Very little known about this Ed Gallrein aside from the fact that Israel and Trump put 16 million dollars into his campaign. Anyone from Kentucky?
NC representative Virginia Foxx claimed the 10 year old who wrote the letter to be indoctrinated and for being influenced by propaganda, or at the very least the teacher is more interested in indoctrinating their students (https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/greensboro-mother-slams-nc-rep-virginia-foxx-for-response-to-10-year-old-sons-essay/). This isn't the first time the rhetoric of kids just regurgitating talking points and not understanding what they're saying has been used. This time with schools being propaganda and indoctrination machines which is another rhetoric in its own.
That said, the question of the title: at what age is teaching no longer indoctrination? At what age are people fully considered fully individual and thus can think critically for themselves in your eyes? I imagine this is complicated and all with many factors, but if you were to give an age, even an age range, that'd be much appreciated. Also, please give a why you think so.
Would it be 18 when people are legally able to vote and/or they're no longer required to go to school? 30s when the prefrontal cortex is fully developed? 50 after an individual has definitely had plenty of life experience? Age doesn't matter, it just matters if they've gone to a trade school/college/run a succesful business?
Hi all , so these AI data centers have been a hot topic of debate , it seems most Americans are opposed to them , so I want to hear from the maga crowd , how do you feel ?
From a leftist perspective, Trump puts loyalty to himself over the country or the constitution. Yet I see so many supporters claiming he cares for them or the country. What are some specific examples of Trump actually putting the country before himself? Has he ever sacrificed anything for the country that he hasn't made back x-fold as president (fame, money, etc.)?
Would you like to see the Republican party move towards more conservative policies?
Hello from Ukraine. I hope for peace and don't want to die.
Only Trump says that he wants to stop war and doesn't want to send weapons and money here because of corruption.
How do you think he is able to stop the war?
Trump is dropping his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the DOJ using taxpayer dollars to create a $1.7B fund that the President will control.
As far as I can tell, any future President could bring a lawsuit against their own administration and, however frivolous, choose to settle it with themselves, thereby giving themselves an arbitrarily large taxpayer-funded pool of money outside the Constitutionally mandated Congressional appropriation process.
Should that, under the US Constitution, be legal? I expect most of you trust Trump to use that money wisely, but does this set a bad precedent for a future President you trust less?
Why are you against this practice, why do you think it should be penalized, and what are your arguments on this subject?
I'm curious what Trump supporters *want* to see happen to Gaza and the West Bank, and what they think *will* happen. Do you support a two state solution? One state solution? Somehow moving all of the natives out? Or something else? And which of those do you view as the most likely outcome?
“The Pentagon is pushing back on allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is politicizing the military with his planned Monday appearance in Kentucky to campaign for the man who is challenging Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) in Tuesday’s Republican primary.”
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5883139-hegseth-campaign-kentucky-gop-primary/amp/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8
My understanding is this fund is to be used to compensate victims of unfair political treatment under Biden (and supposedly for unfair treatment under any party - though I can't personally see trump using this magnanimously).
Which 'victims' do you feel deserve compensation and why?
Sixteen months in, what do you think?
I have found it very interesting that people keep referring to the tariffs as reciprocal.
I have done the comparison when it comes to weighted average tariffs from other countries, and for the most part they come way way lower than the supposedly reciprocal tariffs.
People mention things like value-added tax, but that is like a sales tax and applies regardless of whether the product is local or foreign.
It's true some countries like China have loads of non-tariff barriers that make importing harder regardless of the tariff price, but that is not generally the case with developed countries.
The tariffs were apparently calculated based largely on trade deficits rather than the actual tariffs charged by those countries (except for countries that had a surplus with the USA), and those were instead imposed a flat 15%.
Anyway, those reciprocal tariffs under IEEPA have now been deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court and will apparently be replaced by something else.
But just as a curiosity question, did you check whether it was true or did you just take Trump's word about the fact that they were reciprocal?
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He still declared war on a country that can block a strait through which 20% of the world’s oil shipments pass, and that can destabilize the region through indirect means, notably with Shahed drones. Moreover, Trump himself dismantled an agreement during his first term that had effectively prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The IAEA later confirmed that Iran resumed trying to enrich uranium after Trump withdrew from the agreement.
https://x.com/whitehouse/status/2055770869847281967?s=46
President Trump’s recent post pointing out that for 15 years, "Dumocrats" used RCP8.5 climate predictions to scare the public about climate change.
Thursday it was revealed in multiple 278 filings (1,2,3,4,5) that trump has made over 3k trades since the beginning of the year, >20 trades a day.
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Donald is in a good position to curtail patents on software if they are not helping our economy. I've sampled the patent database & lawsuits, but most resemble word-traps intended to snag victims, hoping to coerce settlements. What fit the hardware world may not be applicable to software. What's your view on software-related patents? Keep? Toss? Amend?
Do you work for a living or do you live off of dividends and returns from capital investments? (If you earned a pension or are retired on savings from working and/or social security I'd still count that as working class since your labor created those conditions.)