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Landmammals

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The supercharger network is the only part of Tesla that has any hope of surviving the next few years.

With any luck Elon will sell it to Ford

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No they don’t.

They wanted Joe to not run again in the first place, and for the DNC to nominate someone else.

Don’t get me wrong, biden’s administration has done amazing work. We are just so focused on the stupid horse race that we’re not actually picking a leader.

The main difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is then Biden isn’t a raging narcissist. He has surrounded himself with competent people who are quietly doing a great job of running the government.

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That’s a fantastic way to guarantee my TV will not be connected to the internet

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I honestly can’t tell the difference between real news and satire sometimes.

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That’s a great argument and I completely agree. You are addressing the actual problem.

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I’m 100% on board with separating church and state, and forbidding taxpayer funds to be used for religious indoctrination. But couching that intention in an argument about private schools stealing money from public schools is disingenuous.

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“religious institutions shouldn’t get taxpayer money to teach religion” is an exceptionally valid argument. But the meat of this article is about schools being funded by enrollment. They’re saying money is being taken away from public schools, and the schools are suffering.

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Money intended to be used for educating children, is instead being used for…

Educating children.

If the dollars per child amount isn’t enough, raise taxes. It’s ridiculous to complain about not getting money for children you don’t have to teach.

Edit: if you want to argue that taxpayer money shouldn’t be used for religious education, or that private schools need to be held to educational standards, I completely agree. But that’s not what we’re talking about.

When I was a kid I went to a non-religious STEM School for 2 years. It was fantastic. They had all kinds of science stuff, computer programming, gifted classes. But after 2 years my parents couldn’t afford it anymore so I went back to public school. I was doing so well and learning so much. Now when I hear about voucher programs I think of myself as a kid.

I’m an adult now and my kids go to public school. I can’t afford to send them to private school. I have a passion for reading and math, and have passed that to my kids. They’re both several grade levels ahead, and their teacher is struggling with the kids who aren’t going to be able to meet grade level. It breaks my heart to see how bored and lazy they are getting at school, because same damn thing happened to me.

The voucher thing isn’t all about Christians.

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