@mott-the-hoople said
so many lies so little time right?

You must think the video is CGI and the witnesses are bribed by reptoids?

"Assault on school personnel was the third most reported form of crime and violence in North Carolina public schools after possession of controlled substances and possession of weapons. Statewide, there were 1,482 assaults by students against public school employees during the 2022-2023 school year."

"Grades 9-12: 329 assaults"

https://www.wavy.com/news/how-often-do-students-assault-teachers-and-school-personnel-in-north-carolina/

A primary justification for public education is teaching civics: understanding your rights and obligations, understanding the law, etc. We can’t expect people to obey the law if they are never taught what it is.

In this case, depending on the outcome, the students might get a VERY wrong idea about this incident. For example, in a “stand you ground” state, just off school property, the teacher might draw a pistol after the first slap and shoot the student dead before he delivers the second.

No way these students appreciate that aspect of the lesson.

@rajk999 said
It would be worthwhile to try to deal with the root cause of addiction. All these addictions is a fairly recent thing. I would think that some of these causes are:
- weak parental control
- parents and society that have addictions themselves so they are in no position to correct neither can they lead by example
- too much free time among young people.
- boredom

There are links between childhood trauma and addiction.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/understanding-addiction/202109/why-trauma-can-lead-to-addiction

@averagejoe1 said
Well, my my.....no answer abut Omar demanding her daughter's release after breaking the law?

She didn't.

Not that I can see.

@wajoma said
Let's end with roads.

LOL. Fair enough.

I have never had a libertarian answer that question. They are like 'But the theory is so beautiful!' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but in practice? Not so much...'

I think Bill Maher can keep his conservative fantasies to himself.

I mean, is Trump on his writing team now?

And yes, De Santis was wrong on Disney.

Being 'woke', for a corporation, is a GOOD thing.

It's De Santis that flew off the deep end by unilaterally calling everything 'woke' as bad. He's wrong. The fools who followed him off that deep end, especially some democrats who didn't want to be seen as 'missing the boat', were just as bad. The word was black slang, and just exactly like everything black that white people touch, they ruined it.

So to all the white people who helped reverse the entire meaning of 'woke', and made it mean something bad, let me just extend my middle finger to you all, along with a big, fat "F--- you!"

Have a nice day!

@averagejoe1 said
With my every post, I have this underlying '"How can these people stand behind Joe Biden for 4 more years, where they fully know that the WH is run 90% by people in their 20s, with big plans to socialize the United States of America."" That would be all of our left posters; They fallow the mantra of Kamala Harris. ".....just as long as, at the end of the day, we all end up in the same place'.

Should not one strive to have their own place?

Stop lying, already.

@mott-the-hoople said
takes a lowlife pos to cheer on such corruption as this

He's on trial for his corruption, fool.

NC has 14 house members (7-D, 7-R). Thirteen voted against MTG's nonsensical amendment to "reduce all amounts in the bill to zero $$$" TWICE and then YEA to pass the Ukraine Aid package.

The only NAY vote was Dan Bishop (R-8th): "The Swamp creatures, led this time around by House Republican leadership, engineered a perfect betrayal of the American people to maneuver money for Ukraine through Congress while endorsing the Biden agenda. They torpedoed any remaining leverage that the House of Representatives had to force the Biden administration to adopt real border security measures, thereby blessing the ongoing border invasion that threatens to destroy our nation."

The 8th District is a bit of a no-man's land. Interstates run around the edges, but hesitate to plunge through.

The 8th includes Salisbury, the home of the Cheerwine soda drink, the Uwharrie National Forest, and Thomasville, once famous for furniture. Driving through it, you experience twisting, winding roads, lots of kudzu, and the occasional Confederate flag.

It's a shame such parts of our country have become so inward.

@lstcyr said
It’s actually a bit worse than that. In 2007 there were 632 clans. In 2023 there were 82. So, over 16 years we’ve lost an average of 34+ per year.

Yeah, I meant to say 2 pages of clans. Doh!

@very-rusty said
LOL...Just make sure you don't give out the rest of the number on your credit card. 🙂

-VR

Just how stupid do you think I am? 13 unknown digits is enough protection. But thank you for giving me another pattern number - 234.

@Wajoma
It is still community service and there are people who appreciate it. I guess you don't do well with compliments. I have done my bit also but not day after day. Well, did 4 years in the US military and did some really good deeds later but I don't talk about it much.

@Wajoma
Right. PROTESTERS. I guess they had nothing to do with actually trying for instance, to HANG MIKE PENCE, they admitted if they had caught him they WOULD have killed him and I guess it had NOTHING to do with stopping the peaceful transfer of power, nah, non of that, just peaceful political discourse and Trump was as surprised as anyone when they attacked the capitol building. You have a fukking twisted mind.

@Wajoma
What I have heard about libertarians is they have no interest in foreign policy ONLY making absolute minimum government in their own countries regardless of greedy corps wanting to dump toxic waste in streams and rivers not realizing they NEED regulating or else they will do what they fukking please. And libertarians are ok with that.
You would be fine with NZ putting up a wall all the way round the island and SCREW the rest of the world we don't need you.