Anarchists are not intellectual to put it mildly

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TRAP CARD ACTIVATED

No, but seriously, anon, you need to look into what's going on in his classroom because he's probably being taught this trash method instead of phonics. He does not know how to slow down and sound things out because his school has never taught him that. When you tell him to do this, he has no context for what you're even talking about.

This has come up repeatedly here, and I don't have time to froth at the mouth today, but look up "whole language".

This podcast made waves a few years ago when all the lockdown parents discovered, to their horror, that their kiddos weren't being taught to read in the NORMAL FUCKING WAY WE'VE USED FOR LITERALLY CENTURIES and were instead being taught a fake-ass method backed by vibes and antivax-levels of pseudoscience.

Healthcare costs the US $5 trillion annually, social services $1.8 trillion.

The US spends $954 billion annually on its military, it spends $3.8 billion on Israel, spent $195 billion on the Ukraine, and approved $600 billion on it this year.

Even if we were to cut off all foreign spending, and cut ties, the US would still be accruing more debt, because it was never foreign spending that was the driver of the debt, ever increasing domestic spending is.

Now, people will screech that Trump should stop it, yet they don't realize the President doesn't hold the same power he does on the international stage at home, he is subject to the states, if they don't work with him, he can't reverse anything, short of conflict.

You want change? Stop voting in Democrats, and those who, at every moment, work against Trump.

So, if you call the police, you would never say, "come quick, a man broke into my house and I shot him," instead you say, "come quick, a man broke into my house and he's been shot."

Every call to emergency services is recorded and is admissible in court.

There’s a pretty good chance that even if you shoot someone and it’s legally justifiable, that you will still be arrested. If your state is bad on self defense or gun laws your chance of being arrested goes up significantly.

The fifth amendment is your friend, refuse to answer questions without a lawyer present. You can easily talk your way into being arrested, but you likely won’t talk your way out of being arrested. So, shut up.

Fandom Problem #15,872:

it's not a ban book 🫩

it's only "ban" because of public buildings not wanting it

but if you can still buy it with your own money and keep it

Writer wants to show how much everyone loves them by having them grieve the character.

Writer wants to show how important that character was to the plot by showing how much their death would change

Writer wants to lament how little importance they have in canon by showing how little their death would change, and yet love was still there etc.

Writer wants to lament how little importance they have in canon and invents a ton of reasons why their death would change canon beyond return even though it's unlikely it would have happened that way.

Writer isn't sure to do justice to their canon writing and prefers to kill them off so they're this unattainable ideal that they do not have to actually write.

Writer knew there was no way this character to whose glory they have written 150 drabbles would be suspected by the readers so they had them murdered at the beginning of the crimefic to throw off their readers.

Writer knew that objectively if someone was to die it was their fave because they have enemies / wouldn't kill someone else so can't be suspect / allows to explore what could bring another character to kill this well liked character.

Writer is sick of the fandom putting that character on a pedestal but they themself are pretty neutral about 'em so they just kill 'em off at the beginning of the fic to not add to the number of people who wrote about 'em.

Writer realised too late that there wouldn't be enough place in the plot for every character so let's kill one that probably no one will miss except a couple hardcore fans.

Writer can't afford so many characters but in this specific setting The Character they're least interested in writing wouldn't be absent unless forcibly removed first and by forcibly removed we mean murdered.

Writer is actually doing an homage to another story where the equivalent of that character is dead or has to die

Writer is feeling petty that day but holds no real inimity to that character

Writer is killing that particular one off just to torture one of their mutuals who loves that character.

the plot needed someone to die and they did a PickWheel about it

The plot demanded someone make a difficult choice and the character was the only one who could do so without it being OOC and the writer wants to do them justice because they love the character so much, so character has to die.

no other ending works

this character's death works best as the foreshadowing the writer needs

"crowning moment of awesome" meeting "crowning moment of funny" even though the character in question cannot even punch properly

character development

character development of another character

The point in the first post about ideology being seen as more important than people now is also dead-on. I looked up an old friend of mine today and found her ranting about climate change and systemic racism and all the other mandatory woke talking points. She never once mentioned any of those things to me when we used to hang out, 10 years or more ago, but going off the fervor she was displaying, it would likely be unthinkable to her now to even meet someone who thinks all of that is gobbledygook, let alone enjoy living life beside just chilling out.