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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Came across a few posts saying he was a compelling debator.

    Saw the post of him debating on school lunches. At one point, in response to being asked if he supports free school lunches, he calls the student stupid and says there is not a single child starving in America.

    If this is what we consider compelling debate we're cooked.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yep. And that's most of these right wing "debaters" do. They talk fast, with as much authority and confidence they can muster, try to make people feel stupid for not seeing the world the way they see it, and then moving on before they get called out for the bull shit they spew.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What do you mean Kirk didn't go to college? He was killed at one!

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I should just spend the next 3-years watching that on repeat instead of the news.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Didn't he get shot in college?

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Technically, they were upset he wasn't hateful enough, iirc.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Laura Loomer is certifiably insane.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    She looks so normal though, that's the trap.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    She looks so normal though

    This is a perfect lie because no doctor will come out and say they worked on her.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ...and look where he is now...

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The shooter was in trade school to be an electrician…

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wasn't Kirk rejected for some fancy military academy? Bet he compared himself with Hitler.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I will give Hitler ONE credit that none of these wannabe fascist twats can claim - he fought in a war. That's about the only good thing I can say about the man. Oh, one more, he shot himself and effectively ended the German Nazi front in WW2.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And look where that got him..

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Need proof?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    On a similar note, for others reading the thread. Keep learning, even if college isn't an option.

    For the love of god, please don't leave yourselves uneducated. The world is a darker place now that libgen disappeared.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Here's my montage: Came from a super conservative catholic Republican family, grew up a republican twat kid. Went to college. Loathe Republicans now.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Laura Loomer, you worthless hack, it says right on Charlie’s Wikipedia page that he dropped out.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Charlie Kirk didn't go to college.

    No but he did die at a University.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Optional offense but I am not trying to end up like him...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yeah! Charlie Kirk didn't go to college, and look how he turned out! Lol.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Learnin' leads to earnin'

    And not a yearnin' for concernin' spurnin'

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Just find a 50 year old man willing to groom you and you too don’t need college just like Charlie Kirk!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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"

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is Charlie Kirk doing really well now?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wasn't going to colleges his entire career?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    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.)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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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