JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@qoto.org
BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.
Joined Nov 2022
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , as for how we can make the world better, I offered a suggestion. Education in logic and ethics. I stand by those words.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , no, the quote is NOT a nice thing, it is purely a warning, that we will be judged. That judgement will not go easy on anyone who doesn't treat the poor well. I don't know how you can misread it so. All you need do is look at how we have judged all societies in our past to understand this isn't a warning that we will look kindly on any society that mistreats the poor. It is, simply, a statement of fact. We will be judged. Period. It is up to us HOW we will be judged, and part of the criteria will be 'how we treat the poor, and not the rich.'
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , I'm lost. That is a quote. I didn't say it, I repeated it. And there is nothing 'nice' about it. I honestly don't know what you are trying to present to me.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot Nanking, the Christians tossed to lions... I see nothing 'nice' in the examples I used, and I HIGHLY doubt Chavez was thinking about Iceland's healthcare system when warning that history will judge us for our actions.
I think you are misreading my words, or intent.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot I am honestly confused as to what point you are trying to make. It was just a quote that I think encapsulates the moral issue in a way we can all understand. We don't judge ancient Rome for how they treated the rich, but for how they treated the Christians. We don't judge 1920s Japan for how they treated their emperor, but for the rape of Nanking. Chavez pointed out a very real thing. There is nothing hopelessly romantic about his statement.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , should or should not is irrelevant. It WILL happen. There is nothing save a mass extinction event that will change this. People right now "should" accept this fact... And I suggest we/they act accordingly. We WILL be judged.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , when I quoted César Chávez? No. I think he made the absolutely correct word choice when he said history WILL judge, not "should".
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , I find the idea of a functioning education system rather attractive. I can't picture how I wouldn't. If you expect that where I live HAS such, no, it doesn't. I think it SHOULD. This opinion of mine doesn't change with any contact or lack thereof with any education system.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , my last teaching job was several years ago, why?
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot , I honestly have no idea. I susp[ect it is education, and the teaching of ethics and logic in schools that is the base knowledge needed to address the healthcare problem.
@the_etrain@masto.ai How about we accept Puerto Rico, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and dump Texas and Florida?
@Dimestorehalo @freemo , to be very fair, I do not fully comprehend it myself, or why it is effective. I tend to view most systems as most efficient with a profit motive, IE a free market system. Libertarian, if you will. Healthcare and education are two counter examples. To me at least. But, the results seem to speak for themselves in the case of Singapore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore
JonKramer, CIS-HET
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Trump cut rail regulations that may have prevented the train derailment at East Palestine OH!
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@TeaPain , as I white CIS male, I would really prefer it she never stand up for me again.
JonKramer, CIS-HET
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@Eidolon180 just today I went for the 1st time in a week to Twitter. Google no longer recommended Twitter after typing "t" into the search bar. Or "tw".
That felt really good. Just knowing the addiction was effectively over. And has been over long enough for Google to figure it out.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins @bot
"History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless."
~César Chávez
@freemo @Dimestorehalo I have roughly the same experience. And all that at 3 times the cost of a comparable system in any other 1st world nation.
Give me Iceland. Although that weird public/private system in Singapore seems to be generating a lot of fans.
@swordsjew , my spidey sense is tingling....
BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.
Joined Nov 2022
