@CounterTyrannyX @Oilfield_Rando Run ads back. “Look outside. Racist yet?”
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Professor Plum
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Professor Plum
@dynamiteddan
America First Conservative 🇺🇸 Lawyer ⚖️
United States 加入时间 Kasım 2016
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@Oilfield_Rando It's because if they remove some Civil Rights Hero, then the leftists will bash them in commercials and TV News channels for weeks about it by claiming "see they are racist or confederate"
So no we don't want to wield power the same way -- certainly not for Confederates.
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Republicans simply refuse to wield power like this.
In fact, they’ll personally sign proclamations celebrating whatever Gay Race Communist “Civil Rights” icon leftists decide to put on a platform at any given time.
One side wants to win.
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Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed a bill banning the issuance and renewal of pro-Confederate license plates in the state.
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@armondboudreaux Then they shouldn’t be freshman. They should be working a job, not pretending to get an education.
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@neetu_arnold No woman should be dean. Is anyone surprised by this dumb bitch?
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“Sustained classroom performance provides the story that we need to know about your academic preparation. Test scores don’t tell me that. I don’t get too bogged down in SAT data”
Bold of the UVA admissions dean to say this when there’s rampant grade inflation in K-12 schools
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
This is the person at UVA in charge of selecting which students get in: 1) she doesn’t know if out of state students’ SAT scores are higher, 2) measuring academic preparation: “the test scores don’t tell me that,” and 3) says SAT is not as compelling as “the real academic data”
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@unlimited_ls It should be legal to shoot fleeing felons. It used to be.
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BREAKING: Despite more than 11,000 officers signing a petition to keep NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran out of prison, a judge sentenced him to three to nine years for throwing a cooler that killed a fleeing suspect on a scooter
Former NYPD Sergeant Erik Duran was sentenced to three to nine years in prison for the 2023 death of 30-year-old Eric Duprey
Prosecutors said Duran threw a cooler at Duprey during an undercover operation as he fled on a scooter
Duprey crashed into a tree and die at the scene. Duran was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in February
A police union backed Duran and gathered over 11,000 signatures asking for no jail time
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@marcportermagee This broad should be nowhere near important decisionmaking .
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This is the person at UVA in charge of selecting which students get in:
1) she doesn’t know if out of state students’ SAT scores are higher, 2) measuring academic preparation: “the test scores don’t tell me that,” and 3) says SAT is not as compelling as “the real academic data”
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@marcportermagee @BeltwayGreg Outrageous. Standardized tests should be mandatory and scores of admitted students made public. Force them to humiliate the DEI clowns who get in with shitty scores.
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@BeltwayGreg 40% of students got in without showing their test scores.
Our student tour guide at UVA spent a fair bit of the tour explaining how to get out of the hardest requirements.
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@chriswithans @marcportermagee No, we need to persecute those who are racist against whites, not pretend it’s only wrong when it hurts Asians.
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@marcportermagee You can tell her she's being racist against White students but she won't care. You have to tell her she's being racist against Asian students.
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🚨#BREAKING: Two men in Charlotte NC have been arrested after one man attempted to stand on top of a horse's back in Uptown Charlotte, falls off, and then the horse runs into the street and is hit by a car.
It's unclear whether the horse survived.
The men have been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
This is hard to watch...
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@Iureetde @MorosKostas You’re not an American.
You’re not a lawyer.
You don’t understand our constitution.
Worse, you’re doubling down after being exposed as incorrect on a straightforward issue. Congress can regulate the courts docket.
I’ve wasted enough time, Jose.
Adios.
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@dynamiteddan @MorosKostas Lol. SCOTUS has historically used the certiorari proceedings much earlier than the certiorary act, moron. Are you seriously a lawyer? Do you have any client?
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While it's true that people's perception of SCOTUS as a constant series of 6-3 or 5-4 rulings on strict party lines is wrong, this sort of data saying they agree most of the time is also misleading.
Yes, they agree a lot because they take a bunch of boring cases that do not have a clear ideological component. That's part of the problem with this Court actually; they take a record-low number of cases, and then of those few cases, a giant share are technical bullshit that should have been either ignored, or decided per curiam.
But on the sorts of high-profile cases that affect the lives of millions of people or present important constitutional questions, splits along partisan lines are quite common.
Charlie Camosy@CCamosy
even the justices who are most disagreeable (Kagan and Alito) find themselves agreeing a whopping 61 percent of the time
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@omgitsderek @XVanFleet The Muslim trash isn’t going to pay! Wise up
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@XVanFleet Bro, I'm American and I let my kids open up shit all the time that I'm going to pay for. As long as she pays for it who cares
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@XVanFleet We will need vigilantes to deal with filth like this
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@Iureetde @MorosKostas I’ve pointed you to a law that specifically granted the court the ability to choose cases. It was literally called the Certiorari Act. It was an act of Congress. It was meant to reduce the courts workload.
It can be repealed!
What about this is confusing, foreigner?
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@Iureetde @MorosKostas Omg bozo
Read the statute
Are you even American?
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@EWErickson In our school district, Rosh Hashanah, Good Friday, and Eid are all days off, without any description of what those days are. Which is the right answer.
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You will not be surprised to learn that in the Nashville school system, Christmas break is "winter break" and Good Friday is "Spring break" but Ramadan is Ramadan.
Cabot Phillips@cabot_phillips
Nashville public schools are embracing Ramadan. Let's have a look at the people making this possible, shall we? 🧵🧵🧵
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@TrixStar76 @EWErickson You’re right, we should launch a crusade and drive the moslem filth from our shores.
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@EWErickson Oh dear how will Christian’s ever survive.
Literally the biggest bunch of crybaby snowflakes I’ve ever seen.
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@Deigenes @alexpriou They have hundreds of thousands of better customers lined up to replace the DEI losers they foolishly admitted
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“The vexing problem of grade inflation”?
It’s really not that vexing. Raise standards, lower averages, ignore student complaints.
Problem solved!
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
79% of grades at Yale are A-range. Graduating summa cum laude requires a record high GPA OF 3.98.
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@Brian5_8_1899 @ProfBZZZ Thank you. This is very informative
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I was at a dinner party about 2 years ago with an econ professor from the Netherlands and he or she made the same complaint that Brandon is making, and it was an Econ professor, not history or Phil so the reading was presumably much lighter, and he or she said that it was because they all "grew up with screens."
There are two people I know who are worth reading on this topic, one is Maryanne Wolf, who has argued that skim reading is the new normal and when you constantly skim, you lose the capacity for deep reading and reflection. She was on Ezra's podcast two years ago and you can listen to that convo by googling it...
The other is a guy named Nicholas Car who has made similar points, his most famous piece (I think) is an essay titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He also has a booked titled "The Shallows." But his basic argument is that the internet trains us toward distraction and we end up with a weak ability to sustain attention on something that is difficult.
For what it is worth, the Dutch and Flemish peoples are not woke, it is hard to see that from the outside sometimes, but you would be very surprised how these people talk in private once they get the sense of your politics and feel safe being more candid.
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A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's.
This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates.
This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages.
What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime.
This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12.
Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
79% of grades at Yale are A-range. Graduating summa cum laude requires a record high GPA OF 3.98.
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@Iureetde @MorosKostas You’re just making shit up. Check the judiciary act of 1925.
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@dynamiteddan @MorosKostas Indeed, but it does not grants the Congress the power to say how SCOTUS has to decide certiorari.
In a rule of law system, the judiciary controls the legislative and the executive.
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@Iureetde @MorosKostas Letting the court pick its own cases is a statutory rule from 1925. Certiorari Act.
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@Iureetde @MorosKostas That’s a very cramped view of what Congress can do here. Section 2 explicitly involves Congress in defining the court’s appellate jurisdiction.
You guys are all in for judicial supremacy. Crazy.
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