PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Number7 on September 11, 2025, 03:50:30 PM
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Once upon a time oxford was a respected RELIGIOUS educational institution.
Sometime in the fifties, it turned rabidly liberal to the point that many alumni just don't talk about having gone there.
It has become more of a joke than a university, and their incoming president chose to remind us of why we laugh when oxford is mentioned
by tweeting out deeply disgusting celebratory tweets. At least one of his ignorant rants has been taken down, but the damage to the institution is done.
“Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f***ing go.” It was accompanied by a praying-hands emoji.
The left is a sick, twisted, violent, pathetic, cowardly shit hole of stupidity.
Firing idiot boy isn't enough. Before oxford will ever be taken seriously again, they have to purge the assholes off their faculty... and won't.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/oxford-union-president-charlie-kirk-q5brs7jkl
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/oxford-union-president-charlie-kirk-q5brs7jkl
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I'm of the belief that colleges and universities should do away with all curricula that doesn't lead to a degree in business, finance, law, medicine or engineering.
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I'm of the belief that colleges and universities should do away with all curricula that doesn't lead to a degree in business, finance, law, medicine or engineering.
I’d add science. Like physics.
Used to be, the liberal arts gave you a broad education about civilization and culture. Now it just indoctrinates communism.
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I’d add science. Like physics.
Used to be, the liberal arts gave you a broad education about civilization and culture. Now it just indoctrinates communism.
And even for the STEM majors, they are required to take a LOT of liberal arts courses. To give a "more rounded education", of course.
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And even for the STEM majors, they are required to take a LOT of liberal
arts courses. To give a "more rounded education", of course.
I didn't mind the liberal arts courses I took. They were easy Cs and with a little work an A or B was possible. And nobody failed.
But they were Liberal ARTs classes. Not Liberal INDOCTRINATION classes. (This was at Ga. Tech).
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I didn't mind the liberal arts courses I took. They were easy Cs and with a little work an A or B was possible. And nobody failed.
But they were Liberal ARTs classes. Not Liberal INDOCTRINATION classes. (This was at Ga. Tech).
some of the liberal courses at tech school weren't necessarily free from liberal nonsense. In the late '70s my college roommate was taking a history course at WPI with the prof trying to claim that the USA was responsible for forcing Japan into attack Pearl Harbor, forcing Japan into a war.
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In my day at NC State, a university focused on engineering and agriculture, in the 1970s I had no woke nonsense in any of my classes except Keynesian economics, which while promoting centralized management of the money supply, stops short of communism.
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In my day at NC State, a university focused on engineering and agriculture, in the 1970s I had no woke nonsense in any of my classes except Keynesian economics, which while promoting centralized management of the money supply, stops short of communism.
The only thing I remember from my economics courses at GT is TANSTASFL.TANSTAAFL.
One of the biggest, most influential things there was the various ROTC stations. I first learned to fly by going up with an AFROTC student pilot. No Charge.
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The only thing I remember from my economics courses at GT is TANSTASFL.
One of the biggest, most influential things there was the various ROTC stations. I first learned to fly by going up with an AFROTC student pilot. No Charge.
I got TANSTAAFL from Heinlein, and also Milton Friedman was big when I was young. I was sold on free market economics ever since. Maybe a few modifications in the interim but basically kept it for life.
My theory is that for the most part, the ideology you get in your 20s is generally permanent. That’s what’s so disheartening about having the past two or three generations having been steeped in leftism. It’s going to take half a century to undo the damage, and that’s if we correct the problem right now.
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I had to take what seemed to be a lot of liberal arts classes. Did not do well and did not enjoy. But then I took more computer science courses to raise my GPA back up. Took one year of ROTC after four of JROTC in high school. It was a wise decision to not pursue the military as a career. Probably saved a lot of lives.
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In my day at NC State, a university focused on engineering and agriculture, in the 1970s I had no woke nonsense in any of my classes except Keynesian economics, which while promoting centralized management of the money supply, stops short of communism.
Didn’t realize you went to NC State. Go Pack!, class of 92.
-Dan
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Didn’t realize you went to NC State. Go Pack!, class of 92.
-Dan
Go Pack indeed! Class of 80’ and again in ‘83 for another Bachelor’s, this time in something worthwhile.