the decline is a necessary consequence of increasing educational attainment
College used to be for middle class and above. If you let dumb people into college and lower the standards so they don't fail, of course the average IQ of college students will drop.
The look on his face. You can just tell that kid is going to be a problem when he grows up.
Fight Club and American Psycho were based on books written by men. Any bets on this poster even knowing they're film adaptations of previously existing novels?
The screenplay for Fight Club was written by a man and it was directed by a man. There is no evidence of any female influence in either Fight Club the book or Fight Club the movie.
The screenplay and direction for American psycho were done by women. I'm not sure that really means anything, as it fairly faithfully captures about the first half of the novel.
The novel was written in the 1980s as a critique of consumer culture, which is why Patrick Bateman has these weird interludes where he goes into depth about CDs and songs. It's even more apparent in the book where he describes what brand of clothes everyone is wearing in each encounter, and there are more interludes that talk about things like his CD player.
That's true, and unfortunately it would be true even if he had won a huge judgment against them and they were officially on record as illegally discriminating against him.
The simple fact that he was fired and involved in a lawsuit would scare off most employers.
I wonder why he didn't want to go all the way, especially when the incident happened in front of a room full of people who gave affidavits same the girl was lying.
I think 1 to 2 years salary would be the minimum award he would have gotten, as they've damaged his earning potential for the rest of his life.
It was a settlement, meaning he must have decided this was the best he was going to get, or it wasn't worth it to fight for years to get more.
The college probably viewed $185k as a screaming deal, considering they were going to be on the hook for thousands in legal fees even if they won, and they stood a good chance of having to pay for both lawyers plus a much larger award and the negative press from losing a wrongful termination suit.
In addition to the $185,000, the agreement includes St. Philip's College writing a neutral job letter of recommendation for Moravits.
You generally get this anyway, as former employers don't want to be forced to prove everything they said about you if you end up not getting a job based on their recommendation. I would have demanded that the recommendation letter be glowingly positive or the deal was off.
And look at the bitch on the right, awarding it the medal. She's got more decorations than Field Marshal Montgomery and I can practically guarantee she never served a day in the armed forces.
Medals for civilians are dumb. They were invented to recognize battlefield heroism, I don't know why some minor government functionary feels the need to have them in the first place.
O-6, which makes it even worse. He is already an O-5 in the pic where he's still a male and in the female uniform to the left of it. The upper right pic is him pinning on colonel.
The United States Space Force DoD Has selected Fram for promotion today.
Of course they fucking have. What a clown show. At least their goofy ass uniform reflects what joke they are (upper right pic).
Perhaps someone should SWAT the newscaster that made that statement and see what he thinks afterwards. Assuming the cops don't kill him of course.
I think in the '60s they still allowed a little room for common sense.
These days it's all "we have a procedure" or "I followed policy" when the policy in question is either nonsensical or illegal on its face. It's like some shitty civil servant Nuremberg Defense.
At least there won't be any reason not to replace all these idiots with AI or robots when the technology is there. They are already blindly following a logic flowchart without any critical thinking or consideration of the larger implications of their actions, so we're not going to lose anything by just delegating the job to a robot.
Bingo. This goes double when it's somebody famous or a public figure.
It doesn't take a genius level intelligence to think an anonymous caller saying senator so-and-so just blew away his whole family merits some investigation before sending in a squad of heavily armed cops who are likely to shoot anyone they see on sight.
"Hey, if this guy is supposedly just shot a bunch of people how come we haven't received any 'shots fired' calls from anyone in his neighborhood?" Is a question they've apparently never asked themselves.
Yes, but CO would say they weren't putting him on trial for insurrection, but merely making an administrative determination about whether or not he qualified to be on their ballot. Due process only kicks in if you're facing criminal charges. Since they determined that he "engaged" an insurrection, he's not qualified. No criminal conviction or trial required.
They're playing word games to try and disqualify the Republican front runner from their election because "Orange man bad". And it's playing with fire, because there's nothing stopping the right from playing the same games in states they control.
Anticipated by whom? Certainly not comic fans. This is Madame Webb, a blind and crippled old woman: https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/5-things-to-know-about-madame-web
The only thing this film has in common with the comic is the name.
None of us will be alive to see it, but I'd be interested to know what history books 100 years from now have to say about how America went from being king of the world after World War II to pissing it away over the following two generations.
I lived in a studio In college. That's normal. I don't know any single person that ever lived in a two bedroom apartment.
Then again, I'm significantly older than the current generation in college and saved up money to buy my own home, so there's that.
Republicans just bypassing the primary in that state might've been too much.
They should. Primaries as a government managed election have no business even existing IMO. That's where the political parties (which are private entities) choose who gets their endorsement for the actual election. Why are the states even involved in the first place?
One, they shouldn't be meddling in the business of political parties, which are, again, private entities. And second, I don't want public dollars spent on assisting the Democrats and Republicans in deciding who they are going to run in an election. If you're a private entity, you are free from government intrusion, but you also don't get any government money to pay for your operations.
Why would they even do this, considering the optics? Guy accuses the Democratic party of rigging the last election, so a state uses an "innovative legal theory" to have him removed from their ballot.
I mean, Jesus, are you trying to swing the undecided middle to his side? It's fucking Colorado; it's not like he was going to win there anyway. Biden won there with a 14% margin last time, and it's not like they got any redder in the last 4 years.
TDS is real. The left's hatred of Trump defies all reason.
Maybe, but it all hinged on the 14th amendment's language saying "engaged in insurrection."
Colorado's decision was based on the concept that he needn't be convicted because the 14th Amendment simply says "engaged" and that they could apply their own judgment as to whether or not his actions met that definition.
Cool, cool. If you want to play that game, federal law also doesn't say that an organization has to be convicted of anything to be declared a terrorist entity, instantly criminalizing providing "material support" to it. It's a bullshit ruling, and it's simply opens Pandora's box for other places to criminalize political conduct that they don't approve of unless the Supreme Court smacks it down super fucking hard.
Unfortunately, you're spot on. The Democrats have been taking advantage of the right trying to appear "reasonable" for years. They're a cancer, and the only way to root them out is to go on the offensive.
Look at how they immediately screamed "reee" and floated the idea of changing the composition of the Supreme Court as soon as rulings started dropping that didn't favor them. To them, the rules are only of value when they advance their agenda. When laws are inconvenient they are simply cast aside. The only way to win a battle like that is to do the same.
It was extremely stupid. You had a state court declare that he broke a a very narrowly defined federal law without any charges filed, let alone a conviction, when the conduct in question was prima facia perfectly legal.
The Dems always think that they're the only one who will use their dirty tricks, and they never learn. Dems removing the filibuster for judicial appointees is how Trump was able to get so many federal judges in office during his presidency.
If they had gotten away with this there's nothing stopping a state like Mississippi from just declaring the Democratic party to be a terrorist organization under the federal definition and criminalizing contributions to them. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I give Dune 2 a pass because it was always intended to be made. The first movie stopped half way through the book.
The others? Unecessary and unwanted.
I think at this point it's pretty obvious that women never should have been allowed to vote. Although if you point that out to normies you'll get tarred and feathered.
A near identical proxy that would be more palatable is to prevent people who aren't net taxpayers from voting. It makes complete sense, because they don't have any skin in the game. They're basically debating how to spend other people's money, so of course they'll vote to spend it on themselves.
Gun control has entered the chat.
Decision making and policy development is supposed to be an iterative process were you identify a problem, develop solutions, implement, and monitor results. The monitoring stage identifies new problems and the process starts over again.
What's truly interesting (and frightening) about the left is not how they fail to properly monitor and course correct when they make policies, but how they're able to transform every failure into a justification to go further forward. "You're doing it wrong" is their answer for every real world criticism based on empirical data.
When universal basic income fails, they'll double down use that as an excuse to give people more money or more free shit rather than question the foundational reasoning behind UBI works in real life.
He's right though, black families don't create problems like that. If you can even call them a family, because more likely than not there's no father, they sure as hell wouldn't be in an observatory or anywhere near a telescope.
The problems black families create are gang violence, drug dealing, smash and grab thefts, rioting and burning down cities, etc.
So, his observation was actually spot on.
Paywalled, and Bloomberg. No reason to send them ad revenue.
People do not vote for the left