Did you see Floyd's "Girl"?
RINOs hate this fact. I got banned for a board just for mentioning the huge difference between how the FBI handled the multi-billion, dozens-of-deaths Summer Riots, vs. the handful of misdemeanor 'unauthorized access" "Insurrection" on Jan 6th
The guys BS excuse was "Whataboutery". As if pointing out the SAME org in the same short timeframe treated two very different levels of crime very differently is "Whataboutery"
Winning. And this all happened despite a full court press major media gaslighting campaign.
But please, we need more things to buy than bath salts and dream catchers.
It's depressing when "Buy American" sites have nothing but Collectible Elvis Plates and Scented Candles.
True! Ernst Rohm of the SA was caught in bed with his Gay Lovers.
CHINA stole the election with help from their Wall Street and Democrats and the FAGAT companies.
Spot on. This has been front of my mind the past few weeks.
Explains why we get tax cuts and bank deregulation, but no action of closing the border after 25 years of Republicans promising it every election and having the House most of that time.
Republicans are famous for standing on certain Principles at the exact wrong time.
This is a great example.
We have a major problem with Marxist Indoctrination and worrying about incentivizing textbooks is not really important right now.
Fixing the Marxist Indoctrination is Job #1, providing renumeration for highly politicized left-wing companies is Job #2,453.
"Just concentrate on educating people about the Laffer Curve, guys. That's the real way we win this. Stop with the culture wars!" - RINOs
Holy cow, that Courtney Ross has one hell of a man's face.
Ha, a second counterfeit $20 bill when the EMT who went to the 2019 arrest, as a witness.
What's your solution, your strategy to Win?
You got it - Woven and printed in the USA. From Southern Cotton, probably woven in a Mill in the Carolinas, and printed by some entrepreneur in his basement in Anytown, USA.
Most people don't pay attention. Most Textbooks in Most Public Schools are woke. They are selected by woke EduAdmins and Teacher's Union Activists. There's also very little choice, the field in dominated by 2-3 big textbook publishers. Then there's all the kickbacks in terms of campaign donations and paid for trips to conferences in exotic locations.
There's no reason to pay tens of millions annually for textbooks across the state, when the state can commission it's own textbook and provide it for a fraction of the cost. There's way too much contractor domination of Government at all levels. Plus, local printers can print it free of charge as public material and make some money selling to students who prefer a paper copy.
Same reason the Little NH town I lived in had a libertarian school board member, he agreed - it was far cheaper for the school to provide it's own buses than to contract with Gaylord, who demanded a minimum yearly fee if a number of students to be picked up wasn't reached. The cost was not justified by the small number of students. Sometimes the Gov just doing it is cheaper and better.
It starves the EduAdmin & Textbook beast, while eliminating Wokey and Hokum, like the apocryphal Betsy Ross getting two pages on her alleged flag design (the evidence for this is scanty, it's mostly a folk tale) while Washington gets only a few paragraphs in a Major School Book used by 10k's of High Schools.
We have one of the highest per-pupil expenditures in the country, and the cost of K-12 textbooks plays a substantial role in that.
If we learned anything in the past year, it's that Corporations pursue their own interests, against America and American Values in many instances. Such as Massively Subsidized Delta, to Coca-Cola. Not to mention import-dependent Amazon, and thus the bias of WaPo, both owned by Bezos.
The Chinese are pulling off what Krushchev vowed to do - subverting America by bribing and offering cheap shit to Bureaucrats AND Corporate America.
Public K-12 and Unis use textbooks too. They add hundreds, sometimes thousands, per year unnecessarily to the cost of TAXPAYER funded education.
Algebra doesn't change every 5-7 years and require all new textbooks. Neither does English Composition, Art History, and many other subjects.
Textbooks are ground zero for kickbacks and Taxpayer fleecing and Social Justice Propaganda. Not to mention EduFads ("Whole Math, Sight Reading, Diversity").
Open source textbooks created and issued by the state would cost a fraction to develop and deploy than Private Textbooks which sell mostly due to kickbacks and propaganda.
Additionally, in Red States the textbooks would be under popular control. Private Textbooks are generally written to appeal to Leftwing Teacher's Union and Social Science Communist Teachers and Professors, along with Board Members with long connections to the EduOctopus.
There are 90s RINOs on this board who won't like what you're saying.
I always ask "What is the lat. and long. of this intellectual property?"
No problem with copyright for life of the author/27 years for a company (they need a timeframe because companies are theoretically immortal). Patents somewhat similarly.
But the idea of "IP" on Children's Stories or Birthday Songs getting on a century old is absurd.
The dirty secret is that 80% of the content is written by 30-something Liberal Arts BAs and very little by the illustrious professors listed as the authors, who mostly get paid for name use. Sometimes all they do is review a few paragraphs.
Textbook industry is a massive, massive political influencer. States should really just hire based profs to write a textbook, good on many subjects for a decade with maybe an occasional revision, would cost a couple of million bucks, and upload it.
Or people could just do this and get the state to make it part of the Curriculum.
Taking over K-12 and State U's should be a top priority. That and suing the shit out of every Leftist Org and power center for the least of reasons, all the time.
That's how the Left took over, they got into Education and sued every American Institution until they won some crazy lawsuits and create precedence.
I know more people who had bad reactions to the various vaccines than I do who had anything worse than a mild symptoms from the WuFlu.
Yep, Heaven Forbid a woman does something considerate for her man. That's anti-feminist!
Left 1960-2010: Question Authority, you ignorant rube. Left 2010: Trust the Experts, you ignorant rube.
I love Hedonics.
I have three T-shirts, $12 jobbies from Rock Concerts, that are solid as hell. I still wear them when working out or doing chores. They're at least 25 years old, and other than the black color fading away, they're free of holes.
Brought some plain T-shirts last year from two brand name companies at national retailer, they have holes in them and are thin as shit. They cost about $15 each.
Both sets of shirts are "100% cotton".
The T-shirts of today are of greatly lower quality than the ones of decades ago.
Not to mention the Reproducibility Crisis, the Hiding of Methodology and Data years after an experiment concludes, and the notorious P-hacking. Usually tax-payer funded science, too.
Mostly to preserve Grant money and generate Prestige.
Exactly how I learned the Scientific Method, about 25-30 years ago in JHS/HS.
Yep, the same people who admire Immigrants for being willing to live in a truck or old camper behind somebody's property and their "Work Ethic", will turn around and say "White Trash" if a White guy tries to save money by doing likewise.