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

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Anonymous wrote:Born rich slackers like Tucker and his coddled kids should get credentialed partying through a pointless easy degree and marry well and hoard the cushy careers and power. But if you lose the birth lottery, just finish high school and get a blue collar job and impregnate Crystal or Marylou from the nearby trailer park as quickly as possible. And drink Bud Light and cheap whisky and get fat while watching sports Nascar and Fox News. Surrender all political and economic power and accept your lot in life, you peasants.

I’m wondering how outraged you’d be if some dolt - like you - wrote the above but used the names LaTonya and Danisha instead. And changed all the rest of your racist and classist descriptors to the “nearby ghetto,” etc. You’ve just completely outed yourself as a total rube and a$$hole.

Tucker doesn’t have hoards of Black fans. He’s talking to his low and middle class white base. He is advising them to relinquish all economic and political power and remain in flyover country pursuing adventure with a dead-end job and a dumb redneck wife.

Amazing how you managed to double-down on your gross racism/classism and still not answer the question.

What are the job options for college dropouts in 2022? What junior management track positions are avail to them at News Corp? Zero. What’s the dating pool like for college dropouts? Bleak and trashy. I’m damn sure Tucker’s own debutante daughters aren’t dating an $18 hr Amazon deliver driver. My language is harsh because that is the reality. There isn’t any adventure out there for the poor schmucks who take this deluded blue blood’s advice seriously. And there’s no rich and connected dad to save them when they fall behind.

You sound severely unhinged. I am the only person in my family to go to college, whereas almost all of my SO’s family went to college. I have contracting business owners, master electricians, and high end car salesmen in my family who are much happier and self adjusted than almost anyone in my SO’s family, most of whom are either overworked, depressed, full of anxiety, or all of the above. Think going to college is a fool proof ticket to happiness? Go to a cafeteria in a federal building and gauge the joy inside. Not full of fulfilled, happy people tbh.

Ignorance is bliss

And…your point?

Disregarding your classism, why are you assuming all these people mentioned are ignorant? Are you that shallow that you think the only way to learn is through a 4-year university? People read books on their own sometime. You do know that, right?

Cormac McCarthy, arguably one of the best writers of the past 50 years, dropped out of school to join the Air Force. The reason why the working class characters in his novels, and their occupations, are written with such fine detail is that he actually lived an adventurous life and didn’t spend most of his waking hours at a desk. Ditto Earnest Hemingway, who never went to college at all.

The hubris of these middlebrow office drones in this thread is mind boggling. Using “ignorance as bliss” as a put down as if being happy was less important than being a unhappy credentialed snob.

Nice self righteous rant. Feel better now?
I went to trade school and am a member in good standing of a labor union, so you can
take your “classism” put downs and shove it.
My point is that when you aren’t aware of the big problems, you are likely happier.
But someone has to be in charge. Someone has to make policy.
Those someones need to be educated.

Going to a good college is simply a lot of fun for people who like that kind of thing.

Kids who go to great colleges aren’t necessarily any smarter than other kids, or more likely to get rich than otherwise comparable kids. They’re simply doing a fun, beautiful thing.

I’m sending my son to college because he brings me joy and I hope going to college will bring him joy.

The problem with the war on college isn’t that some people are mean to colleges.

The problem is that it’s part of the Putinite/Republican war on all aspects of the Renaissance. It’s part of the effort to turn us into Putin’s feudal serfs.

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Looks like some of the right wing lemmings are waking up to this scheme.

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Anonymous wrote:Young men are already doing that disproportionately. Women get 60% of degrees.

Most degrees are useless tho

What’s the percentage of men vs women at t30 ug, t14 law, m7 b school, t50 stem grad school, and t50 allopathic medical school?

Honest question - not trying to needle anyone here.

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Useless or not, finishing what you started (bachelor's) makes you an exponentially more valuable candidate for hire than some unmotivated, irresponsible, excuse-making male of the same age. What do dropout males think they have over a peer female with her bachelor's? Seems challenging to detail delusional and meritless overconfidence on their resume.

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"The party of downward mobility." Well put. Republican politicians and multi-millionaire right wing thought leaders are not just courting the serfs, they're promoting decisions which will put their low and middle class sycophants and their children on a race to the bottom of society.