Hey now. We’ve also got goats and fish.

And really ticked off blue voters watching the same Trump fondlers get elected over and over again

Not if your Milo’s liver

Didn’t even have to click to know Milo has created another Googledy Bunker. It’s a great series and I recommend the rest of his work.

By his, I mean miniminuteman

Not if you do it right

Defunding of women’s health programs such as planned parenthood started long before the actual ban

The biggest differences are that the interest rate is so jacked up, there’s no actual end date for the loan, and there’s little regard to the person’s ability to pay the loan back when getting it.

They’re more akin to sub prime mortgages than regular mortgages or auto loans in that last respect which were insanely predatory

Most of these loans are interest paying first. Which means the principle (which the interest is being calculated from) doesn’t go down. No other major loan is this fucked.

You get a car loan or mortgage, it’s set up so that you pay it off in X number years.

Good luck finding a student loan that you could do that with, especially when 75+% of your income goes to rent.

My grades were pretty much dependent on how much homework and long term projects were worth cause I almost never did either. Test grades were usually good though

And entirely on brand

Compromise: someone shoots him in the mushroom tip (prevents most further assault on the women and children) then jail

If he does, great. He can’t interrupt or defend any questions. Let the back and forth go through as normal with emphasis on the quiet that would be Trump’s responses

A platypus baby is called a puggle

Those are some top tier gamifications

Get thee some therapy bro. Medication is a tool, not a magic fix. You still gotta do the work on yourself. The meds just make it easier to do

Damn, I knew I was forgetting one. Lol

Again when is that book appropriate? Restricting a book when they can easily get a copy online or find worse fanfiction is just silly to me.

If they want to read something I don’t want them to for whatever reason, making it forbidden is a good way to make sure they read it, especially for teenagers.

Back to the main point of this thread, book banning is not doing the kids any favors and only serves to restrict thinking and learning. Even bad twilight fanfiction can serve as an example of what shouldn’t happen.

It’s not even very good softcore porn. Tell me, at what age is reading about people having sex where one of the two uses their power and money to trick the other into thinking that they’re loved and not just some playboys breathing sex doll appropriate?

Edit: monitor? Yes. Actively discuss about? If they want to. If fifty shades interests them even after talking over what it’s about, that’s fine. They’re allowed to make mistakes to learn from. Our jobs as parents are to teach them and to help them figure out who they are, not hide them away from society and keep them in ignorance as long as possible.

If they bring home fifty shades, I’ll treat it just as if they brought in Dean Koontz or a copy of Grendel. I’d have a frank discussion about how not all books and writers are good. They can read it as examples of either what not to do or as warning signs to look out for, either in literature in general or in people’s actions. I’d also recommend better stories that they’ll enjoy more. If they bring home books I do enjoy but have either problematic contents or authors, I’ll treat it just the same. I love Asimov but the way he wrote women was gratuitously sexist. Lovecraft was xenophobic. Rowling is a terf and her house elves and goblins are definitely not good. Etc etc etc

And advise that they may get in trouble if they read it in front of some people because they have this weird hangup about preventing children from recognizing toxic relationships or the realities of the world.

If they’re old enough to understand the words and concepts in the book, it doesn’t do them any good to pretend like they don’t exist.

Again, withholding knowledge and understanding because people think the children must be protected reduces their own agency and tools to understand the world.

I’m in the anti-ban camp because restricting access to knowledge due to arbitrary lines like age is the opposite of learning. It is up to the reader and their mentors to guide their reading depending on ability and maturity as needed. No two people will have the same levels at the same age so books appropriate for one may not be appropriate for another.

That said, to nitpick a tad: pointing to the Internet when on a discussion of book banning or restrictions is more “red herring” or “false equivalence” than strawman.

‘Appropriate for children’ is what I have an issue with.

Withholding knowledge because of an arbitrary line is the antithesis of learning. Who gets to determine what is appropriate and for whom?

If my kid wants to read something with content that’s more mature, I’m ok with that. If I’ve read it, I’ll warn them of the more shaky bits that they’ll come across and what is and isn’t ok especially relative to their age and mentality.

If they bring home fifty shades, I’ll have a discussion about it with them and the concepts of consent as well as body autonomy and let them know that what happens in that book are not that.