@this_we_defend @DanFriedman81 It’s just the masters. The 5-10k a year loans for a bachelor are not that bad especially if going to a state school
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@sean91237
Notre Dame Civil Engineer Trader fixed income + for 10 years UChicago MBA. Looked it up on Grok says I am a descendant of Cicero
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@DanFriedman81 the federal government needs to exit student lending.
Colleges can self-finance their customers or lower the price for their product.
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A lot of people are dunking on this, and it’s true, she should have paid the $60 per month for 20 years and let the forgiveness kick in. But what they’re missing is that she was loaned $65k for a terminal master’s in historic preservation.
That should never have happened.
Tuition has skyrocketed because the ability of students to pay it has completely decoupled from how much money they or their families can afford. Colleges charge infinity dollars because students have access to infinity student loans.
In many cases students hoping a credential will lead to a better life get duped into indenturing themselves permanently to get worthless terminal master’s degrees.
If the loans didn’t exist, then the master’s programs wouldn’t exist, and if the master’s programs didn’t exist then employers wouldn’t be looking for job applicants with master’s degrees which don’t even connote any real skills.
Burn this whole rotten system down.
Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch
This is just amazing. nytimes.com/2026/04/04/bus…
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@DanFriedman81 This is true. Though I would hope college educated people could do a reasonable costs-benefit analysis. Just because you can take a loan out doesn’t mean you should.
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@AdamT_Brown @dilanesper Loser who blocks. When loses argument. Reddit tier loser
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@AdamT_Brown @dilanesper Birthright has atleast never been litigated before. The government was fine with it. Until technology changed.
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Wow. A whole lot of conservatives simply have no idea what Scalia's position on legislative history was. And this isn't a minor matter- Scalia CONVINCED other conservative judges on it and his view now commands a majority on SCOTUS!
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
Scalia is turning in his grave as conservatives confuse the legislative history with the text.
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@AdamT_Brown @dilanesper “Non-constitutional rulings”
Nice how you did a carve out here. And obviously it’s like impossible to pass legislation now so it’s a stupid cop out for even non-constitutional issues.
There’s a reason Dems did gay marriage thru the courts and NOT congress
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@sean91237 @dilanesper They aren’t. 1st off— they are appointed with confirmatory votes by the legislative branch.
2nd— their non-constitutional ruling can be over-ridden any time by legislation.
Don’t like their ruling on tariffs? Congress and the President can overrule them!
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@AdamT_Brown @dilanesper It’s the same Picture
It’s hypocrisy to say the right just making up con law is any different than what the left did for a generation.
It’s time we just accept the SC is the Senior legislative branch
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@sean91237 @dilanesper There are many valid arguments against a living constitution philosophy, including potentials for inconsistency. Yet, you’re now advocating for much worse.
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@AdamT_Brown @dilanesper Living constitution is literally just make up why the Dems want to do but cant pass a bill to do.
Sure you can put lipstick on a pig and say your not doing that but YES you are
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@sean91237 @dilanesper ? I said you need a consistent judicial philosophy. In law school, you learn lots of different philosophies. That philosophy should be applied consistently.
I said neither the left nor right philosophy should be, “we will just rule for the party” — that’s not a philosophy
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@krow761 @dilanesper “Living” or “common good” are both not constitutionalism. It’s theories of the SC being a legislature
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@sean91237 @dilanesper Sounds like you're arguing for common good constitutionalism, which is no different than progressive ideology pushing for living constitutionalism.
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@AdamT_Brown @dilanesper You just said the right isn’t allowed to do that, at least be consistent
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@sean91237 @dilanesper A judicial philosophy of interpreting the due process clause of the constitution as limiting government’s ability to restrict purely personal civil liberties. You can certainly disagree, but it’s a philosophy
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Traveling or living anywhere on account of "dining" is deranged in 2026.
The range, diversity, and quality of cuisine you have even in small emerging-market cities today is comparable to major world metropolises a century ago. The US got its first Thai restaurant in 1971!
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
All things considered, PA has the best dining in the world. Zero reservations necessary, even on a Friday night, for tier-1 food. Like you can walk into Daigo and eat sushi that was just flown in from Tsukiji fish market. The equivalent in NYC would require having 3 Resy bots and calling in favors from all over town to get seated at 5pm on a Tuesday.
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@AdamT_Brown @dilanesper Now do Obgerefell or Roe V Wade. The liberals do not have any power in the court. When they do they have no problem just legislating what they want
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@sean91237 @dilanesper You can believe liberal judges don’t have a coherent philosophy — but that’s just as false. The Court just voted 8-1 to find the Colorado ban on conversion therapy unconstitutional. So 2 of the 3 liberals voted for the “conservative result”
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@neoavatara Are you fucking retarted? It’s not hard to prove who your parents are
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Any person, anywhere, would have to affirmatively prove that their parents were in the country legally.
Its a pretty absurd standard, but that is the reality in countries that don't have birthright citizenship.
scha·den·freu·de@BlisterPearl
If they end birthright citizenship, how will any of us prove we're citizens when our birth certificates don't matter?
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@dilanesper I am conservative. I do like Scalia mind but I do not hold himself up as god. Conservative judicial philosophy should be nothing more that what furthers their goals.
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@sean91237 Believe it or not, I'm totally fine with conservatives saying "actually we think Scalia was wrong". They've done that on Employment Division v. Smith
But they haven't said that here. They hold him up as this God of a SCOTUS justice and don't understand one of his major theories!
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@dmonnin1 @dilanesper The goal of every political party is to improve their country and benefit its members thru the use of political power
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@sean91237 @dilanesper I thought conservative goals were to follow the text of the constitution and not add things that aren’t in the text.
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@ordonez_adan Houston or LA should be 3. Houston is sneakier than Chicago.
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@MattPethybridge @jkimballcook The 2nd is very clear the right to bear arms is for military purposes. A right to own nukes is far stronger than birthright citizenship
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Well, yes, of course. The militia clause is a prefatory clause that justifies the right. But the right being justified is, on its face, by its ordinary meaning, limited to "bear(ing) arms" as the founders would have meant that term.
There is no language in there that covers owning crew served weapons or artillery or other ordnance.
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I'm probably one of a very small number who thinks Heller was right that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, not a collective right, but wrong to hold that "a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" has no substantive meaning
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@LeslieBarandky @Empty_America The law needs to work for all anyway. And this clearly does not
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@sean91237 @Empty_America On the contrary. People are complaining that you'd have to test every woman coming in to find out if she's pregnant to stop birthright citizenship. I was arguing that you could stop most of it without any testing by just visual inspection.
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Well I mean we don't actually have to allow 8.5 month pregnant Chinese women to enter the USA to start with.
Screening for outright birth tourism is a choice that the administration could presumably enact at any time.
Upstate Federalist@upstatefederlst
Counterpoint: If I were the Chinese government, I would simply offer every pregnant woman a first class flight and 5-star hotel accommodations in the US at 8.5 months pregnant, wait 20 years, and then conquer the country. Why would I not do this?
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@MattPethybridge @jkimballcook Militias has meaning. They have bigger guns and fight countries
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@sean91237 @jkimballcook No. This ignores the plain meaning of "bear" and the original public meaning of "arms."
Bear means to carry on your person, and an arm was a weapon or armor carried for either offensive or defensive purposes.
The framers would have classified a nuke as "ordnance."
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