posted by like_that

Who the fuck are you and what did you do with Dr. Boogie?

I've always felt this way.  I went to OU undergrad and OSU graduate.  In both cases, tuition wasn't cheap, but it was certainly affordable.  I could pay my own way.  I borrowed a little for graduate school, but I didn't have to - it was my choice.  My debt was such that I could pay it back in 18 months.  

I think it is ridiculous that this isn't really an option anymore.  Neither place offers something today that is twice as good as what I had, and yet here we are. 

Where I live now, Alabama, I see the state doing the same thing to it's flag ship school that Ohio's done with Ohio State.  The University of Alabama's campus is about twice a large as it was 20 years ago (in terms of number of buildings - it's palatial too) and the state is aggressively going after out of staters.  For the first time, this generation of HS grads in the state who have maintained a B average are having a difficult time getting admitted to the premier state school.  That is losing the plot.  But I'm sure the $350k/year VP of Accountability and Advancement could better explain it than me.  

Waste.

BREAKING: House approves $1.9 BILLION to bolster security at Capitol after Jan. 6 riot - AP

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 20, 2021

When your businesses burned they stood down. When their office got an unscheduled tour they robbed you of billions to ensure it's safety. They hate you. https://t.co/wglkSc0sd7

— Liberty Lockdown (@LibertyLockPod) May 20, 2021

*its

Spending $1.9B on this is stupid, wasteful and deserves around-the-clock mocking/insulting. But playing the "just an unscheduled tour" card in doing so is the sort of delusional bullshit world that people like Quaker live in.

I forgot, it was as bad as 9/11.

Probably somewhere in between an "unscheduled tour" and "9/11". But it's orders of magnitude closer to the former than the latter. 

posted by justincredible

I forgot, it was as bad as 9/11.

Yes. I totally said that. What the fuck has happened in politics to make everyone an "it's one extreme or another!" idiot?

posted by Heretic

Yes. I totally said that. What the fuck has happened in politics to make everyone an "it's one extreme or another!" idiot?

See my follow up. I was mainly just shitposting. And the 9/11 comparison is being thrown around all over the place.

The main point of the tweet is that they do not give a shit about us peons. They will let cities burn all summer, but god forbid people put a scare into the entity responsible for slowly bleeding the country dry.

posted by justincredible

See my follow up. I was mainly just shitposting. And the 9/11 comparison is being thrown around all over the place.

The main point of the tweet is that they do not give a shit about us peons. They will let cities burn all summer, but god forbid people put a scare into the entity responsible for slowly bleeding the country dry.

Ah, that I agree with totally. The thing that sucks is how that's essentially the entirety of the system. Big $$$ interests buy and pay for the politicians, who pander to the people while using their money/support to entrench themselves while looking out for the well-being of those big $$$ people/groups and, at most, giving lip service to the people who voted them in. It's a nice pipe dream to imagine them all being removed, from the far-left Squad members to the far-right QAnon ones and everyone in between...but odds are the next group would wind up being just as crooked because, with the current climate with social media and political hostility, who would want to hold one of these offices for any reason other than "get in, get rich and gain power"? And with the recent rising of Squad/QAnon types, it seems like way too many people care more about "loud-n-crazy" than having reps who might actually be willing to work with others or compromise, which sucks in its own right because it basically says that, as things are now, improvement looks impossible.

Sucks to be us!