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More recent news for the Carolinas:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A sophomore student at Hawthorne Academy High School was suspended late last month after reporting being sexually assaulted by a male classmate.

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“The school did their investigation, gave me a phone call, and said, ‘Hey, look, unfortunately, it looks like there’s no evidence that shows that what your daughter saying took place,’ the mother said.


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In addition to suspending the female student, CMS is also making her attend a class called “Sexual Harassment is Preventable.”

https://www.wbtv.com/2021/11/01/cms-stu … tType=apps

Assuming for the moment that she did lie: why would the school make her take a class on how to not be sexually harassed if the she wasn't attacked? They should make her take a class on "honesty" instead according to their assertion, and offer her male victim support in seeking legal retribution.

I don't get what goes through the head of admin when they punish accusers like that.

I am not sure what the whole procedure for that is but at what point should you involve the police? I don't think the police even have special units to deal with juvenile cases like this. The cops that have shown up to take statements from schools are typical beat cops. Urban commando uniforms, pig behavior and mentality.

Doesn't make any sense to me. Would you order a student to take a class on how to avoid the thing that "didn't" happen to them? Also sounds like a class that maybe all students should take as a matter of fact, if there's any merit to it. And not just the one student you think lied about being raped in the first place.

I dunno, what do your admin classes have to say on this sort of thing?

My mom is too sick to work. She has MS. My dad could and probably will keep working but much less than before.

Larssen wrote:

Both sides of the family my grandfathers ended up 90+. I'm not sure if my parents will get there, but it's possible. Personally if I can't find anything to do I'll probably off myself in retirement. Fuck being old and useless for 30+ years. Seeing old people who are not only in physical but obvious mental decline is just sad to me. Many do indeed end up 'waiting to die'.

Offing yourself when you get old...very cucked. I look forward to old age in order to experiment with dangerous drugs. I want to try some crack, meth, heroin, and whatever new stuff Gen B invents. Also video games.

Actually I believe there's several articles which state that money contributes to happiness up to a point. Once you can live in reasonable comfort, any more won't make a difference. Material possessions give a momentary, fleeting high at best.

That bar of 'living comfortable' depends on the area, but generally if you can pay for your own appartment, food, a vacation or two a year, some leisure activities - you're there. The milennial suicide increase has a lot more factors in it than money.

Larssen wrote:

Actually I believe there's several articles which state that money contributes to happiness up to a point. Once you can live in reasonable comfort, any more won't make a difference. Material possessions give a momentary, fleeting high at best.

That bar of 'living comfortable' depends on the area, but generally if you can pay for your own appartment, food, a vacation or two a year, some leisure activities - you're there. The milennial suicide increase has a lot more factors in it than money.

the issue being that a vanishingly small number of people coming up today, without intergenarational or inherited wealth, even have much hope of reaching this modest-sounding bar.

home ownership is by far the main thing. what good is it being able to pay for an apartment each year and take a few vacations if you're unable to make long-term financial (meaning family) planning? this is literally the main correlate with reduced birth rate. people don't have children when they live in rented, often times shared, short-term accommodation at the whims of their landlord. the picture is doubly bad if you don't have that inherited wealth or (grand)parental stability in the picture. grandparents used to be integral to raising children in large or financially stressed families. well, many gen-z'ers today can't take having that stable parental picture for granted: their own parents are gen-x'ers, not monied boomers. a lot of them are really out on their own and the chances of becoming a homeowner through individual effort and pulling-up-of-bootstraps is vanishingly small.

major news story in the UK press this week is that deep reforms to the social care budget in the UK means that many modestly homed pensioners will have to sell their homes and assets in order to fund their old-age care. that is dire. work your entire life to become a home-owner and save something for your kids; be forced to liquidate all of your assets because you rock up in a dementia home that costs £30,000 a year for the last 7 years of your life. thanks for playing!

Last edited by uziq (2021-11-23 18:51:46)

there are already large inheritance taxes, which is their function: to ensure that dynastical piles aren't amassed and the wealth gap doesn't grow out of all proportion (not that inheritance tax alone can stem the way that tidal wave is flowing).

what's the incentive to work all your adult life to become a modest single-home owner, when you have to sell it all in old age because the state healthcare/pension – to which you've contributed your whole life – won't cover your social care costs? rentiers, who by definition own property portfolios, and who speculate, leverage their wealth, arrange further mortgages against their tenants' rent incomes, and no doubt utilize canny and expensive financial advisors, etc, are not in the same position at all.

a much criticized aspect of these reforms is, like the poll tax, they will disportionately affect those at the lower-end of the income/property scale. rich, propertied people aren't blemished by things like this because capital accrues capital (read piketty already, it's 2021).

families already pay a decent amount of this burden in the UK, as our social care system is all-but-semi-privatized anyway. my family spent a fortune on my grandfather's dementia care, even pre- these current reforms to the system. most dementia care homes are private-sector-adjacent or only covered in part by a small and nominal NHS grant. as is just considering, you know, your average worker pays into the national insurance/tax system for their entire lives.

if you're talking on behalf of the renters themselves, and accusing me of bad faith, then i'm not sure i follow your argument here. quite apart from my own circumstances, i don't want to live in any society that's so unequal and divided that 'hardworking families' (that tabloid phrase) have to give up their homes during an already tragic enough process of end-of-life care.

Being poor was no fun whatsoever.

your generation had literally no early-life debts, free university, and an easily accessible dole system for the unemployed NEETS. ok boomer. please stop comparing your hardships to everyone else's and making it seem like you're the most hard-done-by, heroic little fellow ever. at least i had the grace to talk about gen-z'ers and people even younger than myself, who are no doubt in a worse position.

Last edited by uziq (2021-11-24 02:07:28)

The Bond villain at Amazon would probably agree with you. "Yes, no real solution. Dunno what to do, so tragic!"