A scooter or bicycle available for rent is essentially a commercial, app-controlled vending machine. Why should it be legal for these things to be left anywhere for rental? If this is permitted, then there is no longer any non-commercial space. Can I set up a rental booth anywhere I like? In Walnut Creek across the Bay, hideous LimeBikes for rent litter nature trails and parks. A boycott seems appropriate if the local governments won't restrict rental areas to something reasonable.
The local community college district is run by the State.
That might explain it but that oath still seems unusual.
I don't think that many states require this of their employees, but I'm not an expert. I am surprised that nobody seems upset that California does this.
If you are armed, then you are not free from arms. The slogan makes no logical sense.
Either you are thinking this over too hard or not hard enough.
Wrong.
Imagine a gazelle on the savanna, is this animal free? Sure, it can roam far and wide if it chooses. What it is not free from is other gazelles. For the gazelles to get along there must be a hierarchy, which they defend with their horns. If we take away their horns does that free them from horns? Sure. They might still get along but that will be short lived, this peaceful coexistence will be broken when a lion comes. Those horns are not only used to keep the peace among the gazelles but also to defend the gazelles from the lions. The lions would love to see gazelles without horns, if they could take the horns then the gazelles would no longer be free to roam the savanna.
Freeing the gazelles of their horns does not free them of the claws of the lion. The gazelles are free to roam only to the point their horns keep the lions away.
Disarming myself might free me from my own guns but that does not disarm the thugs around me. So long as I stay with my "herd" I'm quite safe. We have a, perhaps informal and unspoken, hierarchy and order we maintain amongst ourselves. This is in part from a desire to be left alone and in part from a, perhaps also unspoken, promise to defend our desire to be left alone with potentially lethal force. The other gazelles know of this, as do the lions.
If the herd is threatened from the outside then I'm only as free as my ability to defend my herd. I might be able to rely on the other "gazelles" in my herd that chose to keep their horns but maybe not. I don't know if those gazelles also chose to "dehorn" themselves since unlike horns on a gazelle the weapons we carry are not as prominent. We can't always see the lions, and the lions cannot always see our horns. That is what keeps us gazelles free, or as free as we could possibly be in any real world.
Does that make sense?
No, but the discussion, while it would be fun, is off topic (topic was community colleges).
I wasn't clear, sorry. The local community college district is run by the State. This oath is required for all employees of the State of California. I am told that this is state law. No National Guard or national anything else was involved. Hello, California, welcome to the 1950s. We all hope that someday you will grow up and become a real state.
If you are armed, then you are not free from arms. The slogan makes no logical sense.
I'm not making this up, but I wish that I were. I'm a computer science Ph.D. with a lot of teaching experience. Recently, a community college in California wanted to hire me to teach a computer literacy class as part of the Year Up program. I was emailed a 203-page pdf of hiring materials. There, buried on page 37, was a loyalty oath that I was required to sign as a condition of employment. It is reproduced below. I refused to sign it and was not hired. Is this the fascist left or the fascist right? California Uber Alles, y'all.
"I, (Print Name) Do solemnly swear, or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter"
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A scooter or bicycle available for rent is essentially a commercial, app-controlled vending machine. Why should it be legal for these things to be left anywhere for rental? If this is permitted, then there is no longer any non-commercial space. Can I set up a rental booth anywhere I like? In Walnut Creek across the Bay, hideous LimeBikes for rent litter nature trails and parks. A boycott seems appropriate if the local governments won't restrict rental areas to something reasonable.
The local community college district is run by the State.
That might explain it but that oath still seems unusual.
I don't think that many states require this of their employees, but I'm not an expert. I am surprised that nobody seems upset that California does this.
If you are armed, then you are not free from arms. The slogan makes no logical sense.
Either you are thinking this over too hard or not hard enough.
Wrong.
Imagine a gazelle on the savanna, is this animal free? Sure, it can roam far and wide if it chooses. What it is not free from is other gazelles. For the gazelles to get along there must be a hierarchy, which they defend with their horns. If we take away their horns does that free them from horns? Sure. They might still get along but that will be short lived, this peaceful coexistence will be broken when a lion comes. Those horns are not only used to keep the peace among the gazelles but also to defend the gazelles from the lions. The lions would love to see gazelles without horns, if they could take the horns then the gazelles would no longer be free to roam the savanna.
Freeing the gazelles of their horns does not free them of the claws of the lion. The gazelles are free to roam only to the point their horns keep the lions away.
Disarming myself might free me from my own guns but that does not disarm the thugs around me. So long as I stay with my "herd" I'm quite safe. We have a, perhaps informal and unspoken, hierarchy and order we maintain amongst ourselves. This is in part from a desire to be left alone and in part from a, perhaps also unspoken, promise to defend our desire to be left alone with potentially lethal force. The other gazelles know of this, as do the lions.
If the herd is threatened from the outside then I'm only as free as my ability to defend my herd. I might be able to rely on the other "gazelles" in my herd that chose to keep their horns but maybe not. I don't know if those gazelles also chose to "dehorn" themselves since unlike horns on a gazelle the weapons we carry are not as prominent. We can't always see the lions, and the lions cannot always see our horns. That is what keeps us gazelles free, or as free as we could possibly be in any real world.
Does that make sense?
No, but the discussion, while it would be fun, is off topic (topic was community colleges).
I wasn't clear, sorry. The local community college district is run by the State. This oath is required for all employees of the State of California. I am told that this is state law. No National Guard or national anything else was involved. Hello, California, welcome to the 1950s. We all hope that someday you will grow up and become a real state.
If you are armed, then you are not free from arms. The slogan makes no logical sense.
I'm not making this up, but I wish that I were. I'm a computer science Ph.D. with a lot of teaching experience. Recently, a community college in California wanted to hire me to teach a computer literacy class as part of the Year Up program. I was emailed a 203-page pdf of hiring materials. There, buried on page 37, was a loyalty oath that I was required to sign as a condition of employment. It is reproduced below. I refused to sign it and was not hired. Is this the fascist left or the fascist right? California Uber Alles, y'all.
"I, (Print Name) Do solemnly swear, or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter"