When dealing with teachers understand that when presented with a career choice they are the folks who self selected into the job with summers off and the easiest course load. They will use the smallest excuse not to have to show up for work.
Why would we need to do that, Trump lost and the good guy won. Surely the good guy who is friends with the guy who won the peace prize wouldn't be out there starting wars. No way. Our fair and independent media would tell us if that was the case surely. If not them it's not like views against that administration are removed from social media, no way.
> The violent attack on the capitol was the result of the sitting President of the United States claiming the election was stolen and telling them to march on the capitol.
If true, this would be much more convincing with a direct quotation and a source, rather than your interpretation.
> we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
> I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
I've been in the government contracting space for about six months but those emails look to me to be about the level of competency I'm seeing with many of my colleagues. Spaghetti code with no unit tests and nobody knows how to use a debugger let alone a profiler. Getting irrationally mad at open source devs for making changes as if they were supposed keep the Jira tickets they were working on in mind specifically. Lack of ownership. Finger pointing. This looks quite real to me.
What is the strawman? Using statistics in this way is meaningless. Hell, I'd bet by area the capitol hill riots were mostly peaceful. The capitol complex is a large place and I'm certain 51% could be defined as peaceful under a similar definition that burning neighborhoods were this summer.
> The current zeitgeist seems to be that peaceful protestors should be left alone and treated like the law abiding citizens they are
Even CNN, with it's masterful use of euphemistic language could only manage describe the protests last summer as "mostly peaceful" whist standing in front of a burning building.
It also isn't a good look when the restrictions happen to fall on apparent political lines, even if it isn't intentional.
Hollywood productions, Amazon warehouses, protests in line with democratic party values, abortion clinics and pot shops = D leaning voters = Allowed, if not encouraged
Small businesses, churches, protests of lockdown measures, gun ranges, Musk and Tesla = R leaning voters = Forbidden, shun them, they are going to kill grandma
Add to that the many of the people advocating for these policies fail to follow them themselves (Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, London Breed, Dianne Feinstein just to name a few) and you can see how many especially those who are losing their livelihoods see this as a attack and are frustrated. The optics are extremely bad, though that might be the point.
Tesla was deemed an essential business and remains open...
Outdoor gun ranges are also still open.
Churches are still open.
Also, most of Amazons warehouses are in conservative areas like San Bernardino and largely white employ right leaning voters.
Simply put, while the latest lockdowns follow the same ineffectual policies of the earlier lockdowns, they're not based on targeting ideological opponents and protecting political allies.
Simply put, Corona restrictions can easily be viewed as being ideologically based and also be viewed as having been weaponized against opposing political groups in California to hurt them, and its very concerning to see.
No, under the original orders, factories were always going to reopen with social distancing as as soon as practical once appropriate health measures were put into place (filters, fans, etc). Musk's antics actually delayed the reopening of factories in California because health officials hadn't contemplated that a billionaire would care so little about his workers or ad PR that he would try to force his workers back into a factory without even attempting the bare minimum to protect their health.
Chruches are only open because the highest court in the land, the surpreme court, overruled the Gov of Cali executive branches restrictions.
Churches have been reopened for indoor services (with limited capacity) since May. The SCOTUS didn't rule on the CA case for the second time until a week ago. Notably, you are ignoring the first time SCOTUS ruled on CA church restrictions, when it upheld the restrictions on indoor services earlier during the lockdowns.
Amazon is from Seattle and Bezos owns the WaPo. It's not conservative.
I do not claim that Amazon or its CEO are conservative. But the overwhelming majority of Amazon's CA employees, it's warehouse workers and delivery drivers,are conservative and live in areas of CA that still have conservative supermajorities.
Simply put, Corona restrictions can easily be viewed as being ideologically based and also be viewed as having been weaponized against opposing political groups in California to hurt them, and its very concerning to see.
Yes, in the same way that HTML5 can be seen as a supercomputer. Notably, conservative governors have issued the same restrictions in red states, which is overwhelming evidence that these restrictions are not ideologically motivated.
I think we both agree that the new restrictions are problematic. You, for ideological reasons, and me, because they're clearly not based on any sort of scientific or empirical evidence. (There is absolutely no reason for subjecting counties like SLO or the OC to the same restrictions as LA County, which has one of the highest spread rates in the world.)
It's going to take the people not getting distracted by red herrings. So much outrage has been channeled into destructive memes like denying that Covid is a problem and rebelling against simple measures to stop the spread.
The real problem is the unsustainable structure of the economy. I don't think this woman is being driven to tears because she really wants to be running her restaurant right now, but rather because she's going to lose it completely when she falls off the debt treadmill. Instead of small businesses and individuals getting recurring stimulus and suspended rent/mortgages/taxes, we got peanuts. Meanwhile trillions of dollars were given to Wall St to make sure the magic Line keeps going up. That was a massive theft from the public to the plutocrats. But until the outrage stops getting divided and derailed by distractions, I'm afraid it will only continue.
> So much outrage has been channeled into destructive memes like denying that Covid is a problem and rebelling against simple measures to stop the spread.
Here's the problem, it has been a do as I say not as I do attitude from the leadership in this country and even people who were supposed to remain non-political made moves that were suspect. For example early on when Fauci was asked if we should limit the BLM protests, he refused to make a recommendation. Now keep in mind during that same hearing he made recommendations about all kinds of other things from restaurants to sporting events. If you agree with him it's easy to overlook that, however take a moment and walk a bit in someone elses shoes, someone who has spent the past decade working to build a business or trying to support a family and was impacted by those measures and if you are honest you'll admit that it would probably piss you off to see that.
Leaders need to understand that people react on a emotional level to things and if you are asking for someone to make great personal sacrifices you need to be above reproach when making those requests.
To illustrate it from the other side there is a new anti-vax movement that popped up among progressives due to the fact that these new covid vaccines are being produced under a Trump presidency. When I read about the concerns they tend to have more to due with Trumps personality than the science. Again if Trump conducted himself in a more socially acceptable way and spent more time considering how his words and choices appeared to others, I suspect this new vaccine would encounter less resistance.
In the scheme of history much of the suffering caused by covid can be placed squarely on a lack of leadership. It has been a long time since the United States has had a threat like this to deal with and we have learned that our leadership is woefully unprepared. If we were smart they wouldn't be our leadership for much longer.
> take a moment and walk a bit in someone elses shoes, someone who has spent the past decade working to build a business or trying to support a family and was impacted by those measures and if you are honest you'll admit that it would probably piss you off to see that
Obviously that would piss anybody off. Which is why it was pumped in their face 24/7 to keep them angry at the other group of plebs, and distracted from the professional looting. The proper response was to demand a pause to the finance that was actually responsible for threatening their businesses and families. Instead they fell right into the trap of thinking that being unable to pay rent is a character flaw.
> Leaders need to understand that people react on a emotional level to things and if you are asking for someone to make great personal sacrifices you need to be above reproach when making those requests.
Ends meet should have never been a sacrifice anyone was asked to make. This isn't a failure of leadership, but rather outright corruption by the plutocrats. Continually lowering interest rates over the past two decades to keep The Line going up, and then no relief for people squeezed in the debt vice when a hiccup occurred and the calls came due.
> Again if Trump conducted himself in a more socially acceptable way and spent more time considering how his words and choices appeared to others, I suspect this new vaccine would encounter less resistance.
The problem with Trump isn't just a lack of presentation, but that he's an empty conman. Covid is back with urgency and yet he's focused on his latest con of "stop the steal". Given his constant politicking and general rejection of expertise, being skeptical of corruption at the FDA is completely understandable. The problem runs much deeper than a lack of leadership - it's a failure of institutions.
There's only been around 20,000 Covid deaths this year in the under 55 age group this year. The under 55 age group is 80% of the population. That's less than car accidents.
So this is a disease that is very low risk for 80% of the American population.
If the vulnerable 20% of the population can't stay in quarantine, this is not societies problem anymore.. this is that minority 20%'s problem.
And these crushing social restrictions destroying lives, jobs, businesses, enslaving people to debt, and putting people into poverty need to stop.
Bad faith argument aside, informing people of the rights they do have is not really having a political stance. Those rights exist regardless of what one personally supports. Obviously, this holds true for USA's 2nd amendment rights as well as any other provisions granted by the law.
Companies have active interests in suppressing this sort of information, and put forth efforts to try and convince people that literally stating the laws of the country that one resides in is somehow pushing a political agenda.
