Literal meanings of words hasn’t slowed them down in the past idk why you’d expect them to start here.
this seems like it will turn into a semantics argument. Call it what you will but the gop is the party of hate, the party of stripping away rights, the party of hating the other. Trump has allowed the quiet parts out loud. He has made that type of rhetoric acceptable again. He has made conspiracy theories mainstream in the gop. That is what the GOP is now and that is not going to change any time soon. That’s what I mean by the GOP being the party of trumpism. I’m not talking about policy because I have no idea what trump’s policies are on anything. I don’t know what the gop believes besides stripping away rights from the other and giving money to the rich. So call it what you want but that’s what I see from the right for the foreseeable future.
My son started his first year of college this week. His roommate was nice, keeps a clean room, decent guy when we were there. tonight my son gives me an update. This roommate now has a Trump 2024 flag in his room. He was online gaming this week and my kid heard him berating someone. I’m American, you aren’t, get out of my country. I have rights, you don’t. Lots of N bombs overheard. So that’s gonna make for a fun freshman year. Texas. Bleh.
Yeah I think we’re arguing a different point from him. Will there be another cult leader? Yeah but not any time soon. I’m mostly talking about the direction of the gop continuing to move right and the acceptance of hateful rhetoric will continue to grow.
You would hope so But there’s the risk if you complain and they won’t move him, then what? He’s able to avoid and ignore him for now. If it gets to a point that he can’t, we’ll address it. Wouldn’t want to push this racist onto someone else. Just sucks when everything else about starting college has been great for him.
man, fuck that. it's one thing to be a maga person but to be openly racist is unacceptable, even in texas. tell your kid to request a new room. if they reject that request, your kid can completely fuck over the university by recording him being racist gaming. seems like an easy video to go viral. "Texas A&M wouldn't give me a new roommate. This is what I'm stuck with." hell, your kid might end up with a scholarship to stanford or something out of this.
Yeah I suggested he try to record it if he can just in case it’s needed. He doesn’t want to change rooms, we put in effort to get him into this particular floor of this dorm and they are more than full now so just moving isn’t an option.
most colleges have a free swap period. don't let it go past that. you're going to ruin your kid's college experience to make him a martyr
wtf no dorm floor is worth living with a racist. not to mention the turnoff it'll be to basically any girl or potential partner (let alone friends). unless he's rushing or whatever and isn't planning on being in the dorms long, this seems like an all-time bad decision.
Oh were it me I’d report the kid now and deal with whatever. And I expect it’ll come to that. But I’m doing my best to let him handle his business. Just sucks.
Does he have a kid starting kindergarten? If so I understand not moving. If not it’s just a dorm room and living with a pos racist doesn’t seem worth it to me.
If he privately goes to the powers that be to request being switched from rooming with an overt racist and that somehow reaches back to the overt racist then I’d had some long thoughts as to why I’m sending my kid to this racist college.
Got to have someone else in a dorm room willing to swap with you so they can live with a racist, or find a place other than the dorms. Neither of which is an easy proposition at this point.
Colleges don’t *usually* want an outed known racist causing problems with other students. A solution of course is removing the racist from the equation.
Agreed. But yet again, it’s not my choice and my kid isn’t one for confrontation or risk. At this point he just wants to do his thing and ignore it if he can. They have separate locked bedrooms so he’s got his own space so to speak. I don’t think that will work but I’m not gonna dictate to him how to deal with it. He’s a great kid and he’ll figure it out. I’ll be here to help when needed.
Guess this belongs here Legit neo NAZI in my town someone came across gab postings where this asshole was posting under the same fucking name. he had been selling at the farmers markets, and quite a few other “local produce” stores and shops. gets outed on Facebook and leans right into it. unbelievable https://www.facebook.com/PepperCave?mibextid=LQQJ4d
This is the way. He’s an adult and can figure it out on his own. He can just deal with it or check the dude on it and tell him not to say shut like that in front of him or whatever he wants to do to handle the situation.
MSNBC Chryon this morning “house republicans launch investigation into Fani Willis.” You absolute dolts. Why give this charade oxygen? I want every American media member thrown in a woodchipper
Loomer vs Marge is the greatest personification of “let them fight” I’ve ever seen not gonna lie “where is your husband” was a pretty good line. “The worst person you know….” https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1694883354041029070?s=46&t=bdLPYje6ZcnRGtROeemRHA
If it makes you feel any better, I lived in a suite style dorm my freshman year and I barely ever saw or interacted with my 2 roommates after that first week. I imagine it will be similar for your son once classes get going and he starts getting involved with activities he's interested in and meets new people.