US politics general thread

[Techne]

Yeah, after all it doesn't work when people point out that Trump's Twitter feed is basically illiterate because I guess nobody on the right has any standards.

Aaw cute. There it is again:crylaugh: The stock lefty troll comment.

 

[rietrot]

Yeah, after all it doesn't work when people point out that Trump's Twitter feed is basically illiterate because I guess nobody on the right has any standards.

You should at least not be a hypocrite. So don't use words like illiterate in a hyperbole.
Maybe just live up to your own standards.

 

[cerebus]

You should at least not be a hypocrite. So don't use words like illiterate in a hyperbole.
Maybe just live up to your own standards.

It's not hyperbole. Trump misspells the most basic words, like 'tap', 'honored', 'borne', 'council vs counsel', 'heal vs heel', 'dying', and so on. I consider that to be functional illiteracy. It's disgraceful to be honest.

 

[RanzB]

John Boehner’s Marijuana Reversal: ‘My Thinking on Cannabis Has Evolved’

John A. Boehner, the speaker of the House from 2011 to 2015, reversed a long-held stance against marijuana legalization on Wednesday, saying on Twitter that “my thinking on cannabis has evolved.”

Mr. Boehner, a Republican leader who in 2011 told a constituent he was “unalterably opposed” to legalization, joined the board of advisers of Acreage Holdings, a cannabis corporation that operates in 11 states.

"I can make money on it now, so it's all good. So **** those people who are in jail because I'm gonna get mine."

 

[RanzB]

The new rightwing strategy to discredit the strikes that have erupted in protest against cuts in education funding and poor teacher pay

Who needs an educated population when a moron like Trump can become president?

Nothing has symbolized the school funding crisis in Oklahoma quite like images of old, tattered textbooks that students still use.

Photos of textbooks with missing pages and duct-taped spines have gone viral on social media. Not to mention the geography books published when the Soviet Union still existed, or social studies books that were new three presidencies ago.

Of all the photos, this one posted below by a mom and former school teacher from Ada, Oklahoma, might be the most disheartening.

In a Facebook post, Shelly Bryan Parker describes how excited her daughter was to find out that country music star Blake Shelton used her first-grade reading textbook. Then she describes how ashamed she was when she realized that Shelton is 41 and used that same book 36 years ago — back when it was new.

The photo explains why Oklahoma teachers are so angry with lawmakers, and why they’ve been on strike for seven days. They are pushing back against a decade of state tax cuts that triggered deep cuts in education spending, forcing about 20 percent of public schools to switch to a four-day-week schedule and pushing average teacher salaries to rank 49th in the country. Teachers haven’t gotten a raise in 10 years.

Even though lawmakers agreed to boost their pay, teachers say it’s not enough. They want the state to restore more than $200 million in funding for public schools cut from the budget since 2008.

And they want their kids to have textbooks that aren’t as old as Blake Shelton.

"Loser teachers not satisfied with pay rise, also want money to actually educate children! SAD! "

These morons don't understand why teachers are still striking despite a pay rise. The thought of doing something for others is completely foreign to them.

 

[rietrot]

It's not hyperbole. Trump misspells the most basic words, like 'tap', 'honored', 'borne', 'council vs counsel', 'heal vs heel', 'dying', and so on. I consider that to be functional illiteracy. It's disgraceful to be honest.

illiterate

ɪˈlɪt(ə)rət/

adjective

1.

unable to read or write.

"his parents were illiterate"

synonyms:unable to read or write,*unlettered,*analphabetic,*functionally illiterate

"he was no illiterate peasant"

noun

1.

a person who is unable to read or write.

you are using it as a hyperbole ie. Exaggerating

And those obviously misspelled words are secret messages that links up with Qannon's post.

 

[C4Cat]

Dilutional as always. So preventing teachers from striking is destroying education. Makes perfect sense.

And those obviously misspelled words are secret messages that links up with Qannon's post.

Were you sending a secret message too, with your spelling of Dilutional? Just curious as you shouldn't actually tell people when your post contains a secret message for Qanon or whoever you're involved with...

 

[scudsucker]

Apparently the quarantine of patient zero shortly after the start of the Qanon-believer epidemic was unsuccessful.

And for rietrot: Functional Illiteracy

 

[cerebus]

you are using it as a hyperbole ie. Exaggerating

I'm not exaggerating at all. If you can't spell 'tap', you are illiterate as far as I'm concerned. My 8 year old son can spell better than that.

And those obviously misspelled words are secret messages that links up with Qannon's post.

:crylaugh: another qanonite?

 

[C4Cat]

Apparently the quarantine of patient zero shortly after the start of the Qanon-believer epidemic was unsuccessful.

And for rietrot: Functional Illiteracy

FTFY

 

[The_Assimilator]

I see the tried-and-failed lefty tactic of telling others how stupid they are is still being tried out. Hilarious!

Almost as funny as your tears.

 

[konfab]

Counter arguments? No way you actually believe that.

They are counter arguments, nothing more and nothing less. Unless of course you want to put teacher's strikes on the ever increasing list of haram topics that people are not allowed to criticism.

 

[konfab]

It's not hyperbole. Trump misspells the most basic words, like 'tap', 'honored', 'borne', 'council vs counsel', 'heal vs heel', 'dying', and so on. I consider that to be functional illiteracy. It's disgraceful to be honest.

I think it is more along the lines that he doesn't care about spelling.

 

[cerebus]

I think it is more along the lines that he doesn't care about spelling.

Well you know he is like a really smart guy so you could be on to something

 

[konfab]

Apparently the quarantine of patient zero shortly after the start of the Qanon-believer epidemic was unsuccessful.

And for rietrot: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5102880/]Functional Illiteracy [/url]

In sum, functional illiterates seem to have linguistic deficits in several domains, including phonological, orthographic and lexical processing, oral and reading comprehension, and verbal fluency. However, these deficits may not be homogeneous. It is important to note that correlated or co-morbid deficits are not necessarily functionally causal. What is more, they do not necessarily add unique variance to the diagnostic assessment. Finally, we do not know whether the linguistic inabilities described above are their main difficulties or whether these are due to or influenced by other more general cognitive factors

Is him misspelling things on Twitter really evidence of this?

In sum, it is clear that functional illiterates deviate from adults; their performance seems to be more similar to children. However, basic control variables (e.g., intelligence) are often missing, when the cognitive abilities of functional illiterates are assessed. Moreover, again participant selection could drive the results and the subsequent interpretations of deficits. Nevertheless, the available data point to the view that functional illiterates seem to show various cognitive deficits. However, the question about whether these deficits are (partially) causal for the functional illiteracy or just co-morbid impairments remains unanswered so far (Supplementary Table S2).

Yes, because we see children running successful multi million dollar corporations and winning elections. Hmm...

Wikipedia gives some interesting stats:

In developed countries, the level of functional literacy of an individual is proportional to income level and inversely proportional to the risk of committing crime. For example, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics in the United States:[3]

Over 60% of adults in the US prison system read at or below the fourth grade level
85% of US juvenile inmates are functionally illiterate
43% of adults at the lowest level of literacy lived below the poverty line, as opposed to 4% of those with the highest levels of literacy.

According to begintoread.com:[4]

Two-thirds of students who cannot read proficiently by the fourth grade will end up in jail or on welfare.
Three out of four individuals who receive food stamps read on the two lowest levels of literacy.
16-to-19-year-old girls at the poverty line and below with below-average reading skills are 6 times more likely to have out-of-wedlock children than their more literate counterparts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy

Lets see:
'Juveniles' who commit crimes:
Food stamp recipients.
Single mothers.

That sounds like the stereotypical Democrat voter...

 

[konfab]

Well you know he is like a really smart guy so you could be on to something

Functional illiteracy as I point out in my previous post is more like your average homeless person/democrat voter than the president of the country.

If you wanted a better choice of word for not caring about spelling it would be uncultured.

 

[RanzB]

They are counter arguments, nothing more and nothing less. Unless of course you want to put teacher's strikes on the ever increasing list of haram topics that people are not allowed to criticism.

I'd love to hear valid reasons for slashing education budgets and teacher pay in this situation.

I think it is more along the lines that he doesn't care about spelling.

Stable genius that he is? Ya you're probably right. I mean it's not like this is a guy who is quick to pounce on any opportunity to tell others how smart he is. Coz it obviously takes a super-genius to spell the word tap.

Tap.

T. A. P.

T
A
P

 

[cerebus]

Functional illiteracy as I point out in my previous post is more like your average homeless person/democrat voter than the president of the country.

If you wanted a better choice of word for not caring about spelling it would be uncultured.

If you can't spell the word 'dying' without making a basic mistake, your reading level isn't high enough to be President. Sorry, I don't know how you can argue with that. There should be at least some qualification to hold that position, beyond a popularity contest.

 

[scudsucker]

If you can't spell the word 'dying' without making a basic mistake, your reading level isn't high enough to be President. Sorry, I don't know how you can argue with that. There should be at least some qualification to hold that position, beyond a popularity contest.

In grade 3 (age 8) we had spelling tests with words like anaesthetic and cyanide, and Mr. Trump can't manage basic spelling... on his phone... WHICH HAS A SPELLING CHECK built into it?

 

[scudsucker]

Functional illiteracy ... is more like your average homeless person/democrat voter

Lovely view into your mind there.