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In reply to the discussion: A NYT opinion column that nails it. [View all]ancianita
(38,514 posts)29. Yes, and Bonhoeffer knew why.
I've read and appreciate his work.
This country's oligarchy have been at war with public schooling a) in their larger drive to privatize all sectors of this country, and b) to create an uneducated, manipulable public.
No christians should support the defunding of America's pubic schools. Only states fund schools, and their varied achievement rates correlate with that varied funding.
For the last 100 years, the rich of this particular country have gone out of their way to publicly claim that public schools aren't worth the money, while they spend absolutely limitless money for their own children's education.
Americans need to listen to the education professionals, not the rich and their corporate media.
This country's oligarchy have been at war with public schooling a) in their larger drive to privatize all sectors of this country, and b) to create an uneducated, manipulable public.
No christians should support the defunding of America's pubic schools. Only states fund schools, and their varied achievement rates correlate with that varied funding.
For the last 100 years, the rich of this particular country have gone out of their way to publicly claim that public schools aren't worth the money, while they spend absolutely limitless money for their own children's education.
Americans need to listen to the education professionals, not the rich and their corporate media.
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The NY Times encouraged and supported, actively, Trump, both in 2016 and in 2024. Fuck that "but her emails..." "old...
NNadir
Sunday
#4
And yet you did not correct the post that accused them of not endorsing Harris
maxsolomon
Monday
#52
This piece makes a too-common, WRONG assumption about who "we" are. 22% of Americans is NOT who 78% of Americans are.
ancianita
Sunday
#10
i love what you wrote but where are you getting the 22% number (and the 78% number)? nt
orleans
Sunday
#32
76,510,127 / 244,666,890 eligible-to-vote equals 31.3% of those eligible to vote voted for tRump
nmmi
Monday
#47
If you want to use a university from Florida, run by Sasse/Fuchs, I'm not going to argue about eligible vote numbers.
ancianita
Monday
#57
Sure. I live in Florida and since covid, don't trust Florida's govt or RW universities. I use other sources.
ancianita
Monday
#74
Sorry, but as I patiently pointed out, not everyone who is over 18 can legally vote - e.g. non-citizens. a lot of felons
nmmi
Monday
#75
If you want the electorate population, you have to do the math as shown in my posts above.
ancianita
Monday
#76
Uh, err, you forgot that many felons can't vote. And the undocumented population is a subset of non-citizens
nmmi
Monday
#77
I do, too, since it's the bigger population that, divided into Trump votes, shows them as a percent of
ancianita
Monday
#58
Oh please. The NYT is ust about as complicit in not going after the 'weaving', white supremacist asshole that is tsrump.
brush
Monday
#63
Seems to me the NYT bashed Biden/Harris as much as you allege it declared trump unfit.
brush
Monday
#70
I still subscribe to the NYTimes because they have some great writers and reporters (and the crossword and games), but
LymphocyteLover
Monday
#65
Can you point at a single mainstream US newspaper whose priorities weren't "warped"?
maxsolomon
Monday
#69
I don't know. My local paper avoids partisan politics as much as they can. Seemed like the Philadelphia Enquirer
LymphocyteLover
Monday
#83
OMG yes! The people most under-represented in the media are regular sane Democrats like us!!!
LymphocyteLover
Monday
#64