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@Vorhtbame would you say that teaching Christianity in some manner or another in schools would do much to fix the problems currently facing American society? Or is it something else, since it's clear that you're very religious?
 
@Vorhtbame would you say that teaching Christianity in some manner or another in schools would do much to fix the problems currently facing American society? Or is it something else, since it's clear that you're very religious?
I'll tell you for free how to solve most of the problems in American society.

STOP HAVING CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK.

That's it. It's really that simple.
 
I'll tell you for free how to solve most of the problems in American society.

STOP HAVING CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK.

That's it. It's really that simple.
i hope you have an entire moral-ethical-metapolitical machinery ready for deployment in order to fix that one very specific symptom of the entire underlying problem, phamalamajam
 
i hope you have an entire moral-ethical-metapolitical machinery ready for deployment in order to fix that one very specific symptom of the entire underlying problem, phamalamajam
Even more than race, income, location, sex or anything else, the most accurate predictor of future success in life is being raised in a home with two married parents.

There's a reason that on average Asian kids outperform their White peers, who outperform their Black peers. And it's not because of scientific racism.
 

Lefties can't fucking meme. Seriously, if this is the best that they have then they've lost that war. I'm not gonna post examples because... well... contrast the URL with the content. They ask less for pax on both houses and more of pax on one particular house.
 
Also, TYT wants the Electoral College to go.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rSSWp0t2RJo
Sometimes I wonder what these fools are thinking when they are trying to determine their path to power, and they start thinking that the easiest path is to try and get a constitutional amendment passed that will require 30 states to ratify it, when about 40 states would be hurt by the amendment and probably reject it outright, rather than let a couple of sweet nothings to a few working class people in a couple of swing states pass their lips.
 
i hope you have an entire moral-ethical-metapolitical machinery ready for deployment in order to fix that one very specific symptom of the entire underlying problem, phamalamajam

He's spot-on correct; however I also agree with your point that fixing that problem is one hell of an undertaking.

edit: It also runs the risk of the "Books in the home" problem, where one of the best indicators of academic success and intelligence is the presence of books in a household. Trying to fill an underperformer's house with books doesn't magically make them smarter; smart people like books, so books in a house is a sign of smart parents, which means the kid is more likely to be smart and raised in an environment that values intelligence & learning.
Stable, functioning, mature people are able to make long term relationships, like marriage and child-rearing work. A child spending most of their time around functioning and mature people is more likely to also be functional and mature. Getting dysfunctional people to stay married may not actually fix the problem.
 
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He's spot-on correct; however I also agree with your point that fixing that problem is one hell of an undertaking.

edit: It also runs the risk of the "Books in the home" problem, where one of the best indicators of academic success and intelligence is the presence of books in a household. Trying to fill an underperformer's house with books doesn't magically make them smarter; smart people like books, so books in a house is a sign of smart parents, which means the kid is more likely to be smart and raised in an environment that values intelligence & learning.
Stable, functioning, mature people are able to make long term relationships, like marriage and child-rearing work. A child spending most of their time around functioning and mature people is more likely to also be functional and mature. Getting dysfunctional people to stay married may not actually fix the problem.

From https://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/:

Around half of single mothers have never married, 29% are divorced, 21% are either separated or widowed. Half have one child, 30% have two.6 About two thirds are White, one third Black.


So basically, nearly 80 percent of single mothers are either too dysfunctional to get married, or too dysfunctional to remain married. We could do a lot to help by creating disincentives for dysfunctional people to breed. No one wants to see pregnant teen moms starving in the street, so we probably won't be ending welfare anytime soon. Thus, we can't close the barn door before the cows get out by threatening to withhold government money. Giving teens at risk free long term/ low-maintenance birth control would probably make a serious dent in the teen pregnancy rate, as would programs that target at risk teens and provide them with job training and a better hope for the future than marrying Uncle Sam.
 
Giving teens at risk free long term/ low-maintenance birth control would probably make a serious dent in the teen pregnancy rate,
When I was a teen and having sex I knew where the condoms were, and so did every girl I was with. It's not like they're expensive either.

I don't think it's a matter of education or access to prevention, but more of a lack of consequences.
 
When I was a teen and having sex I knew where the condoms were, and so did every girl I was with. It's not like they're expensive either.

I don't think it's a matter of education or access to prevention, but more of a lack of consequences.
One has to look no further than the spread of untreatable super STDs to confirm this. As soon as people stop feeling there are consequences to their actions, all caution is thrown to the wind. Even when those consequences become apparent, it's incredibly difficult to get people to consider it because of "Oh, well it won't happen to ME".
 
One has to look no further than the spread of untreatable super STDs to confirm this. As soon as people stop feeling there are consequences to their actions, all caution is thrown to the wind. Even when those consequences become apparent, it's incredibly difficult to get people to consider it because of "Oh, well it won't happen to ME".
And it's not like I'm an alien to the whole "abstinence only" education, I was partially homeschooled while growing up in the Bay Area, and then moved to a vastly more conservative and religious region. We all knew what sex was and what could happen.

When there are no consequences, legally or culturally or socially, people will degenerate.
 
And it's not like I'm an alien to the whole "abstinence only" education, I was partially homeschooled while growing up in the Bay Area, and then moved to a vastly more conservative and religious region. We all knew what sex was and what could happen.

When there are no consequences, legally or culturally or socially, people will degenerate.

This is true, andt usually a lot of scarcity has to set in before a society decides it can't afford to support an underclass of welfare-supported vote-and-cheap-labor-givers. It's no accident why there are lots of unwed mothers. Politicians want them, because they supply criminals for the for-profit prison system, grist for the war mill, students for the plantation schools, and wage slaves for corporate donors. Just about anything that involves government supported institutions (and a gravy train for the bureaucrats that run it,) involves getting women to push fatherless kids out of their wombs.

Still, many politicians and "family planning advocates" think kids are icky and want to discourage women from having them (or at least, from having them until they're well into their period of fertility.) They run programs that provide free/low cost long term birth control to teens, and that seems to reduce the number of unwed mother births. Since 50 percent of unwanted pregnancies are caused by women who had birth control, but didn't use it either correctly or at all, then clearly, throwing a box of condoms at a couple will not automatically make them responsible people. Giving a poor woman an IUD however, might keep her off of the government dole until she either straightens her life out and gets into a stable relationship, or until she realizes she's never going to have a permanent relationship and decides to forgo having children.
 
Giving teens at risk free long term/ low-maintenance birth control would probably make a serious dent in the teen pregnancy rate,

The teen pregnancy rate is already at an all time low.

More importantly, the day after you graduate high school is too late claim ignorance due to lack of sex ed.

I call bullshit when I see the liberals claim sex education in the south is to blame for unwanted pregnancies and point to a woman who is 25 with a 5 year old, a 3 year old and a newborn. That's too damn old to not understand how babby is formed, especially when you've done it before.

As you alluded to in a later post, it's a lack of willingness and desire to be responsible.
 
@Vorhtbame would you say that teaching Christianity in some manner or another in schools would do much to fix the problems currently facing American society? Or is it something else, since it's clear that you're very religious?

Do I think teaching Christianity would do much?

One-liner answer, because I can't resist: Yeah, they've done such a bang-up job of teaching math and language, I'm sure they'd handle a complex and life-altering religion just fine, especially when the political Left hates it so much.

Long answer: IMO--and this is only my opinion, so you can take it however you like--Christianity is not like most cultural influences; it only works if you actually accept it as true. You can get people to behave in a Christian-ish way for a while, especially if you have the economic and political power to enforce it, but eventually you get pre-Reformation Europe, calling themselves Christian but committing every sin in the book twice a day with the approval of the self-appointed Moral Guardians.

Like @DanteAlighieri points out, knowing the doctrine isn't enough. You have to believe it has an impact on you, your future, your eternity, and decide to act accordingly.

Granted, I think if the local dominant culture is Christian and the teacher isn't hostile, then it isn't unrealistic nor unreasonable for its doctrines and lessons to be taught in the local schools, in the homes and churches, in the streets and stores with the stinkeye of every adult when you misbehave. There's no point forcing people to pretend they're not something because one person gets hurt fee-fees at the idea that someone disagrees with them.

What do I think can fix things? There's no permanent fix, because human nature. You can course-correct and delay the inevitable by allowing consequences, which forces people to grow up and consider their actions. But in the end, there's a point where it goes too far--it always does, because we're a species of hard-headed narcissists and we can't not eat that damned fruit--and the only way to "fix" anything is by collapse and rebuild. Are we there yet? That I don't know; anything can happen when people are free to choose what's right.

But Christianity works on an individual level, ultimately, so no, trying to save everyone at once by mass production is absolutely ridiculous.

And now back to TDS.

Meanwhile, the legal experts at Vox are quite sure that Trump's efforts to excise China's parasitic tendrils from our economy are fruitless.
 
Returning back to "abolish the EC" is the worst thing the TDS crowd could do this close to an election. Telling the core of your opponent's voting base you fully intend to disenfranchise them once you get back into power is sure to dissuade them from going to the polls....
 
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