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Cake day: March 11th, 2024

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  • As terrible as the Trump administration is, China is still worse. Think freedom of speech is under threat and reduced in the US? Go to China and criticize Xi publicly. Think the Republicans are rigging Congressional races with gerrymandering? Try one party rule. Worried that you could be disappeared and show up in a prison hundreds of miles away or in another country altogether? How about just disappearing forever?










  • I assume you mean it costs money directly to the end user. Even when there is free public schooling, it costs money - it’s just that someone else is paying it. In most cases, the government is paying for it using revenue they collect from taxes, fines, and other levies.

    It costs money because people expect to be paid for their labor (teachers, administrators, groundskeepers, construction workers, repair people, janitors, textbook authors and publishers, IT workers, trash haulers) and products (building materials, books, computers, lawnmowers, mops and brooms, gasoline).