Like a sine wave, I go up and down on axis measuring "seething rage" and "crying because some people are too stupid to live, yet they continue to consume our precious oxygen and produce carbon dioxide".
Maybe I'll just crawl under the blankets and pretend this is a nightmare. It sounds much more reasonable course of action. Of course, then I'll wake up and find out that the nightmare continues, so...
To be slightly fair to the nutjob, he's objecting to the way algebra is being taught - with the example of a kid handing out money (which is like Government spending, and therefore bad!), rather than, say, the Government lowering taxes (which is good, despite being the same thing).
I don't want to be too fair to him, though, because later on he objects to people describing the second Gulf War as being predicated on there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and it turning out that there weren't any, which is perfectly true. So fuck him.
I particularly like someone who presumably believes in other contexts that guns are good and the main enemy of all freedom-loving people is the US government, objects to books that describe American Indians' main enemy as being the US Government and not freedom-loving people with guns.
Looking at the offending handout, do they really say "multiplication sentence"? What happened to the word "equation"? Is this a new thing I missed out on?
Also:
"A lot of this comes from the teachers. They get their news from The Huffington Post and their antiperspirant from a health food store. This is the way they live."
... the health-food store dig just perplexes me. Does the free market now offend conservatives? It's not enough that you buy antiperspirant - you have to buy it from the correct kind of store! Plus I thought Americans were supposed to be giving these people guns - is that off the table until they switch to a supermarket brand?
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Date: 2013-01-11 03:32 pm (UTC)*checks her calendar*
Oh SHIT. 11 and half months still to go. BAWWWWWW.
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Date: 2013-01-11 03:41 pm (UTC)(It was invented by Arabs, I suppose, so that does make it suspiciously Commufascisociamericahatin'.)
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Date: 2013-01-11 03:48 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll just crawl under the blankets and pretend this is a nightmare. It sounds much more reasonable course of action. Of course, then I'll wake up and find out that the nightmare continues, so...
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Date: 2013-01-11 07:17 pm (UTC)I don't want to be too fair to him, though, because later on he objects to people describing the second Gulf War as being predicated on there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and it turning out that there weren't any, which is perfectly true. So fuck him.
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Date: 2013-01-11 04:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-01-11 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-01-11 07:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-01-11 09:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-01-12 12:10 am (UTC)Also:
"A lot of this comes from the teachers. They get their news from The Huffington Post and their antiperspirant from a health food store. This is the way they live."
... the health-food store dig just perplexes me. Does the free market now offend conservatives? It's not enough that you buy antiperspirant - you have to buy it from the correct kind of store! Plus I thought Americans were supposed to be giving these people guns - is that off the table until they switch to a supermarket brand?
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Date: 2013-01-14 05:36 pm (UTC)