Update for Everyone III - The Whinge Binge

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I'm going to the casino with my GF, last time I went there i lost about 1-2 grand and my GF nearly killed me.

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I went to a Catholic Private school that cost abut $6,000 an year, plus some added ridiculous fees would add up to $ 9,000 but the fact is, $27, 000, your parents must be some rich people. Do you guys have religious classes, I wonder what they teach there because I know my Catholic School, was vehemently anti-capitalist, talking about equality and rich business, in their pursuit of greed, and money have no regard for morality or the other human being. There was also, things about a loving god, helping the meek and unfortunate, protecting the environment and god's nature. This was coupled with anti-abortion, anti-pre marital sex, anti-drugs however the school was progressive on gay rights, for a religious school in the 90's anyway.

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I went to a Catholic Private school that cost abut $6,000 an year, plus some added ridiculous fees would add up to $ 9,000 but the fact is, $27, 000, your parents must be some rich people. Do you guys have religious classes, I wonder what they teach there because I know my Catholic School, was vehemently anti-capitalist, talking about equality and rich business, in their pursuit of greed, and money have no regard for morality or the other human being. There was also, things about a loving god, helping the meek and unfortunate, protecting the environment and god's nature. This was coupled with anti-abortion, anti-pre marital sex, anti-drugs however the school was progressive on gay rights, for a religious school in the 90's anyway.

Maybe it's just because being a black Republican has made it a necessity for me, but I can't imagine how someone with an education in that kind of environment can simply not know the value of being exposed to viewpoints contrary to your own. ChairmanSanchez was right-- it makes you more a well-rounded person, it ensures that your assumptions and opinions will be able to withstand scrutiny. There's value in watching MSNBC if only to be able to laugh at its ridiculousness, since you will be reminded of just why Rachel Maddow, and not you, is the one being ridiculous; if you didn't, there's no way of knowing if she's actually talking sense.

I can understand how the inbuilt biases of the intellectual establishment can leave a liberal who went to "good schools" with no appreciation for this-- how else do you think we could have wound up a generation of activists demanding "safe spaces" everywhere?-- but I don't see how any conservative, in the face of this bias, can manage to think this way. I mean, what sort of educated person thinks that they can get all their news from The Blaze and be fully-informed?

Classic Conservative, I'm sure you'd think that someone who got all of their news from Salon or Mother Jones and only ever saw conservative viewpoints when they were being derided, would be a rather poorly-informed person. Why is the opposite any better? You must know that on The Blaze you will almost always only ever read caricatures of liberal viewpoints rather than the actual thing. Now, actual arguments made by liberals may also sound like caricatures, but how do I know this?-- because I actually expose myself to them! I read articles in the college newspaper, shared by people on Facebook, and the like, and because of that, because I know what they're really saying, rather than what some biased person says they're saying, I am able to say that I disagree with them. This is not so much a valuable thing as it is a necessary one.

One of my favorite conservative thinkers is Princeton's Robert George, who I've actually had the privilege to meet a couple of times. He manages to be widely respected as a senior academic at a top university while simultaneously being unapologetically right-wing. He is also in the habit of holding debates with Cornel West, who I'm sure you're heard of. Why do you think he sees value in this?

I will have to challenge what you post from now on, because it's clear you're not being challenged enough as is. I will note that you will probably benefit from watching PBS and listening to NPR. PBS Newshour is by far the best daily news show on television-- I watch it most of the time when I'm at home. News on PBS is certainly more unbiased than anything on cable news, and does a very good job at representing different viewpoints on contested issues, not to mention covering stories (especially international ones) that most other networks overlook. As someone whose parents' car radios are perpetually set to NPR, I can tell you that NPR has a considerably more pronounced slant, if not so much in how they tell the news than what news they choose to tell-- a lot of it is what you think liberals would want to hear about-- in particular, poor people and LGBTs are over-represented topics. But there's no real harm in that.

One last thing. Why, exactly, did you choose to stop watching FOX News?

What

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I'm not sure why I quoted your post there. Sorry about that, although I'm pretty sure I was sure to spell out that I was directly addressing Classic Conservative.

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Yea, I thought so, I was just confused.

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Interesting day at work. Boss called a meeting of all employees near the end of the day. Enraged, he demanded that every employee cash their paycheck at one of two specific local banks or be fired. This bizarre restriction only applies to this paycheck, my first at this new place, which is for only a few hours of the time I actually worked. In other words less than the value of the dinner I bought tonight. I'll have to make sure that the money they owe me is added to the next one, hopefully won't be a problem.

I'm saddened that I am once again up at 1AM. Need to get to sleep on time more often. Shouldn't have drank that pepsi.

A mentally f*ed up boss, he's so crazy.

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So this is where you talk about sh**t.

Uhh, I feel so alone, lonely and depressed for Christmas break. It's not like I don't have friends, not just any close ones. I'm all alone for Christmas, since I don't particularly celebrate it. I'm in a slum and having suicide thoughts, nothing big though I have them often, I'm SO bored.

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So this is where you talk about sh**t.

Uhh, I feel so alone, lonely and depressed for Christmas break. It's not like I don't have friends, not just any close ones. I'm all alone for Christmas, since I don't particularly celebrate it. I'm in a slum and having suicide thoughts, nothing big though I have them often, I'm SO bored.

Where's your family?

Well I have my parents in LA, US , but most of them are in India or Nepal only some of them are in and they're some distant cousins in Perth (where I live).

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I've decided to go back to my traditional Hindu roots and become a vegetarian.