If a child is being abused by their parents over this - which does happen - its the school's LEGAL RESPONSABUILITY to step in. If a child is comfortable enough with a teacher or a guidance counselor to ask questions and seek support, its a mortal obligation to step in. And in that instance the teacher or the counselor has to weigh harm to the student if they share. Its about being compassionate humans, not interfering with parents.
Unfortunately, studies have repeatedly shown that trans youth don't "become trans" because other suggest it to them in social setting. They generally come out INSPITE of their social settings. You chosen term doesn't fit the reality.
I know he's not using the term as you used it. Which is my point. Because all the thing si mentioned have had the term used for or about them at one time or another.
Pinky either needs to clarify, or he needs to own the association.
Its taken me most of the morning, as a father, as a leftist, as a fed, as a Christian, and as a citizen to come up with a coherent response.
I get it. You, and many many conservatives, look at a fast evolving world and see no one pumping the brakes. We've gone from my dad having to save his pesatas to make a short weekly call home from Spain on scratchy phone lines to carrying things in our pockets that let us live stream concerts from Tokyo while we ride the bus to work. We've seen Blacks, Women, and Gay people win many battles for rights that you and others never believe they were denied. We see the English language - always bit of a non-linear polyglot mishmash - have to adapt and readapt so that words whose definitions you thought were fixed (like woman) become too flexible for you to recognize. You see religion unnecessarily being scrubbed form the public square. You see people like you being assaulted figuratively when you demand the brake be pumped. You see no one standing up for your traditional family. You feel aggrieved, hurt, angry, and fearful.
And perhaps worst of all - you are now convinced that people like me want to throw people like you away. Its very clear.
You know what - guilty as charged. I do want people who think and believe and feel as you do to recede from power in this country. I do want every form of bigotry, misogyny, racism, sexism, ageism, abelism and and any and all forms of discrimination eliminated. And I want them eliminated with extreme prejudice.
I have worked most of my adult life, and will work until I die, to create a world where Christ's commandment to me as a believer to love my neighbor as myself means my gay daughter doesn't have to worry about who she loves preventing her from living where she wants and doing the jobs she loves. I will continue fighting so no transperson (whether I know them IRL or not) ever wakes up with a gun in their mouth because they passed out before they could blow the back of their head off because they could no longer be the hypermasculine man that society demanded instead of the deeply caring woman they now are. I will do metaphorical battle with you every day I can so that my Black nieces and nephews no longer have to experience being told straight up by the teachers you demonize that they will not succeed in things they care about because that's not what people like them should aspire to do. I will not hide my disgust at state politicians of one party seeking to prevent children from learning about the full diversity of humanity around them, nor will I stay silent about governors and Attorney's General demanding that caring parent - following medical and psychological guidance - are prosecuted as abusers for simply affirming who their own children are. And I will demand taking power from politicians who believe they have ANY business telling my daughters what they can do with their bodies medically. EVER.
And I will never, ever, back down from my demand that if you want to engage with me, you do so with facts, not just feelings. Show me the overwhelming data that teachers - by simply doing their jobs - are actively grooming kids for nefarious ends. Drown me in citations of real world studies of how much worse off people are because of the ends I seek to create. Clobber me with thousands of legal decisions that seeking to enhance a person's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness will be restricted, much less eliminated by openly talking about who they are in front of kids who might have similar questions.
Or, recognize your fear for what it is. And then let me help you through it. Every "concern" you wrote about above has a lot of good hard fact to refute it. Fact which, if you choose to wrestle with it, make the decisions of Republican politicians seem like power hungry desperation.
There are many, many different pathways to a more perfect union. You are not advocating for any of the good ones. Having taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, I will not back down.
Musk is no more interested in freedom of speech then Putin is. he wants to make money; he wants to silence critics; and he wants to remain culturally relevant - in that order. Were he to actually buy Twitter - and Saudi's weighing in will impact his fund raising - and take it fully private I suspect he'd be way more interested in canceling people he doesn't agree with or who he thinks make him look bad. Much like Donald Trump he's got a very big ego and a very thin skin.
A LOT of economists fail to grasp the limits of modeling. Its one of the biggest complaints against the discipline, since a lot of economic behavior is not, in fact, rational.
At the time of the first stimulus under Trump the economy was locked down or nearly so. Sustaining large segments of the business sector was a sad necessity, as they had little in reserves they could be made to tap especially in the retail and food services segments. It was good policy, albeit in a sea of bad misdirections designed to prevent the then current Administration from taking lumps over handling other parts of the crisis.
The second stimulus was probably good policy as well in as much as it passed when the US was in its uneven and politically driven reopening. Many states were still quasi closed and needed the infusion of funds; other states (like Mississippi) were fully open without having handed out much of the first stimulus package (most of the rent support funds we received STILL have not been disbursed). I'd argue it was still sound policy, but it does show the limits of what the federal government can do when states are the primary mechanism for implementation.
Much like the Infrastructure bill, BBB was all about investing in the economy long term. Its the counter weight to the 2017 Tax cuts, where Democrats are making the case that if we can hand a trillion dollars in tax benefits to the rich and corporations - who mostly banked it in one way or another - we can hand another Trillion dollars to Americans to support a whole variety of neglected investments that markets are clearly unwilling to make.
I think the Fed undershot by not ramping up interest rates earlier. Corporations were making huge profits, only marginally passing them to labor, while drastically increasing prices to - in their own words - claw back profits they had failed to get during the initial stages of COVID. The Fed could easily have done what they just did in March - raising rates by 25 basis points - in October of last year with little downside. They are now playing catchup on this, and I don't think the limited tools they have in monetary policy are going to make it a smooth deceleration.
That of course brings up the other elephant in the room that if all the government has to respond is fed monetary policy, we really have to ask if the less fettered market economy we have now remains such a good idea.
Except Pinky's "traditional" view on rights fails to acknowledge the history of how those rights never conferred to everyone. He's keeping the blinders on purposefully.
The ratio of what the CEO makes to the average worker is a lot less important than whether the average worker has a decent standard of living and is generally on the up and up with respect to economic security.
That ratio is a handy shorthand for how the growing economic divide, which Dark and so many others dismiss as not a problem, impacts the things you mention.
No literate person would also do so much to avoid engaging the well described and documented history of how those words and their alleged definitions were so easily and so frequently ignored as a matter of history.
You'll notice he keeps dodging this argument because there's apparently a universal definition of the term "men" that includes all gender expressions and biological sexes as well as all human created ethic groups so that the drastic distance between the writing and the action is somehow mysteriously rendered pointless.
That all MEN are created equal (in a land where all men weren't and still aren't treated equally, to say nothing of the historic treatment of women, blacks, indigenous persons, transgendered personas and gay persons)
And that they are endowed by their that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - in a land that routinely seeks to impede their life (since healthcare is still considered an economic commodity and not a right) and where liberty is only really conferred upon those following a strict set of rules that favor economically conservative, nominally Christian whites. What Progressives have done is peeled back the layers of the onion to point out that these words are STILL not being fulfilled for a vast plurality of Americans, if not the majority. Progressives have insisted that the rights attending to being human - which do in fact flow quite freely from natural law - continue to be routinely violated by our economic and political constructs.
And what we also keep pointing out that is that America is a secular nation, not a Christian one. Were we actually a Christian one - as in a nation that follows Christ's teachings in the Gospels - we'd essentially be socialists.
So you don't think 16% of kids nationwide living in poverty is a problem?
You don't think 13.5 million Americans lacking access to healthy food is a problem?
You don't think a CEO making 351 times the average salary of his workers is a problem?
You don't think that 600,000 Americans sleeping unhoused every night is a problem?
The Air Force has always been the most progressive of the Armed Services. Having wrestled through Don't Ask Don't tell, and with the continued integration of transgendered personnel in the ranks, this move shouldn't be that surprising.
On “Here Comes the Groom(ing)”
If a child is being abused by their parents over this - which does happen - its the school's LEGAL RESPONSABUILITY to step in. If a child is comfortable enough with a teacher or a guidance counselor to ask questions and seek support, its a mortal obligation to step in. And in that instance the teacher or the counselor has to weigh harm to the student if they share. Its about being compassionate humans, not interfering with parents.
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Thank you for the correction.
Unfortunately, studies have repeatedly shown that trans youth don't "become trans" because other suggest it to them in social setting. They generally come out INSPITE of their social settings. You chosen term doesn't fit the reality.
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I know he's not using the term as you used it. Which is my point. Because all the thing si mentioned have had the term used for or about them at one time or another.
Pinky either needs to clarify, or he needs to own the association.
On “From Dylan Matthews at Vox: How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong”
Got it.
On “Here Comes the Groom(ing)”
Its taken me most of the morning, as a father, as a leftist, as a fed, as a Christian, and as a citizen to come up with a coherent response.
I get it. You, and many many conservatives, look at a fast evolving world and see no one pumping the brakes. We've gone from my dad having to save his pesatas to make a short weekly call home from Spain on scratchy phone lines to carrying things in our pockets that let us live stream concerts from Tokyo while we ride the bus to work. We've seen Blacks, Women, and Gay people win many battles for rights that you and others never believe they were denied. We see the English language - always bit of a non-linear polyglot mishmash - have to adapt and readapt so that words whose definitions you thought were fixed (like woman) become too flexible for you to recognize. You see religion unnecessarily being scrubbed form the public square. You see people like you being assaulted figuratively when you demand the brake be pumped. You see no one standing up for your traditional family. You feel aggrieved, hurt, angry, and fearful.
And perhaps worst of all - you are now convinced that people like me want to throw people like you away. Its very clear.
You know what - guilty as charged. I do want people who think and believe and feel as you do to recede from power in this country. I do want every form of bigotry, misogyny, racism, sexism, ageism, abelism and and any and all forms of discrimination eliminated. And I want them eliminated with extreme prejudice.
I have worked most of my adult life, and will work until I die, to create a world where Christ's commandment to me as a believer to love my neighbor as myself means my gay daughter doesn't have to worry about who she loves preventing her from living where she wants and doing the jobs she loves. I will continue fighting so no transperson (whether I know them IRL or not) ever wakes up with a gun in their mouth because they passed out before they could blow the back of their head off because they could no longer be the hypermasculine man that society demanded instead of the deeply caring woman they now are. I will do metaphorical battle with you every day I can so that my Black nieces and nephews no longer have to experience being told straight up by the teachers you demonize that they will not succeed in things they care about because that's not what people like them should aspire to do. I will not hide my disgust at state politicians of one party seeking to prevent children from learning about the full diversity of humanity around them, nor will I stay silent about governors and Attorney's General demanding that caring parent - following medical and psychological guidance - are prosecuted as abusers for simply affirming who their own children are. And I will demand taking power from politicians who believe they have ANY business telling my daughters what they can do with their bodies medically. EVER.
And I will never, ever, back down from my demand that if you want to engage with me, you do so with facts, not just feelings. Show me the overwhelming data that teachers - by simply doing their jobs - are actively grooming kids for nefarious ends. Drown me in citations of real world studies of how much worse off people are because of the ends I seek to create. Clobber me with thousands of legal decisions that seeking to enhance a person's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness will be restricted, much less eliminated by openly talking about who they are in front of kids who might have similar questions.
Or, recognize your fear for what it is. And then let me help you through it. Every "concern" you wrote about above has a lot of good hard fact to refute it. Fact which, if you choose to wrestle with it, make the decisions of Republican politicians seem like power hungry desperation.
There are many, many different pathways to a more perfect union. You are not advocating for any of the good ones. Having taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, I will not back down.
On “Elon Musk makes offer to purchase Twitter outright”
Bingo.
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Musk is no more interested in freedom of speech then Putin is. he wants to make money; he wants to silence critics; and he wants to remain culturally relevant - in that order. Were he to actually buy Twitter - and Saudi's weighing in will impact his fund raising - and take it fully private I suspect he'd be way more interested in canceling people he doesn't agree with or who he thinks make him look bad. Much like Donald Trump he's got a very big ego and a very thin skin.
On “From Dylan Matthews at Vox: How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong”
A LOT of economists fail to grasp the limits of modeling. Its one of the biggest complaints against the discipline, since a lot of economic behavior is not, in fact, rational.
"
At the time of the first stimulus under Trump the economy was locked down or nearly so. Sustaining large segments of the business sector was a sad necessity, as they had little in reserves they could be made to tap especially in the retail and food services segments. It was good policy, albeit in a sea of bad misdirections designed to prevent the then current Administration from taking lumps over handling other parts of the crisis.
The second stimulus was probably good policy as well in as much as it passed when the US was in its uneven and politically driven reopening. Many states were still quasi closed and needed the infusion of funds; other states (like Mississippi) were fully open without having handed out much of the first stimulus package (most of the rent support funds we received STILL have not been disbursed). I'd argue it was still sound policy, but it does show the limits of what the federal government can do when states are the primary mechanism for implementation.
Much like the Infrastructure bill, BBB was all about investing in the economy long term. Its the counter weight to the 2017 Tax cuts, where Democrats are making the case that if we can hand a trillion dollars in tax benefits to the rich and corporations - who mostly banked it in one way or another - we can hand another Trillion dollars to Americans to support a whole variety of neglected investments that markets are clearly unwilling to make.
"
I think the Fed undershot by not ramping up interest rates earlier. Corporations were making huge profits, only marginally passing them to labor, while drastically increasing prices to - in their own words - claw back profits they had failed to get during the initial stages of COVID. The Fed could easily have done what they just did in March - raising rates by 25 basis points - in October of last year with little downside. They are now playing catchup on this, and I don't think the limited tools they have in monetary policy are going to make it a smooth deceleration.
That of course brings up the other elephant in the room that if all the government has to respond is fed monetary policy, we really have to ask if the less fettered market economy we have now remains such a good idea.
On “Ron DeSantis’ Florida, A Banana Republic”
And the truckers who only weeks ago were protesting Biden in DC are now protesting Abbott . . .
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Trump got elected without a nod to the center. I don't expect a pivot if he gets the nod.
On “From Dylan Matthews at Vox: How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong”
not what I've ever said at any point.
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But only AFTER Trump's stimulus had worked its magic and Biden was in office. Timing is everything I guess.
On “Ron DeSantis’ Florida, A Banana Republic”
And at least in Florida, we can no longer teach this history accurately.
On “From Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic: Why The Past 10 Years of American Life have been Uniquely Stupid”
Except Pinky's "traditional" view on rights fails to acknowledge the history of how those rights never conferred to everyone. He's keeping the blinders on purposefully.
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That ratio is a handy shorthand for how the growing economic divide, which Dark and so many others dismiss as not a problem, impacts the things you mention.
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No literate person would also do so much to avoid engaging the well described and documented history of how those words and their alleged definitions were so easily and so frequently ignored as a matter of history.
"
You'll notice he keeps dodging this argument because there's apparently a universal definition of the term "men" that includes all gender expressions and biological sexes as well as all human created ethic groups so that the drastic distance between the writing and the action is somehow mysteriously rendered pointless.
On “Ron DeSantis’ Florida, A Banana Republic”
There's no better time then the present!
On “From Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic: Why The Past 10 Years of American Life have been Uniquely Stupid”
We hold these truths to be self evident . . .
That all MEN are created equal (in a land where all men weren't and still aren't treated equally, to say nothing of the historic treatment of women, blacks, indigenous persons, transgendered personas and gay persons)
And that they are endowed by their that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - in a land that routinely seeks to impede their life (since healthcare is still considered an economic commodity and not a right) and where liberty is only really conferred upon those following a strict set of rules that favor economically conservative, nominally Christian whites. What Progressives have done is peeled back the layers of the onion to point out that these words are STILL not being fulfilled for a vast plurality of Americans, if not the majority. Progressives have insisted that the rights attending to being human - which do in fact flow quite freely from natural law - continue to be routinely violated by our economic and political constructs.
And what we also keep pointing out that is that America is a secular nation, not a Christian one. Were we actually a Christian one - as in a nation that follows Christ's teachings in the Gospels - we'd essentially be socialists.
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We don't yet have equality of opportunity. Equality of outcomes is a long way off.
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So you don't think 16% of kids nationwide living in poverty is a problem?
You don't think 13.5 million Americans lacking access to healthy food is a problem?
You don't think a CEO making 351 times the average salary of his workers is a problem?
You don't think that 600,000 Americans sleeping unhoused every night is a problem?
What do you think is a serious problem then?
On “Ron DeSantis’ Florida, A Banana Republic”
The Air Force has always been the most progressive of the Armed Services. Having wrestled through Don't Ask Don't tell, and with the continued integration of transgendered personnel in the ranks, this move shouldn't be that surprising.
On “From Dylan Matthews at Vox: How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong”
Thanks for the summary - I always wonder how Jaybird picks his quotes and misses the meat of stuff like this.
As to the premise . . . . I'm not sure that what Econ 101 actually says.