If Grandma Gabby and her pet raccoon Derek are wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

This series has sparked a lot of great discussions at our dinner table.

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Anonymous wrote:I bought the series for my kids and read one or two of the books just to make sure it was suitable for kids. It’s written from a Libertarian perspective. I thought the series would prompt good discussions with my kids.

Libertarian books designed to convert your kid to Christianity. Actual Libertarian books would not embed a very specific religion into the text.

How do you convert someone to Christianity? In the same way you convert them to being a liberal or a conservative?

Why is God included in books that purport to provide secular information?

Why is God included on the money and Pledge of Allegiance from a government that purports to be secular?

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Anonymous wrote:I bought the series for my kids and read one or two of the books just to make sure it was suitable for kids. It’s written from a Libertarian perspective. I thought the series would prompt good discussions with my kids.

Libertarian books designed to convert your kid to Christianity. Actual Libertarian books would not embed a very specific religion into the text.

How do you convert someone to Christianity? In the same way you convert them to being a liberal or a conservative?

Why is God included in books that purport to provide secular information?

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Anonymous wrote:I bought the series for my kids and read one or two of the books just to make sure it was suitable for kids. It’s written from a Libertarian perspective. I thought the series would prompt good discussions with my kids.

Libertarian books designed to convert your kid to Christianity. Actual Libertarian books would not embed a very specific religion into the text.

How do you convert someone to Christianity? In the same way you convert them to being a liberal or a conservative?

I fundamentally believe a Liberterian POV is allowing my kids to choose religion, so they won't be reading books that take the POV that only a Christian God exists

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Anonymous wrote:I bought the series for my kids and read one or two of the books just to make sure it was suitable for kids. It’s written from a Libertarian perspective. I thought the series would prompt good discussions with my kids.

The videos have factually inaccurate information. I would not trust the books. There are other sources for giving your kids this perspective better than this drivel.

Care to cite an example?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXCfYste-Y

It's intentionally misrepresenting information here. For one, intentionally taking inflation from 2023 vs. 1983 to make the point that "inflation is so much worse" is factually inaccurate. Yes, at very, very specific points in time, 2023 inflation would be worse than 1983. Guess they didn't want to go with the inflation rate of 1981? or 1989?

For another, it misrepresented current college salary as less than 1982 on raw values. Yes, an inflation adjusted view does show that college grad salaries aren't better, but specifically chose a noninflation adjusted value for the 1980s and compared it to the inflation adjusted value for 2023 - an apples to oranges comparison.

And for one, I absolutely believe that the value of college tuition vs. salary is debatable, but a fair debate takes into account planned career and trajectory and many other factors!

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve read them. They quote pretty classic economists and philosophers.

Anyone else read them?

Is this a satire version of the books or how the books actually read? I genuinely don't know. They are telling kids Social Security is a scam and to invest in crypto. This is... Real?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ4xbhpu3sS/?igsh=aTR5dWF4Z3BrYnZp

Sorry, didn’t quite hear you — did you read the actual books or is an Istangram snap of a comedic advert to an adult buyer sufficient for you and your decisioning making?

Is that what it is? An advertisement to an adult buyer? Really? Must be some idiot buyers who get swayed by this. I mean they have a video saying the average salary of a college graduate was higher in 1980 - which is easily verified as factually inaccurate (but was a viral fake news post). Sure, one can debate the merits of the cost of a college tuition nowadays vs. salary, but the way this does it with fake facts is so awful, it's hilarious!

FWIW These are also on youtube and they have the same feel as cigarette ads from the 80s - it's clear the target is actually kids.

I actually suspect you are a paid astroturfer.

DP. It's not an ad for an adult buyer. It's just part of their regular content for kids on their platforms. If you watch their shorts on YouTube that's obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:I bought the series for my kids and read one or two of the books just to make sure it was suitable for kids. It’s written from a Libertarian perspective. I thought the series would prompt good discussions with my kids.

Libertarian books designed to convert your kid to Christianity. Actual Libertarian books would not embed a very specific religion into the text.

How do you convert someone to Christianity? In the same way you convert them to being a liberal or a conservative?

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Anonymous wrote:I bought the series for my kids and read one or two of the books just to make sure it was suitable for kids. It’s written from a Libertarian perspective. I thought the series would prompt good discussions with my kids.

The videos have factually inaccurate information. I would not trust the books. There are other sources for giving your kids this perspective better than this drivel.

Care to cite an example?

Anonymous wrote:I bought the series for my kids and read one or two of the books just to make sure it was suitable for kids. It’s written from a Libertarian perspective. I thought the series would prompt good discussions with my kids.

Libertarian books designed to convert your kid to Christianity. Actual Libertarian books would not embed a very specific religion into the text.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone buys those books, even Georgetown Day School.

Everyone? I have two kids in elementary school who are early and precocious readers and never encountered them.

I have been having conversations with my fifth grader about critical and logical thinking, not automatically believing what he encounters online, conspiracy thinking, etc.

I may show these to him as an example of a propaganda publication.

Absolutely have your precocious 5th grader read them. They’re about accountability and personal responsibility. It will dovetail well with all your social justice victim themes you teach at home and at school.

These ideas are dangerous. Accountability and personal responsibility corrode systems based on dependence and compliance. They make people more difficult to govern and less likely organize their lives around instructions delivered via mass media. Our democracy will dissolve if too many different ideas are tolerated. Ethan and Emily Tuttle must not be allowed in the public square. The narratives they explore and challenge are too fragile.

The book producers kept the same names from when the series was about two little blond Mormon kids and yet we are now to believe the are Cuban American now

I guess they are targeting that demographic as the most gullible and right leaning parents can pretend they are into "diversity."


"The series involves 11-year-old Cuban-American twin siblings Ethan Tuttle and Emily Tuttle and their grandmother Gabby"

Don't feed the paid astroturfing troll, they are on Elon's payroll (I also noted the video marketing SpaceX )

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve read them. They quote pretty classic economists and philosophers.

Anyone else read them?

Is this a satire version of the books or how the books actually read? I genuinely don't know. They are telling kids Social Security is a scam and to invest in crypto. This is... Real?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ4xbhpu3sS/?igsh=aTR5dWF4Z3BrYnZp

Sorry, didn’t quite hear you — did you read the actual books or is an Istangram snap of a comedic advert to an adult buyer sufficient for you and your decisioning making?

Is that what it is? An advertisement to an adult buyer? Really? Must be some idiot buyers who get swayed by this. I mean they have a video saying the average salary of a college graduate was higher in 1980 - which is easily verified as factually inaccurate (but was a viral fake news post). Sure, one can debate the merits of the cost of a college tuition nowadays vs. salary, but the way this does it with fake facts is so awful, it's hilarious!

FWIW These are also on youtube and they have the same feel as cigarette ads from the 80s - it's clear the target is actually kids.

I actually suspect you are a paid astroturfer.