Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?
Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?
I obviously have no idea so help me out here!
Some of you have lost your damn minds.
Yep. Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace.
You are a fool if you think this is about getting rid of waste and fraud. This is about privatizing government functions to enrich Trump's friends. It's called oligarchy.
True but oligarchy influencing American politics and government is nothing new. This problem has grown rapidly during the last 10 to 15 years. These hush hush relationships that our politicians used to keep behind closed doors aren't so hush hush with Trump in office. He simply doesn't care what we think at this point.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have a 17yo son and I’m terrified there will be a draft.
Military recruitment is at an all time high because of trump its probably not likely. https://www.foxnews.com/us/army-recruiting-shatters-records-after-president-trump-election-win-inauguration
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?
Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?
I obviously have no idea so help me out here!
Some of you have lost your damn minds.
Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?
Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?
I obviously have no idea so help me out here!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?
Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?
I obviously have no idea so help me out here!
Some of you have lost your damn minds.
Yep. Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace.
Dude you’re delusional
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?
Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?
I obviously have no idea so help me out here!
Some of you have lost your damn minds.
Yep. Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?
Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?
I obviously have no idea so help me out here!
Some of you have lost your damn minds.
Yep. Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace.
You are a fool if you think this is about getting rid of waste and fraud. This is about privatizing government functions to enrich Trump's friends. It's called oligarchy.
Anonymous wrote:Plan B expires. So do pregnancy tests. Maybe just move to a place where politics isn't the end-all-be-all guiding force of your life, and you and your kids will be happier?
I can promise you that in most places in the country, NO ONE is thinking about or caring about the changes happening. They don't think about politics at all. And if they do, they hear about wasteful government bureaucracy being dismantled in Washington and think, "good," then go about their lives.
They don't care that malaria care is being cut in Uganda. They are happy that their state and local school district will have more control over what is taught. They voted for a guy who said he would install judges to overturn Roe v. Wade, and they got what they asked for.
You might not agree with these choices, but they aren't any less American than you are. It's called a correction. The pendulum swung too far in one direction, and now it is swinging back. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but I also haven't wrapped myself in tinfoil awaiting Armageddon. That is my recommendation.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There won't be a draft. Most 18 year olds are too unfit, too addicted, too medicated, or too criminal to serve anyway.
My biggest concern is Elon Musk and the other tech billionaires - Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel, etc. They are systematically destroying the federal government. We are only in week 3 and already it's carnage out there. Silicon Valley sees an opportunity to plunder the US government and replace it with AI and libertarian mayhem. For the tech wealthy, it will be Elysium. For the plebes, it will be Law of the Jungle.
I would tell teenagers today that their generational enemy resides on their phone. It's instagram, tiktok, WhatsApp, SnapChat, facebook, and every other popular app they use. The iPhone today is the modern version of Joseph Goebbels - a propaganda device designed to manipulate minds. Teach them to be wary of their phones and their apps. Silicon Valley is their mortal enemy.
This cannot be emphasized enough. Watch Social Dilemma if you haven’t yet. The way algorithms can pull them in is alarming. When my son was in MS, he was a boy scout and did some searches on whether girls should be allowed in BSA. It very quickly turned into a lot of “male rights” propaganda. He made some bizarre comments, and we took a closer look at his online history and figured it out. We already watched closely, but the sites he was going to seemed like they were educational and we thought they were for school. It happens fast.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have a 17yo son and I’m terrified there will be a draft.
Get him a disqualifying diagnosis. Trump has taught all our young men how to do this. I don't know if that bone spurs thing that Trump used is still available but there are others.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?
Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?
I obviously have no idea so help me out here!
Some of you have lost your damn minds.
Yep. Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace.
Anonymous wrote:Plan B expires. So do pregnancy tests. Maybe just move to a place where politics isn't the end-all-be-all guiding force of your life, and you and your kids will be happier?
I can promise you that in most places in the country, NO ONE is thinking about or caring about the changes happening. They don't think about politics at all. And if they do, they hear about wasteful government bureaucracy being dismantled in Washington and think, "good," then go about their lives.
They don't care that malaria care is being cut in Uganda. They are happy that their state and local school district will have more control over what is taught. They voted for a guy who said he would install judges to overturn Roe v. Wade, and they got what they asked for.
You might not agree with these choices, but they aren't any less American than you are. It's called a correction. The pendulum swung too far in one direction, and now it is swinging back. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but I also haven't wrapped myself in tinfoil awaiting Armageddon. That is my recommendation.
Anonymous wrote:Plan B expires. So do pregnancy tests. Maybe just move to a place where politics isn't the end-all-be-all guiding force of your life, and you and your kids will be happier?
I can promise you that in most places in the country, NO ONE is thinking about or caring about the changes happening. They don't think about politics at all. And if they do, they hear about wasteful government bureaucracy being dismantled in Washington and think, "good," then go about their lives.
They don't care that malaria care is being cut in Uganda. They are happy that their state and local school district will have more control over what is taught. They voted for a guy who said he would install judges to overturn Roe v. Wade, and they got what they asked for.
You might not agree with these choices, but they aren't any less American than you are. It's called a correction. The pendulum swung too far in one direction, and now it is swinging back. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but I also haven't wrapped myself in tinfoil awaiting Armageddon. That is my recommendation.