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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:...The college influences when looking at social media is just not as great as you think. My values were formed long before college and did not change.

As your being a mental health professional, I find your opinion puzzling, considering statistics on the negative effects college culture has on young people. It's a very big negative influence on young people.

Thank you SigMonkey, and very well said!

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Originally posted by bigwagon:
Well, to counterpoint that, my son is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which is one of the most liberal bastions in the country, and he has become much more vocally conservative since he enrolled there.

My daughter is in her second year at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and there is very little overt wokeness going on there either. She is a typically Gen Zer who is far too influenced by what she sees on Tik-Tok, but even she is starting to show some signs of questioning the liberal orthodoxy.

Did you consider the possibility that your child is rebelling against that upbringing now that they are becoming more independent?

Well, that is certainly a possibility, but she didn't start expressing liberal views until she got into college, and she has never been truly "independent". It's a good question though...

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:

These spoiled fucking brats who “just” go to college, and mommy and daddy pays for everything ...That’s the problem...College students with nothing to do, is a parent problem.

Really? I went to college and my parents paid for it. My daughter went to college and I paid for it. I don't see that as a problem. If patenting is to blame it occurs well before college and has nothing to do whether the kid pays for it or not. Its upbringing and values instilled over the 17+ years before college that counts.

Sorry if you feel cheated that you had to pay your way while others didn't. Hate to hear you live in a shitty neighborhood or one with a bunch of college kids in it. But please don't stereotype that anyone who didn't work their way through college and had parents pay their way are somehow inferior, damaged, lack morals and values etc. and are "the problem."

Sometimes people are just bad apples. Sometimes genetics, sometimes environment, and sometimes people just choose to be evil.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Let's take the country's temperature right now:

https://x.com/smcroasters/status/1966267299721019573

Looks like I just found another Coffee company!

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Originally posted by mojojojo:

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:

These spoiled fucking brats who “just” go to college, and mommy and daddy pays for everything ...That’s the problem...College students with nothing to do, is a parent problem.

Really? I went to college and my parents paid for it. My daughter went to college and I paid for it. I don't see that as a problem. If patenting is to blame it occurs well before college and has nothing to do whether the kid pays for it or not. Its upbringing and values instilled over the 17+ years before college that counts.

Sorry if you feel cheated that you had to pay your way while others didn't. Hate to hear you live in a shitty neighborhood or one with a bunch of college kids in it. But please don't stereotype that anyone who didn't work their way through college and had parents pay their way are somehow inferior, damaged, lack morals and values etc. and are "the problem."

I’m with you. My dad wanted me to do my best in school saying you have the rest of your life to work and fortunately he could afford it. To think someone has nothing to do because they didn’t work throughout college shows someone who didn’t go.

The media talking heads are all obsessing over the "engraved" ammo casings - any photos to show actual engraving or just lettering in a fine-point Sharpie?

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Originally posted by mojojojo:

Really? I went to college and my parents paid for it. My daughter went to college and I paid for it. I don't see that as a problem. If patenting is to blame it occurs well before college and has nothing to do whether the kid pays for it or not. Its upbringing and values instilled over the 17+ years before college that counts.

Sorry if you feel cheated that you had to pay your way while others didn't. Hate to hear you live in a shitty neighborhood or one with a bunch of college kids in it. But please don't stereotype that anyone who didn't work their way through college and had parents pay their way are somehow inferior, damaged, lack morals and values etc. and are "the problem."

Sorry, I don’t feel cheated in any way. I’ve earned, everything, myself, in this life, and damn proud of it. Owe nobody but God and it’s a great feeling. I couldn’t have given less of a fuck in college who was paying for this themselves, and who wasn’t. I was busy. I’m not and have never been into image/status. Waste of my time, to this day. I also don’t live in some shitty neighborhood. It’s actually quite a very nice neighborhood. House is getting to 3/4 of a M. Even in a nice neighborhood someone can rent their house out, and fuck up the entire street. You sound triggered by what I said.

If you feel you or others are exceptions to what I said, so be it. The problem I’m speaking of, is extremely common. My point, is and will remain, if that kid has to pay their way, they wouldn’t have time for all this crap that is going on. They would not have the time. Problem would go away. Far too many are entitled, as I said. Lots of free time because someone else is paying their bills. Free time + phone + social media all the time + college campus, well it’s not hard to daisy chain it altogether and figure it out. It’s a problem. Just because it isn’t your problem, doesn’t mean it’s not A problem. It exists, in spades. People can keep on ignoring the entitlement and we will see more of this.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
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I respectfully disagree. The problem I see is parents, helicoptering it or babying their children. When I was in college I had to work, full time. I had zero time for rallies, political talk, protests, or any other such bullshit. Class, workout at the gym, go to work for 8-10 hours, study, rinse/repeat. I was so busy I had no time for such bullshit. The problem today isn’t the university it’s entitlement. Kids think they’re entitled to just go to school and have this “journey” or “experience” etc, of college only.
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College students with nothing to do, is a parent problem. Not the university. <<snip>>

And I strongly disagree with you!!! You don't know me, my family, or how my daughter was raised or treated! In our case at least there is no way you can lay this on us! One thing we loved about Berry College is that ALL students are required to have a paying job on campus while there, and my daughter did several of them, including unpaid tutoring on the side with struggling English students. She wasn't in any sorority groups or anything like that. She went to church every Sunday and participated in campus Bible study groups, etc. She didn't like politics and still to this day doesn't like to discuss them.

There were no other negative influences on her life EXCEPT through her college classes... PERIOD!

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Originally posted by medic451:
Helldivers 2 is a popular online game. The phrases writted in the cases are common phrases used while playing the game in that chat area. Discord servers are used for communication with other players. According to the press conference investigators discovered that Robinson was communicating with someone on discord regarding the shooting, and retrieval of the rifle. His room mate provided screen shots of the messages to investigators of this communication/messages.

This sucks because its a game I play regularly and knew as soon as I saw that it was.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Doubt that college had anything to with it.

As the parent of child who had a strong conservative Christian upbringing, and was strong conservative until spending 4 years at what was supposed to be a conservative private college but is now a liberal, I would have to strongly disagree with you! College these days literally ruins kids!

I have a similar situation with my son. He went to MIT and it ruined him. That place is as godless a place as exists anywhere. Science replaces God at MIT. Drug use is rampant.

For those arguing whether the shot hit him in the neck or bounced off of a chest plate, here is slo-mo video indicating it was a deflected shot...

Edit: It takes a while to load as it is apparently being viewed by a LOT of people!

https://x.com/i/status/1965914819028206054


Edit #2: Para, if this post is out of line, please let me know and I will delete it immediately!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Let's take the country's temperature right now:

https://x.com/smcroasters/status/1966267299721019573

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
And I strongly disagree with you!!! You don't know me, my family, or how my daughter was raised or treated! In our case at least there is no way you can lay this on us! One thing we loved about Berry College is that ALL students are required to have a paying job on campus while there, and my daughter did several of them, including unpaid tutoring on the side with struggling English students. She wasn't in any sorority groups or anything like that. She went to church every Sunday and participated in campus Bible study groups, etc. She didn't like politics and still to this day doesn't like to discuss them.

There were no other negative influences on her life EXCEPT through her college classes... PERIOD!

We can disagree. That’s what grown folks do. I’m not talking about your kid, specifically. I’m talking about a problem with this country right now. Kids whether in grammar school, high school, or college, with a lot of free time on their hands, get into trouble. They can get brainwashed, get converted into anything from lefty bs to Islam. They have nothing better to do. My point is take away the entitlement and hand them a hard does of reality, work, and bills, and they wouldn’t have time to get indoctrinated. If you disagree with that, that’s fine. We can agree to disagree. I’m seeing this problem on my street, with my fiancé’s teenage daughters, friends kids, and it’s an epidemic in this country. Hooked on that phone and social media apps like crack cocaine, all of them. If you want to blame the beer or liquor sold at the store for the alcoholic abusing it so be it. I’m not of that opinion. Are college campuses a problem? Many of them, sure, no doubt, 100%. But where is the personal accountability anymore? Everyone points the finger now and blames someone else. I don’t see it that way and won’t. It’s not that easy or simple to me.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
For those arguing whether the shot hit him in the neck or bounced off of a chest plate, here is slo-mo video indicating it was a deflected shot...

Edit: It takes a while to load as it is apparently being viewed by a LOT of people!



Edit #2: Para, if this post is out of line, please let me know and I will delete it immediately!

It matters not one shit whether it was a deflected shot or not, IT KILLED MR. KIRK.

Stop debating this shit, please, and focus on cancelling every liberal shit who is reveling in Mr. Kirk's murder.

Again, Steve Crowder gets a hold of internal info, this time from the Utah County Sheriffs Office which includes the Probable Cause Statement for arrest.

https://x.com/scrowder/status/1966536895925477634

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Originally posted by jljones:
I’m noticing a large number of teachers, school officials, bus drivers, etc that have been “suspended pending disciplinary review” for online postings in the last 24 hours. My feed seems almost covered up with it. And a quick search seeks many are legit.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

I totally agree. A shit load of ass hats are (were) coming out of the wood work. My suggestion to them is not to fuck with me. A purple haired fuck at work tried to explain to me how this assassination was a good thing for "mankind". My response to him (they/them?) was he better shut the fuck up before he got injured. I have had it.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
For those arguing whether the shot hit him in the neck or bounced off of a chest plate, here is slo-mo video indicating it was a deflected shot...

Thanks for that.
I agree that it looks like the bullet was deflected from something, but I still doubt the idea that he was wearing hard armor that the bullet could have bounced off. There are many pictures of him before the shot that I believe don’t show signs of any sort of armor under his tee shirt.

We will find out sooner or later, but if it was a deflected bullet that caused the injury, I’m now wondering if it first hit something far from where the shooter wanted it to go, as happened with the first shot of a series fired in another well-known incident long ago.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
Really? I went to college and my parents paid for it. My daughter went to college and I paid for it. I don't see that as a problem.
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Thanks. Yeah, I went to college (as did all five of my siblings) on a full ride* scholarship from a local farmer who happened to be my mother. I paid for my son’s college education and have paid for and am still paying for my daughter’s. Both of them laughed at the woketardedness of their respective schools, and still do. He got his mechanical engineering degree and is working as a mechanical engineer. She’s working on her business degree.

*I had to work in college, more for my sanity than my gas and entertainment budget. Full ride was tuition, room & board, and books. If I wanted anything else, that was on me.

Some children (and adults) are more easily led than others. Others are more stubborn and harder to sway from what they know is true. Sure, parents can do more or less to ingrain value in their kids before sending them off to college, but I suspect the child’s innate nature is a bigger factor.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
It matters not one shit whether it was a deflected shot or not, IT KILLED MR. KIRK.

Stop debating this shit, please, and focus on cancelling every liberal shit who is reveling in Mr. Kirk's murder.

Hey, I agree with you! The only reason I posted it is because there was quite a bit of debate on the subject, and I thought this would put that issue to rest once and for all... that's it.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Let's take the country's temperature right now:

https://x.com/smcroasters/status/1966267299721019573

Looks like I just found another Coffee company!

Me too. I just put in my order for 2 pounds of their dark roast.