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“Troy Senik is a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom and an editor at Ricochet.com.” “The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) is an Alexandria,

“Troy Senik is a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom and an editor at Ricochet.com.” “The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) is an Alexandria, Virginia based U.S. nonprofit conservative policy advocacy organization, founded on the principle of securing individual freedoms as embodied in the United States Constitution and state constitutions. It was founded in 1998 by former tobacco industry executives who sought to counter government restrictions on smoking, but is no longer associated with tobacco or smoking.” - Wikipedia Oh no, it’s horrible. Teachers get paid well! This might attract great people to the job of educating the next generation! And they have banded together to represent their interests! This shall not stand.

ebullientocelot 8y ago
Your comment is literally the first time in my life that I have seen the words "teachers get paid well" in what seems to me to be a serious fashion. Someone quoted below that the highest paid teachers are pulling something like 68k.. I'm east coast, and not smack dab in a major metro, but still--calling 70k "well-paid" seems pretty unrealistic.
- mirimir 8y ago
  You missed the implied /s in "teachers get paid well". It's a parody, based on his quote from TFA.
  - ebullientocelot 8y ago
    :facepalm:. Yea that makes much, much more sense. My bad.
    - mirimir 8y ago
      Hey, we all get pwned by Poe's Law, sometimes. Especially when it's about something that's important to us. So no blame. And I apologize for going off-topic, but Poe's Law arguably underlies much of the recent drama about online censorship. Twitter, Mastodon, Patreon, etc. That is, many who feel strongly about various sorts of hate speech have zero tolerance for stuff that parodies and satirizes that hate speech. But of course, there are also lots of trolls out there, whose only goal is upsetting people and generating lulzy reactions. So confusion is understandable. And that's how it is with Poe's Law. When you see and hear (for example) Lenny Bruce, Dave Chappelle, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor or Chris Rock, you know that it's parody and satire. But when you read stuff online, there's no context. Anyway, it's sad.
- vondur 8y ago
  This isn’t true in SoCal. Many teachers are making 100k per year. My wife was a teacher.

ebullientocelot 8y ago

Your comment is literally the first time in my life that I have seen the words "teachers get paid well" in what seems to me to be a serious fashion. Someone quoted below that the highest paid teachers are pulling something like 68k.. I'm east coast, and not smack dab in a major metro, but still--calling 70k "well-paid" seems pretty unrealistic.

mirimir 8y ago
You missed the implied /s in "teachers get paid well". It's a parody, based on his quote from TFA.
- ebullientocelot 8y ago
  :facepalm:. Yea that makes much, much more sense. My bad.
  - mirimir 8y ago
    Hey, we all get pwned by Poe's Law, sometimes. Especially when it's about something that's important to us. So no blame. And I apologize for going off-topic, but Poe's Law arguably underlies much of the recent drama about online censorship. Twitter, Mastodon, Patreon, etc. That is, many who feel strongly about various sorts of hate speech have zero tolerance for stuff that parodies and satirizes that hate speech. But of course, there are also lots of trolls out there, whose only goal is upsetting people and generating lulzy reactions. So confusion is understandable. And that's how it is with Poe's Law. When you see and hear (for example) Lenny Bruce, Dave Chappelle, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor or Chris Rock, you know that it's parody and satire. But when you read stuff online, there's no context. Anyway, it's sad.
vondur 8y ago
This isn’t true in SoCal. Many teachers are making 100k per year. My wife was a teacher.