Trump / FBI / Russians

Getting nervous Kyle? 2020 is setting up to be the easiest path to victory for an incumbent in history!

 

I have never seen the curvature of Earth therefore in my opinion, the world is flat.

 

Still a long way to 366 bruhder

Hilary was the easiest opponent ever and he didn't come close to hitting that number. I don't think this cycle is going to be easier for Trump.

 

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I stand corrected again. Just having a shit day really.

 

What I find myself thinking of these days is the ritual humiliations, the “struggle sessions.”

In the struggle sessions the accused, often teachers suspected of lacking proletarian feeling, were paraded through streets and campuses, sometimes stadiums. It was important always to have a jeering crowd; it was important that the electric feeling that comes with the possibility of murder be present. Dunce caps, sometimes wastebaskets, were placed on the victims’ heads, and placards stipulating their crimes hung from their necks. The victims were accused, berated, assaulted. Many falsely confessed in the vain hope of mercy.

Were any “guilty”? It hardly mattered. Fear and terror were the point. A destroyed society is more easily dominated.

The air is full of accusation and humiliation. We have seen this spirit most famously on the campuses, where students protest harshly, sometimes violently, views they wish to suppress. Social media is full of swarming political and ideological mobs. In an interesting departure from democratic tradition, they don’t try to win the other side over. They only condemn and attempt to silence.

The spirit of the struggle session is all over Twitter . On literary Twitter social-justice warriors get advance copies of new books and denounce them for deviationism—as insensitive, racist, appropriative, anti-LGBTQ. Books on the eve of publication have been pulled, sometimes withdrawn by authors who apologize profusely. Everyone’s scared. And the tormentors are not satisfied by an apology. They’re excited by it and prowl for more prey.
- - excerpted from Noonan, WSJ

 

Perils of being a conservative on campus

Daniel O'Connor

“YOU’RE A Nazi!”

These are words my friends and I have heard quite often during our time at Old Dominion University. You might think that we are a bunch of skinheads spouting hate against minorities or we’re people who thought they were somehow better than others because of some genetic feature.


But my friends and I are just conservative college students. That is it. No malice towards anyone, no hidden agenda, no secret society.

We are part of the fastest growing conservative student organization in the nation, Turning Point USA, which has more than 1,300 chapters at colleges and high schools across the country. We promote a handful of basic ideas: limited government, personal liberty and the free market system.

As an organization, Turning Point does not take any position on social issues like abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, or drug policy. We are open to people of all walks of life; race, creed, gender, sexual orientation and social status are irrelevant to us. We are a club focused only on the core ideas that are the foundation of the United States and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

This has not stopped people from claiming that we are a fascist hate group, or that we were part of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Not only is this insulting, it is also ironic.

I am the president and co-founder of our chapter at Old Dominion University. I have lost count of how many times I have been called a Nazi to my face, let alone behind my back. I respond to this insult with a simple, three-word response, “I am Jewish.”

You would hope that this would be enough to get someone to realize they have made a few erroneous assumptions. However, most people double down and say either that makes no difference, that I am some kind of race traitor, or switch the topic to President Donald Trump. (While there may be things Trump does that I think are sound policy, I did not vote for him because of his very obvious character flaws.)

I am saddened by how intellectually lazy many students at America’s universities have become as they try to shut down conservatives with name calling. Think of a counter argument, defend your position and try to poke holes in mine. Provide a few historical examples and I will listen. Call me names and I do not think we are going to learn anything from each other.

The insults have all come from fellow students, thankfully not faculty or staff. But this raises a deeper question. Why are so many students incapable of having a rational discussion with someone who holds a different point of view? What has changed about higher education that has allowed people to become unable to converse about politics without insulting the other person?

Part of the answer seems to be that many young people have never been challenged by opposing ideas during their education. They only hear the same liberal positions repeated time and time again in their classes, in the press and in pop culture, thus creating an echo chamber of liberal thought.

What Turning Point seeks to do is challenge that echo by providing another point of view.

We provide conservative students the opportunity to meet others who share the same guiding principles and let them know they are not alone. We seek to provide education on the virtues of free thought, individualism and keeping government out of people’s way.

While we might face resentment and people might call us horrible names, we are not deterred. Advocating for the future of our country is worth being insulted. I just hope students of all political persuasions stop and listen to each other.

I won’t call you a Stalinist, so please don’t call me a Nazi.

Daniel O'Connor is a senior at Old

Dominion University and president of the university’s Turning Point USA chapter.

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My nephew (my brother's son) has seen much of the same thing and worse at George Mason University.

 

Arlington is a deeply socialist environment, and these people don't hesitate to become violent with anyone who doesn't kowtow to their rigid convictions & beliefs.

It's nutso de facto.

 

It's a post about how generalizations and name calling can be damaging to real dialogue, and he responds with name calling and generalizations.

 

Looks like Daniel has a serious case of TDS

 

There's a movie called Captain Marvel coming out. In the movie Captain Marvel is a girl??? Why is this? Wasn't Captain Marvel a dude? Sorry to be off-topic. I know you guys have a lot invested in this sad-sack tread but I was just curious.

 

Non American company branding their beer around the military service of others for a buck. Of course yankkke ate this up without even thinking about it.

 

This is on topic

 

I don't know anything about comic movies, but the google said
"Captain Marvel is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Carol Danvers."

 

Never been on a plane?

 

Another off topic (yet movie related)... Did you hear Will Smith is getting sh!t because he's going to play Serena's and Venus's father in a movie. The reason is he's not dark enough to play him. Some think the part should have gone to someone blacker... Peeps is trippin

 

Dude you cant see the curvature of Earth from 40k feet. You can barely see it from triple that height.

 

From the internet below (I deleted everything that hurt my case). I burned you bad.

"You should be able to detect it from an aeroplane at a cruising height of around 10,600 metres (35,000 feet)"