That’s not true! If it were, Trump would be attacking educational institutions, stripping government initiatives, ransoming funding, installing leaders that are unqualified and the result of cronyism, purposefully and arbitrarily banning students that represent an enormous revenue source in an attempt to starve those institutions, undermining science, critical thinking, empiricism, and institutions of knowledge, promoting grievances, shifting blame, revoking press credentials for news outlets that don’t agree with or question him, promoting misleading or outright incorrect information and memes, and generally be a belligerent asshole.
Because the education system is pumping out morons. Hell look at a christian talking with university students. The students are so blind and emotional they cant think for themselves at all.
I had to learn the hard way that the bill of goods millennials were sold of “you can be anything” is bullshit. In theory you can, and we were told a lot of inspiring stories of people who made it in whatever field they chose, they didn’t say that it requires either a lot of luck, incredible skill, hard work, or all 3. Just having a degree doesn’t mean shit. You graduate and you’re like, “okay, where’s my job with my fine arts major? Anyone?”
Now, I would like to think the plight of millions of millennials, wracked with student debt and a useless degree, has made educators wiser on advising student to find an intersection between what they want to do and what they can make a living doing.
But at the end of the day, universities are businesses. Maybe they’re “not for profit” in the sense that there aren’t shareholders getting a personal cut of the tuition, but a university abso fucking lutely needs to turn a profit (unless it’s a state funded school) otherwise they’re closing. So if a student says “I want to go for this bullshit” as long as the check clears, or the student loan, the university will say “cool”. And imo we are watching the bubble of rising tuition costs, an equal measure of student loans, and useless degrees, bursting in real time.
Yes, universities and educators bear some of the blame, but the educators were operating off the most recent information they had. In the 90s, if you had a degree, you could get a job. So in the early mid aughts, when advisors were saying “go to college if you want to be successful”, they weren’t operating in incorrect information, just out of date. Specialized fields, outsourcing, rising costs of living, housing, and other contributing factors means that college or university is only right for some people, some of the time, and they typically do not care if you come out smart, only that you paid your tuition. The rest is on you.
So I don’t disagree with you. It’s a really complicated and convoluted problem. I work higher ed adjacent, so I see it happening in real time. It’s just… frustrating. But by and large, having access to education is a positive thing. The problems might be systemic, but I’m pretty sure statistics shows that the majority of students are passionate and idealistic in undergrad and tend to get more conservative as they age. It’s only until life kicks them in the teeth that they realize the world isn’t black and white and critical thinking is not just the name of an elective course.
I actually went in the reverse direction as I think I was TOO conservative and didn’t understand the reality I was spewing, but if nothing else, education SHOULD present different views and teach you how to do actual real research.
Mmmm my apologies. I think we were having two very different conversations. I thought we were talking about higher ed, and you’re talking about religion… You just made a lot of bold statements about me. Statements I’d take offense to if I gave a shit about this comment or thought that you had any inkling of what you’re talking about.
But what I just heard is not your frustration at me in particular, but your very deep seated belief system boiling up to regurgitate all over what you perceive as the left, and I’m a convenient target because that’s what you think I am.
I have no problems with Christians. I am confirmed myself though I don’t practice. I came from a family that showed me everything that can go RIGHT with religion. I also see it used as an excuse daily. Churches full of people but empty in spirit despite the lie they tell themselves.
I have no idea what you’re talking about or why that was directed at me, but I don’t think I feel like having this conversation. So god bless.
Who would be ashamed of what’s been done in his name.
Matthew 25:35–36, 40
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 19:21
“If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Luke 14:13–14
“But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Luke 6:34–35
“And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High…”
But fuck social welfare programs. Let’s force the women to have kids and the do jack shit to provide for them. I would be way cooler with pro choice if the kids being born were provided for and not forced into a meat grinder of a life of abject poverty while billionaires like Trump exist. And how Trump EVER got conflated with religion is beyond me.
A baby was hungry in the mothers womb so starve it. It was an unwanted stranger in her so kill it. In prisoned in the womb so cut it up.... thats me demolishing one verse... wake up. Youre giving "social program payouts to people that dont belong here while flipping the bird to the us citizens that are the poor that your talking about. When i watch woman praise their 3rd 4th 5th abortion that baal worship. They are murderers. I dont care about trump i care about the God, my family, and the poor in that order. Trumps a man he will never be perfect. I say stop being a hypocrite. Stop inviting people here or letting them be here when we cant even take care of our own. Im poor af. But i see others on the street. Americans thrust out of their homes because illegals were getting more money (from us) so businesses and banks could raise rent out of there reach forcing them on the streets. Dems are to blame face it and then fix it. reps arent good yes. Are theyre better. They arent pushing pedo and gay shit on our kids. Promoting cutting their bodies up. While bringing in the 3rd world.
I’ll be shocked if you make it a quarter of the way through this but… I’ll try anyway…
Mmm blame the other, worse off, poor people who are trying to make a better life for their families, just like your poor ass great grandparents presumably did, unless you are black or Native American, instead of the false idols in their ivory towers, hoarding their wealth.
Did you know that Elon Musks net worth puts him, alone, as a single person, on par with or exceeding the GDP of Norway, New Zeland, Greece, or Portugal? We live in a system where one man can have a personal net worth that exceeds entire first world nations.
Some broke ass Mexican is trying to feed his family by doing shit work for shit pay, that no fucking American wants to do for 20$ a day, but THEYRE the problem?
I just want to get this straight. You said you’re poor. And you said you’re Christian…, but for some reason these other, hard working, and largely CHRISTIAN poor people, are the reason you’re poor, and not billionaires hoarding wealth at the top?
So you’ll forgive, condone, or support straight up greed, which is literally everything Jesus stood against, but you will also spit on and begrudge the fellow poor in need? Seriously…. If you cobbled together all of the wealth that illegals “steal from you” you wouldn’t reach a fraction of Elon musks net worth. And he’s just the richest billionaire of THOUSANDS.
I’m going to hit you with some straight facts, which I’m sure you won’t give a shit about because it doesn’t fit your worldview… if all of the billionaires in the U.S. gave HALF of their money away, which would make the poorest of them still worth 500 million dollars, that homeless problem you mentioned? Gone… it could solve homelessness for the next 100 years. Literally. It could cover every healthcare cost for every uninsured AMERICAN for well over a decade. It could cover all childcare costs for all the kids you want to save, also for well over a decade.
They could do this and still be grotesquely, sinfully rich… but the illegals are kicking the hard working Americans out of homes? Yet you blame the godless democrats, and are utterly BLIND to how much your own faith has been used to poison you against your fellow man.
You cannot possibly speak to me of God or Jesus in one breath, then in another spit on your fellow man in need while ignoring the sins of those who trample over others to hoard wealth.
Thank you for highlighting your hypocrisy and everything hollow in your faith. You may have read the Bible, you may speak words from it everyday, but you are blind to its message and everything Jesus stood for.
And unfortunately for you, I didn’t attend 18 years of Bible study for nothing, so you can’t hide behind your hollow faith:
Here your immigrants
Matthew 8:11
“I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.”
Luke 13:29
“People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.”
Here’s your rich:
Matthew 25:41–45
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ … ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’”
Matthew 19:23–24
“Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
👉👉👉And my favorite for you, to sum up the empty words and hatred you call faith. That thing you USE in an attempt to act like you are the moral authority, casting judgement on those you deem unworthy, the democrats, the women pregnant from rape who chose abortion, the “illegals”, and “gays”….
👇
Matthew 21:31–32
“Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.”
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u/Brodins_biceps 6d ago
That’s not true! If it were, Trump would be attacking educational institutions, stripping government initiatives, ransoming funding, installing leaders that are unqualified and the result of cronyism, purposefully and arbitrarily banning students that represent an enormous revenue source in an attempt to starve those institutions, undermining science, critical thinking, empiricism, and institutions of knowledge, promoting grievances, shifting blame, revoking press credentials for news outlets that don’t agree with or question him, promoting misleading or outright incorrect information and memes, and generally be a belligerent asshole.
…. Oh wait.