Tucker Carlson tells college students to "drop out & seek adventure"

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Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

He followed that children line with “and get a job you’re not qualified for,” meaning, if you’re not dense, that you should take on more responsibility in your personal and professional life than you think you can handle. I never knew “aim for the stars” was a controversial statement, but maybe when that sentiment is applied to building a family and not strictly making money or advancing your career you find that offensive somehow? Very telling…

And he didn’t say that thing about women at all. You are misquoting him. He basically said that women have been misled into thinking that being promiscuous is somehow liberating, when in reality it usually it’s the opposite. Ask women how many regrets they have about casual encounters and then ask men the same question and see how the responses break down by gender. Of course this is an obvious point to anyone who is not a raving ideologue, but you knew that anyway. If Michelle Obama said she gave the same advise to her daughters (don’t sleep around in your 20s and aim for the stars in your family and professional life) you would not even bat an eye.

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Anonymous wrote:The only kids who made it out of my dying rust belt town are the ones who went to college. The rest stayed behind and got addicted to opioids. Adventure, I guess. But one I would prefer my children skip. So 529s it is.

I suspect you dont know this for sure, and are assuming that the ONLY two paths for your schoolmates were staying home or leaving for college. People make a lot of assumptions about the paths that are taken to success. Most poor kids struggle to do well in college if they go immediately-- it can be more beneficial to wait a few years to gain maturity and independence.

Exactly. I’d wager that way more kids spend tens of thousands of dollars to attend a few years of college and drop out rather than those who attend trade schools and drop out.

And again arguing that more working class kids should attend trade schools is a talking point of Dems like Joe Biden and Tim Ryan. Everything isn’t bad because Tucker agrees with it. Grow up.

Whats interesting is that as college rates have increased, SES mobility rates have decreased. So the evidence that this advice (go to college) should not be standard issue to every child is there for anyone willing to see it. But its heresy so most people wont.

If true, this is a very interesting insight. Any links for this? Thanks.

College enrollment rates have increased 195% since 1970, when 3.5% of the U.S. population were college students. Source:

https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics#:~:text=College%20enrollment%20rates%20have%20increased,U.S.%20population%20were%20college%20students.


The decline in mobility, stagnation in wages, and increase in inequality is less straightforward, but well documented. Here's an article with graphs:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/07/16/the-u-s-does-poorly-on-yet-another-metric-of-economic-mobility/amp/


If you want to go down a fun rabbit hole, compare our economic mobility to countries that have expanded the trades vs university education, such as Germany.

Most countries have a steady state of 40% of pop is college grads

No. Nations with a college graduate rate of 40% are in the most educated quartile. The world's population is too large, relative to the number of colleges, for your stat to be tenable.

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Later in the interview Tucker also said he was “a loser” in college and was a drunk drug addict. Say what you will about Tucker, but it is a extremely rare to find a TV personality, especially a talk show host, with that amount of humility and self awareness. He also didn’t have to give an exclusive interview to some random college kid, which also shows you something about his ego and character. Would Bill Oreilly give such an honest self inventory? Would Hannity? Would Chris Hayes?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

He followed that children line with “and get a job you’re not qualified for,” meaning, if you’re not dense, that you should take on more responsibility in your personal and professional life than you think you can handle. I never knew “aim for the stars” was a controversial statement, but maybe when that sentiment is applied to building a family and not strictly making money or advancing your career you find that offensive somehow? Very telling…

And he didn’t say that thing about women at all. You are misquoting him. He basically said that women have been misled into thinking that being promiscuous is somehow liberating, when in reality it usually it’s the opposite. Ask women how many regrets they have about casual encounters and then ask men the same question and see how the responses break down by gender. Of course this is an obvious point to anyone who is not a raving ideologue, but you knew that anyway. If Michelle Obama said she gave the same advise to her daughters (don’t sleep around in your 20s and aim for the stars in your family and professional life) you would not even bat an eye.

But why would she want her daughters bro he uneducated...even if they want to be plumbers, which is fine

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To be uneducated*

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Better to be an educated plumber than an uneducated plumber.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

He followed that children line with “and get a job you’re not qualified for,” meaning, if you’re not dense, that you should take on more responsibility in your personal and professional life than you think you can handle. I never knew “aim for the stars” was a controversial statement, but maybe when that sentiment is applied to building a family and not strictly making money or advancing your career you find that offensive somehow? Very telling…

And he didn’t say that thing about women at all. You are misquoting him. He basically said that women have been misled into thinking that being promiscuous is somehow liberating, when in reality it usually it’s the opposite. Ask women how many regrets they have about casual encounters and then ask men the same question and see how the responses break down by gender. Of course this is an obvious point to anyone who is not a raving ideologue, but you knew that anyway. If Michelle Obama said she gave the same advise to her daughters (don’t sleep around in your 20s and aim for the stars in your family and professional life) you would not even bat an eye.

There is no liberation or happiness, for either genders, in an empty, hard partying lifestyle with no family relationships. That is likely why mental illness and depression is on the rise as family and marriage have declined. This is, in fact, why I was early to strongly support gay unions. Im on the side of anyone who believes in traditional institutions like family and marriage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

You don't understand tongue-in-cheek humor, clearly. He's using humor to make a point. Which you obviously didn't get.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

He followed that children line with “and get a job you’re not qualified for,” meaning, if you’re not dense, that you should take on more responsibility in your personal and professional life than you think you can handle. I never knew “aim for the stars” was a controversial statement, but maybe when that sentiment is applied to building a family and not strictly making money or advancing your career you find that offensive somehow? Very telling…

And he didn’t say that thing about women at all. You are misquoting him. He basically said that women have been misled into thinking that being promiscuous is somehow liberating, when in reality it usually it’s the opposite. Ask women how many regrets they have about casual encounters and then ask men the same question and see how the responses break down by gender. Of course this is an obvious point to anyone who is not a raving ideologue, but you knew that anyway. If Michelle Obama said she gave the same advise to her daughters (don’t sleep around in your 20s and aim for the stars in your family and professional life) you would not even bat an eye.

Precisely this. But I think you're giving these dopes too much credit (re: the bolded).

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Anonymous wrote:Later in the interview Tucker also said he was “a loser” in college and was a drunk drug addict. Say what you will about Tucker, but it is a extremely rare to find a TV personality, especially a talk show host, with that amount of humility and self awareness. He also didn’t have to give an exclusive interview to some random college kid, which also shows you something about his ego and character. Would Bill Oreilly give such an honest self inventory? Would Hannity? Would Chris Hayes?

+1
Would Jim Acosta? Don Lemon? As if.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

He followed that children line with “and get a job you’re not qualified for,” meaning, if you’re not dense, that you should take on more responsibility in your personal and professional life than you think you can handle. I never knew “aim for the stars” was a controversial statement, but maybe when that sentiment is applied to building a family and not strictly making money or advancing your career you find that offensive somehow? Very telling…

And he didn’t say that thing about women at all. You are misquoting him. He basically said that women have been misled into thinking that being promiscuous is somehow liberating, when in reality it usually it’s the opposite. Ask women how many regrets they have about casual encounters and then ask men the same question and see how the responses break down by gender. Of course this is an obvious point to anyone who is not a raving ideologue, but you knew that anyway. If Michelle Obama said she gave the same advise to her daughters (don’t sleep around in your 20s and aim for the stars in your family and professional life) you would not even bat an eye.

There is no liberation or happiness, for either genders, in an empty, hard partying lifestyle with no family relationships. That is likely why mental illness and depression is on the rise as family and marriage have declined. This is, in fact, why I was early to strongly support gay unions. Im on the side of anyone who believes in traditional institutions like family and marriage.

Completely agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Later in the interview Tucker also said he was “a loser” in college and was a drunk drug addict. Say what you will about Tucker, but it is a extremely rare to find a TV personality, especially a talk show host, with that amount of humility and self awareness. He also didn’t have to give an exclusive interview to some random college kid, which also shows you something about his ego and character. Would Bill Oreilly give such an honest self inventory? Would Hannity? Would Chris Hayes?

Did he apologize for his gross sexist comments about the contestant on Miss Teen America?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

Good summary. Anyone even a tiny bit honest would admit that all of that is true. Doesn't really matter whether your kids are in college getting their humanities degrees (as mine are). My spouse and I are well-aware that specialized or STEM degrees would have been more lucrative for them. However, they are not STEM-types, so it is what it is. I don't disagree with what he's saying.

You don't disagree that people should have more children than they can afford, and that it's terrible that women want to have sex in their 20s because that means they're acting like men?

He followed that children line with “and get a job you’re not qualified for,” meaning, if you’re not dense, that you should take on more responsibility in your personal and professional life than you think you can handle. I never knew “aim for the stars” was a controversial statement, but maybe when that sentiment is applied to building a family and not strictly making money or advancing your career you find that offensive somehow? Very telling…

And he didn’t say that thing about women at all. You are misquoting him. He basically said that women have been misled into thinking that being promiscuous is somehow liberating, when in reality it usually it’s the opposite. Ask women how many regrets they have about casual encounters and then ask men the same question and see how the responses break down by gender. Of course this is an obvious point to anyone who is not a raving ideologue, but you knew that anyway. If Michelle Obama said she gave the same advise to her daughters (don’t sleep around in your 20s and aim for the stars in your family and professional life) you would not even bat an eye.

LOL. So like a white man to tell other white men to go get jobs they’re not qualified for. How many women have seen that happen in their own workplace? Raises hand. Must be nice.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire interview so everyone can judge for yourself. It’s more life advise than political commentary, but a lot of his points aren’t that radical imo:

*Humanities degrees aren’t worth that much, but you should go to college for specialized degrees
*Internet porn is bad
*Being promiscuous in your 20s is overrated and unfulfilling you should get married and have kids instead

*Don't his 4 kids have those worthless degrees?
*Weren't his 4 kids in Greek life at UVA, so they sought out and daddy paid chapter dues for them to pursue partying and hookup culture?
*Don't his 4 kids work in New York City and Washington, the same sort of coastal big cities he claims are degenerate cesspools?
*Don't his 4 kids have soul crushing make-work fake jobs he derides in said coastal cities?

And if his kids have soul crushing jobs how does that make his point invalid? They’re making their own decisions and maybe as an older person thinks these might be the wrong ones. Does the concept of unconditional love for your children ring a bell? You are really obsessed with Tucker or something.

Why aren't his kids taking his advice?

+1. Why didn't he send his kids to public school with commoners? Because he wants his own kids to remain and marry within the upper caste, while he advises the gullible schmucks who watch his show to blow up their own lives and forego any chance of class mobility. Out of touch Tucker ought to pull up the Fox News job postings and explain how college dropouts can score an interview for a management track position. The only adventure a random college dropout is getting at News Corp is the janitorial variety.