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Society is in a total war over facts and spin. Virtually every aspect of society that has any influence is infected by it. Many (not all) want to push their own agenda, to control the narrative. We are bombarded by propoganda throughout much of our day. This has been the case for a long, long time, but it seems to keep intensifying. We live in an age where science has even become politicized over ie: climate change. None of us have been immune to it. Film, TV, news, message boards, twitter, academics, elementary/high school, religion, parental upbringing. You are brainwashed. We now get to choose more of the brainwashing we consume based on whatever confirms our biases. Do not tell me all the facts, just tell me what I want to hear. Most people are such selfish delusional a-holes that they will argue against the BS spewed by the side they dislike while drinking up and defending the BS of the side they prefer. You are a soldier in this war, whether you know it or not.

Federal judge rules Pennsylvania‘a shutdown orders are unconstitutional.

Same reasons Trudeau did not disclose his family's compensated relationship with We charity.....duh !

Theres no 'fake dirt' on Hillary. She's a worthless snake. Hillary was subpoenaed to testify and she said that she bumped her head and she couldn't remember anything literally dozens of times. That's the second time that she had amnesia in her life, and the other time when when she was being interviewed by the FBI as well. Amazingly, her 2016 bout of amnesia didn't stop her from remembering anything related to her campaign, at all. She only had 'crime amnesia'. Go figure. Hillary's email server was wiped 2 weeks after it was subpoenaed because "a guy who worked at the IT company where her servers were had an 'oh shit moment' and deleted it". Contrast that scuzzy Dem with Wikileaks - they haven't been busted for lying about anything to this day. FYI Wikileaks said that their source for the DNC scandal was from "a leak, not a hack". Guess what? More than 50% of the people who work for the DNC support Bernie over Hillary. All it takes is for ONE Bernie bro to get wind of the scandal and voila - you have a leak. You could even end up with a leak if there was ONE Hillary supporter in the DNC with some integrity (Ok, I'll admit that there's zero chance that ever happened lol). Regarding Crowdstrike, their owner testified under oath that they never actually had proof that the DNC server was hacked. That was just a story that fit the Dems' narrative: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/hidden_over_2_years_dem_cyber-firms_sworn_testimony_it_had_no_proof_of_russian_hack_of_dnc_123596.html If you have any scruples or morality at all in you, you'll admit that every single shred of actual, verified evidence that we now have points to the fact that Hillary and some high-ranking FBI officials are guilty of several crimes, and Hannity was squarely on point for 4 years. Until something changes drastically, everything that you said in this thread is proven to be a lie.

Canada downplayed COVID, and lacked pandemic intel gathering resources. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/woodward-trump-canada-response-1.5721009

So he's in the middle of a vortex of corruption that would cause any objective thinking person to give pause. Instead you come on here and herald these people are amazing and virtuous ... give your head a shake.

BLM group chants we hope they die outside of a hospital where two cops remain in critical condition.

My greatest fear is that you may be right on all counts.

I agree on most of this. The thing I would disagree is that tenure is actually good and vital because it means you can't fire a prof for saying things that the university or students find "offensive". The purpose of tenure is to protect the freedom of inquiry among academics from outside pressure. We can be 100% sure that many tenured profs would have been fired already for the non-PC things they've done. What we see instead is tenured profs being removed from committees and Dean positions etc, which are not protected and are the only punishment universities can levy on tenured profs. You make a great point about public funding. I wouldn't care as much if these were privately funded institutions, but as publicly funded institutions of academic learning it amounts to government-funded propaganda. You can be sure if universities pushed a largely rightwing agenda the uproar would be tremendous from the public and governments would do something about the funding. We saw what happened with Canada Summer Jobs grants.

That's because there's a complete absence of integrity and honesty in journalism/mass media. Stories are stripped down and then rebuilt with glaring omissions and misleading commentary so that all that's left of a story by the time a viewer sees it is politics. Even if a viewer from one side of the political spectrum or the other wanted to discuss an issue fairly they couldn't because they've never even been exposed to any of the facts which support the other half of the debate. Making matters worse is the fact that in most cases, people are extremely resistant to facts that they don't like. Just try telling someone who watches CNN that Obama was actually the huge liar in Russian collusion, and not Trump. They'll go apoplectic. They remember clearly that Obama said "Trump is lying, he was not wiretapped", and now they know that Trump was 100% correct when he said that his campaign actually was spied on. They have all the facts, and they absolutely KNOW that Obama was clearly lying, but you'll never get an admission out of a CNN junkie. It's literally impossible.

I could cut some of the classic artsy subjects a bit of slack IF once again actual academic requirements to get in were strong and graduation was based on actual academic achievement at a high level. I can NOT however, endorse any sort of the really flakey stuff under any terms at a University. Do that kind of crap in the private sector, and if lifestyle studies, etc. are all that important to someone, let them pony up the cash to do so.

Uhm, no. What conservatives believe is that government entities ought to be politically neutral. Schools are government entities which survive only on government money. Thus they ought to be teaching their subjects in an unbiased, scientific and politically neutral manner. Teaching it in any other way is a basic fraud on the taxpayer and the student, for it provides the student with a poorer education, giving him or her slanted and biased information so they are unable to actually use their critical thinking skills to decide for themselves.

Yes the devil is in the details. When there is actually too much talk about racism, the dialogue is no longer helpful. Rather it becomes a problem in itself. One must walk a fine line between criticising racism in all its forms, and calling the state immoral and illegitimate. As in the system is racist, somehow by design or intent. Oh well. I went to the sub shop other day, everyone in there looked like they were all from one family. Dad, daughter. Others could be brothers, sisters or cousins. I know they are from ME. The man is a good man, but they are not all his kids or family. I know wen they hire people, they like to hire their own kind. Now, do I think that is wrong? No. Go away, leftist pansies, and chatter some more about racism.

This is endemic of leftism's stance once it attains power- government authority extends into every aspect of human life. The left has taken us to the edge of the precipice. We need more of certain right-wing ideas to balance out. Namely, that government authority must be kept in check.