No, that's not at all what happened. Did you go to college in the US? Have you ever even set foot here?

As an old fart (and an American which you don't seem to be) who put himself through an American college, the way it used to work was this:

-there were government grants (rare, not a lot available and in high demand)
-student loans from banks were the most common source of funding
-all sorts of scholarships, usually not for a lot of money each but if you could get a bunch of identity based ones they could add up for some people
-and of course you could get a job and your parents were expected to contribute if you were younger than $age

Then they change the loan system, effectively kicking the banks out because banks are evil and replacing those with government loans.

When banks were the lender, they simply refused to give excessive amounts of money so tuition rates were held down because otherwise colleges simply couldn't charge higher rates as few could afford them. Once the government took over, it was sky is the limit because the government simply raised how much they'd give out in loans. This began a vicious cycle where during my time in school I watched my fees roughly triple in a few short years. When it was banks, my rates barely moved. Even though I worked and didn't take loans I benefited from those evil bankers applying common sense limits to how much a degree was worth so kids didn't get stuck with 6 figure loans for worthless degrees they'd be paying back forever. Like it is now.

So, once again, we see the effect of government getting involved in something that was working reasonably well; they fucked it up very badly.

Now my niece who just graduated with a medical degree is 6 figures deep in debt but most of the first 100k is for her shitty and useless undergraduate degree. If she hadn't continued to medical school she'd have a useless degree and 80k in debt like countless other kids. Only because she continued on to medical school does she stand a chance of paying it back.

Under the old bank loan system she could've easily handled it because her undergraduate degree wouldn't have left her with an 80k hole in her pocket.

Compared to my wife who graduated with a worthless degree during the bank loan era, had no job or parent help in school, etc, some small grants and such, graduated with 16k in debt. I had graduated and had a job before her so I just cut a check for her entire college debt when the first collection date hit.

Government was the problem here, not the solution.

Nice of you to use your sock puppets to boost yourself from troll to insightful, btw. Good job! Very believable!

Cats: nope, never said it. You made that up. I did post a link to some other town's mascot goose that was killed the year before and resulted in several arrests. They killed her goslings as well. You could've read my links or you can easily find the story with Google. You won't, though.

Where is Tank Man if not dead? What's his name? His background? His family? Where did he go after the tank climbing event? Dead. If he's not actually dead, he's in some Chinese gulag wishing he was dead which is worse than being dead. Maybe you're right, he wasn't murdered that day. He's in a Chinese gulag being used for organ donations to keep the octogenarian CCP leaders alive. The same way they treat other political prisoners. Good call on that one, pal. Did you collect your 50 cents? Do you get 50 cents each time you post CCP propaganda or only the first time for each topic?

January 6th was a complex day of violent protests, fbi plants, selfie taking tourists, and lots of other crazy shit. You of course know that but choose to paint everyone with the same brush because that's a simple narrative to push despite piles of film showing many different things happened that day including the cops killing 2 protesters who were no threat to anyone (and no cops dying).

I never said 20 million votes were stolen. I never said any votes were stolen. You need to talk to Rsilvergun about his fantasy about 7 million votes being suppressed in battleground states which he can prove but hasn't yet that I've seen. You got us confused. I'm not him/her/she/it/whatever.

I've never said a word about doge and the inflation reduction act. Not here or anywhere else in my life. More straw manning. I wasn't even aware Trump was trying to use doge to effectively repeal it. But it's probably another thing you made up given your track record. Either way, I never said it and don't care about it.

I'm not a member of the Republican Party and certainly have no "in" or influence on their leadership. Ask them if you want answers about their strategy. Send letter to Trump or some Republican leader.

If you want to get into it with republicans, go post your stuff on some right leaning message/community site.

I am not your foil for every Republican or Trump plan, deed, word, action, executive order, gaffe or anything else. I am only responsible for my own words, none of which you've got right, but you have proven repeatedly you don't care about that.

Do you get off straw manning me? It's like your thing. I say plenty of controversial, anti-woke, anti-leftist things without you having to make them up.

Why don't you attack me for something I've actually said for once?

You're so lame. Most of my posts are full of low hanging fruit you could go after legitimately and maybe even actually score a real point, but no, you're dumber than dirt so you have to make shit up.

I had that exact conversation with a friend at dinner tonight. That yes tariffs will hurt a lot of people, but they were already being hurt by the status quo just over a longer period of time with bullshit like a 36 trillion dollar debt and something had to change. I told my friend I didn't know (nor does anyone else) how tariffs will turn out for the US in the long run but something had to change and yes I do feel bad about those Americans hurt by it.

Whereas you don't give a shit about anyone. You are a sociopath and a liar.

From your own link. Thank you for agreeing with me. Done here.

"Inflation and its onerous burden on households, particularly those at the lower end of the income spectrum, has dwarfed all the other good that happened on Biden’s watch. Even with the pace of inflation slowing markedly from its mid-2022 peak, consumers, investors and business owners continually cite it as their most pressing issue."

So, exactly like I said, the lower end got fucked and you don't care. It's weird how despite being very wealthy I care more about the poor than you do and would have preferred a balanced and healthy economy where the poor didn't get fucked by Biden like they did, whereas you make yourself out to be some leftist hero of the people but think the economy under Biden was great because the rich did just fine even while the poor got fucked.

Weird, weird, but I am glad to see we agree on my core point about Biden's inflation hurting people, especially poorer people.

And for those who think inflation is solved by simply paying people more, no. Where does that money come from? It doesn't exist. Or the government can print it which causes inflation. You also completely ignore that some people, in particular many elderly and disabled are on fixed incomes. Good luck with that. And your economically ignorant ideas will shatter the economy. If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it. Ask Zimbabwe, Venezuela or any of the other basket case economy countries about hyperinflation. But thankfully you're just some silly slashdot user and not making destructive global decisions that would leave billions starving.

Voter suppression is going to give Trump a third term? And you have solid evidence 7 million people weren't allowed to vote.

After 2020, we were told that election denial is pure conspiracy theory and we have the best run elections EV-ARmIN DA UNYVERZE!!!!!! and anyone who says otherwise is a nut who needs to be deplatformed or arrested. But your girls lost in 24 so election denial is now cool. Ok.

And third term? You have no business discussing American politics. Just stop. Now. That's not just conspiracy theory but out right insanity.

Inflation.

Or maybe you are magically immune and don't give a shit about the rest of the country, especially the poor, blue collar and most of the middle class who all take the inflation pinch very hard.

I was at a company where the only way HR would allow anyone to be fired is first put them on a 90 day PIP which HR took very seriously, wanted work and communications logs, weekly update meetings, etc.

The PIP process was so painful for both managers and staff, it was unclear if the goal was to get staff to just quit or discouraged managers from firing anyone. Over the course of a few years I fired one person through PIP because he literally had been doing nothing for years and one of my leads wanted to fire someone under him; I told him ok but he had to manage the PIP process himself, I wasn't going to get involved in it at all.

No one ever survived a PIP. HR admitted to me quietly that the success rate for people staying after being put on PIP was zero, company wide.

The idiots in charge are HR and the C levels and usually the C levels don't see the HR policies in action at that level. Everyone else is powerless to make significant changes at most companies.

You're so right! I should have said "I bet a googolplex dollars!" because then you'd know how serious I am! Are you fucking ESL? "Wanna bet?" is just a phrase. It doesn't literally mean I'm taking bets. Jfc, smh, you're dumb as wet rocks. I would bet a googolplex dollars that you're an idiot.

Next time you decide to step up to karma whore off me, do us both a favor, don't. You're too Dunning Kruger to score that way and no one is going to give you a +1 for that weak shit.

I'm not going to bother digging in but I'd bet $20 there's an age based curve where the younger someone is the more likely they are to claim neurodivergence.

Special mental illness
Special gender
Special race
Space ethnicity (not the same as race, you racist!!!!)
Special whatever the fuck flavor of the week they saw on TikTok yesterday

In a world of 8+ billion people where 7.9 billion of them are just like everyone else a lot of people are struggling to be special and different. But only in a way no one else can see or determine, unless the special victim calls it out for their own benefit. "You can't fire me for being late to work! I am neurodivergent! You need to accommodate my specialness!"

Why are you arguing with random slashdotters?

Obviously, they are smarter than you and know more than you about your daughter's life long condition. They read about it on a left wing news site that vaccines are all perfectly safe and no one has ever had a bad result from having a vaccine. Not that statistically speaking, vaccinating an entire population against some nasty shit in exchange for the loss of a few is a good bargain for the population as a whole. But they literally believe vaccines are perfectly safe. The government told them so. And being smart and educated by the government (heroes like Dr. Fauci, the modern day Dr. Mengele), they know better than you. You're just a right wing nut head.

Do not fight the Narrative. They will dodge and weave and deflect you all day long, you will never budge them a millimeter from their government sponsored position and they will come away knowing you're a right wing moron for disagreeing with them despite having done decades of your own research while they lastly have not.

In short, you're surrounded by mindless zombies. You are wasting your time. Most of them don't even give a shit about your daughter, you can tell from their posts. Sociopaths don't give a shit.
These people only care about being right and "correcting" you.

Sorry about your daughter. Not everyone here is a sociopath nor believes every spoon fed bit of nonsense our government shoves down our throats. I don't know if that shot did that to your daughter but it sure looks that way.

Drag queens are not helping children learn about their gender. Drag queen shows sexualize them.

I did read the rest of the posts but you're all trolling or straw manning and quite literally ignored what I actually said even though I anticipated your trash arguments and you made them anyway. You are dismissed. Thanks for playing. Intellectually weak and triggered.

More down mods incoming from those too weak to even post a troll who went straight for the censorship route because you're too lame to even troll.

Drag queens weren't a big deal until they joined in on the "family fun" of sexualizing children.

If you're cool with kids being sexualized at an early age, that's on you but there's tons of video out there showing what's going on; you can't deny they're doing it.

And no, the stupid moms putting their little girls into "beauty contests" looking like cheap corner whores or putting them in outfits that say stupid shit like "juicy" on their ass is no better. None of it is ok nor excuses other horrible behaviors with or around children.

Coming home a few hundred years early.

Obviously, a tachyon warp core explosion in the trans plasma arrays sent it back through time.

So in 1927, when the Big Bang theory was first proposed, the purpose of publishing this new idea was to distract us from our responsibilities of taking care of the planet so we don't burn up?

In other words, they proposed this new theory of the origin of the universe so we would destroy ourselves?

How many hours a week do they let you on the internet at the asylum without a doctor present?

I'm sure there's some good use for this and of course it will never be a used in any way.
And Sam is a good guy!

Hard pass.