Charlie's only shot ar college was to debate new adults with a decade worth of adulthood less than he. He debated with a 10 handicap.
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What do you mean Kirk didn't go to college? He was killed at one!
Laura apparently wants her supporters to end up like Charlie Kirk.
These arguments always remind me of this quote from The West Wing: "Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position."
I should just spend the next 3-years watching that on repeat instead of the news.
How do you think I made it thru the first term.
Try The Newsroom too if you haven’t yet seen it. Another Sorkin gem.
I remember Newsroom, and it was alright. Kind of mad they didn’t get to do a little more with it. Personally, I’ll probably watch Sports Night again, too.
Yeah, it was a pretty abrupt wrap up wasn’t it. It was there and then… gone. Be interesting to see how Sorkin handled the trump White House in that context but he’s probably been apoplectic through it all, also not sure how much he enjoys writing absurdist scenarios (even if they’re taken directly from real life)
there was a bill to double educators salary in california. stalled in committee.
look whats happening to teachers right now: getting fired for quesitoning Charlie kirk, and then theres the disrespect from students and parents forcing them to leave education forever. The pay is just adding insult to injury. I occasionally go on the r/teacher sub, and almost every post is they cant handle school anymore.
Didn't he get shot in college?
He only went for lunch
ah, yes, a shining example
don't go to college, because if you don't, you'll definitely become a mouthpiece for fascists making millions of dollars until you're publicly assassinated because somebody got sick of your hateful shit and stopped you from spreading it
Technically, they were upset he wasn't hateful enough, iirc.
the released messages to his roommate said something like he was tired of seeing his hate
Laura Loomer is certifiably insane.
She looks so normal though, that's the trap.
She looks so normal though
This is a perfect lie because no doctor will come out and say they worked on her.
She's an entire season of Nip/Tuck.
Temu Jigsaw does not look normal.
Something looks off about her even before she opens her mouth.
she did, once upon a time. everything i've seen lately looks like the work of one specific bad plastic surgeon i wish they'd name so everyone knows not to go there
There must also be a mental health issue here?
...and look where he is now...
The shooter was in trade school to be an electrician…
Wasn't Kirk rejected for some fancy military academy? Bet he compared himself with Hitler.
And look where that got him..
A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
I mean, I know this wasn't Loomer's intention, but you don't have to go to college. It was forced on millenials and so many just wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars and still ended up at a coffee shop. That's not to say we shouldn't have a well-educated population, it's just that college isn't the only way these days.
Now, for any engineering or similar education, college is a necessity.
Fucking hell this woman, a month ago she was saying he was a traitor and now he is a public hero? Every single day she lowers her humanity bar more to new depths I didn't know was possible. I am pretty convinced she is just trying to increase her visibility via rage baits.
Here's my montage: Came from a super conservative catholic Republican family, grew up a republican twat kid. Went to college. Loathe Republicans now.
Long term it's a failing strategy. You need an educated populous to keep a technological edge or you'll be surpassed. They are guaranteeing that China wins in the end.
They are in end game mode. There's no long term for them, only gaining more power and wealth
And you just figured the goal out. Except that what they want is for everyone who doesn't go to college to end up in the army. And whatever the "elite" want, they're happy to throw away millions of lives to get.
It's still not a very good strategy long term though. They want comfortable lives and they won't get to have comfortable lives if their enemy is the one making all the innovations.
These people are motivated by greed and power more than critical thought though. One of them would have succeeded by now if not.
(I know it looks like Trump and such are succeeding right now, but I do think their foundation is showing some cracks.)
My view of their plan is pretty similar to what's been expressed here. In summary - they really think they can "breed out the weak" and vilify education to the point where they have a nation of semi-educated workers who will fill factories or pick up guns as needed. They'll lose some hundreds of thousands every year to preventable disease and hazards that we used to try to prevent, but they don't care because they will have let the educated generations die off, and the younger ones will be denied birth control and encouraged to pump out babies.
They will replace all the scientists and the educated folks who built everything we have with AI, and that's how we'll keep up with the rest of the nations.
It ain't going to work, mind you, but 100% that's where they are driving the bus. We're more likely to end up like Russia, where everything they build is synonymous with being absolute trash and the only thing we have giving us world power is legacy, size, and resources.
Most of the 1% aren't very smart, they're average just like the rest of America. They just lucked into being born with rich parents. They're just looking to make more money and aren't looking past that.
If EU can attract enough of the brain drain they suffered they will be ahead or at least on par with america eventually. I think people are still too complacent to leave USA as scientists. China is a little more questionable.
Laura Loomer, you worthless hack, it says right on Charlie’s Wikipedia page that he dropped out.
Charlie Kirk didn't go to college.
No but he did die at a University.
Why is the bottom tweet acting like Charlie Kirk was some paragon of intelligence? Ah yes, we must defend colleges because this random guy didn't go to one.
Also, aren't the students the ones funding colleges in the first place? What funding would be getting taken from them?
Conservatives think all colleges would have to shut their doors without government grants and program funding. They ignore the fact that many of the college systems are some of the most wealthy companies (because they ARE companies) in the nation
Which is also a travesty. But it insulates them from government somewhat.
Also: the government grants they got was for stuff like “trying to cure cancer” and “experimenting to figure out better battery chemistry”. You gotta be a fucking idiot to stop doing that because they aren’t deferential enough to you.
Yeah but the ivy leagues only use a fraction of their endowment to fund research and education. It’s why some have bend the knee for the Trumpanzee. They rather grovel to Trump for more money than to take money out of their hoard of cash.
and they are pipeline to politicial positions, lawyers, and sustaining the pro-israeli agenda through "weapons and tech"
Just find a 50 year old man willing to groom you and you too don’t need college just like Charlie Kirk!
Can someone ask her why she went to university if she wants to defund them and tell people not to go. Do as I say, not as I do?
My favorite example is Tim Pool. Dumb ass dropped out of elementary school. It was a light-bulb moment for me and helped explain this dumbass backwards "logic"
Is Charlie Kirk doing really well now?
Wasn't going to colleges his entire career?
conservative college too. i heard the way people like shapiro and kirk appears on college, is that a fan in the admin that allows them to speak there. thats how people got seinfeld and darthmouth or butke.(i dont think the whole admin approves, they only need one to do it.)
So basically don‘t go to college, you‘ll get shot anyway? Is that the message they‘re trying to convey?
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