Is the world burning?

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https://mobile.twitter.com/elivalley/status/1270412031502569478

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https://twitter.com/ELBINAWI/status/1270800764240265216

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

[Ghoul]

https://twitter.com/nascar/status/1270819350644211719

Damn.

[Madrun Badrun]

Hillbillies can't catch a break - when one goes flying into the crowd.

[Tuckers Law]

This was just the kind of break that funny cars and monster truck rallies needed to increase their fanbases.

Also: odds on this not actually being enforced by the various Nascar-heavy stadiums?

[shosta]

Justice June hitting NASCAR

[Stoney Mason]

Boy talk about a second civil war. A certain type of person is about to go apeshit over taking away the beloved confederate flag.

[Positive Touch]

man this confrontation is looooooong overdue. the hillbilly tears are gonna be so fucking glorious tho


even still i can't help but feel real uneasy about all this. all these hardline corporate positions are getting moved just like that? i don't trust it.

[Tuckers Law]

Won’t be long until Trump’s on twitter complaining about how this infringes the 1st amendment rights of many fine americans.

[Ghoul]

Amazon pausing the use of their facial recognition system to police...

Fucking finally, only for a year, but they should have never started selling that data to begin with.

[Uncle]

Amazon pausing the use of their facial recognition system to police...

Fucking finally, only for a year, but they should have never started selling that data to begin with.

can't stop Clearview AI though, they're completely unscrupulous and just shrug and let anyone use it

the ACLU just sued them though

[shosta]

I think this is like Michael from The Office except it's "I... declare... order!!!!!"

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1270933058145923072

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1270752897899229184

[OnlyRegret]

sure is fun at capitol hill

https://twitter.com/RHGR/status/1270814875200245760

[shosta]

[BIONIC]

Can’t wait for Big Dick Daddy riotous to show them who’s boss 

[recursivelyenumerable]

sure is fun at capitol hill

https://twitter.com/RHGR/status/1270814875200245760

I sorta know this guy, lol

[naff]

Raz or the twitter dude?

[naff]

the video i saw was more like this guy was talking to this kid then smacks the camera out his hand. HES A WARLORD.

it's like when i saw people outraged over these extremely violent proud bois v antifa fights. turned out it was little more than 2 neckbeards slapping eachother (while a lot of ppl yelled at eachother).

[recursivelyenumerable]

Raz and I were regulars at a bar in the area

[naff]

4:50

bystander *something indistinguishable*

bystander 2 / camera man? : "omg my partner would love that he's a furry"

speaker 1: "omg i've been told i am!"

alright, show's over. they're taking over the streets. bring in the national guard.

[Nintex]

Sounds like the US is falling apart and needs some UN peacekeepers to restore order 

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seriously venezuela, iraq etc should put forward such a UN resolution for shits and giggles

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[Positive Touch]

lmao who is running to the internet to snitch on this dude and put his name out everywhere

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why don't we have a karen emote

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[BisMarckie]

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why don't we have a karen emote

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: karen

[Akala]

we need the karen cut on 

[headwalk]

is there enough room in those six blocks to provide accomodation for the entire population of resetera, who will no doubt be flooding there in droves to see their utopia bloom into greatness?

[Madrun Badrun]

[Madrun Badrun]

[Joe Molotov]

[Flannel Boy]

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The United States spends about $14,000 per student, which is a lot more than the OCED average.

[Madrun Badrun]

But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money. 

[Flannel Boy]

But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money.

Has nothing to do with the point of the comic.

[bork]

Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologized on Tuesday and deleted from its Twitter account an animated video aimed at explaining the background behind U.S. protests for police reform, but which instead sparked online outrage for its depiction of African Americans.

The 1:21 minute clip, which NHK had also broadcast on its Sunday evening program "Sekai no Ima" ("The World Now"), featured a tough-talking black narrator citing the wealth disparity between black and white Americans and the economic impact from the coronavirus.

But it made no mention of police brutality or the death of George Floyd, a black man who died on May 25 after being pinned by the neck for nine minutes by a white officer's knee, which sparked the latest protests.

In the clip, the narrator's bodybuilder-like muscles were bursting out of a white tank top, while other African-American characters included a man with an afro and mutton chop sideburns, and a muscular man in a sleeveless purple suit, fedora-style hat and sandals strumming a guitar.

"While we understand @NHK's intent to address complex racial issues in the United States, it's unfortunate that more thought and care didn't go into this video," the interim head of the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, Joseph M. Young, said on Twitter. "The caricatures used are offensive and insensitive."

NHK said it had decided to take down the tweet after receiving a lot of criticism and that it had posted the video with a "lack of consideration".

"We apologize to those who were made to feel uncomfortable," the broadcaster said on Twitter.

The video had been viewed more than one million times as of midday Tuesday on the programme's @nhk_sekaima Twitter account.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka retweeted the video with a GIF expressing bewilderment.

"This is awful. I'm embarrassed to say I'm Japanese when I see this," tweeted another user, @emiliharatatani. "Do you know what is happening in America now?!"

@CheetosOnToast called it "racist" and "discriminatory".

Baye McNeil, a Japan-based African-American author and activist, said the clip showed the need for local broadcasters to educate themselves.

"Any child who looks at that video will walk away from it feeling, 'Yeah, maybe these people have been treated unfairly... but they're big and awful and scary!'" he told Reuters before the video was removed. "How can they (NHK) think people are going to be sympathetic to the people being oppressed after watching that video?"

[Mandark]

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The United States spends about $14,000 per student, which is a lot more than the OCED average.

That's mostly just the US having higher GDP per capita + Baumol's cost disease.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1271062068238651392

 

Wow so easy to beat up defenseless people with no weapons

[Positive Touch]

But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money.

Has nothing to do with the point of the comic.

chicago closed down like 50 schools and gave the police budget a gigantic boost

[CatsCatsCats]

American schools also provide like a million societal functions they shouldn’t like feeding poor kids

[shosta]

I went down the street to the highschool to caucus and I was shocked to see that the boys' bathroom had something like a metal pan bolted to the wall for a makeshift sink, no mirrors, and broken tiling in places. Felt like I was in a third world country. The teachers are so underpaid they went on strike last year. The sister of someone I was dating is a teacher here and told me some of the conditions they had to put up with and I was kind flabbergasted because my highschool experience ten years ago was way better than that in retrospect. There are a lot of underfunded schools in this country.

[Joe Molotov]

American schools also provide like a million societal functions they shouldn’t like feeding poor kids

Our local school has been doing summer food programs for the past few years (also during the pandemic), because there are kids that basically don't eat when school's not in session.

[Flannel Boy]

But that says nothing about how that is distributed or the efficiency of that money.

Has nothing to do with the point of the comic.

chicago closed down like 50 schools and gave the police budget a gigantic boost

Are boards not supposed to close schools when enrollment decreases significantly? A decade ago there were 407,000 students enrolled in the Chicago board and now there are 361,314.

And despite decreasing enrollment, the budget is still going up. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/8/28/20837745/school-board-oks-7-7-billion-budget-largest-in-history It's not an either or.

[Mandark]

Universal free breakfast and lunch at public schools (with programs extending that into the summer) would be cool.

"school lunch debt" gtfo

[Flannel Boy]

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The United States spends about $14,000 per student, which is a lot more than the OCED average.

That's mostly just the US having higher GDP per capita + Baumol's cost disease.

You're right, but if you factor in GDP, it still puts the US at the OECD average. Sixth highest GDP per capita, 5th most spent per student. 

[shosta]

Have you ever been to an American primary or secondary school? Real question.

[Positive Touch]

right because good lord this money is not being spent on students, teachers, or materials that's for damn sure

[Flannel Boy]

Have you ever been to an American primary or secondary school? Real question.

I rejected the premise of the comic: that schools are underfunded or closing because the money is going to pay the police. A) The US spends less on police than the EU when GDP is factored. B) The US spends at least as much as OECD countries on education per student when GDP is taken into account.

At no time, however, did I say many US schools aren't shit.

To answer your question: no. 

[shosta]

well I'm glad we agree, the US should reprioritize schools over police departments

[Tuckers Law]

Not a fan of “actually” arguments when it comes to an overcrowded school system having to do more with less in the face of ballooning budgets for police municipalities filled with FPS dougs wanting to larp at war while on the job.

[Positive Touch]

hello i am a pedant and i have come to save you from your tired bickering

[Flannel Boy]

God forbid that you have to show that the premises upon which your arguments are based are actually true.

[ToxicAdam]

I think you're being unfair to malek, but he's expecting nuance out of a comic strip. So, I don't know if I can defend him totally.

Anyways, my limited perspective about  schools in America is that they prioritize learning tools over teachers/building maintenance. Then the teachers/administrators feel compelled to fill out budgets every year with marginally useful materials in order to keep those budgets maintained. There's a lot of waste because of this.  They'd rather spend 100k on smartboards or other tech instead of hiring a new teacher or upgrading a facility.

But that's my tiny perspective in a system that has 10000 different districts and 50 different states all pulling in different directions. It makes it hard to generalize when youre talking about this frankenstein of a system that has been created over the past 70+ years.

[Tuckers Law]

I’m not trying to be a dick about it, it’s just something rather personal for me considering there was a couple years in elementary(primary) school where I relied on those free lunches.  My takeaway from the comic is a general “police get money to police troublemakers, some who might be troublemakers because their schooling needs weren’t attended to in a push to ‘save money’.  Maybe if schools have more to support their kids, less of those kids will decide that crime is their best option to make it, and police wouldn’t feel like they need more to do their job.”

[Tuckers Law]

Apologies to Flannel for the snark, and apologies to everyone for the care post. 

[ToxicAdam]

My wife is a public school teacher and while she easily spends 400-500 OOP for her classroom, it's usually related to special events and incentives for the kids. She's not reaching into her pocket to buy general supplies.  Also, the Government realizes this and offers a 250 tax credit to all educators to cover some of this. It should be 4x that.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/JamesQueallyLAT/status/1271164039238782978

[CatsCatsCats]

American schools also provide like a million societal functions they shouldn’t like feeding poor kids

 schools are as much childcare institutions as vehicles for education so we might as well just make them actually good at that function also.

I’m all for it, no one else doing it. Just saying it’s not fair to compare what we spend on schools per student when our schools are responsible for much more than schooling in their communities

[Uncle]

Anyways, my limited perspective about  schools in America is that they prioritize learning tools over teachers/building maintenance. Then the teachers/administrators feel compelled to fill out budgets every year with marginally useful materials in order to keep those budgets maintained. There's a lot of waste because of this.  They'd rather spend 100k on smartboards or other tech instead of hiring a new teacher or upgrading a facility.

yeah, some of this isn't even under control of the school or the school system, just moronic budgetary/bureaucratic realities

you have ten money buckets and you can't take money out of the widgets bucket and put it into the staffing bucket, instead you have to spend all of the money in the widgets bucket otherwise you've proven that you will never need that much widget money in the future, likewise for every other budget

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America:


Justice system: Fucked
Education system: Fucked
Healthcare system: Fucked
Voting system: Fucked
Legislative system: Fucked
Economic/Banking system: Fucked

gaming system: 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1271164619214766080