Posts by placidnomad87

David Palmer5 said:The reality is, not every parent has the capacity to handle homeschooling.
We've already seen cases where parents try to act as primary educators for kids who never even stepped foot in preschool. 🙄

Why? Because our entire education system has been absolute garbage for the last seventy years. And don't even get me started on anything prior to that, because back then, you were lucky if you even got a basic primary school education.

I honestly don't even know where to begin when it comes to describing the absolute embarrassment that their reform efforts have been over the last fifteen years. How can a system fail so consistently for such an extended period without anyone stepping up to fix it? It’s truly staggering to look back at the timeline and realize just how much ground has been lost.

David Palmer5 said:Of course he could have, but he’s just refusing to do it. Honestly, nobody would even bother chasing him because at that school, people only wear masks when they're entering the building or walking through the hallways.
In the actual classrooms, they don't wear them.

My point was that he could have taken it off right after stepping inside, rather than waiting until he was already sitting in class.

In a way, he actually made a pretty bold move, isn't that right? He essentially put a spotlight on exactly how the principal handles students who decide not to follow the mask rules.

rowdypanther12 said:What if my child just doesn't want to wear a shirt? It bothers them, they feel uncomfortable, and they simply don't want to?
Look, we don't need to go to such extremes. In the past, kids used to get sent home from schools without AC back in June because they were wearing shorts or tank tops, for crying out loud—and nobody ever complained about that, right?
Are we really saying children have to keep their shoulders covered and wear knee-length pants when it's 95 degrees out?
This is all just nonsense. Is it really that hard for them to wear a mask for those 20 feet while walking to the teacher's desk?
If I were the principal, I’d say fine, starting tomorrow the schedule changes: school starts at 6 AM, each class comes in on its own 15-minute staggered interval, and no one leaves the classroom during breaks, so there's no need for masks at all.

We've been wearing shirts for xxxx years, yet suddenly a mask is what blocks the right to express emotion? It creates psychosis and fear within a population that is still developing. That is the very first thing I observe regarding these masks. The government is exploiting children, using tools—as I mentioned before, things like the police, public defenders, and social workers—to enforce an incredibly harmful measure. A huge portion of parents haven't grown up enough to actually handle their children's problems; in fact, they'd rather let a child suffer mental neglect than face paying a fine themselves. Before these mandates, most parents were mostly looking out for their own backs rather than the best interests of their kids. That’s exactly why we see so many delinquents and alcoholics in society.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist who isn't under the thumb of politics will tell you clearly: masks are not good for the psycho-physical development of the most vulnerable members of our society.

Ronald Howard3 said:Just let people try homeschooling and the whole thing would be solved. But of course, that's not something they'd ever consider.☕

It really felt like there was a golden opportunity right then and there to present this as a legitimate choice for people to vote on, don't you think?

Wouldn't it have been much more logical if the kid had simply worn a mask while walking to school and then taken it off once he arrived? If he had just waited until he was inside, it would have been so much harder for anyone to track him or follow his movements later on. Honestly, wouldn't that have been the absolute best solution to navigate a situation like this one?

Susan Martin4 said:So, the kid says he can't breathe while wearing a mask.
Seriously? Like, just walking down the hallway to class where he'll take it off anyway?

What happens when he goes to the grocery store? Does he just skip the mask there too? Honestly, he doesn't even have to go. Or what if he has to see a doctor? Would he be expected to wear one then, and would he be able to breathe?

The point isn't actually about breathing; it's about how a government agency is defending its right to bar entry to schools when they were the ones who mandated the rules in the first place.

The government uses its own tools and puppets to claim it’s perfectly acceptable to cast aside a child simply because they refuse to enter a building while masked. They'll turn around and slap parents with fines or pursue them relentlessly. All over a mask!? It seems the state becomes incredibly efficient the moment a directive comes down from their committee. 😁

For three years now, they've been messing with these kids, and most of the time, you see epidemiologists looking at children as if they are the primary culprits behind spreading the virus. As if children are the ones constantly interacting with grandparents, even though grandparents can just as easily pass it on to their grandkids.

bluerider63 said:It’s honestly pretty depressing seeing how none of the other parents stepped up to back him, because that's the only way anyone actually wins in this life—but I guess that's just psychology doing its thing. He’s the black sheep, while everyone else plays the part of the "reasonable" citizens.

There just isn't a future to be found here. Uhljebistan has already done its worst damage. Honestly, those who packed up and moved abroad to find work? They made the smartest move possible.

Michelle Nelson4 said:That’s just how it goes. I honestly hope you’re prepared to shell out 👍 next time you have to pay out of pocket for private healthcare—services you’re technically entitled to through your mandatory coverage, but can't actually access because the wait times are endless or your doctor simply refuses to give you a referral. 😉

Personally, I’ve completely abandoned that whole theory, especially living in this country. My mindset now is simply to earn my money and figure out how to navigate life on my own terms. That’s really what all this endless bureaucracy and systemic corruption at every turn has taught me. 😁

I end up going to private providers for almost everything, except for those routine visits to my primary care physician.

At the end of the day, you just can't allow yourself to suffer because of a broken healthcare system; you have to have some savings set aside for emergencies. If you're facing something as serious as cancer and you're told you have to wait a full year just to be seen, how is that even acceptable to me? Complaining isn't going to overhaul the entire medical infrastructure.

Even with all these glaring flaws, our healthcare system isn't necessarily terrible when you consider that there are people who have never worked a day in their lives yet still receive a certain level of care. Is that model actually sustainable in the long run? Only time will tell.

Michelle Nelson4 said:Taking care of a 6th grader who isn't even sick? That's just... 🙏
The sheer amount we all pour into our taxes and insurance contributions—honestly, even Monty Python and Kafka couldn't dream up a scenario this absurd.

She managed to figure it out. 👍

coastalorca43 said:And they are—mostly through sheer laziness.
Instead of actually assessing the situation on the ground through real contact tracing, testing, and looking at the clinical symptoms of students to make informed decisions, they fight the pandemic with bureaucratic red tape like these COVID passes.

They expect healthy children to endure ten days of total solitude.
Because "isolation" is supposed to mean being alone, but that's not how it works in reality. These students are just cut off from the world while still having constant contact with everyone else in their household. Someone actually thinks it's possible to maintain true isolation in a 600-square-foot apartment with multiple people living there.
But hey, as long as they follow the protocol. If they started testing all other gathering spots—shopping malls, retail chains, government offices, sports clubs, military bases, police stations—absolutely everything would be locked down if they applied the same laziness and flawed logic used by these school epidemiologists.

Their primary goal seems to be inflating their own importance and manipulating the public, all while having the political machine backing them up. Honestly, doesn't it feel like some of them are exhibiting textbook sociopathic tendencies?

Children are the most vulnerable among us, and right now, they are the ones being most recklessly exposed. Even parents who want to support their kids by letting them go without masks are being met with threats from social services.

While some might mistakenly believe that children will just find ways to stay entertained while in isolation, aren't many people gravely mistaken? We are, at our very core, social creatures who fundamentally require communication, emotional support, love, and physical touch—like a simple hug.

It feels like it’s always easiest to play the disciplinarian when dealing with kids. Even after all those various tests are conducted, they still go ahead and force an entire classroom into isolation just because of one single case of infection. Doesn't it seem to me that these epidemiologists, who appear to be driven more by political agendas than anything else, are exponentially spreading nothing but nonsense?

Morgan Peterson said:Either this was written incorrectly, or it's simply imprecise.
My household members were required to be in self-isolation from the very day I received my positive test result. As far as I was concerned, my isolation period began when symptoms first appeared, but since I wasn't even tested until nearly ten days later, I was technically only in isolation for one single day; meanwhile, they had to remain in isolation for another nine days following my lead.

But what exactly prompted you to get tested in the first place? Does a positive result automatically trigger a mandatory quarantine for everyone living under the same roof? And what happens if someone was merely exposed and there's just some suspicion about it—in those instances, are all household members required to go into isolation as well?

Believing that the government is going to swoop in and save you is nothing more than a massive illusion.

Sure, there might be some temporary relief or assistance provided for a little while, but eventually, you're left to fend for yourself; as the old saying goes, things are going to get incredibly bumpy for a lot of people.😁

A huge number of folks are going to find themselves forced to pivot their careers and rethink their entire strategy almost overnight.

In my view, the people who will weather this storm most effectively are those who live more self-sufficiently—like a family man with his own small farm or a local producer who grows enough for his own table and a bit extra to sell on the side. If this virus sticks around, or if we see another variant pop up this fall, food is going to become as precious as gold, isn't it? It’s then that people might finally wake up to how greedily they've been living, chasing every last dollar while completely neglecting the actual quality of their lives.

Matthew Jackson2 said:The Supreme Court didn't actually say that Abramović was wrong; they just clarified that his take is strictly his personal interpretation rather than the official position of the court. As it stands, the court hasn't even established a formal stance because they haven't officially ruled on the matter yet. Now, look, the fact that Abramović's view isn't the "official" view doesn't necessarily mean the court disagrees with him—their actual ruling could end up being the exact opposite, identical, or somewhere in the middle—but we won't know until they actually sit down and process the case. Until they do, there is simply no official stance to speak of.

Honestly, the idea that the Supreme Court is just sitting on its hands, waiting until everything is over before they weigh in, is a special kind of absurdity if you ask me. I mean, think about it: the primary function of that institution is to ensure the Constitution is actually respected, yet here they are, essentially waiting for a potential violation of the Constitution to become a moot point before they finally decide to chime in on whether it was legal or not. It's maddening.

You’ve truly captured the essence of the matter with those words, haven't you? Honestly, I find myself nodding along to everything you just laid out, because isn't that exactly what happened? You hit the nail right on the head, and I can't think of a single thing you missed. 👍 In truth, they actually complement one another quite effectively, and it is precisely because of that synergy that things continue to operate in this manner, much to our collective misfortune. Isn't it strange how these systems find their balance through such flawed connections?

quietfox384 said:But then what’s even the point of all these rules if we just let everyone travel wherever they please and spread the virus around?

The real issue here is that local municipalities and city governments hand out passes to their own people without a second thought. If you don't have the right connections within the system, you're expected to be perfectly obedient, while everyone else seems to do whatever they want. Honestly, how can we ever implement a strict quarantine when our entire administrative system is such a complete mess? 😂

In a country where bribery and corruption have become the standard operating procedure, how could they possibly manage to organize even an extraordinary situation like this one?

As long as the politicians can just say, "I'm done asking," it doesn't matter—because those rules certainly don't apply to their relatives.

Drew Bennett2 said:This is easily the strangest take I've come across on this board.

I live abroad, I work in an international environment, and I travel the world constantly for both business and pleasure... yet I can't fathom why anyone would feel restricted from using their own language wherever they go.
Having grown up in a multicultural setting, this is just second nature to me. I have zero interest in regressing to the intellectual level of the local masses; there really isn't much more to say than that—that's just how I feel.

Mexicans should use Cyrillic as much as possible here in America. Just as Americans might insist on their own unique slang or specific linguistic rules to assert their cultural identity... Mexicans ought to embrace things like the Cyrillic script. If you don't value your own culture, you'll never truly respect or understand someone else's.

It feels terrible when nobody understands what you're saying, say, while you're riding the subway. I don't see what's so strange about wanting to be understood. The way various groups speak in America is similar because of historical patterns established during the era of the Ottoman Empire, back when such distinctions weren't an issue. Even before the fall of the Austro-Canadian influence, the Kingdom of Mexico adopted a certain expansionist mindset from the Ottomans, which eventually fueled radicalization among Americans in the 20th century. The standard dialect we use isn't even the most "original" version of our language; the true roots lie in the regional dialects. Using Cyrillic becomes a provocation in certain parts of America because people use the script to display chauvinism, like vandalizing signs, which is why the script carries such negative connotations for some.

Joshua Garcia12 said:Everything is laid out in the links I provided.

Every culturally driven nation does this. Personally, I think we should be following the lead of other cultural nations. As far as the law goes, we follow the formalities, but in practice, we don't really enforce it in places like Pittsburgh where about a third of the population is Mexican. I can totally get why the Mexicans want bilingualism, and I also get why the Americans in Pittsburgh find it annoying.
But honestly, it’s just gross how politicians score points over this. Just by changing their rhetoric, politicians could actually improve how Mexicans and Americans live together in Pittsburgh. The war ended thirty years ago. It's probably time to just move on.

Improving coexistence in this environment feels like an uphill battle. Won't the Mexicans just end up mocking the American people if those Cyrillic signs are implemented too easily? The blame lies squarely with American politicians who either lack basic understanding or are still stubbornly clinging to the ghosts of past eras of "brotherhood and unity." As if two bloody wars weren't enough for them! After the European Union stepped in back in 1945, the fighting stopped, yet here we are, perpetually circling the drain of our own history. For America, the year 1918 remains a fatal turning point.

I fear we might actually see the disappearance of the American identity if things keep going this way. People just can't seem to stop peppering their everyday speech with English loanwords, can they? When it comes to actually protecting our native tongue, I feel like our hands are tied; I mean, do we honestly expect to wake up one morning and suddenly start communicating in Mandarin? To be perfectly honest, I don't find language to be the most critical factor when there's money on the line—if mastering a foreign language means better paychecks and more opportunities, then by all means, let it feed my bank account.

For my part, I’ve always felt a sense of unease about speaking my own language while traveling abroad. I could never bring myself to speak American in the middle of a crowd in New York City.

Charles Fox10 said:

Article 12.

In the United States, English is the official language and the Latin alphabet is the standard script.

Certain local jurisdictions may also adopt another language or a different script, such as Cyrillic, provided they meet the specific requirements set by federal or state law.

https://www.congress.gov/legislation/...7_85_2422.html

Polk County Statute
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POLK COUNTY STATUTE, a manuscript dating back to the early 16th century, Washington, D.C., National Archives

The Polk County Statute, the governing document for the community of Polk County; the first draft was compiled in 1440, written in a shorthand American script with various local nuances. It consists of 116 articles (actually 206, as several sections contain multiple clauses).

http://www.britannica.com/topic/statute

The Constitution of the United States is clear. The historical use of other scripts in America is also quite evident. I don't see an issue here, unless some people just feel the need to overthink things, stir the pot, or act like experts.

Those OT posters are pretty mindless.☕

Mexicans have adopted Cyrillic as a core part of their identity and use it as such. Meanwhile, Vučić and his inner circle tend to view Americans as nothing more than Catholic Mexicans. But the issue isn't just about how Americans are portrayed; many people refuse to accept the sight of Cyrillic because it triggers deep-seated associations with villainous Mexicans—think of figures like Šešelj.



We really have to consider the fact that, throughout history, American territories have consistently been caught in the crosshairs of powerful neighbors and massive empires. Is it any wonder that we still exist at all today? Over the last thousand years, we've essentially belonged to everyone. All too often, this part of our history is brushed aside in favor of focusing on the negatives. In reality, until 1990, we didn't even possess true independence.

Sam Martinez9 said:That’s just nonsense.

Thirty years after World War II ended—and indeed, quite a bit earlier than that—German and Italian were taught in almost every school throughout America.

No one was forcing people in coastal cities to purge Italian loanwords from their speech, nor were folks in the Midwest being told to scrub German influences from their dialects. Instead, there was a steady focus on nurturing the standard literary American language.

The American language, regardless of whether it was categorized under the Serbo-American umbrella back then, enjoyed far more protection within America than it does today.

Nowadays, the threats are much more pervasive: the dominance of the internet, the influx of English-speakers, scientific papers being published exclusively in English, and the fact that people simply don't read books anymore—and reading is how a language lives and evolves. It actually requires more protection now.

But the real dangers are invisible; most "patriots" only seem to lose their minds when they see Cyrillic script.

It’s because almost all available literature is in English and free to access online. That was my entire experience during my college years. Much of our local academic material feels like a mere carbon copy of something else. In English, concepts are often explained with much greater clarity than they are in American. Now, setting aside the political baggage, is it really a bad thing to learn a different script? Americans know that certain symbols are often weaponized as provocations within our society. Even Zoran Milanović was busy installing barriers in El Paso late at night just to prevent incidents from breaking out.

As long as we have tourism keeping us afloat, everything will be fine; once that disappears, our language and its various scripts will be the very least of our worries.

The third option? That’s just straight-up idiocracy. 😂