“It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021

I decided to check the thread to see what was happening and this is a mistake I should avoid making again

lol

Tonight is a night of seeing like 20 different themes amidst posts on FB and not understanding any of them really.

(Maybe I should’ve watched the Super Bowl.)

Well that’s fine but consider that you also could have risen to the moment and powerfully condemned the way I’ve been ganged up on and abused (maybe even helped your community here to take a look at themselves and realize their mistake) but in truth not every man is built to do the right thing when it’s also the hardest thing to do.

DJP xpost

Big Don, in the kindest way I know how, I ask you to please consider shutting the everloving fuck up already.

Well that’s fine but consider that you also could have risen to the moment and powerfully condemned the way I’ve been ganged up on and abused (maybe even helped your community here to take a look at themselves and realize their mistake) but in truth not every man is built to do the right thing when it’s also the hardest thing to do.

― “Big” Don Abernathy, Sunday, February 7, 2021 11:15 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

It’s a little too big don

picturing the ill-conceived "Big Red" toy from SNL

you also could have risen to the moment and powerfully condemned the way I’ve been ganged up on and abused

I went back and read today's posts here. In the main, you've been challenged on your opinions by several other posters. Presumably this is the "ganging up" your mention. In addition you've been repeatedly linked to a mysterious personage called gabbneb. If this seems like "abuse" to you, perhaps you are not cut out for politics on the internet.

If I strongly agreed with you and disagreed with your opponents, then I'd be defending your opinions as congruent with my own. But crying shame over how you've been treated here just seems foolish. These are mere love taps compared to real internet abuse. You're just unhappy because no one has rallied to your side. They have no obligation to do so. This has been a fairly civil and mainly respectful discussion by ilx community standards. Take it in stride and stop complaining. You just look peevish and whiny.

Hi guys what's new

Nothing, apparently

Aimless out of respect for you I’m gonna turn the page on this one. Maybe time can change the essence of the men who saw injustice tonight and just bolted for the door. I may be a lot of things but someone who gives up on people? That’s not one of them.

You’re clearly a parody but I don’t know what of

Car salesman

I’m constantly wondering what Big Don’s drink of choice is at the Double Deuce.

Don how did you discover ILX?

sorry "Don"

I’d like to see a top ten list ranking of threads where Alfred made a point of saying he didn’t like the thread.

I'd like to see evidence that you've forgotten this website existed.

yeah still no sign the thread is going to drop to a standstill.
Bloomin love-ins popping up and all.

Have to admit that I didn't look at ILX at all yesterday and it was great. This thread just re-invigorated my desire to do the same today.

Really wish I could just get blocked from ILE tbh

so glad they brought back the Bloomin' Love-In, my favorite menu item next to the Chocolate Thunder From Down Under

I don't even own an ILE

I decided to check the thread to see what was happening and this is a mistake I should avoid making again

― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Sunday, February 7, 2021 10:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I was looking forward to not having a moronic Don dominate the US pols threads after 1/20, but here we are.

Is this a side effect of having less actual news to discuss?

if only

Side effect of booty flakes

Is this a side effect of having less actual news to discuss?

don't sell us short! four years of daily presidential shit-tweeting never precluded extremely basic trolling

impeachment trial kicks off (checks notes) today**

**after some internal debate I omitted the exclamation mark.

Photo of Biden saying schools can reopen safely 💫 pic.twitter.com/Ogd9P8GA1r

— pet (@petsobel) February 8, 2021

it's weird how the screens above them are windows desktops cluttered with hundreds of files

minneapolis public schools are returning to in person in 2 weeks.

thankfully, we were given the option to continue home distance learning.

my daughter will be re-assigned to a new online-only class. 40% of parents chose to keep their kids back.

They're filing briefs today, but I think the actual trial starts tomorrow.

xp Do you know if they have separate teachers for the in-person and online classes? Or is it a hybrid model where the same teacher is responsible for both?

It's separate, her teacher that she's had for this year (remotely so far) will be reassigned to in-person only classes

she has a new teacher that will only do online student classes

definitely for the best, doing a hybrid approach with on- and offline students would be a nightmare

Something I don't think is reflected in news coverage: Biden's aggressive response to Covid has overwhelming approval — much higher than Obama's stimulus a dozen years ago 1/ pic.twitter.com/RXzXcGeXp3

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 8, 2021

fwiw IMO if we can vaccinate the demographic group in which 95% of severe cases and deaths happen (65+), and vaccinate all the adults who work in schools, and we can provide federal funding and a CDC capable of giving clear, trustworthy guidelines on procedures, i don't think it's nuts (or evil) to be talking about opening schools.

that's a big if

right but the implication is so often that anyone who raises of solving these problems so kids can go back to school is literally evil

Some part of that was the uncertainty the first time we had to reopen schools due to lack of data, arrogant, union-busting state governors like DeSantis, people like DeVos spreading pseudoscience.

I think it'll start to get more acceptance with many of the measures are adopted. Some families will still opt out and that's fine! Whatever works best

As a teacher, I would add: if the school district has a plan for providing both in-person and online options that does not require the same teacher to teach both classes simultaneously. With hybrid teaching, the quality of the instruction for both in-person and remote students goes way down, and the remote classes are likely to suffer the greatest drop in quality. Since many of the parents who have shown skepticism about returning to in-person are POC who are already at higher risk, a mass switch to hybrid is likely to increase disparities in education, not reduce them. I think.

yeah the evil/nuts part is the skipping of all the safety measures and only emphasizing the "we can reopen schools" part

ep: "i don't know if i am in the other 5%"
story: the gang has real decision dilemma
theme song: schools in (for covid)

My teacher friends all hate the hybrid. For my job, I can't stand doing a mix of in person/virtual. People on the phone can feel excluded even when you use techniques to combat it

I posted a few times about vaccinating teachers on the Canadian politics thread.

We Still Have a Government, Right?: Canadian Politics 2020

Big surprise: I'm a teacher, and I'm in favour.

yeah the evil/nuts part is the skipping of all the safety measures and only emphasizing the "we can reopen schools" part

― superdeep borehole (harbl), Monday, February 8, 2021 12:58 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

right but that's not what's happening in that tweet comrade alphabet posted.

we might be able to solve those problems. it's not prima facie ludicrous. lots of countries have managed it, it's worth talking about given we're the richest country on earth.

people treating it like an insane/evil joke should be forced to read https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/parenting/covid-pandemic-mothers-primal-scream.html twice.

Ron Wright R-TX died of COVID yesterday

unfortunately he was in the House rather than the Senate

Thought he was a little too quiet

Even setting aside the last few years, Wright was a cretin who enjoyed sexually harassing college-age waitresses and bartenders. Rest in hell, bitch.