Just a reminder, having a college degree doesn’t make you smart. Not saying education is bad, but look at conservative media. Plenty of dumb motherfuckers have some sort of degree.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. This is about viewers, not creators. Most of the creators of conservative content know they’re full of shit and only care about getting viewers and making money.
Most of the creators of conservative content know they’re full of shit
I wish this were the case. You definitely have some naked opportunists (ex-liberals like Candice Owens and Bill Maher) who just followed the bouncing paycheck. But the conservative movement has plenty of true believers - folks who absolutely flamed out and destroyed their lives chasing the phantoms of a socio-economic revolution. Media figures like Kash Patel and Mike Pence and JK Rowling and Elon Musk really did down the kool-aid, especially as they grew older and surrounded themselves with far-right Yes Men.
Then you’ve got the money men - Foster Friess, Robert Mercer, Sheldon Adelson, Peter Thiel - who happily liquidated billions of dollars of personal wealth on some real loser candidates and campaigns. For every Donald Trump or Mike Pence, the political graveyard is stuffed with Christine O’Donnells and Richard Mourdocks and Roy Moores. If conservatives could just learn to be normal for one god damned election cycle they might finally secure the Permanent Republican Majority they’ve always pinned after.
I’m not comparing apples to oranges. I’m also talking about views. I know plenty of college educated people who watch fox news and I consider these people some of the dumbest fucking people I work with. They are still college educated views. Hence my statement of being college educated doesn’t mean your smart. 53% of WSJ are college educated and the WSJ has some of the stupidest fucking articles I’ve ever read. And I once had to be subscribed to it for a college class.
True but from my experience people who succeeded in getting a degree from a decent institution tend to be a bit more cerebral. Now there are incresing numbers of sorta crap institutions and im not even sure what the quality of education is like in the modern era at my alma matter. Its kinda to bad we can’t all be able to take a one semester sebattical every 5 years or so and take like 3 classes and live on a campus and see what things are like. It would kinda be cool.
Its kinda to bad we can’t all be able to take a one semester sebattical every 5 years or so and take like 3 classes and live on a campus and see what things are like. It would kinda be cool.
> Show up on campus 5 years later.
> Excited to learn new things, meet new people.
> Wait, no
> nonono
>
> I"m OOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDDDDD!!!
Just a reminder, having a college degree doesn’t make you smart. Not saying education is bad, but look at conservative media. Plenty of dumb motherfuckers have some sort of degree.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. This is about viewers, not creators. Most of the creators of conservative content know they’re full of shit and only care about getting viewers and making money.
I wish this were the case. You definitely have some naked opportunists (ex-liberals like Candice Owens and Bill Maher) who just followed the bouncing paycheck. But the conservative movement has plenty of true believers - folks who absolutely flamed out and destroyed their lives chasing the phantoms of a socio-economic revolution. Media figures like Kash Patel and Mike Pence and JK Rowling and Elon Musk really did down the kool-aid, especially as they grew older and surrounded themselves with far-right Yes Men.
Then you’ve got the money men - Foster Friess, Robert Mercer, Sheldon Adelson, Peter Thiel - who happily liquidated billions of dollars of personal wealth on some real loser candidates and campaigns. For every Donald Trump or Mike Pence, the political graveyard is stuffed with Christine O’Donnells and Richard Mourdocks and Roy Moores. If conservatives could just learn to be normal for one god damned election cycle they might finally secure the Permanent Republican Majority they’ve always pinned after.
I’m not comparing apples to oranges. I’m also talking about views. I know plenty of college educated people who watch fox news and I consider these people some of the dumbest fucking people I work with. They are still college educated views. Hence my statement of being college educated doesn’t mean your smart. 53% of WSJ are college educated and the WSJ has some of the stupidest fucking articles I’ve ever read. And I once had to be subscribed to it for a college class.
True but from my experience people who succeeded in getting a degree from a decent institution tend to be a bit more cerebral. Now there are incresing numbers of sorta crap institutions and im not even sure what the quality of education is like in the modern era at my alma matter. Its kinda to bad we can’t all be able to take a one semester sebattical every 5 years or so and take like 3 classes and live on a campus and see what things are like. It would kinda be cool.
> Show up on campus 5 years later.
> Excited to learn new things, meet new people.
> Wait, no
> nonono
>
> I"m OOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDDDDD!!!