i think of myself as a pragmatic anarchist (though sometimes the pragmatist wins out -- ) so it's an issue, of how to set up a system where people have agency to resist oppressive structures without allowing rich and powerful douchebags to take advantage of the system for their douchey ends.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
The fact that, over here, the supporters of the free school system tend to be hideous right wing ideologues is a bit of a clue.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
*sigh* yeah ... we have a similar issue w/r/t live/work housing.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
just to be clear -- i think the quote above suggests that charter schools mostly exist to serve nonwhite communities. compared to the 12 percent of predominately white charter schools "30 percent of traditional schools were predominantly white"
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
remy from that neatoday article: "While only 4 percent of traditional public schools have student bodies that are 99 percent minority (2014-15 school year data), 17 percent of charter schools are 99 percent minority. Furthermore, of the 6,747 charter schools in the country, more than 1,000 had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent." bc we're talking about charter schools we're talking about segregation of nonwhite student populations by choice. this is hardly the same thing as white segregation to "protect" white kids from minorities.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
Should we do the same thing with waiting rooms and water fountains if people are opting in?
― remy bean, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
im kind of ok about segregation on group basis from non-majority populations (i mean i personally went to a state catholic school in scotland, where the introduction of such schools in the early 20th century was vehemently opposed by political protestantism with the slogan "No Rome on the rates!") but the other forms of "social selectivity" which in some cases comes along with the free or charter school model as it exists in Sweden, England and the U.S. is pretty sus' imo
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
For real –– I don't mean to be zingy. But, I mean,. urban public schools often suck and are unfair and ESPECIALLY terrible at teaching non-white students. And they're actually trying to fix things. Even if it's bureaucratically difficult. Unhappy, nad aware of these issues, parents of non-white students respond to enticements to bring their students to charters that frequently practice extreme discipline practices, skirt teaching regulations, exploit their labor force and chronically underserve students needing special education. Often these schools are white-owned, for-profit entities. At best this is a profiteering dodge of the real issue; at worst it's resegregation.
― remy bean, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
i'm sure there are waiting rooms and water fountains with extremely segregated clienteles and i don't believe we should forcibly desegregate them
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
"this water fountain in a 99% black community is used 99% by black water drinkers and is reifying segregation we must bus in white water drinkers and bus out black water drinkers to other water fountains to achieve equality" i mean c'mon
You realize this an argument in favor of Jim Crow laws, right?
― remy bean, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
no it really isn't related at all
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
Wish this was all in a different thread at this point
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
truth bungs
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
Charter schools in the United States
made yall a thread
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link
very US Politics-centric but:
---Never believe a sentence that contains the words "Schumer" and "insist."
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, December 7, 2018 12:22 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 7 December 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
I don't discuss my personal life or problems online
tbf half of ilm is people doing exactly this, they're just couching it in language that makes it look like they're commenting on popular music
― mh, Thursday, March 14, 2019 3:25 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― macropuente (map), Friday, 15 March 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
most bands don't have one good song
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
― sleeve, Friday, 5 July 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
"sapiosexual" as a concept is such a gigantic crock of shit and I will continue to hold this opinion until someone shows me a sapiosexual group full of dudes going "you know, Stephen Hawking could get it"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:02 (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
what is the opposite of sapiosexual? i am only sexually attracted to absolute fucking dumbasses— a a dril (@demarionunn) September 20, 2019
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
etymologically "sapio" is more "wisdom" than "intelligence" so if anything you should be into like Tibetan lamas or something
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
haha that's a coincidence, i was just talking about alternative sexualities with one of my co-workers at lunch and she brought up "sapiosexual" and i immediately without thinking said "that's not a sexual orientation, that's something assholes say to make themselves sound clever"
i try not to be rude in general but i guess i was already on my high horse when the topic came up
― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 September 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
It would be, at most, a very specific fetish, right? If you couldn't get off if someone *wasn't* actively being smart at you?
― vcrash, Saturday, 21 September 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
Saying "I like smart people" is no more deep or revealing, and is no more indicative of a "sexual orientation", than saying "I like pretty people". Yeah I am attracted to people who are beautiful and smart and rich, I AM SUCH A REBEL AGAINST SOCIETY
― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Saturday, 21 September 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
I like people who make my ding a ling go bing
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 September 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
I like people who like me
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 September 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
^^^ truth bomb
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Sunday, 22 September 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
Seconded
― Our Borad Could Be Your Trife (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 September 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
Wow
I'm extremely suspicious of people who like me
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 22 September 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
― sarahell
that's a good system!
― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Sunday, 22 September 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Oh I mean, I don’t necessarily BELIEVE they actually like me but I like them
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Sunday, 22 September 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Their kink is blowing pseudo-intellectual smoke up each other's asses.— Matthew Olken (@MattOlken) September 20, 2019
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 22 September 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
That's hot
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 22 September 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
i have questions about this ... like ... do they just blow with their mouths directly or do they use devices or ...?
― sarahell, Sunday, 22 September 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
is the blower on top of or beneath the blowee?
― sarahell, Sunday, 22 September 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Depends how intelligent they are, naturally
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 22 September 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
vapiosexual
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, 22 September 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
^^ winner!!!
― sarahell, Sunday, 22 September 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 September 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
kicking myself after realizing I forgot to post after something I watched recently had a scene where a character referred to a female friend as "annoying" and the context was pretty obvious
like uh, yeah man, annoying
― mh, Monday, 23 September 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
lil wayne is annoying
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 September 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
one of the funniest anti drug ideas is that dealers are trying really hard to sell people drugs
― lag∞n, Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:48 PM bookmarkflaglink
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
lmao
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 September 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
build a better mouse trap etc
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Friday, 27 September 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
God that is a truth bomb and a half
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 September 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
is this thread gonna be like the other political threads where DJP and I try to save you straight white dudes from your howlings of doom
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, September 27, 2019 10:34 AM bookmarkflaglink
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
RIP DJP and ALS in a tragic self-bombing incident; howling in my beer here
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
journos shouting hype almost always translates to them being late to the party, and being convinced that if a band could get attention without them noticing, they must have been bamboozled by nefarious means
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:58 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
You don't understand - Bamboozled By Nefarious Means is the name of my band
― kinder, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
why'd you name yourself after that shitty frank zappa song
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link