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Here's my montage: Came from a super conservative catholic Republican family, grew up a republican twat kid. Went to college. Loathe Republicans now.
Exactly what they're afraid of.
Indoctrination!
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."
...and look where he is now...
Yeah kids look what happens when you don't go to college lol
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.
The shooter was in trade school to be an electrician…
And Loomer has a bachelor's in broadcast journalism, for what that's worth.
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.
We don’t actually know yet. A lot of disinformation coming out.
Need proof?
And it got his ass shot. What line are you trying to draw here you insufferable disgrace of a fetid pancake?
Wasn't Kirk rejected for some fancy military academy? Bet he compared himself with Hitler.
What has ever happened to George to make him so fucking based. It's as if he was hit with the based stick at some point in his life or something like that.
His early childhood was spent imprisoned in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. There are probably other factors but seems like that would play a big part.
If you don't already know, you should look at his life story, the man has lived through a lot in his life time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei
Japanese internment.
What has ever happened to George to make him so fucking based
Birth, probably.
Education. Just like Neil deGrasse Tyson. Super based dude.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah! Charlie Kirk didn't go to college, and look how he turned out! Lol.
Laura Loomer, you worthless hack, it says right on Charlie’s Wikipedia page that he dropped out.
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"
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?
Learnin' leads to earnin'
And not a yearnin' for concernin' spurnin'
Is Charlie Kirk doing really well now?
He's gone multiple days without posting a single racist comment.
That's amazing! We should congratulate him for making such a positive turn. ❤️
Sadly, all the education in the world can't expunge bigotry and racism from most people
I semi-disagree. I think lack of exposure (or exposure to falsehoods and stereotypes) is behind the racism and bigotry of a great many people. If someone is 75 and has been a horrible bigot their entire life, it's going to take something massive to change that, sure. But if someone is 20 and raised by magas in a small wyoming town, learning all the stuff you don't learn from magas in a small wyoming town is likely to make a difference, IMO.
Speaking for myself, I can look at a bunch of areas where my biases were challenged effectively and continuously just by exposure to folks from whatever group I was biased about in the workplace or school.
I'm pretty sure that's the real reason why racists have always been so pro-segregation. It's pretty tough to convince your kid all the black folks are lazy and stupid if the smartest student is his class is a black kid or he's got a strong crush on that pretty black girl who sits by him in science lab, or his best friend at school is a black kid.
Hot take: random citizens should be awarded state-sponsored vacations to random countries every year.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
— Mark Twain
Just find a 50 year old man willing to groom you and you too don’t need college just like Charlie Kirk!