What non political controversial position do you hold?

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Anonymous wrote:Kids as young as 10 should be granted independence to roam in packs with zero supervision.

Underwire bras should be banned.

Guidance counseling should include individual and group therapy mental health services offered during school hours.

Picking crabs should be easier. I don’t love the journey.

Schools should not be expected to be social service agencies and fulfill the responsibilities of parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools should stop IEP and 504 plans. It is your crotch goblin, stop making live by YOUR rules.

Stop nut free classrooms. 90% of kids do NOT have FA’s!

Agree. Public schools would be so much better without all the catering to the IEP’s and 504’s. Pretty soon those kids and poor kids will be all that are left in the publics because everyone else will have left.

Oh puhleeze … our DD had an IEP and is now doing a PhD in a rarefied stem field … her BF had an IEP and now works for NASA. Many many students with IEPs are truly brilliant (gifted talented with learning differences) … if they get the supports they need when they are young, they usually have a lot to contribute to society. If they don’t, they are much more prone to being life long burdens on either their families or the state. It is a win win for them and society to help them to flourish.

But why should the taxpayer have to pay for your kid's special education?

Why should the taxpayer have to pay for your husband’s viagra? Because we support each other as a society, that’s why.

They shouldn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I think surrogacy is gross and exploitive.

Agree
It is baby selling and is illegal in most countries and it should be illegal here. I think the same about IVF. If you can't conceive naturally, live with it. You are not given a God-given right to procreate!

It’s just another way that rich people take advantage of the poor. They literally rent someone else’s body. I don’t have a problem with IVF, I just don’t think insurance should cover it.

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Athletes should be prioritized in admissions.

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Anonymous wrote:Taking prayer out of school has led us to where we are today!

You’re right. We should institute Jewish and Muslim prayer into your public school immediately.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading non-fiction is no different than surfing the net.

It’s drivel, I get it’s enjoyable but so is the Internet. People use it to escape just like reading the internet.

Any argument you can make for reading non-fiction you can say the same about surfing the net.

People who get their ego from grammar and spelling are the same people that are having a heart attack reading my opinion.

Yes, there is no difference between the words of Shakespeare, or Toni Morrison, or unhinged posters on DCUM.

Shakespeare and Toni Morrison didn't write non fiction.. that isn't what they ae notable for.

Oh my actual God, this was cleared up PAGES and pages ago. Read the thread before responding.

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Anonymous wrote:The pharmaceutical industrial complex needs to stop enabling obesity and bad lifestyle choices. Public health needs to do something to get obesity down in this country, and its not through drugs or weight loss surgery.

Care to share your well-thought-out solution? I'm sure you'd be wealthier than Elon if you ever share it with the rest of us mortals.

NP - ending corn subsidies would be a good first step.

And, you know, allowing doctors to tell patients they need to lose weight.

Also - being explicit that while everyone should be comfortable in their skin, bodies are really not intended to carry too much or too little weight. We need to be able to say this very clearly and directly.

who is stopping the doctors or you from speaking your mind?

NP - but anyone who dares say that plus-sized people are unhealthy is cancelled immediately. And that whole movement of people who wanted to be able to hand their doctors a card that said not to ask their weight?

Categorically not true. I've had many conversations with my doctor regarding my weight.

Assholes who make it their business to "preach" to overweight people when it doesn't concern them in the slightest might be canceled through. Why do you care about how much I weigh unless you're my spouse, child or doctor?

The same reason I care about smoking. Because obesity is a public health crisis that will be underwritten eventually by the taxpayer.

The taxpayer pays for your SN child from the getgo. I know someone who gets free babysitting through Medicaid for her two SN children and uses it for Christmas shopping.

Just when I thought people on this site couldn't get any more disgusting, they surprise me. So let me get this straight, she gets a subsidy for some babysitting and she chose to use that time to go buy her kids a few Christmas gifts. That is your beef in life? That is what you choose to b*tcg and moan about.

See me, a single mom who pays for everything herself because I am fortunate and able, could care less if another woman gets a well deserved break.

It’s funded by taxpayers. If she isn’t using it for childcare, she shouldn’t get it. It’s not a “taxpayer Christmas gift fund.” Take it away and give it to someone waiting who will actually use it for childcare.

*taxpayer-funded Christmas shopping childcare fund

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Anonymous wrote:Pit bulls should be banned.
Restaurants should be sectioned off for people with children and without.

Preach, sister!!

I would LOVE for restaurants to be sectioned for children/no children. I have young kids and while I love them, they should absolutely not be inflicted on unsuspecting fellow diners while they're learning how to behave properly in public.

Then don’t inflict them on fellow diners. When my kids were babies we didn’t eat out much, but if they started to cry I would take them out to the car so as not to inflict them on anyone else. As babies, they had no concept of restaurants or disruptions and it was my job to take care of their needs and to respect the people around me. When they got older, while their table manners may have been lacking, they were in no way being disruptive to unsuspecting fellow diners at other tables. Granted, we weren’t eating at 5-star restaurants. The crayons and notepads I carried in my purse usually kept them quietly occupied, but if there had been any disruptive behavior, I would have immediately removed the child, so as not to inflict it on other diners.

Oh, look, actual competent parenting.

NP. Oh stop sock puppeting to praise yourself. Good Lord, that’s not competent parenting, that’s the bare minimum.

BZZZT! Wrong. I didn’t write the post I replied to. Feel free to ask Jeff.

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Anonymous wrote:Pit bulls should be banned.
Restaurants should be sectioned off for people with children and without.

Preach, sister!!

I would LOVE for restaurants to be sectioned for children/no children. I have young kids and while I love them, they should absolutely not be inflicted on unsuspecting fellow diners while they're learning how to behave properly in public.

Then don’t inflict them on fellow diners. When my kids were babies we didn’t eat out much, but if they started to cry I would take them out to the car so as not to inflict them on anyone else. As babies, they had no concept of restaurants or disruptions and it was my job to take care of their needs and to respect the people around me. When they got older, while their table manners may have been lacking, they were in no way being disruptive to unsuspecting fellow diners at other tables. Granted, we weren’t eating at 5-star restaurants. The crayons and notepads I carried in my purse usually kept them quietly occupied, but if there had been any disruptive behavior, I would have immediately removed the child, so as not to inflict it on other diners.

Oh, look, actual competent parenting.

NP. Oh stop sock puppeting to praise yourself. Good Lord, that’s not competent parenting, that’s the bare minimum.

BZZZT! Wrong. I didn’t write the post I replied to. Feel free to ask Jeff.

That’s even sadder.

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Anonymous wrote:Pit bulls should be banned.
Restaurants should be sectioned off for people with children and without.

Preach, sister!!

I would LOVE for restaurants to be sectioned for children/no children. I have young kids and while I love them, they should absolutely not be inflicted on unsuspecting fellow diners while they're learning how to behave properly in public.

Then don’t inflict them on fellow diners. When my kids were babies we didn’t eat out much, but if they started to cry I would take them out to the car so as not to inflict them on anyone else. As babies, they had no concept of restaurants or disruptions and it was my job to take care of their needs and to respect the people around me. When they got older, while their table manners may have been lacking, they were in no way being disruptive to unsuspecting fellow diners at other tables. Granted, we weren’t eating at 5-star restaurants. The crayons and notepads I carried in my purse usually kept them quietly occupied, but if there had been any disruptive behavior, I would have immediately removed the child, so as not to inflict it on other diners.

Oh, look, actual competent parenting.

NP. Oh stop sock puppeting to praise yourself. Good Lord, that’s not competent parenting, that’s the bare minimum.

NP, You'd think so, wouldn't you? Seems like 4/5 parents in restaurants with kids misbehaving spend an awful lot of time scrounging around looking for entertainment, "bargaining" with a near tantruming kid, looking all wide eyed at other patrons and maybe mouthing "sorry!", shushing "quiet quiet" during a freakout and it's actually the rare parents that swoop in and remove their kids promptly when they begin to squalk.

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Anonymous wrote:Gif is pronounced like gift without the T. If you wanted it pronoun jif, you should have spelled it that way.

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Anonymous wrote:Obesity is a choice.

No. It is not. Alcoholism is a disease and so is obesity. You are a fool.

Somehow people managed to be much slimmer a few decades ago.

Sedentary habits and diets are certainly behind a great deal of obesity.

They also managed to be shorter

By an inch or 2, but the pounds? Yikes. It really is a choice. Food, especially junk, fatty stuff is everywhere. Show some self control. If you don't buy it you can't eat it.

You sound idiotic.

You sound fat. How many bags of chips have you had this week? Me? None.

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Anonymous wrote:Obesity is a choice.

No. It is not. Alcoholism is a disease and so is obesity. You are a fool.

Somehow people managed to be much slimmer a few decades ago.

Sedentary habits and diets are certainly behind a great deal of obesity.

They also managed to be shorter

By an inch or 2, but the pounds? Yikes. It really is a choice. Food, especially junk, fatty stuff is everywhere. Show some self control. If you don't buy it you can't eat it.

You sound idiotic.

You sound fat. How many bags of chips have you had this week? Me? None.

people also didn’t drive everywhere in the past and neighborhoods were walkable hubs that had what you NEEDED nearby. A quart of milk last days—people didn’t go through gallons a week. Did want laced with high fructose corn syrup. Women didn’t generally work and were home to cook healthy meals rather than serve calorie laden high salt, Factory farmed processed foods. People also went to church. A lot has changed over the last hundred years and all of those changes have contributed to obesity. Maybe it’s time to start regulating advertisement for non essential foods and regulating portion sizes at restaurants.

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Anonymous wrote:Obesity is a choice.

No. It is not. Alcoholism is a disease and so is obesity. You are a fool.

Somehow people managed to be much slimmer a few decades ago.

Sedentary habits and diets are certainly behind a great deal of obesity.

They also managed to be shorter

By an inch or 2, but the pounds? Yikes. It really is a choice. Food, especially junk, fatty stuff is everywhere. Show some self control. If you don't buy it you can't eat it.

You sound idiotic.

You sound fat. How many bags of chips have you had this week? Me? None.

people also didn’t drive everywhere in the past and neighborhoods were walkable hubs that had what you NEEDED nearby. A quart of milk last days—people didn’t go through gallons a week. Did want laced with high fructose corn syrup. Women didn’t generally work and were home to cook healthy meals rather than serve calorie laden high salt, Factory farmed processed foods. People also went to church. A lot has changed over the last hundred years and all of those changes have contributed to obesity. Maybe it’s time to start regulating advertisement for non essential foods and regulating portion sizes at restaurants.

Fairfax County and Montgomery County were pretty rural not long ago. People weren't walking everywhere. But people were probably more active, especially when we had no air conditioning and the only relief was sitting under a tree or swimming, and we had no TV, no computers, no smartphones and got off our butts. I had less snacks too as a kid, although my mother was a pediatric nurse. Snacks were like carrots, celery with peanut butter, raisins, nuts, apple, or wheat thins.

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Anonymous wrote:On driving trips around the city with kids over age of 8. No phones should be allowed for anyone in the car and the kids should give directions on how to get home.

I need my phone for directions anywhere beyond my usual stops (grocery, library, bank, post office, etc.).

More importantly, in case of emergency I need my phone. I haven’t had to call AAA often, but when I needed them, I had to have my phone. In case of a serious car accident or medical emergency, I need to be able to call 911. Not to mention, for even a non-serious accident, it’s nice to be able to take pictures of the cars, and taking a picture of the Driver’s license, insurance card, and license plate of the other driver us considerably more efficient than teyong to write it all out by hand while blocking traffic.

OK. So keep one phone iin your pocket or purse. You don’t need to endlessly mindlessly scroll the internet to have a way to call 911.

I don’t scroll the internet while driving, endlessly, mindlessly, or otherwise. If I am parked, I may look up information regarding my next stop. If I stop somewhere (for a snack, waiting for something/someone, etc.), I might use the phone to scroll the internet or otherwise pass the time. Otherwise, the phone is kept either in my purse or in a pocket of the car (generally the door pocket or a cupholder, usually not a clothing pocket which is uncomfortable while wearing a seatbelt).