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jacob2484··on NYC Scrapping Gifted and Talented Program Is a Triumph of Redefining Language
This country needs a lot more talented & gifted students to excel and if we are to compete with China and others. Instead, now a lot of these NYC school kids will instead be waiting while the teacher calms down the trouble-makers/unmotivated kids instead of behind challenged further academically. Like you said, it's leftist progressive dogma. To what extent can the incoming mayor reverse this?
jacob2484··on France grants citizenship to 12,000 Covid frontline workers
Are you offering to volunteer your place to live? A lot of things, like slavery and public beheadings were done 400 years ago, which aren't done today. Any other arguments you can provide to make your case rather than revisionist history?

You asked a question, I tried to provide an answer to it which is reflective of the common viewpoint.

jacob2484··on France grants citizenship to 12,000 Covid frontline workers
Who will pay for all the social services required? The existing tax paying citizen via increases taxes and lowered standard of living. We already have a shortage of housing, overcrowding in schools & major budget deficits. No, open borders are not the answer - no country has/allows them because of the reasons above.
jacob2484··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
^this
jacob2484··on Bosses turn to ‘tattleware’ to keep tabs on employees working from home
Can you paraphrase it?
jacob2484··on 65k fake students applied for financial aid in wide community college scam
Why should tax payers have to pay for many degrees that are worthless (undergraduate + graduate)?
jacob2484··on Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South
And yet people continue to move to the South and out of liberal disasters where it's all tax, tax, tax and waste money.
jacob2484··on Veterans push for medical marijuana in conservative South
Baby boomers did better than their parents in general
jacob2484··on Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
I was more than fine with the steps taken in Afghanistan after 9/11. Iraq, not so much.

How quickly a generation forgets the horrors of 9/11.

jacob2484··on Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
He would have done in a more controlled manner, and slow down if necessary - not let it get to this point where it's a total takeover by the Taliban while Biden is vacationing.

He was also the first president in 40 years to NOT start a war.

jacob2484··on Evictions are about to restart as tenants wait on billions in unspent rental aid
Billions of dollars allocated for rental relief is tied up in state capitals. One can count on the government to demonstrate inefficiency.
jacob2484··on Rep. Takano Introduces Legislation to Reduce the Standard Workweek to 32 Hours
Why 32? Why not 22? Why not 10? What's the reasoning here.
jacob2484··on U.S. Sees Ongoing Spike in Gun, Ammo Sales: 'I've Never Seen Anything Like It'
Why is the above being downvoted? It's very likely a contributing factor to rise in un sales.
jacob2484··on Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect
Yet another "feel good" policy pushed for by rich progressives in California which makes them sleep better while hurting the lower and middle class.
jacob2484··on As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”
How much woke virtue signaling can one take? Even Bill Maher agrees.
jacob2484··on Colorado is paying social media influencers to tout Covid-19 vaccines
Yay large government budgets.... aided by billions given to states via the stimulus. Meanwhile, inflation
jacob2484··on Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim
Please call out these companies by name
jacob2484··on Ad men sacked to improve gender pay gap win sex discrimination claim
It'd be good if such companies were identified and called out for it.
jacob2484··on Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
Something is either being censored or it's not. Regardless of the issue, I'll side with the side that is not censoring information.
jacob2484··on Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
The people on the "right side of history" are usually fighting for freedom and liberty, not censorship and re-education camps
jacob2484··on Netanyahu urged Trump to strike Iran after losing presidency
Trump - first president in over 40 years to NOT start a war.
jacob2484··on Google Fires VP over Bizarre Anti-Anti-Semitic Rant
"I am in no way advocating that employees should be allowed to post or disseminate any sort of hate speech" -> you want freedom of expression yet support what others will claim as "hate speech". If hate speech is something that someone disagrees is with or is slightly offended, then there's no freedom of expression.
jacob2484··on Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits
Same here - you've paid for other to have this privilege. There is no free lunch.
jacob2484··on Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits
This is not a good thing. The government (funded by tax payers who work and produce) is paying people while they are not producing to the economy. Someone pays for this, through taxes and lowered value of the dollar/purchase power for those who do work. There is no free lunch.

Also - you say 2 million is OK... what if it were 20 mil, 200 mil who got paid while not working. Who would pay for this?

jacob2484··on Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations
If your kids stay out of trouble, they won't be interacting much with them. These people literally put their lives on the line for public safety.
jacob2484··on Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations
You can just plead the 5th and the lawyer will do the lying for you
jacob2484··on California approves $35M plan for nation's first state-funded UBI
You'll Own Nothing And Be Happy About It
jacob2484··on 30 Years in Hong Kong
LeBron James criticized for saying Rockets GM 'misinformed' on Hong Kong "It's sad to see him join the chorus kowtowing to Community China & putting profits over human rights for #HongKong," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tweeted.

Profits first

jacob2484··on Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest
NY Times is not a platform
jacob2484··on Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest
She also very strongly condemned what happened on Jan 6 and blamed Trump for it. She's right on both fronts.
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