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I do not understand these riddles

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Not everything is fixable. And almost nothing having to do with people is reversible. Go ahead and break someone's trust in you. That should illuminate matters sufficiently.

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I do not think you are making a cogent argument against building good schools, athletics and providing decent food to children.

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Jun 18, 2023·edited Jun 18, 2023

Schools are buildings, easily built where and when you want. Good schools are buildings with good students in them. Do you understand the difference?

If you're providing "decent food" to children, then their parents must not be doing so. Why not? How do you propose to change the parents' behavior in tending to their children (or at least have no more of them to be similarly neglected)?

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The most significant economic unit, and life is economic at its simplest level, is the nuclear family: a man and woman raising the children they created together. We can bend and tweak and excuse other models out of compassion, but they do not stand up on empirical evidence.

We adopted several children (hold your applause…no signaling here), and the data on all “progressive” family definitions turns up inferior outcomes. Trot out the “bad father” and “blame the victim” narratives, but the core data does not lie.

The problem with Blacks and the lower classes is that we have cavalierly destroyed the family and shamed anyone stupid enough to defend it in mixed company.

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Yeah, it helps when you don't sell the economic base out to foreign workers and wreck the neighborhoods, but in the meantime, investing in schools is how you produce to good students.

Investing in quality food and making it available in neighborhoods where today people shop at liquor stores would help to.

You act like this all has been a bottom up problem. It is top down and on purpose.

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It’s both. The Left thrives on failure and dependency. Incredibly, they generate a lot of people who fail and become dependent. Those same people reproduce and the cycle repeats unless by the grace of God one kid in a hundred sees a different path and doesn’t get killed for leaving the plantation.

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You're a lunatic.

You want things that are unobtainable by any method imaginable attempted over an extended period of time by many very smart people with unlimited means. When your dreams (ravings) don't magically appear in front of you, you ascribe it to the willful and specific denial of an all-powerful conspiracy supposedly running things (in the country, world, universe)?

Get some help.

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Well, you have discredited yourself by acting like a typical reddit poster and not a thoughtful educated person who can have a conversation without resorting to insults.

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