The Sad But True Pictures Thread

[Jerchap2]

Yes he is. Gives me hope for the future.

I hope there are a lot more like him out there.

 

[Cbrs]

WHATTT!!!???? I had to click through acknowledging this could be offensive to certain audiences. GOOD GOD! These were shown on public television 70 years ago, and its seen as offensive today?

Not "sad but true" but the above toy posts had me finding this gem. Pretty cool 8 minutes of cool war related toys from the 50's and 60's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reeWHLqedIw

 

[actaeon277]

WHATTT!!!???? I had to click through acknowledging this could be offensive to certain audiences. GOOD GOD! These were shown on public television 70 years ago, and its seen as offensive today?

yup.

 

[rob63]

WHATTT!!!???? I had to click through acknowledging this could be offensive to certain audiences. GOOD GOD! These were shown on public television 70 years ago, and its seen as offensive today?

It also works the other way around, what is considered normal on TV today would never have been shown back then.
I don't think either of them is a change for the better, so I guess I'm old.

 

[Jerchap2]

It also works the other way around, what is considered normal on TV today would never have been shown back then.
I don't think either of them is a change for the better, so I guess I'm old.

Or perhaps wise.

 

[Jerchap2]

 

[HoughMade]

That's the problem. "WE" are not teaching our children. WE have decided to be their friends and have subcontracted teaching them to unionized government employees. Some are great. Many, many are quite liberal to start and go full leftist the longer they are in the union and the more involved they become in the union. All unions are not the same, but the teachers' unions are among the most left leaning.

Seeing who the education majors were in college told me all I needed to know.

Of course, with active parenting WE could erase the liberal seeds that they are attempting to plant in our children's minds or even reform our schools making them less likely to be liberal havens....but that takes too much work. I get it. We have TV shows to binge, video games to play and all kinds of other things to do rather that actively parent.

 

[Dr.Midnight]

That's the problem. "WE" are not teaching our children. WE have decided to be their friends and have subcontracted teaching them to unionized government employees. Some are great. Many, many are quite liberal to start and go full leftist the longer they are in the union and the m or involved they become in the union. All unions are not the same, but the teachers' unions are among the most left leaning.

Seeing who the education majors were in college told me all I needed to know.

Of course, with active parenting WE could erase the liberal seeds that they are attempting to plant in our children's minds or even reform our schools making them less likely to be liberal havens....but that takes too much work. I get it. We have TV shows to binge, video games to play and all kinds of other things to do rather that actively parent.

 

[actaeon277]

Would be nice if parents stepped in more about education, and told politicians NO.
Also, would be nice to have some people that have escaped these countries go in and tell people what they escaped from.

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;bKhR9i5CGkA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKhR9i5CGkA[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Here's a Russian immigrant, about 1 minute in

[video=youtube;5JxPY7r8oNo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JxPY7r8oNo[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

You might have heard of this guy..
He didn't escape from it, but he's pretty educated on it.

[video=youtube;4R-tc1AtnjU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R-tc1AtnjU[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Here's a MORON explaining that it WASN'T REALLY SOCIALISM.

Ugh.
She can't figure out that it's not worked.
The place where it "has" is because it's only a bit socialist.

[video=youtube;lN0HkA6APKk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0HkA6APKk[/video]








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0HkA6APKk
There are some good comments at the bottom tearing her arguments apart.

 

[Jerchap2]

That's the problem. "WE" are not teaching our children. WE have decided to be their friends and have subcontracted teaching them to unionized government employees. Some are great. Many, many are quite liberal to start and go full leftist the longer they are in the union and the more involved they become in the union. All unions are not the same, but the teachers' unions are among the most left leaning.

Seeing who the education majors were in college told me all I needed to know.

Of course, with active parenting WE could erase the liberal seeds that they are attempting to plant in our children's minds or even reform our schools making them less likely to be liberal havens....but that takes too much work. I get it. We have TV shows to binge, video games to play and all kinds of other things to do rather that actively parent.

A sad but true comment on a sad but true meme. Brilliant!

 

[Jerchap2]

I really like this 1948 video from Harding College on this topic. 9.5 minutes long, if you have an interest.

[video=youtube;Oz9fX_HfsXA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9fX_HfsXA[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

I really like this 1948 video from Harding College on this topic. 9.5 minutes long, if you have an interest.

[video=youtube;Oz9fX_HfsXA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9fX_HfsXA[/video]

Seen it before.
I like it. People need to see it.

 

[Jerchap2]

We got a little off track with the sad but true pictures thread. Back to the theme.

 

[Hohn]

That's the problem. "WE" are not teaching our children. WE have decided to be their friends and have subcontracted teaching them to unionized government employees. Some are great. Many, many are quite liberal to start and go full leftist the longer they are in the union and the more involved they become in the union. All unions are not the same, but the teachers' unions are among the most left leaning.

Seeing who the education majors were in college told me all I needed to know.

Of course, with active parenting WE could erase the liberal seeds that they are attempting to plant in our children's minds or even reform our schools making them less likely to be liberal havens....but that takes too much work. I get it. We have TV shows to binge, video games to play and all kinds of other things to do rather that actively parent.

We homeschool. It's about the ultimate act of rebellion.

 

[rhino]

When my son started HS, Clinton was President. Goals 2000 started and his HS adopted the program. We had parent/school meetings and the school later stopped - for a while. Goals 2000, if you remember, was basically this:

Students would come to class and sit at a table with about 6-8 other student. This was your group, for the entire day. Classes were taught and the "group" worked together. You had extremely bright students in the group along with low achieving students, in the same group. Individual grades did not exist; only "group" grades. If you had slackers, it brought the grade down....as well if you had all high achievers, the group had good grades. Imagine HS like this and your child his a high achiever and is looking for scholarships for college. Imagine the low achiever, that has a major impact on your child's grade that impacts how college will look at them.

The school meetings were high energy to say the least and after some fighting, it was dropped. The above picture represents the mind set of Goals 2000, and in many areas today it still survives.

So . . . Goals 2000 = Indoctrination to Socialism 101?

 

[Hohn]

I think that's also known as "confirmation bias".

Technically a different thing. Confirmation bias has to do with the sources we will admit into our lives or our predispositions. But once a contrary fact has slipped through the confirmation bias filters, and we STILL refuse to believe it, that's another thing altogether.

It's an ego thing-- someone with a very fragile ego cannot accept a world in which they might be wrong, so therefore the WORLD must be wrong.