A more useful mandatory class would be an honest analysis which Party has Systemic Racist Mindset. This math policy from the California department of miseducation should be thoroughly examined for the Inherent Biases.
Regarding that job strategy, when our kids were teenagers, I told them that the only skill they had to offer an employer was enthusiasm. They did all work during college, so it must have partially be heard.
Iirc I pointed out 22 years ago that the Islamists missed a sure thing by not joining the American right in promoting family values, which would have been a more effective recruiting strategy than terrorism.
I didn't predict that partnership would happen because of the Child Rape and Mutilation Culture taking over the American Left.
There's a Reason Barack Obama can afford 2 beachfront mansions in 2 oceans, and massive bribes to nationalize student loan debt is a big part of his admittedly earned ( illegally ) income.
As usual this is a silly pretend "gotcha" thing, nobody who lies for the Holy Klan Party is going to have their mind changed by facts, that canoe sailed long ago. Nobody is really impressed by schoolgirl teasing. ( though some lose their bowel control over it )
But the following items of interest were voted for & passed, or actually fought a war over by the Party of Lincoln over the vicious objections of the Klan Party. Often punctuated by murder by the now branch of the CPUSA.
Slavery ended by the Rs. Had to literally fight a war over that one, and a D then assassinated Lincoln.
Women's voting rights.
Black voting rights.
Minority civil rights.
Religious freedom confirmed.
And while I'm not a fan of the current rich old guys running the R Party, they aren't openly threatening their domestic political critics with F-15s and nuclear weapons like the current rich old guys running the D Party.
And given a choice between corrupt jerks and corrupt jerks who support rape, child abuse, and threaten to murder us if we don't Obey...
I live in NY where the law now has a time limit on abortion unless there's some unspecified reason not to, or, functionally, no limit. So an activist can point to one line in the law and claim there's no "abortion up until birth", but there actually is. Well crafted lie, gotta admit.
Since I used to habitually end phone calls with a cheerful "Plutonium!" in honor of George Carlin & his joke about answering the phone " F$$% Hoover! Hello... " I'm pretty sure the NSA has me in a database.
I don't have any, btw. Nor do I have any evidence against Hillary, and am not suicidal.
Short form, the rich white lesbian hobby business might have sponged off rich Mommy longer if they hadn't been sued by the poor black lesbians they hired to prove how Woke they were.
Unlike Joe's* Token Black Lesbian Hire, apparently they weren't paid enough to offset the insults of being Token of the self righteous Employers. Or, even more likely, they were smart enough to see how racist their bosses were, and not paid enough in money & fame to hide it from the public.
I don't know if the cute lesbian designated liar for Joe* swallows her rage at being a racist token figure or is too unaware.
Way back in high school I wrote a thesis on Breaking eggs to make the omelets.
I had great assistance from the CPUSA in the form of pamphlets and flyers, and most importantly, the advice to read Rules For Radicals, by Alinsky. We had a good school library, but I had to go to the University of Rochester's to get the resources to look up the Very Rich ( White ) American Communists running the Party.
My lefty teachers weren't happy that I pointed out we were the eggs that get broken to feed multi millionaires gourmet omelets.
Just like the children digging up cobalt ore with bare hands are the profit margin makers for the rich guys who loan Saint Gretta of the holy sailboat their yachts and crews to get more of your money to build wind farms.
Which get thrown away in Your back yard, not theirs. ( the blade dump in Bath NY isn't in a rich neighborhood, you can be sure )
Oh, yeah, that's a "lawyer input hyper woke" non apology if I ever read one.
I could have more empathy for these well meaning fools if they hadn't published it.
The "owners", I mean. I have some empathy for the employees who destroyed their own jobs. I'm just going to GUESS here, but I'd bet it was crazy making to work where the "boss" buys expensive coffee and sells it at a loss, gives access to dirtbags with a sob story, and has inconsistent attitudes.
I know people that work at shelters and food banks. Some are ultra Schmiberals, but they Mean Well, and all fail without some hard nosed people who understand you can't allow assault and robbery if you want to do any good in a community. I applaud them, even contribute a little, but I couldn't hold my temper working there as an unpaid volunteer.
( One friend was a bar bouncer and splits his time between the food bank and the Women's shelter. As he puts it, "I use up all my nice and patience with the poor families who need help, and take out the mad on the dirtbag men who try to get to their ex in the shelter so they can beat them again. The police love me." ) ( and they all know him by name and are very friendly )
That "kids nowadays" don't go out and DO anything, is partially correct. There's still young folk learning to ride bikes and motorbikes, and even more strenuous sports and hobbies, but I've observed the percentages are MUCH lower today than a few decades ago. I don't make any claims for numerical rigor. But I do have examples.
Hang gliding, the SCA martial arts, and I suspect motorcycling, all are "graying", the people I SEE doing it are more old farts than young bucks. Not completely, it's not the End Days Yet, but between not recruiting young blood, and increasingly nanny State regulation, I see far fewer beginners. Oh, and cost. Even with Bicycles, the cost of entry seems prohibitive.
The "good" news on that, is used gear is a bigger bargain than ever, for sad reasons. The "cool toys" like motorcycles and performance bicycles are ( according to the sales guys at the shops ) increasingly older, wealthier, guys, and it's more and more common to have the bike shop with a bunch of used machines in almost new condition, that were bought, put in the shed, never used, the buyer pass away, and the relatives bring the ( often Thousand$ of buck ) adult machines back to sell on consignment.
The really sad part is that means the hypothetical teen grandkid either never got considered to get the toy, or wasn't interested in getting grandpa's Gold Wing. ( or Colnago racer )
As soon as I finish this rant, I'm going to start lacing up a new wheel set for my Trike, and from the reactions of the multiple local bike shops I bought the parts from, I'm almost the only customer left who does that. But to be fair, I was in the tiny minority who built my own wheels last century too.
I'm betting most of the folk here count themselves more as Do-ers than Watch-ers in life. Which may explain the more conservative/libertarian slant among those willing to risk being flamed for comments.
Flirting has become a minefield. It is still true that a guy can get laid by the old method of hitting on every girl that they see, ( If you have a 5% success rate, 20 flirts isn't bad ) and the guys who use that tactic are the same jerks we probably hated all our lives, the guys that exploit girls and leave them angry at all of us.
But flirting with 20 girls at the bar today doesn't get you 17 rejections and 2 drinks thrown at you. You are likely to get 1 full on screaming fit for your efforts. And if your chosen mate hunting ground isn't a public bar, ( which chooses for alcoholic and desperate ) but is a social organization like your Church or Club, ( which chooses for like minded and mutual interests ) the Screaming Karen who reacted badly to "nice dress" may get you shunned, yelled at, and ejected.
Minefield. I see how there's an increasing number of young men that just won't risk it.
I'm amused by the "counterculture" of identically different conformity.
And that's not the attitude of a straight laced conservative, like Mr. Shapiro.
You know how "hipsters" are known to put on airs of superiority by doing whatever is popular Before it became cool? Or at least claiming that precedence. That band you like? They saw them Before they got popular. At an obscure little club now long demolished for structural and health code violations.
Yeah... I had a beard before they could grow one and it was a rebellious act, while their's is nearly mandatory. I could play one upmanship all day, ( just being old gives most of that primacy ) but it's just sarcasm and mocking them for their self appointed Elite group status.
No, my "complaint" about the hipster burning man Glamping garbage dump leaving concert goers is more fundamental.
Yeah, I do claim decades of camping at mass events. But we picked up our trash and our rich Daddies didn't buy us expensive camping gear to abandon after one use, leaving tons of expensive garbage in our wake.
Yeah, I do have expensive tent and pavilion gear so my friends can gather in variable weather and I have an actual bed to invite willing partners to share. I bought it out of my own income and budgeted my hobbies over years. Saved up. Take pride in it's maintenance. We've had weddings in camp in a thunderstorm.
Hilariously, an Asatru ( Norse church ) wedding where the legal pastor was a Masonic Knight Templar & Grand Loremaster, ( I might have that slightly wrong, sorry ) who gave a very inspirational sermon on responsibility in marriage in fine Christian and Asatru tradition, in a steady rain, the couple exchanged vows. Then when the pastor blessed their union and invoked Thor, lightning split the sky on cue and the skies opened up with a heavy downpour, and accompanying light show. We partied until someone went to the camp restroom and returned with the announcement that the camp was flooding.
That broke the Party up and rescue ops began. Long into the morning.
Seriously. I have witnesses. About 50.
Anecdote aside, my complaints with "kids nowadays" isn't just the wasteful consumption and trail of expensive trash they leave behind at concerts, etc. I Like concerts.
It's the passive conformity. MY counterculture DID stuff. We gathered in vans to party, yes. But we also rode mountain bikes over, well, mountains. We didn't have bike parks, we had unimproved cow paths.
We climbed mountains and then flew off them. We came to the attention of The Authorities, not because we blocked traffic, but because we had the temerity to build flying machines and started soaring cross country. ( I'll never forget the expression on the face of the Beech Bonanza pilot as he flew Under me a mile up over the Genesee river valley )
We were the "pack it in, pack it out" campers who tried to get into the 46er ranks by climbing the highest peaks in the Adirondacks.
I still don't give a darn about "like, subscribe, obey". ( points for reference )
Not all kids are NPC drones in life, to be fair. But Burning Man?
Once it was just people objecting to teaching kids about a sky God they don't believe in, but now it's a daily Inquisition of the concept of morality. Truth is Racist. According to the most racist godless commie thugs.
When you're less tolerant than Muslims you might reconsider your ideology. But of course, they don't believe in allowing any other ideas. .
History says yes, when people like we have in D.C. rule.
There's a Reason Obama ( and Biden*, when his meds are working ) hate Trump and Churchill so much. They claim Peace In Our Time as they send ammo into a war in a country they refused to defend, and in the 1930s that was briefly called The Phony War before it suddenly, wasn't.
I voted early in 2020. It's always possible that there will be a last minute change in how you consider the politicians between voting and Election Day, so that's a concern.
In 2020 it was, in my mind, between a guy I didn't like who was doing a good job except for listening to some wrong people, and a guy who'd bragged about blackmailing a country to fire a prosecutor that was investigating the company that hired his crack head son, obviously to bribe the Veep.
We now know that it was Worse, that Joe* & Hunter had taken 10 million dollars in the most blatant Quid Pro Quo of the 21st century, after the green light to Putin by Obama to conquer the Crimea, in exchange for quiet before the election.
So you probably won't go wrong if you vote on principles. You can still be fooled by a really dishonest guy. For example if "republican x" that promised Family Values and National Defense, in the week before the election reveals he's in favor of mandatory ( REDACTED BY ORDER OF GOOGLE ) in schools to get the Democrat vote.