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Maher nails it as usual. TL;dr: Millenials and GenZ tend to suck at actual important things, but they think they don't, because we've trained them to think they don't. We don't listen to your music because it sucks. Being an influencer is not a great career goal. https://www.thefp.com/p/bill-maher-american-kids-paris-hilton?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this. If you are interested in learning more about luxury beliefs, Rob Henderson has written a lot on the subject. Made a career of it, some might say. So feel free to read skeptically. But it contains some interesting ideas. https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for

Who won the day yesterday? This guy, biznatches$#@! https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/leaderboard/?custom_date_start=1716984000&custom_date_end=1716984000

I am saying that I don't see government services towards it, even though we all agree two parents are best. Also, you can help single parents while still advocating for two parents, but we don't. I proposed fear of racism as a factor. Another is that Marxism opposes the nuclear family. We've seen single parenting increasingly glorified over the past few decades. This glorification is a "luxury belief." Mostly supported by upper middle class to wealthy folks, who themselves are mostly in nuclear families.

Snopes lies with its conclusions often. We just discussed a case yesterday: False? That's partially true, not false.

Leftie Dictionary: Right wing nut job = someone who doesn't hate Trump with the same passion of a thousand burning suns as I do.

I would agree that conservatives are more vocal than they used to be. Two possible reasons come to mind. One, social media and the interwebs have made it much easier. We used to rely mostly on MSM, which always leaned left. There weren't many conservative voices, other than folks like Rush Limbaugh, the original Satan's spawn boogeyman of the Left (the title of which obviously belongs to Trump now). Two, I think we let progressives have too much control, causing too much change too fast, and a "wait, wut?!" reaction from the right. Change CAN be good, but change for change's sake isn't necessarily good. Most normal people can look back on gay marriage and say yeah, nothing wrong with that, I'm glad we worked through that. And besides, it doesn't affect me or society in general. But now we want medically mutilate confused children? (I know, I hate trans people...)? Now we're impacting innocent children. History will not look back kindly at stuff like this. (actually, it probably will, because the Left will write it and they will say "oh well, we meant well!").

Thanks. I agree with this sentiment. Sean seemed to get that I asked about programs, which is more than just saying "pretty sure we can all agree." A program would be an actual commitment, not only of money but of an outward public stance that two parents are better than one. But I googled, and while I see private programs, I don't see any government ones. Why is that, if we all can agree? One reason is that single parents are disproportionately lower income, and more importantly, black, so saying that single parenting is bad would be... what's the word... starts with an R...?

Theory of relativity. If you are on the people mover moving you left, the righties look like they are moving right. That's the point of the meme. I would argue that the entire spectrum has shifted left, just moreso on the far left. My example would be gay marriage, which was opposed by center-left folks like Clinton and Obama. Now I would say most conservatives don't give a rat's ass as well.

Also, haven't folks like Gates, Zuck, and Bezos been advisors on various things to presidents? That being said, any corporate/government relationships should be watched with a wary eye.

I was going to comment on this. Gutter thinks Elon is a "right wing nut job." I imagine Vox told him that. Elon nailed it years ago; anyone right of Marx is a right wing nut job to Lefties like Gutter.

I'll admit that this Katie Phang is not hard on the eyes. Relatively unusual for a progressive woman.

I don't know who you are, but seriously, this is your big win? Snopes once again shows it's a Leftist shill. The "predicate crime" is the entire point. HTH

Interesting, thanks. So would you advocate programs to encourage parents to stay together?

We were never really helicopter parents, except for times with my daughter's diabetes, which I don't count. Interesting that you became helicopter-ish as they got older. Looking back on my childhood, I guess that technically I was maybe a latchkey kid, but I never felt unloved or neglected. My mom was home when we were very young, then went back to work when we were in elementary school. I don't remember details of after-school that young, but I know that from middle school on, I had after school activities (sports, band, scouts) that led into the evening. I have no memory of being home for hours on end alone, tempted to make poor tween/teen decisions.

Being a HS teacher, I would think you have some good insight on this. (the first part, not the second, get over it). I've heard it said that for a kid to be successful, two of the following three need to care: parent(s), teacher, kid. Thoughts?

These jobs were not supposed to be sustainable careers, they are starter jobs, mostly for teens and the poor to build upon. SMH, the road to progressive hell is paved with good intentions.

Judy was a teenager ya fockin perv$#@! alsoacartoon

For those who still don't realize that wikipedia is a leftist hack site for political topics:

Well, this thread went off the rails.

Seems odd that they don't have those written down.

No, that was just the wording that the author used. It specifically addresses medical interventions: And it specifically allows mental health treatment: https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2024/SF0099

Giving credit where credit is due: wiffleball suggested it, and I agreed with the thinking.

Here is the link to the poll discussion in question: https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-indictment-hush-money-poll-b3d9a555993faf22e6ebfaf798bfbd2b I just got it from the earlier link that was posted. According to the article, the same polling company has found about 1/2 of people think Trump is guilty of the classified docs, and Georgia. But not this NY traveshamockery.