Response seeks to discredit Washington Post story that four generals and admirals advised against prolonging Iran war
  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    13 days ago

    Their focus on the left’s hatred of the right is such a frustrating argument. Their policies are entirely based on dishonesty and manipulation of people and real violence against people that don’t deserve it. Yeah, I hate that, but it’s not unreasonable. It’s also not my identity like they seem to imply.

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        13 days ago

        This story I insane.

        For more than seven years, 10,000 public school students — almost entirely children of color — in the East Ramapo Central School District just 40 miles north of New York City have had lead in their school water fountains.

        In 2005 the area’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish majority — whose children almost entirely attend private yeshivas — organized and won control of the school board. In 2009, the new board began gutting the public schools, whose students are 95% Black and Latinx.

        The board eliminated hundreds of public school positions, including teachers, social workers, and more, while authorizing eye-popping millions of taxpayer funds to the district’s private religious schools, including door-to-door, gender-segregated busing for students.

        Among the ongoing obstacles to fixing the district’s problems is that the district’s religious-school voters consistently reject public school budgets. Over the past 15 years, school budget tax increases have failed 11 times in East Ramapo — more than any other district in the state.

        It’s crazy that this can happen. In my kids school district, a guy keeps getting reelected to the board who’s kids all went to private school. Thank God he can get the “Trans” books out of the library whole education has declined for years.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      the left’s hatred of the right

      This is a weird construct.

      The left doesn’t hate the right. The left hates the immoral and illegal things going on, and how the ability of some people to simply exist seems to be constantly at risk.

      We can think people are cruel, selfish, misguided, bigoted, possible criminals without actually hating them. That hate is a separate thing because so many of the ones we see are just assholes.

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Makes me think about them saying they’re only going after the criminal immigrants. Instead they’re taking people out of courthouse that were trying to do the right thing. One in a thousand might be criminals.