don't want to hear.
You can’t indoctrinate yourself. Indoctrination refers to others trying to push biases that are not your own.
Indoctrination is the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. The fact that you specifically looked for those who believed in your specific breed of retardation to teach you to accept those beliefs uncritically and to stop you from actually having self-reflection and thinking about those terrible beliefs doesn't make it better. In fact, it's far worse. If you were being taught by people with beliefs other than your own, you could recognize the flaws in them. In your case, you're just having your whole shitshow reinforced as you become less capable of even considering better alternatives.
