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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago

She, like most republicans, was an absolute fucking cunt and nobody of worth mourned her death.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My dad:

"Student loans shouldn't be forgiven, they should be paid back! Oh, you still owe $10k in student loans? Well I hope yours is forgiven"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America really needs a better schooling system... Here in Switzerland the ETH, (which is rated 10th place of the best schools in the world I think) is only 800.- (about 1-2 week's worth of salary) per semester, which is nothing compared to what private schools in the US demand, whilst still having quality education. So I believe the biggest issue is the quality difference between state-owned schools and private schools, as private school should be allowed to charge whatever they want, but the state has the responsability to provide quality education to everyone for a decent price.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Student loans should be payed back. Hate to say it but yeah you signed on the dotted line and took the banks money knowing full well you would have to pay it back plus interest down the line. Thats just how signing a contract with the bank and taking their money to get what you want now but cant afford, works

Instead, student loans and hell even credit cards, should be illegal to give to anyone below 21. It should be illegal to even put a 17-18 year old in the position of pressuring them into taking tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt right out of high school, when their brains aren't even fully developed, and for what is most likely a useless degree they will never apply in the real world. We can't expect kids to not be dumbasses that make poor financial decisions, so we should hold off those decisions until they can think their options through. Im willing to bet theres a lot of college graduates working minimum wage jobs paying off huge debts right now who wish they could have invested the money better, and probably would have if they weren't pressured into college as a fucking idiot teenager.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

probably would have if they weren’t pressured into college as a fucking idiot teenager.

I think this is the key problem here. True, you should honor contracts, and there are many other systemic issues around the costs of higher education, but the way student loans work are really messed up and a lot of adults don't understand what's in those agreements, much less some "fucking idiot teenager." But the pressure has been so high for the past several decades about college degrees being necessary, people just think to get the degree first and figure things out later. Heck, I remember sitting through a presentation as a teenager about how going into debt for university is normal.

The student loan system (and higher education in general) needs to be fixed, but while people try to fix the broken system, why not try to make right the people who were hurt by that system?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You made excellent points and after thinking on it again it does make sense. Under my own logic it wouldn't really be fair to hold kids who don't know better to a contract they didn't really understand while pressured through a predatory system and probably should have had legal representation like an attorney present with them before signing.

Thank you for helping me re-evaluate my ideas on the issue.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a American who was forced into choosing between military and college at 18 and wasn't ready for either, I'm inclined to agree -except college should be free and we should tax the rich to pay for that & more. Those who are poor shouldn't be burdened for trying to change that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

yo! fuck the credit based economic system. the bane of our current late stage capitalistic dystopia.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TBF they still don’t give a shit about you, they’re just fixing things for themselves and the collateral damage is that it helps others in similar situations.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reagan's all about that golden shower trickle down

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Apparently, back in the day, she was considered the queen of BJs in Hollywood.

Not making this up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I stan all our blowjob queens except Nancy

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

There was a website that estimates IQs (emphasis on estimate) based on writing. It estimates that news reporters averaged 100-120, Stephen Hawking's last work was in the 150s, Alexander Hamilton had works in the 160s, and Qanon conspiraters on Facebook averaged 75-89. Obviously they're estimates, but it seems rather accurate within margin.

Edit: found it!! so you guys can try it yourselves!

I entered sections from my papers I wrote during my master's and I guess I range from 128-151 as my lowest and highest during that time. Great ego boost for the day lol.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The throat goat in the flesh.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"I'm a Republican. I didn't support sucking cock until I gargled my first load of ladpoles.."

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Fuck you Nancy and the privileged piece of shit horse you and fuckface Ronnie rode in on

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rock Hudson called up Nancy and Ronnie after he was diagnosed with AIDs - they had been friends for a long time. He asked them to help him get treatment from a French hospital, to send some sort of message or advocate on his behalf. They refused.

Ronald Reagan’s inaction on HIV/AIDs is what turned it into a pandemic. There was a refusal to fund research or advocate for preventative practices, because it was the “gay disease.” Nancy and Ronald can rot in piss.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

when a congressman suggested to his colleagues that we even look into what AIDS is, he was laughed off the floor because "Why do you care? Are you one of those people?"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You say that, but Nancy Reagan gave a lot of blowjobs and didn't get a lot of returned favors in kind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

THROAT GOAT.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate her aldready and i don't even know her .

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nancy Reagan, wife of President Reagan. Both of them were monsters.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She was the throat goat, don't forget

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once you get to know her, she's actually quite terrible.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wish I lived in your world without Nancy fucking Reagan

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Practices astrology - something that gets tagged as "satanic" by the evangelicals and their entertainment industry - to the point that there is ~~one~~ an astrologer in the White House or Reagan payroll, gets praised by all the evangelicals anyway. Fishy, fishy people that they are. Stinky and slippery.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

they would order air force one to delay landing if the astrologer told them landing too early was a bad omen.

they gave the astrologer classified information, which she then sent to "people with computers" to analyze their relevance to star charts.

the astrologer gave ol' throat-goat Nancy the idea to be tough on drugs "in the community," but like, not the white communities.

even when Ronnie was almost assassinated, the astrologer said she totally saw it coming... but didn't say anything.

it's almost like there's a chimp-with-a-machine-gun methodology for the GOP to hire the most inept people, and end up hurting themselves in the process of using the country and citizens as pawns and property.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

This is the biggest problem with the GO, iif you forgive the racism, gaslighting, lying, faciast, authoritarians, war mongers, idiots/morons... ect. The issues are too big for everyone one else to wait til an issue actually affects you.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Being able to understand other people struggles is only called "empathy" if you are capable of doing it without actually being in their situation. Otherwise it's just sparkling hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Republicans are basically just knock off Nazis

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can only call them Nazis if they're from the German regions, otherwise you call it sparkling fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Wasnt she the throat goat? I’m sure there were a few actors who mourned the loss of her skillset

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

She still doesn't give a shit about you, her interests might align better with yours but she still only gives a shit about herself.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But really they still only give a a shit about themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

👄🍆🐐

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

“I don’t mean those kinds of immigrants!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah its like a baby. if it doesn't affect me it doesn't exist. lots of people in power share the exact same mentality. that's why most of them act like babies all the time.

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