The Airbenders went from a nation of peaceful nomads to being reborn as international cops without borders.

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Do you know what happened in Ukraine in the week before Feb 24 2022? Or the 8 years before that?

Pretty much every assuming USians have about Russia comes from Nazi propaganda.

I think one issue is you are looking at schools as a monolith which of course has deep systemic and systematic problems. But schools can vary hugely in the quality of education. I’m not just talking about the difference between rural Alabama vs suburban California, even schools in the same district can vary a lot in quality of education delivered.

Calling the system a failure in every way is extreme to the point of being meaningless. Students do still learn how to read and write, basic maths and science, basic history. Obviously those are biased, especially history, but consider what would happen if there were no public schools even flawed as they might be. Children would literally be taught that the Earth is 3000 years old, Adam and Eve were the first humans, and in Utah that Native Americans were a Jewish tribe that had their skin turned red because of their sin.

There are shitty and abusive teachers out there, but I genuinely believe that most are in it to help children and are handcuffed by the system. And many, many teachers do their best to educate within the limitations of that system.

Cutting cops budgets tomorrow would immediately help people. Cutting school budgets would immediately make things worse for children. I urge you to rethink your position. We shouldn’t eliminate hospitals because the healthcare is shit.

Isn’t that being idealistic though? In socialist society every institution would look completely different. But we are nowhere near building socialism in America and children need to go to school. So some compromise has to be made. And I would 100% rather tax dollars go to teachers and students rather than cops.

Any place where hot dogs have every single veggie in the food pyramid loaded on top.

Okay those are socialist societies. Under capitalism capitalist propaganda is taught. I’m for public education, but not forcing it. Tell me how you can justify using violence on a literal child so they can learn how great slaveowners were and how to be a good working peon.

Public education is one of the basic principles of any socialist program. Public education was one of the very first things the USSR and Cuba did. Uneducated people fall easier to propaganda.

Teachers are cops and being pro teacher is pro cop. Literally if you try to refuse public school as a child, violent enforcement will be threatened and eventually called if you don’t confirm.

Being anti-public education is literally a fascist talking point and one that’s dangerously popular with US conservatives already. Public education is far from perfect, but removing resources will make every single problem with it worse. Besides, teacher’s unions are one of the last viable union careers.

I’ll get us started: compulsory public education in a capitalist society is prone to child abuse. It’s where imperial propaganda gets ingrained and where people who want power over children have unlimited access to control them.

Compulsory public school is a topic that could easily turn into a struggle session.

Don’t forget Boko Haram got their start of Libya’s destruction too.

Tan suit Dijon mustard was amusing until I realized how much of politics is theater. It was just too blatant this time, but so much of American news is only slightly more serious than Dijon mustard.

Is that a paragraph of text? Nope that’s a leftist meme.

I’m gonna try to follow your logic in good faith. If both Russia and the US should be held accountable for their crimes, then who should actually hold them accountable?

NATO is the international arm of the US military and it has committed war crimes over its entire decades of existence, some of the most recent ones in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. If the US is to be held equally accountable for their actions as the RF should be, then all NATO operations should be held under the same scrutiny.

So by this logic how can you support a NATO in it’s actions in Ukraine. Before Russia invaded, NATO was supported the bombing of the Donbass and the destruction of that region. If the US and NATO has a history of destabilizing regions through warfare for the benefit of the US, how can any of their actions be justified?

But what if I want dead US troops?

Probably a two part emoji or it’s too small.

that it sends a message to other dictators

What message is America sending to the dictators that we bankroll while they perform genocide using US equipment and training?