Senate The US Politics discussion

David Duke cleared 5%

He now qualifies for the next Senate debate in Louisiana. This debate will be held at Dillard University, a historically black university.

 

Why are they writing it now like it's some sort of ground-breaking opinion? Will they next opine that the Nazis are one the verge of losing World War II? That the US might be capable of reaching the moon?

 

Exactly! Who really writes these off the wall articles?? All I know is the US main stream media is off the wall bonkers. They rarely discuss facts and would rather discuss their own ideals. Our media is based strictly off emotion without fact, as they distract you from something else being done in the background. Sadly our media is owned by the highest bidder(government).

 

I read an article saying that compulsory education was in part created in an attempt to indoctrinate the children of Catholic immigrants in the virtues of prohibition. At the time, many anti-Catholic Evangelicals believed that the Pope deliberately kept Catholics drunk so that he could influence them.

 

An article where? By whom? Compulsory education also existed in other areas that A)weren't under major threat of Catholic influence and B)weren't swept up a big Temperance fervor.

 

Here's the article: https://mises.org/library/transformation-american-party-system

 

Why would you read something by a libertarian? That is your first, last, and most important mistake.

 

I just find the party systems, the Know-Nothings, and the origins of Trumpism interesting.

 

Lol @ the idea that the US govt owns a large share of mainstream media.

And who do you suppose owns a large share of the US government?

 

Lol @ the idea that mainstream media reports real news. Government is its own entity who controls whatever they see fit.

 

I did my first Wikileaks search of the Podesta email hack to look for namedrops of an acquaintance of mine, and indeed there are about 7 emails that mention him directly!!!! He is a bona fide Wikileaks minor bit player!!!

 

The government facilitates corporate control. The corporations can be stopped from these mergers through anti-trust action. They have good lobbyists.

 

Ergo, the same corporations that own the media own the government. We do not have anything close to state-run media, as AsperWhatsHisName claimed.

 

There is some serious ****ery going on up there. Great image & response.

 

"Guilty of illogic and incivility." Welcome to 1984.

 

Safe spaces are more prevalent at university than anywhere else. Most of these battles are being fought on campus. And they're not safe spaces from physical safety so much as places where people have their beliefs confirmed and not challenged in any way.

Sauntaero, in the U.S. is there a difference between corporate and government media? I can't tell.

 

Which I can't stand. Same with some of the ridiculous "trigger" warnings being forced on some college campuses.

 

Yeah it's overboard in many. Not all of campuses are that bad but even some of the smallest schools have their own safe spaces, or as they like to call them, oasis lounges.

Yes, that's a real term.

 

Conversely, when I was going to college they had a "free speech green", right outside the Physics building. Funny thing, the only people that got to speak there were the truly obnoxious preachers that would be carrying on all day long.

 

Free speech greens are actually worse than safe spaces as they assume it is a cornered off space for free speech but the rest of campus is not. The classroom should be a place where that takes place as well as different common areas.