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Posted on 3/25/26 at 12:49 pm to 4cubbies
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My kids both had IEPs when they applied to pre-K there, which also likely helped.
Your kids are disabled? Or, you pretended they are disabled in order to get them prioritized to get into the school?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 12:50 pm to CleverUserName
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And then there is a movement that collectively, nationwide, raised enough money for a certain group that would have been enough money to pave every last mile of interstate highway in the United States with some left over. As much as 220 million alone from a single donor. And there is not so much as a national scholarship fund that has been founded to show for it. No job programs. No youth engagement programs. No assistance programs. No diversion programs. Nothing. The corporate pledged money to this movement alone could have ran the entire state of Mississippi, on this years budget, for 6 and a half years with zero other funding. And they are the "disenfranchised". And here you are, having to teach your students, for what? Where are the organizations that got these billions of dollars that is supposed to be doing that? Hmm?
I made a reference to "racial arbitration" which is a term used in a book I'm reading. My understanding of it is black people cashing in on being black in more formal roles... kinda like what this board would label "DEI" roles. It looks a lot like grifting. Or cashing in. Whatever. Americans have a moral obligation to exploit whatever they can for money or personal gain.
What you described above fits in with that.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:00 pm to 4cubbies
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BUT, that's part of how systemic problems persist. There isn't one culprit. And there may not be many purposefully bad actors. The way our society is stratified, there will always be winners and losers.
Wow, look at your learning about realty
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:07 pm to KCT
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Seriously, you aren't able to figure out this woman's pathetic passive-aggressive m.o.?
Seriously, I don’t pay attention to how she is now. I knew how she was a decade ago, but I don’t keep up with posters and their personas the way some of you do anymore.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:12 pm to CollegeFBRules
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I think we have all gotten way more cynical as we have gotten older.
I was just making Pear puns on t'rant in honor of Will Wade and I had ChatGPT make this for me earlier
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:13 pm to SlowFlowPro
Bolton's legs. 
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:16 pm to TigerDoc
Of course his third leg is erect once we went to war with Iran
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:19 pm to CollegeFBRules
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Seriously, I don’t pay attention to how she is now. I knew how she was a decade ago, but I don’t keep up with posters and their personas the way some of you do anymore.
I’m the same. The quality of posters here seems to have degraded over the years. People view differing opinions as death threats now.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:23 pm to SlowFlowPro
Oh, look. SFP's TDS is so out-of-control that he has to show up in totally unrelated thread and post nonsense.
Compare and contrast this Iranian activity with Iraq, dude. You act like they're all the same.
Compare and contrast this Iranian activity with Iraq, dude. You act like they're all the same.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:30 pm to KCT
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1K Post What do I win?
A free one year subscription to SEC Rant Premium
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:41 pm to KCT
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What do I win?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:43 pm to KCT
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Oh, look. SFP's TDS is so out-of-control that he has to show up in totally unrelated thread and post nonsense.
Compare and contrast this Iranian activity with Iraq, dude. You act like they're all the same.
Me responding to someone who said we're cynical showing fun and joy and all the opposites of cynicism, only to have you do this mini melt summarizes the point about how far this board has fallen in ways you won't be able to understand.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:53 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 3/25/26 at 1:55 pm to 4cubbies
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made a reference to "racial arbitration" which is a term used in a book I'm reading. My understanding of it is black people cashing in on being black in more formal roles... kinda like what this board would label "DEI" roles. It looks a lot like grifting. Or cashing in. Whatever. Americans have a moral obligation to exploit whatever they can for money or personal gain. What you described above fits in with that.
Your book evidently deals with small hustles, singular non profits, etc. The "movement" the money I referred to is 6 and a half times Mississippi's total state budget. And there is zero to show for it. Nothing.
So if America hears this "groups" cries of "systemic issues", "barriers", etc.. then hands over enough cash to run an entire state for 6 and a half years (only counting corporate pledges, not hundreds of Millions more private), and then it's completely squandered... what are we supposed to think then? Throw MORE money at it?
And you didn't answer half of what the post was about, still.
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:00 pm to CleverUserName
Probably one of the biggest pitfalls in believing most of the ails are "systemic" is it enforces the idea that the only possible solutions would have to be as well. It becomes a rather impossible cycle once you reach that point.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:06 pm to CleverUserName
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Your book evidently deals with small hustles, singular non profits, etc. The "movement" the money I referred to is 6 and a half times Mississippi's total state budget. And there is zero to show for it. Nothing.
What movement had a budget that was more than $40 BILLION?
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And you didn't answer half of what the post was about, still.
It looked like a narrative disguised as a question. I don't have an opinion about an anonymous movement with an annual budget of $40 BB that didn't accomplish anything. I'd like more details. Seems like a really lucrative grift.
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:10 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Probably one of the biggest pitfalls in believing most of the ails are "systemic" is it enforces the idea that the only possible solutions would have to be as well.
Systems are comprised of people. People enact changes.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:11 pm to 4cubbies
But when you are not willing to identify specific people…
Posted on 3/25/26 at 2:12 pm to 4cubbies
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What movement had a budget that was more than $40 BILLION?
Try 50 billion. Of ONLY corporate donations.
You don't know? Exactly how well are you in tune with the black community? It was the springboard of BLM. *fist up for solidarity*
Take a peek..
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Everyone wanted to do something to join in and support the protest movement that emerged after the killing of George Floyd in May 2020. Everyone wanted to help. Everyone wanted to give. Maybe it was just posting a black square on Instagram to show solidarity, but often it was more. Friends started sending money and organising others to do the same. I started giving to a few new groups myself. Organisations that already existed in places such as Minneapolis — where Floyd was killed — and the new organisations that sprang up to capture this energy were flooded with volunteers and, most importantly, cash. People marched and people gave. Corporate America did too. And they all kept giving. The Washington Post estimates $50 billion was pledged by giant corporate donors alone to address racial inequality between mid-2020 and mid-2021. There were megafunders like George Soros, who dropped $220 million into fancy nonprofits that sprang up like mushrooms — but ordinary people were also sending in small donations. A lot of them.
Now... what exactly happened to those 10s of Billions? Black scholarships? Mass erasure of black debt that was demanded in BLM rallies and riots? Hospitals? Legal funds? Paid bail, again as demanded by BLM to erase bail? Anything nationally?
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 2:16 pm
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