@JillFilipovic Not sure what the demonization of patriarchal power isn’t the worst thing in the world. Many people have fathers who work very hard to keep their family safe.
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Jack
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I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s.
Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power.
So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
nazzo@nazzobetweeting
i have always felt the exact same way and then i tweeted something about why women still do this and someone replied “well i love my husband and don’t really like my dad” and i was like … whoa … touché, my friend
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@JamesSurowiecki @ElizabethGMat …the genders are not equivalent. Regardless of morals.
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@ElizabethGMat The notion that gender equality has no moral value is utterly obtuse.
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When you get married, if it’s a marriage that means more to both of you than a legal merger, there’s no “his” and “mine” anymore. I would tell my sons not to marry any woman to who wasn’t eager to take his name. NOT because I care in theory whether they take his or hers. But because in practice it’s a sign that she has a view of marriage that’s something other than the kind of oneness on a single team that you should have with a spouse.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
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Just paid my taxes.
I expect a “Thank You” letter from all the red states I am supplementing.
Have it on my desk by no later than 2 PM.
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Jack أُعيد تغريده
Trump endorsed every single one of them.
Let that sink in.
Right Angle News Network@Rightanglenews
BREAKING - Six House Republicans, most of whom support the mass amnesty Dignity Act, Salazar, Lawler, Bacon, Gimenez, Fitzpatrick, and Malliotakis, have joined Democrats in a 219 to 209 vote to advance protections for over 350,000 Haitian illegals from deportation.
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Jack أُعيد تغريده
I DONT WANT A BUNCH OF FUCKING HAITIANS HERE. I WANT COLLEGE KIDS TO BE ABLE TO FIND APARTMENTS AND JOBS.
WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT.
Breaking911@Breaking911
NOW: Six House Republicans joined Democrats to advance Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s bill to give Haitians in the U.S. Temporary Protected Status for three years. The measure passed 219–209 and now moves to a final House vote tomorrow.
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Jack أُعيد تغريده
🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump approved more H-2B visas for seasonal guest workers after meeting with associates with ties to his businesses, the WSJ reports.
The Trump Admin reversed course on cutting these visa's and instead brought in the maximum amount of allowed under the law.
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Jack أُعيد تغريده
Jack أُعيد تغريده
Not long ago, Johns Hopkins boasted high Black and Hispanic numbers. Then came SCOTUS ruling and a huge reversal:
Today, 45% of freshmen are Asian-American, up from 26% just 2 yrs ago. And that doesn't include int'l students, mostly from Asia. @elliew0lfe:
thebanner.com/education/high…
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> meet a tax investigator at a dinner party
> he tells you anyone can earn 30% of collected taxes by reporting fraud to the government
> he explains his team literally scrolls through instagram manually to catch fake expats
> you go home and build an ai system that automates the entire process in 2 days
> scrapes socials, analyzes photos with vision ai, tracks timezones, builds legal dossiers
> stores everything in an obsidian knowledge graph that connects people
> find 217 of them are still living at home
> 68 have enough evidence to file right now
> make $200K+/year in whistleblower bounties bc you automated a government job from your couch
The Smart Ape 🔥@the_smart_ape
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"What about sexual relations between two adults of the same sex?"
Here's when the "not wrong at all" crossed the "always wrong" line:
Evangelicals: Never
Mainline: 2009
Black Protestant: 2023
Catholic: 2009
Other Faith: 2000
No Religion: 1992
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Jack أُعيد تغريده
California is trying to pass a bill that would criminalize investigative journalism with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown.
The proposed bill is titled AB 2624 and was made after I exposed mass fraud by immigrant groups in America.
Under AB 2624, government-funded entities like the Somali “Learing” Daycare centers would be protected from being exposed if they operated inside California.
The enemy truly is within. When our politicians would rather protect fraudsters and illegal migrants, it’s time for us to stand up or face mass oppression from the traitors who “rule” over us.
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@Wendy32917599 @alphaman_111 @charlesmurray The high-level strategy of schooling is a big part of the problem for sure.
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@thereandjack @alphaman_111 @charlesmurray The bar can’t get much lower in most public school systems. Now they are taking away AP classes to not offend those who aren’t meeting standards to be in them. Let’s just not even have school. Too inconvenient to get up and get dressed….
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On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said
You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.
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@ReyNemaattori @alphaman_111 @charlesmurray But why? Just because their life isn’t as challenging as it could be?
I think a lot of people like real challenge - and cultivation of that is practically a necessity for high achievement.
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@thereandjack @alphaman_111 @charlesmurray It's not supposed to do anything *about* it, it's just supposed to pass this the low bar with ease.
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I don’t disagree the educational system could be radically improved. But all one teacher can do is work within the system they have.
What I’m talking about is more of a mindset - doesn’t necessarily have to be tied to failure (though it would probably help).
And honestly I do see where the teacher is coming from. But with no other context this strikes me as a suboptimal strategy - I would think more suited to the current system’s “least common denominator”
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@thereandjack @alphaman_111 @charlesmurray What public schools do you think would even allow this? Failing students for them not turning in assignments isn’t going to be allowed and is probably going to be labeled as an ism of some sort. The speech by the teacher was fine, the educational system is the problem.
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And who bears responsibility for the laziness of your children?
You can’t even see the irony in your statement. You too grew up sheltered by the labor of your forefathers. And now all you bring to the table is bitching and moaning about the task set before you.
We’re supposed to be leading the next generation.
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@thereandjack @alphaman_111 @charlesmurray Imagine missing the plot and then making excuses for laziness.
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Seems like you’re conflating a few different ideas here. High school kids today aren’t buying houses or eggs. Hardly anyone alive today lived through the depression.
Yes, it’s good to be grateful. However some aspects of life ARE more challenging than they were in the past (houses for example are just objectively more expensive than they were 50 years ago).
But the point here is teaching people while they’re young to engage with and even appreciate the challenge. Neither belittling nor aggrandizing it.
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@thereandjack @alphaman_111 @charlesmurray no it says STOP the whine. stop the student loan whine or the I can't afford a house or LOOK how much eggs cost when none of them lived through the depression, the dust bowl, lived w/out antibiotics. its just a wake up call to STOP the whine
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@alphaman_111 @charlesmurray …or you can make the bar higher. Challenge them instead of wasting their time.
There’s obviously a strong correlation between demand and performance. Pressure makes diamonds.
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@thereandjack @charlesmurray The demotivating part is pretending the bar isn’t low. Kids aren’t fragile they’re capable. Historical facts don’t create disdain, excuses do.
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