Thank you

I urge people to read Alinsky's but not because I appreciate his work and apply it to my life. It's more of a know thy enemy type relationship lol.

That is very important. I never like to go to something unprepared. I always try to make sure that I am familiar and preferably confident in opposing viewpoints prior to engaging. People’s views can and should be used against them to expose how there are potential flaws.

Don’t get me wrong. Everything man made has the potential to be flawed.

His last paragraph in his book forward sums things up.

Oh wow.

Once you get to know his works then you can do a little adventure and see what important political figures in the US studied under his tutelage and the bigger picture will become more clear.

Are you familiar with... GOTV And MiniVan?

Can't say that I am.

Ok. They are the organizations that fund most voting organizations. Owned by the same people/groups of people.

Deliberately fund opposing groups.

Sounds about right

People don’t talk about the funding for canvassing.

If people exposed how targeted canvassing and get out the vote projects are then they would be made illegal.

I think we can all agree the last thing the powers to be want are a unified people.

Kind of it doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes type deal?

Absolutely.

The problem lies within...if people do the canvassing can they do it without bias?...if not even machines aren't flawless because they are subjected to human bias.

It's a proverbial catch 22 if there ever was one.

The canvassing is decided upon by bias. They choose neighborhoods based on race and socioeconomic conditions. Then they push their agenda and make sure they are eligible to vote and if not help them get registered.

The machines are attached to the internet. That’s a huge fucking flaw.

100%

That's like begging for foreign interference

Trueees

It blows my mind. I really thought that would be illegal.

It was at one point but I assume but I struggle to find current law stating it’s legality.

Then you go into the realm of can you prove that someone did it intentionally or was it another "whoopsie."

Did they really take pelosis computer or hard drive?

I've been seeing the memes everywhere

And shit on her desk

Sorry. Very cracked screen.

I need to get out and get a new phone.

A dude did get arrested for shitting in her San fran house driveway

At least that trespassing wasn’t a felony

And I mean.

I wouldn’t object to someone doing it again

I think it's legal to pop a deuce on san fran streets

Which kind of humored me that Pelosi got the man arrested.

I would assume so given the percentage of homeless people and I am curious how that is being prosecuted when places in CA are not even prosecuting Drunk Driving And releasing prisoners

It’s very shady that that is Enforced while other horrendous acts are not.

Exactly. Some poor secret service guy probably had to pick it up.

Like literally I don't get paid enough for this shit.

I look at people like her and the last thing I think is government of the people by the people

I am really hoping that a movement to change the constitution and add an amendment for congress term limits will eventually happen.

Term limits absolutely

Couldn't agree more

I mean. Especially with career politicians, most of them have a goal of becoming president. Either that or they are content with taking people’s money and taking it and taking it and increasing their own payment and pensions and people forget that the government is a non-money making entity. It is solely paid for by the taxpayer.

I firmly believe that there needs to be a nationwide history program that teaches actual history and also teaches about the way the government works. I think it should not vary from state to state.

If it’s American history it should be the same across the board. History is not subject to how a state views it.

@Livingstone fckn amen to that. The way we teach history and truth is laughable. The only issue there is if we regulate the teachings of history, if the government controls that regulation, they can lie all they want and it will be the status quo.

Very true.

A seriously fine-line on education across the board

It really bugs me that censorship of history is being promoted. It blows my mind. I wish that there was a baseline and then the state could expand on it but could not detract from it. I don’t believe that it should be regulated by the government. But I do believe that it should be the same across the board.

adding to that, the whole "common core" math they're teaching is absurdity, and making people dumber. And I'm not a boomer like people stereotype anti-commoncore people with, i'm in my mid'20's. wtf happened to mathematics.

Dude I turn 27 next month. I don’t understand common core. My roommate, well ex roommate, is going to be a teacher. She was some six years younger than me and she and her younger sister who is 10 years younger than me both have experience with common core. I don’t understand how they can be so not smart. I wouldn’t call her dumb. But she can’t do basic writing, reading, Or math. 

Like. She just can’t. She can’t read quickly. Hast to read something multiple times to process it. And her writing is atrocious. She is going to be an educator.

Not a D’s Get degrees educator. I don’t even know how to describe it.

Truth, my sister got her degree in education and she is constantly complaining about how everyone in the system is dense. They might not necessarily be dumb, but the way they've been taught to interpret/compute things is so braindead, they can't problem-solve at all on their own.

They don’t have any critical thinking skills. They are incapable of coming to their own conclusion or producing individual analysis.

It’s bull shit.

I'm a programmer for a living, and literally all you do is problemsolve, so when people have an issue understanding things like percentages i'm totally taken aback. I had a debate with a friend over mixing 2 cans of beer together, he said it'd make 10% alcohol if he mixed 2 5% beers together. This guy has a DEGREE

Oh my god that’s so funny

I genuinely witch cackled.

I laughed too but internally i was a bit upset. wtf happened to education, my lord.

I mean if he wants to make a homemade black and tan that is one thing.

I’m working on getting my degree atm.

Rhetoric. I take time off to work in the real world and make money so I can go to school because I don’t believe in student loans.

Some of the people, man. Like these young girls that are so alt leftist. Especially from the early childhood and education field. They just don’t make any sense.

And when they get out they’ll be preschool and elementary teachers with debt.

It breaks my heart that they are the teachers of the future when they are so. Bleh.

Side note. Did you ever watch the IT crowd?

Agreed, the upcoming generation of teachers are a total heartbreaker. Despite the fact that they're mostly indoctrinated by leftist ideals, they also are just NOT critical thinkers at all. They're the kinds of teachers that get mad when students point out a mistake they made during teaching and might even punish for it. It's a sad state of affairs.

And no, I have not.

I absolutely agree. It is really sad. It’s a British humor show. Predates big bang theory. It’s… Not the same thing as programming. But it does center around IT.

I don’t want to be a teacher. I actually do want to make money and do something with my life. But I will fall into teaching probably by the time I hit 45.

That is my goal. I don’t wanna seek being a teacher. I want to fall into it when the time is right.

@Skizerz they've really done a disservice to teachers in the US. It's absolutely pathetic how they are treated.

Education in this country is abysmal at best. My daughter is in a Charter school, which is at least a slight improvement over Public School, but I still worry for her education.

There are aspects of potential protection for our education institutions, but those protections could limit diversity of topics and freedom of information. I just wish there was a way to mandate fact only delivery. No propaganda or opinions.

Only in the US do you have to pay a premium for a decent education. In my case I was sent to a catholic school and it was bad comparatively to public school because of lack of resources.

@AlexanderTorri agree 100% cut out the bs indoctrination.

Our higher education systems have always had a romance with ideological systems such as communism/ socialism. I don't know if you've ever heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn but he was boo'ed out of Harvard for presenting an anti-communism speech.

The question is how is elimination of indoctrination communicated through legal language without limiting liberties? There is a freedom of press and speech granted by the 1st amendment. Anything contrary to the broad envelope created by the language is automatically unconstitutional. So it seems propaganda is even protected.

Lol figures...

You control the language you control the narrative.

Democrats seem to be predominantly ideologues. When they are challenged the backlash they bring is chaotic.

Such is the case when your ideology is based off of emotion rather than fact.

Conservative ideology is practical and based off of historical understanding. When the status quo is challenged, they panic.

We need a mix... an ideological basis with a strong root in tradition

Ideology wrapped with emotions is child like and representative of immaturity. Realistically, an assessment of emotional response to challenge should be a determining factor in assessing a person’s compatibility for holding a governmental position... lol

The problem is the ideologies wane and wax with the current system... too conservative it shifts liberal too liberal it shifts conservative. There's really never balance. Just shifts in power.

Oh no... definitely don’t want to control ideology, let it be fluid. The problem is when emotions are in the mix.

I agree to that.

I think improvements in education would help a lot of the growing pains associated with that. Gullible, less educated people tend to fall in to the trap of basing their decision off of emotion over fact.

The primary difference that I have noticed between many liberals and conservatives is where the blame is placed. On one’s self, conservative. On others, liberal.

And by education I mean classical education not the indoctrination systems we see today.

I agree

I think what you said falls down to culture.

It’s unfortunately cultural

Monetary status seems to contribute to cultural divide, but socialist ideology is no solution.

You're absolutely right.

Monetary status is aided by self-empowerment and factual education.

Cultural divides exist because many are told they are powerless. Education is to blame solely for that mindset.

A lot has happened to make people feel that no matter how hard they work their outcome will never change.

If we as a society overcome victim thought, then capitalism will flourish.

I think the US could use a lot of job place reform to change that thought though.

Corruption and propagandist education happened

What ideas do you have for job place reform?

You've got people who perform hard work and they get paid just as much as the slacker in the next cubicle.

Ah... minimum wage

We need to get rid of that crap

No more like merit based reward systems

Pay people what they are worth and what they contribute... not based on “political correctness feeling fixing” crap

Even in jobs that pay decent the same issues prevail

The people who work hard never get promoted because they carry their teammates....leads to stagnation

In other words remove socialism from the US work force.

Regulations and high business tax limit available resource allocation. When combined with minimum wage, the available funds to pay based on merits is limited.

I agree

Ban unions too

That's when the federal government gives tax breaks to the business and tax companies that utilize foreign resources more heavily.

But you have to do something to ensure that the money isn't just shoved in the ceo's pockets.

The foreign crap needs to stop in my opinion. Seeking out cheaper employment and punishing companies with higher taxes for employing internally makes no sense.

Yes it's an absolute abomination to our economy

The ceo needs money to grow the company and expand services/products. Limiting his/her funds makes no sense.

No I mean the ceo's personal gain

Why?

He created the company, right?

Point taken

The point is making some of that money reach the lower forces in the company.

There is a whole other solution to that issue other than limiting the ceo.

I'm all ears

Self empowerment allows the individual to understand they are not a victim and do not have to maintain employment within a company. If they feel the ceo’s values do not align with their own, they have the ability to leave. If enough were to believe that and leave a bad ceo, he/she would be best suited to change their style and practices to suit his/her employees. CEOs are held up by the workforce. If they have no workforce, they have no capital gain... and thus no business.

I like that.

Great point.

That was the issue back before the unions were popularized. People believed they were victims and had no choice in the matter. So they begged the government to allow representation from unions to “punish” ceos.

The terrible education people receive limit them from understanding their own power and capability.

Those who are successful know one thing very well. Their own effort and drive is what makes or breaks.

Yeah it's a tough thing to do when people start out their lives in so much debt mainly due to college cost inflation. It's basically entrapment.

I have a terrible habit of procrastination, which is my own problem and what limits my own ability to succeed.

Yeah... tuition rates are another travesty.

People back in the 60's could work a part time job and have college paid off by the time they graduate. I'm still paying on mine almost a decade later and I make a decent salary.

I made right at 93k this year in an area that has a median salary of 40k.

But... in all honesty... the belief that you have to pay exorbitant rates for a good education is what allows private and public universities to charge those rates. If people understood their education is in their own hands (internet) and they don’t have to get the most expensive degree at the most expensive school to be “recognized”, then the tuition issue would solve itself in time.

Ignorance and victim thought gives power to these institutions.

Schools are a business too and if they have no students, they have no business.

A smart ceo will adjust rates to compete.

I think that thought back feeds from work places requiring degrees for jobs that they didn't. It only perpetuates from there.

Yep

Ignorance at it’s finest

The people in the US are way more powerful than they believe.

Like I wanted to apply for an environmental position at my work and the guy before had no degree. When they post his position it now requires a bs/ms in environmental science or equivalent.

US exceptionalism is a real thing.

It definitely sounds unfair, but do you have to stand for it? Nope. You have the freedom to go work for someone with integrity. But it all depends on situations of course.

It sounds like you are in a government job?

Energy sector

Not govt

Slightly limiting... relocating would probably be required if you were to find a comparable position at a different company.

Unfortunately, not everyone can relocate.

So I see where your grievance could be stemming from

Does the company you work for have a monopoly over the area?

My limiting factor is being able to move.

Yep. Relocating

But that's a personal thing. The company I work for covers the entirety of the south east.

If only there were more energy companies to enable solid competition and choice.

There are plenty I'm just stuck mainly due to personal things like family and having young kids.

I used to live around Round Rock, Texas and the beautiful thing there is we had a plethora of energy companies to select from. Going into Austin though... there is a monopoly.

Makes sense. Sorry to hear you feel stuck.

It is what it is. I make a good salary. Just feel like I can contribute more if given the opportunity.

I hate the idea of schmoozing, but have you considered it?

What's that?

Getting to be good friends with the boss

Sadly, the biggest issue in workforce is there is a heavy “who you know” influence.

Ah yeah. I've got a solid relationship with my boss. I'm pretty much the go to guy.... but that in its own right is limiting.

Hmm

Have you directly asked him to pull some strings for you?

I could do better at that. I've at least vocalized that I don't want to stay at my current job forever and have signed up for outside training and development but that usually gets shutdown or denied.

Does your company offer a career development map?

Yes. I've filled out my pathway and submitted it to where management can see it.

It sounds like you’ll need to hound your boss for internal resources and string pulling. He needs to be your advocate and right hand man on this.

I need to get a mentor in one of my areas of interest and we have a program for that but my application always gets denied.

Do you know why?

Outside of you weren't selected, not really.

See if your boss can find out more info on why you weren’t selected.

I definitely will next go around but I think it will be fruitless... they really can't say that you don't fit the demographic if you know what I mean.

Ahh...

That's the really frustrating part

So I take it you are a straight white male?

https://youtu.be/BUqSy1qzc4E has anyone taken a look at this??

@AlexanderTorri indeed

@Zeke what's the tldr on this. I'm watching but it's an hour long.

Lol 😂 you caught me. I didn’t wanna watch it all and was hoping someone else would hahahaha

The background voice is just a guide. The relevant info is the scrolling script of legal docs from a court case. I’m guessing that it is all the movements a person took to do everything in legal fashion but was turned away from the courts despite appealing each time

I’ll watch it later but I’m out and about atm.

If it has subtitles I can watch it now.

Nope. No captions available.

Nope. Just a visual showing of court adjudications with random sad man talking in the background

Totally can’t multitask like that

After I get my Taco Bell I’ll watch and update y’all. Give me 30

@Zeke doesn't help that the background music is louder than his voice.

Thank goodness it’s Friday...

No but the voice has nothing to do with the visual — which is the entire point. I suspect this was done to disguise it to prevent it being taken down

Can someone tell me if Parler is working?

Parler not working for me either.

😲

Wtf

Interesting time for it to go down

Trumps account being fully suspended on Twitter right before it

It might have been overloaded by a crap ton of people joining today. Thats what happened when it first caught on, but you never know.

I wonder if Trump will finally join Parler

It is overloaded

Probably so. He, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell all blocked on twitter. Bannon’s war room has been removed from YouTube

This is fucking garbage and a giant steaming shit on freedom and free speech from Big Tech

Apple and Google are getting pressure about Parler now

Look at what rudy Juliani posted on his you tube.

Link?

Found

https://youtu.be/BwSxVvRFMJA

Its on his channel on you tube not hard to find.

You beat me too it lol

Sorry friend. At this point, I imagine things have to be released and re released because so many things have been removed.

No problem at all.

I cant see the message history. Can you please fix it

Good video from mayor Giuliani. Just finished it.

I’m late to the game. But this just in from WSJ

Apple may take down Parler

This is why section 230 needed to pass

But the fools didn’t listen

Trump, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell all blocked on twitter. Bannon’s war room has been removed from YouTube

They are acting as publishers and are no longer forums. Must be removed.

Must be held accountable.

The overreach tells me they are in full blown panic to be honest...

Those old foggies must not yet know about discord but it’s only a matter of time. Fuck!

It’s not looking good, y’all.

555888 and text TRUMPET

Yes. It could either make Martyrs or be hella effective because tbh they are so old.

88022 and text TRUMP

What are those?

Other methods to gain info

Thank you

They just shut down Parler

The one free place to voice

This is crazy

Holy shit are you sure it’s not just overloaded

It’s been overwhelmed today.

Go to the App Store via android or google

It’s taken off

But that doesn’t mean it still doesn’t work if you have the app

Right? Let me check

Use duck duck go and it will work