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i don't think the shooters in either city were down played. i saw everything play out on common media. there didn't seem to be any question who they were to me at least. i also go to eastern universities for continuing ed. i see run of the mill common campuses. maybe we see completely different things through our own lenses. i'm not denying it exists at all, but i think were giving some college kids far too much credit on their political motivations. my head isn't in the sand over it, i just don't feel it's at the point were universities are programing their students in droves.

of course you can post more. you post them constantly. do you realize your one of the top posters on this forum because you post like a maniac every day. i'm not telling you not to, but you're the exact type of person who consumes all day, from a directed feed, made specifically to agree with out. i don't blame social media, i blame people that don't understand what they're getting. do you really think this takes up a large portion of campus life? i guarantee it doesn't, but you sure don't realize that because your reality on college campuses is what's being pumped into that brain of yours. you know why most media outlets including fox news won't show this? it's not hardcore news. it's fringe news that you want to consume. i've heard on here about how colleges are a scam...how colleges are programing anti-americans, etc. it's the great dumbing down of america. just because you find news that fits your narrative, don't assume that other can't find proper news on their own. the adults are talking.

i completely understand what your opinion was. have at it. i also have the opinion that many on here are easily played by what they consume, even at the smallest level. that type of talk is never good, but the fear you have over it is unfounded to me. you'll be fine.

the entertainment industry has always been on the blue side. it really doesn't mean that much to me as long as the politics are kept at a minimum. when it's the heavy basis for comedy of a show, it looses me too. i'm also not someone who refuses to watch a movie because of a political view of an actor. i have no idea why that bothers anyone. your last paragraph is the big one. there's definitely a resistance, and feeling of no because it's trump. i get it, but much of that was trumps doing over the years. i just don't remember this level of anger concerning politics. i'm not blaming it on trump, but i will call him out for leading this country out from it. when he addressed the kirk murder, he immediately started attacking and calling out the other side. not that he wasn't in the right, but maybe it's time to be a leader. maybe it's time to temper all of this back, and unify this country. he didn't...at all. as much as liberals play that no because of trump card, the maga group blames every one of their own mistakes on the left boogey man. common sense has been thrown out the window on both sides, and we need someone to help walk this country through this imo. see what i mean? how much of this do have to sift through a day. you have a directed feed that pumps you full of this. you don't think that's on purpose?

then explain it to me. i'm trying to run a business here. this board isn't my main priority. that's fine we disagree. you think one poster on a bulletin board is more volatile than i do. wasn't this what it's all about? but the moment you start calling people out for the side they're on, it becomes a joke to me.

i think this is exactly what happened with the last election. people were just so sick of the nonsense on the left that we had a pendulum swing, which i agree that was needed. trans going into the opposite bathroom, curriculum in schools, the massive letting of free money, etc. i'm good with the change. depending on how this administration fairs, you may see that swing back in the other direction. i don't think it will happen that quick, but no more defunding the police and all of the other nonsense that came with it.

oh so now i'm being a liberal. there it is. if someone doesn't agree or gets called out on their absurdity, they're on the opposite team. this exactly why we are where we are right now. not that i owe you an explanation, but i voted for trump. i can't stand him as a person, but i voted for him because i couldn't stand harris, and being a small business owner, i voted with my wallet. my issue with trump is that i've never seen anyone avoid accountability the way he does. it's always a hoax, it's always someone else's fault, etc. if you want to constantly eat that up, go ahead. lots do. i don't. listen...i assume your an older white guy who reads a lot on politics. it's now your sport. have fun with it, but you are scared. you are think america is changing and they're coming to get you! you think your being marginalized and you want your rights back. i get it.

i'm just self aware enough that there is not some revolution going on that you think there is. some of the post on social media have been insane. any reasonable person can read the headline alone and know it's nothing more than rage bait, yet i see it time and time again on here from both sides. this team based politics is for #######s. people have picked a side, and they'll protect their ideas any way they can. no one debates anymore. read this forum. you don't think you're being whipped into a frenzy? honestly...how much does politics play in you day to day life? if it's a lot, get off line. be honest...how upset were you when crackle barrel got rid of the little man? oh the outrage about wokeness! you don't think that was a bit overplayed for clicks? if you want to live you life scared of another side...go nuts. i don't have a team. i'm happy, safe and successful. it really is that easy, but if the injustices of the wnba bother you too, have at it. i watched a lot of charlie kirk. the idea of two kids and a wife being ripped away from their dad is awful, but i just don't think his death is going to create a revolution that people think it will. in another month or two, life will have moved on, and everyone on this forum will be having the same old discussion.

i've alway assumed people who commit those types of crime of off anyway. you mix that in with too much internet time, religion, politics, etc. hell i had a friend who was off on disability, and wow did he start to change. the bigger problem will always be mental illness, and that's an entirely different topic. this is actually pretty genius.

saw what coming? the wave of of homosexual crime? my point of all of this is to show how maybe your feeds, your social media, etc is really starting to pick away at you. look at of the to do about one poster. one poster that almost no one will likely notice, unless someone is looking for a controversy. being upset over this is to me becoming the new group of snowflakes.

imagine if they found you in the shower... oh yeah. it doesn't take much to set off crazy.

i'm far more scared of gay home invasions.

how scared are you of gay crime? the title is stupid. i agree.

did you glance at that and really think they were calling on the gays to turn into cat burglars? i think the poster is absurd too, but this just isn't something that most students would even notice, nor is it any sign the colleges are out to warp our children. i am totally on board with this tv show. i have 3 legit episodes in my head already.

oh it's dumb. i'm sure it's worded that way for the sake of being salacious and grabbing attention. i hope they're not actually promoting crime in the gay community. the bulletin boards at colleges always have the strangest ***** on them. if you wanted a weird club to join, wander over to those bulletin boards in the student center. on a side note, my brother in law is gay, and he'd be terrible at doing crime. absolutely terrible.

eh. this is awful yolo. i have a 10 yr old in cheerleading, and they are very conscious for who looks like what. i can't imagine at 16. you guys will get over this though. years ago i date a girl who became active in those miss fitness competitions. she was always in good shape, but she started doing the 900 cal a day diet with heavy working out. she ended up with exercise induced anorexia and was very sick. we weren't dating anymore at the time, but when i saw her, it was the middle of the summer and she was wearing a sweater because she was so cold. her hair was brittle and falling out. she looked sick. after therapy and spending time in an in-patient facility, she's back to 100%. i saw her maybe a month ago, and she looks like her old self. married with a young child. it was a major road bump in her life, but it can be overcome.

it looks like some ####### hung a poster. anyone can hang a poster unfortunately.

yeah...it's not an equal comparison. and i'm not coming at this from any political side. what i see posted from both corners has been so provocative and unnecessarily for the sake of viewers that it's hard not to be sad. the division is deep and looks to be getting no better. just when i saw someone pushing that colleges are spreading anti-american idea to warp the young, social media has to be called out.

sure, but the core idea hasn't seemed to change. universities lean on the liberal side and were consider a place for debate, protest, etc. kids were killed on the campus of kent st. nothing new. what's new is the level of virulence towards everyone's political ideas, which is social media driven. any "protests" i saw were tame...it was nothing like the nonsense that happened at columbia, where i think the president of the university completely failed those students. it's also a different population than where i went to school.

i had to take a year of, (i honestly don't remember what it was called) cultural studies. one class that i picked. guess what? i didn't become radicalized!!! at all? did you child change their opinion on politics? did they become anti-american? no. it's a scare tactic my friend. i graduated 25 years ago and this was a truth then as much as it is now. edit: and is this the typical college experience? i went to a boston college. we had to take a year of religion, a year of philosophy, and a year of cultural studies. it was a catholic liberal arts school, so it made sense.

i think it's just easier to acknowledge that everyone is gross.

most of what we find politically is click driven. i suppose everything is now. i'm not denying that these classes exist either. i can't imagine of of the nonsense you'd find at the university of vermont in "culture studies". not to ***** on vermont, but some schools are more liberal than others, and some classes are more liberal than others. if this is a required class for her major, then reconsider your major. i just don't think this is the college experience as most are being let to think. you want to be an accountant, take business classes. i guarantee you won't find much politics in the typical core majors. not once did i hear anything about politics in organic chem. a lot of it is what you sign up for.

the faculty a lot of the time writes the curriculum. i can't tell you home many texts i bought just to read one chapter of a book that the professor wrote. i can't hear the audio from where i am, but what class was this?

i mean this i completely agree with. campuses are notoriously liberal. i'm not disputing that at all. it's been that way for decades, so this is nothing new at all. the idea that a group of radial liberals who want to tear the world is the new group of graduates is the flavor right now. i don't agree with that aspect. we just don't see droves of liberals graduating and taking over. it's just not happening. we all know kids who are recently graduated that do show a liberal side. how many of those same students over a few years lean right back in the other direction. once economics and family is involved, ideas that are important shift, and people leans towards a side. my wife is that perfect example. she went from rallying for obama while in college, to screaming, "thanks biden" any time the cost of eggs went up a nickel. we don't engineer kids. we can direct them to be safe, smart, considerate, etc but we don't get to pick who they become. nor do colleges. on what? can you contribute to this or what?