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Iā€™m so fucking happy I went to college at the turn of the millennium when we could still smoke in dorms.

Bonus my engineering degree only cost 40k.

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

My God thatā€™s fucking depressing.

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I feel like I've been butting my head against this my entire life. Everything fun is made illegal, out of an abundance of caution, for our safety. Lest someone get hurt, no one is allowed to do anything. Or say anything. Or even think anything. And every time they prohibit one thing, something else becomes mandatory.

It's the war on fun, so I guess we're the partyhideen.

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Jun 16, 2022Ā·edited Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

What lies beneath the administration's drive to eliminate diversity of thought, manner, custom, tradition and activity is a massive fear of ethnic, religious, and racial division and animosity. The administration believes deeply that people do not reliably "just get along," that underneath the veneer of civility there is a raging monster caged up, waiting to explode. In other words, the administration believes that a truly multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial society is an impossibility.

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

ā€œ...unmarked houses with names like ā€œ550,ā€ ā€œ680,ā€ and ā€œ675ā€ in arbitrary groupings...ā€. Reminds me of a bad 80s movie about the USSR.

Am I the only who finds it odd that the anti-authoritarians are so fond of authoritarianism?

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Above the idiotic state mandated helicopter parenting which seeks to stamp out any form of free thinking, there is zero pushback. The phenomena of turning kids into Borg-like drones where it is accepted is something I haven't been able to wrap my head around for over a decade. Gone is the age old attitude of "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me". Now we are left with kids who accept all the drivel of government approved social engineering without any form of questioning the policies.

I never realized that when I watched and laughed at Idiocracy, that society would have taken that satirical look at a dystopia future and instead of pondering its message ,used it as a blueprint for societal standard operating procedure.

It wasn't the ban of smoking, which started back in the mid 1990s, not early 2000s which jump started the downfall. It was the push for ridding the world of bullying amongst children, which became a policy in schools in the late 1970s. Go read the book Dumbing It Down. It lays out the blueprint for turning children into automatons by crushing the age old method which establishes civilization's natural pecking order.

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

"Stanfordā€™s motto is Die Luft der Freiheit wehtā€”ā€œthe winds of freedom blow.ā€

Wonderful motto. They should put it over the entrance.

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

My husband went to college at Albany in the 70's. The quad had kegs on each corner :D We went back a few years ago, no kegs, and red phones for sexual attacks in the women's rooms. (On second thought, with the trans men, I would be happy to have a red phone in all bathrooms)

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

"They" are destroying our humanity...

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

How long does society put up with this before it explodes?

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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I was fortunate to attend Stanford in the late 70ā€™s, early 80ā€™s. It was a great institution, and that was a golden era for student life in retrospect. Iā€™ve been ashamed of Stanfordā€™s wokeness for some time, notwithstanding the Hoover Institutionā€™s scholarship. But I had no idea that it had become so East Germany, 1955. Do not give the little grey fascist administrators money. Do not donate to your alma maters until this shit is reversed. These hypocrites respond to pressure. They are cowards and paper tigers. They deserve our contempt, not our support. Put the little fake Commie professors and their half baked manifestos back in the corner where they belong. This is not America.

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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Itā€™s so very east Germany isnā€™t it? Complete with the Stasi training

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Oh man, the hyperlinks in the primary story Chris linked are a gold mine.

Gotta read this:

https://stanforddaily.com/2022/02/23/new-to-the-neighborhood-outdoor-house-returns-with-a-focus-on-accessible-outdoor-education/

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Fall of the West reason 54949596797788.

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Tragic. Frightening.

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