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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:20 PM
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When a society turns against its educators it is on its death bed
Regardless of what happens, we're already dead.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:22 PM
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1. I wouldn't say that society has turned on them. The GOP hates education. They depend on ignorance.
The ignorant are what they call "the base".

The super-rich are just the ones funding them and giving them orders.

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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:23 PM
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2. When does big money lose?
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:25 PM
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4. When the assholes take that trip downstairs to see the man in the red suit.
And I'm not talking about Santa Claus.

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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:26 PM
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5. Love it !
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 03:01 PM
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10. that is just what they want you to believe
but they know that heaven and hell is all bullshit so they fuck us over and live it up here on earth
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 03:26 PM
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11. they can but they still have to shuffle off to the next world with the
rest of us. they will get theirs. i just want it to be here, the fuckers.
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 04:40 PM
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13. there is no next world
the only way they will get theirs is if we give it to them here on earth, they fed the masses that bullshit about heaven, hell and an afterlife to keep them in line and serving their masters.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 08:39 AM
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14. Yeah, but we can at least HOPE there's a Hell!
:evilgrin:

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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 04:24 PM
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15. or make their lives hell here on earth
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 03:56 PM
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12. So what's the Democratic excuse?
Way too many Democrats, with Obama and Duncan at the top of the list, are working to bust teacher's unions and further privatization efforts.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:25 PM
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3. What's really troubling is that Governor Walker
said on "Meet The Press" that his kids attend public school. He made the remark when Dick Gregory asked him why he separated the rights of the police from the rights of teachers. His reply was that he was concerned about the safety of the schools and that his children attended public school.

Typical Freeper logic IMHO.
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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:29 PM
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8. My grandchildren are attending public school.
A teacher was stabbed last week at my granddaughter's middle school. Had it not bee for this teacher, it would have been a student who was the original target of the angry teenager.

The teacher will likely have physical problems for the rest of his life because of this incident. So I don't get the disconnect, Gov. Walker. I don't get it at all.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:26 PM
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6. You're conflating society with government
When a government turns on its educators it is on its deathbed. Have you ever met a single person who really thinks teachers aren't an important part of our society? I haven't. And almost every person I know (and this includes me) has had an influential teacher in their lives.
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:29 PM
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7. I am not conflating government with society...I'm conflating corporate power with society.
They already have the Supreme court equating them with personhood. They are a very powerful society !
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 02:46 PM
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9. It has turned against its children, its middle aged people
And anyone who has a thinking mind.

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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 04:45 PM
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16. Just ask Socrates.
Thanks for the thread, RagAss.
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reformist2 Donating Member (998 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 04:49 PM
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17. Yes. Maybe this is why I reacted so viscerally to their teacher-bashing.

They are attacking the very pillars of our society to get what they want.
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