He certainly wasn’t trying to reach a shared truth. He was trying to win the argument. Which is usually the point of debate. But it would be nice if the goal was to reach a shared truth…

No the reason he asked that question about gang violence is because gang violence numbers are a huge percentage of mass shooting numbers, so if you take them out of the calculation then the percentage of trans shooters is much higher and it is a debate about trans shooters. On the other hand, if you include those numbers then it is a debate about guns in general and ideologies or mental health issues get lost in the noise. I would guess he mostly wanted to make a point that the definition of mass shooting is not really in line with how people think of them.

Lol it’s a brutally lazy photoshop

Ok Kristina.

Ours was the health teacher. It was an open secret that he put the hot girls right up front even though he made it very clear that seating was random. He also enjoyed sex ed topics way too much. I don’t think he ever got caught, but he was very weird.

I found pastors at number 3, behind teachers and music teachers.

Way better to have foreigners working for less than a living wage, earning 2 cents per hour and giving birth to more factory workers, am I right? But for real, the right answer is that nobody should live like that, so how do we change things? What steps can we take to wean ourselves out of the consumption driven economy? Tbh this might do it, or at least push it in that direction.

The issue is that nobody has ever heard of anyone destroying roadside memorials. There is no comparison because it isn’t a thing.

No. I’ve literally never heard of such a thing and nobody would do that. No idea what op is going on about.

The ubermensch concept was very popular in the early to mid 1900s, and has even been attempted before! Refer to world War 2 and Nazi ideology for more reading on that topic.

So which parts of the picture are true?

She could do the exact same thing and nobody would say anything about it. Nobody would consider for a second that she actually meant to do a salute. Why would she? What in her history would make anyone think she is aligned with nazis? What could she hope to accomplish doing such a thing to the type of crowd she would be speaking to? The very idea is preposterous, and for that reason it wouldn’t even be considered.

Solar is way less reliable because it’s efficiency depends on outside temperature and on the sun, but it’s more versatile in that it can provide general electricity where geothermal is only good for heating and cooling. It just hasn’t quite broken through to be cost effective enough. People would buy it if it were. I’d like solar and a battery as an emergency backup, but it’s tough to justify.

I’m talking about point of use. I know a bunch of people who spent a few thousand extra to get geothermal installed and paid it off in a matter of a couple years, and 20 years later they still have cheap, all electric heating and cooling. Solar takes 15 to 20 years last i checked, and then your panels need to be replaced. Wind isn’t even an option.

But yeah that’s really only for point of use energy and is only marginally applicable to scale operations.

They like geothermal though, for the simple reason that it’s actually cheaper in the long run. Also solar is nice because you can live off the grid. But otherwise it’s not very popular among conservatives because the cost effectiveness in the long term isn’t quite there. They aren’t motivated by the idea of green energy, it’s a simple cost calculation.

Yes but I’m saying what if Musk did that.

No it’s not that one, which was an obvious crop job. Another guy found it in one of the other comments. Again, it’s not that I’m saying that AOC did the salute, just that what if Elon did the same exact thing? It’s a double standard because he would be treated differently for it because of all the other context. But my point is that it’s not unreasonable for there to be a double standard given the context of who did it.

Ok… Did you see the AOC video though? Imagine Elon doing that and tell me what you would think about it. It would look a lot different coming from him, and that’s my point.

Yeah but imagine Musk doing that exact thing. I’m pretty sure it would hit a lot different.

You totally missed the point…