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Cinnamon Bear: Aug 29, 2016; by FactsAreUseless

what if you gave us more money and we made your kids education worse? deal?

# ? Dec 6, 2018 04:35

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# ? May 13, 2024 00:41

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

zuckerberg pledged $100M to "fix" newark's public schools

he announced it on oprah and both booker (then mayor of newark) and christie were there to accept the money

quote:

When Zuckerberg declared his grant, the agenda was pretty clear: Turn the Newark schools around in five years and make it a national model. But from the get-go, there seemed little agreement as to how best to proceed. More than anything, Christie wanted to break the hold of the entrenched teachers� unions. Booker wanted more charter schools. Zuckerberg wanted to raise the status of teachers and to reward teaching that improved students� performance.

Their five-year plan gets off to a rocky start. Initial funds go to a bevy of consultants, most of them white, most of them well connected, some of whom are getting paid $1,000 a day. One educator labels them the �school failure industry.� Moreover, it quickly becomes apparent that this is a top-down effort, with politicians and the well-to-do setting the agenda. When Booker sets up a local foundation to handle Zuckerberg�s gift, the seats on the board go only to donors of at least $5 million. You can begin to see where this story�s headed. Booker shows more interest in his own political career than he does in running his city. Christie hires an ideologue as his point person on the Newark schools. And Zuckerberg, a newcomer to philanthropy, seems frustrated by the inability to negotiate a union contract that would quickly raise the salaries of promising young teachers and pay substantial merit bonuses for high performers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/the-prize-by-dale-russakoff.html

# ? Dec 6, 2018 04:36

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

the waiting for superman framing was not something i had known before though lol

# ? Dec 6, 2018 04:42

Captain Billy Pissboy: Oct 25, 2005; by Nyc_Tattoo; College Slice

That photo is the result of an ai designed to produce the most succinct example of neoliberalism

# ? Dec 6, 2018 04:49

Wheeee: Mar 11, 2001; When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

imagine a scene in which zuckerberg is the ~~good~~ less bad guy

# ? Dec 6, 2018 16:30

Retromancer: Aug 21, 2007; Every time I see Goatse, I think of Maureen. That's the last thing I saw. Before I blacked out. The sight of that man's anus.

Lol that that walleyed motherfucker is probably going to be our next president.

# ? Dec 6, 2018 16:35

Koishi Komeiji: Mar 30, 2003

Nah, he'll easily win the primary and then get crushed by trump.

# ? Dec 6, 2018 18:47

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

he could easily buy the primary just like hillary did and would lose to trump even more spectacularly. ronald reagan levels of blowout.

# ? Dec 6, 2018 18:58

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Wheeee posted:

imagine a scene in which zuckerberg is the ~~good~~ less bad guy

That's not what the scene implies. Zuckerberg swooped in to Oprah to make a big show of being Superman to save Newark schools - but the American school system isn't going to be saved by billionaire philanthropy. He's creating a false impression of the efficacy of philanthropy to cement his class power.

# ? Dec 6, 2018 19:32

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

# ? Dec 6, 2018 20:07

Wheeee: Mar 11, 2001; When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

yea except the other three are doing the same thing even more aggressively

# ? Dec 6, 2018 20:08

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/1070739987572973569

# ? Dec 6, 2018 23:06

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

nye should be on top. he was always more politically engaged and also is (hopefully) not a sex pest

"smartness" =/= should run for president though

# ? Dec 6, 2018 23:46

Apoplexy: Mar 9, 2003; by Shine

I initially read that as (Mike) Tyson

# ? Dec 7, 2018 00:05

Modest Mao: Feb 11, 2011; by Cyrano4747

they're both celebrities who found a good grift, not working scientists or experts in their field

add kaku to that list. You could read the wiki page for something and know as much as they do as deeply as they do

but yes I agree I want my country run by names I've heard of from the TV

# ? Dec 7, 2018 01:05

Ommin: Apr 5, 2006; I like to watch CinemaSins and Honest Trailers for all the movies I'm curious about but don't want to watch. It's like Cliff's Notes with commentary notes to use in conversation to "prove you watched it."

For all the talk they do about liberal bias in Hollywood and how celebrities need to "stay in their lane", history shows that Republicans are way more likely to elect a celebrity than Dems.

# ? Dec 7, 2018 04:05

Taintrunner: Apr 10, 2017; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

I lust for death now

# ? Dec 7, 2018 11:34

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

all those Italians who never left New York and New Jersey were settling a savage wasteland

# ? Dec 7, 2018 19:01

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

all those Italians who never left New York and New Jersey were settling a savage wasteland

when youre right youre right

# ? Dec 7, 2018 19:03

qkkl: Jul 1, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

That's not what the scene implies. Zuckerberg swooped in to Oprah to make a big show of being Superman to save Newark schools - but the American school system isn't going to be saved by billionaire philanthropy. He's creating a false impression of the efficacy of philanthropy to cement his class power.

He was just young and naive, thinking that a few billion is enough to disrupt the establishment. He has now been absorbed by the system, which is why his facial expression is much more somber now than when he was starting up.

# ? Dec 7, 2018 19:09

Feldegast42: Oct 29, 2011; COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Taintrunner posted:

I lust for death now

Well, except for that one time the settlers hosed up and the natives had to bail them out with a nice thanksgiving meal

...and then the settlers later killed them and took their land

# ? Dec 7, 2018 19:35

Raldikuk: Apr 7, 2006; I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

Feldegast42 posted:

Well, except for that one time the settlers hosed up and the natives had to bail them out with a nice thanksgiving meal

...and then the settlers later killed them and took their land

That's certainly one exceptionally dumb aspect of it, but my favorite is the assumption that all of their ancestors came over during that sort of time period when trying to make a new life in the new world was actually super difficult. The reality is that most people will trace back to ancestors who immigrated to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s; when the US was already developed. Those people were coming over because jobs were getting super scarce in Europe, land was hard to come by if you weren't in the aristocracy, and the US offered great opportunity to get a decent job. Sounds pretty much like the people they're bitching about.

# ? Dec 7, 2018 19:53

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

Taintrunner posted:

I lust for death now

lol

# ? Dec 7, 2018 20:05

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

Raldikuk posted:

That's certainly one exceptionally dumb aspect of it, but my favorite is the assumption that all of their ancestors came over during that sort of time period when trying to make a new life in the new world was actually super difficult. The reality is that most people will trace back to ancestors who immigrated to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s; when the US was already developed. Those people were coming over because jobs were getting super scarce in Europe, land was hard to come by if you weren't in the aristocracy, and the US offered great opportunity to get a decent job. Sounds pretty much like the people they're bitching about.

For sure, like 90% of Scandinavian emigrants are from like 1890-1940. It was just lovely over here at the time, and saving up for a ticket was a pretty good idea. More room & more rubes, ya know?

# ? Dec 7, 2018 21:01

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1071375493059018752

# ? Dec 9, 2018 10:58

Flowers For Algeria: Dec 3, 2005; I humbly offer my services as forum inquisitor. There is absolutely no way I would abuse this power in any way.

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1071375493059018752

on the contrary huffington post i do feel like it ought to be deliberately missed. perhaps even pushed away with a long pole.

edit lord protect us from white nerdy rap battles

# ? Dec 9, 2018 11:16

Retromancer: Aug 21, 2007; Every time I see Goatse, I think of Maureen. That's the last thing I saw. Before I blacked out. The sight of that man's anus.

Every time I remember ERBoH exists I lust for death.

# ? Dec 9, 2018 16:40

paul_soccer10: Mar 28, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

im going to watch it

# ? Dec 9, 2018 17:54

paul_soccer10: Mar 28, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

https://twitter.com/matttbastard/status/1071440512446427137

# ? Dec 9, 2018 17:56

Ommin: Apr 5, 2006; I like to watch CinemaSins and Honest Trailers for all the movies I'm curious about but don't want to watch. It's like Cliff's Notes with commentary notes to use in conversation to "prove you watched it."

Retromancer posted:

Every time I remember ERBoH exists I lust for death.

It's baffling to me that it has survived this long.

# ? Dec 10, 2018 05:13

R. Guyovich: Dec 25, 1991

i am also surprised the epic rap battles of history people have found success in a society that built a cult of personality around a smug nerd man who tells us movies are fictional.

# ? Dec 10, 2018 07:13

Algund Eenboom: May 4, 2014

Hmm, something tells me you're not actually surprised at all

Neil degrasse Tyson said that star wars was inaccurate because a ball droid robot would never be able to roll around on sand. Without considering that the droid in the movie is an actual robot which the crew constructed, that you can see in the movie rolling in the sand.

# ? Dec 10, 2018 07:15