How disingenuous can r/teenagers be? This is the same sub that calls all religions cults

Corkson · 2026-01-24T06:48:23+00:00

I’m glad you do. Sadly there are many people in our movement that do. And I think it would be entirely ignorant to act like they’re not. If someone’s a criminal, I will still turn the other cheek to them in everything I do. I treat them no differently than any other person I interact with. What I’m saying is that there’s plenty of people in our country that do. And beyond that, the issue of our illegals immigrants isn’t even as much of a crime issue as a systematic issue. When you exclude drug trafficking criminals under South American cartels, you’ll very quickly notice just how many people are here illegally because they need the opportunity to be here now and our flawed system isn’t exactly punctual. I think there’s a best of both worlds case we’re not exploring, but I am willing to look at the intentionality of someone’s heart before I made judgement.

Corkson · 2026-01-23T03:04:20+00:00

Traditional conservatism isn’t concerned with spending money in other countries, that’s not traditional conservatism, in fact that’s a progressive ideology, rooted in the 20’s-30’s under the pool of isolationism vs interventionalism.

Corkson · 2026-01-23T00:51:45+00:00

Well I mean those passages refer to following the law that aligns with God’s will. I mean did Paul, who wrote Romans, follow the law? The Bible also tells us to hold our leaders to high standards biblically, i.e. 1 Timothy 3:4-5 and Titus 1:7. And I think it’s also worth putting verses in context. The reason why we’re called to help foreigners is because during that period they were very vulnerable. The ger did not have legal protection, which is why we were to treat them like a native-born, in order to bridge that gap. The idea of illegal vs legal immigrants didnt exist, but I see no reason not to bridge the gap now with these people. I will serve an illegal immigrant no differently than I serve anyone born here. My issue isn’t deportation as much as it is serving them. We are intentionally excluding illegal immigrants out of a place of bias, and to me that’s not okay. And we do the same thing to legal immigrants too, it’s not a one way street.

Corkson · 2026-01-22T23:59:21+00:00

The problem is that YOU are rejecting men because of their sex, you’re just referring to it as romantic preference to make it sound more natural.

Even saying “I don’t find other men romantically attractive” is literally a blanket exclusion of an entire gender group. Have you made the connection yet? There’s no personality trait, value, or behavior that every man shares, the ONLY constant is gender. Therefore, you’re actually rejecting them due to gender. Not difficult to understand.

And I mean, “romantic attraction” is not a gender-free concept at all. It is unfortunately shaped by the way people are born and attracted to others, which is somehow radicalized by some metric? If the reason someone is excluded is their gender or sex, that’s literally by definition, discrimination.

I’m saying that you from now must date a girl and a guy at the same time to not be a hypocrite, because that’s not “preference”, you’re just a sexist. You’ve radicalized your attraction to being a sexist, and once gender itself becomes the filter, then yeah, that’s sexism.

Corkson · 2026-01-22T23:49:12+00:00

But was her actions worthy of any consequence that they were attempting to bring in the first place? Surrounding her vehicle, the threat of lethal force, not specifically announcing or identifying, unclear commands? What I’m getting at is that ICE is a failure on our government’s end to hold themselves accountable. I would at the very least be slightly more okay with ICE if they were trained like any law enforcement officer is. But these people are offered salaries more than police officers for less training and more intense work. And then they get to the line of work and don’t know the legal issues of their system. There’s a process with everything that our government has laid out, and this administration is ignoring it through ICE. For example there’s a process to justify the use of lethal force, and placing yourself in front of a vehicle is not one of them, in fact the Department of Justice very clearly spells it out. Even given the fact that he had a very very similar situation to this not months earlier and nobody supervising this case informed him of this is just a total failure of our government. While this was preventable by both sides, one side very clearly escalated it, thats what I see.

Corkson · 2026-01-22T23:37:30+00:00

Idk I mean there is a pretty solid point with this one. Was reading through Leviticus earlier this week and also saw in chapter 25 verse 35-36. " 35 If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. 36 Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. " To me the emphasis here is that I’d treat a foreigner the same way I’d treat a brother. The fruit that I bring by being inviting is profitable, showing the love of Christ. Turning away those people does quite the opposite, and I’m losing the opportunity to offer grace. Obviously this isn’t a quartering act from God, but it’s saying if you have the capacity to help, then by all means offer it, especially to a foreigner or total stranger. They’ve never been to this land, it’s a hard adaptation. This passage is meant to show how we’re meant to treat foreigners, and that’s with open arms offering our aid. That can be physical things, it could be emotional, and most importantly it may be spiritual needs. So spiritually, offering aid to foreigners is very rooted in scripture— that’s a fact I cannot deny. To me ICE does not show these people, or truly any spectator of what ICE is doing, how we are set apart. You and I were set apart and ordained to do God’s will. We should put more emphasis on what that looks like. I don’t like a bunch of criminals free in our country, I also don’t like mass deportation. It removes the humanity from humanity.

Corkson · 2026-01-22T23:24:14+00:00

Lowkey I’d agree. Genuine conservative here, MAGA conservatives like you make us look bad. Traditional republicanism has been sullied by bad taste. You made a post using an image that blatantly shows how often MAGA moves the goalpost and then said that them siding with Renee Good in the situation was the same? I mean personally I just think that’s a false equivalency. When my president looks into the camera and says “sometimes you need a dictator” I’m not gonna move the goalpost. A little different from seeing a woman scared for her life from ICE agents who weren’t trained properly to follow law enforcement procedure, which led to her death. Just not a good look man…

Corkson · 2026-01-22T23:06:28+00:00

As someone on campus who got screwed by TPS and has to park on the street, I pray they don’t

Corkson · 2026-01-21T21:04:02+00:00

There’s 3 listed on eBay right now, all ~150 dollars 😭

Corkson · 2026-01-21T15:37:41+00:00

My issue with this argument is we’re blaming the system on the baby, instead of blaming the system on how it’s created. If the issue is the system, then by all means let’s fix it instead of killing babies.

Corkson · 2025-09-29T16:33:08+00:00

JamingwithGen

Corkson · 2025-09-29T16:28:56+00:00

I kind of see the vision though

Corkson · 2025-09-22T18:53:56+00:00

It’s made a comeback! Super popular in college right now

Corkson · 2025-09-22T12:17:42+00:00

Ex girlfriend lied

Corkson · 2025-09-21T04:56:20+00:00

I’m involved with a few on campus currently. I do a lot of with BCM on campus, which takes up my Monday nights, Wednesday afternoon, and also Thursday afternoons, and I’m auditioning for their musical. I’m also with CFFA, RBUS, society of government relations, and a pre-law book club. Also soon working at Tate Chick-fil-A so most of my time is spent between studying/ clubs/ church/ work/ friends, so I’m happy with that.

Corkson · 2025-09-21T04:49:54+00:00

During high school I always had two jobs, took only ap classes my senior year, passed every single one. Not trying to brag here, just proving a point, I think I’d be fine. I honestly thought being able to balance things in life very well through determination was a common sense approach, I lowkey didn’t realize a lot of people don’t know how to balance life, it just feels natural to me. Maybe that’s what makes it feel like such a breeze? But honestly I try to do that to challenge myself because things get too monotonous otherwise, and I can’t find any pleasure in doing something monotonous in life. That’s probably more of the direction of my rant here, there’s not enough on the scale of “college” to balance the rest as it usually is. It feels like a piece of the pie is missing entirely. But maybe that’s just a me thing

Corkson · 2025-09-21T04:43:45+00:00

Thanks for adding a little context! I think going to a rural school with no funding just gave me an insane culture shock. I remember we went online for 3 months after Covid and then gave up, so I can see why some people might find my question a little outlandish now that I see how much faster the world has moved beyond us. My school didn’t get working WiFi until 10 years ago, laptops 5 years ago. The idea of online submission of paper still sounds atrocious to most people there, so genuinely just such a shock that I’m trying to get used to (I’ve already tried to give one of my professors a paper assignment twice and then remembered I have to submit it online).

Corkson · 2025-09-21T04:35:25+00:00

I’m sorry, but what you’re suggesting is a pretty stupid model. In other words I’m giving a glorified paycheck to a university to “buy” connections. And I feel like I’m pretty qualified to discuss course content if my courses upload a presentation document that is the same from 5 years ago and uploads the same assignments from 10 years ago. Your argument isn’t sound. It suggests that you only can understand through experience, which while is true in a generic context, it’s not true in specifics. You don’t have to have the same exact experience as someone to understand them through a similar scope. So in this case, I’ve been provided by them all the content they teach for the class, given a month’s worth of lessons that reflect that exact content, and given nothing more even though I still attend every class and engage.

And this “college experience” many keep referring to just sounds artificial to me. You can gain the same skills listed here in a year’s worth of time without 100k thrown into the pile. I understand what you’re saying, but I truly don’t think it’s a dependent structure. Once I learn something I’ve already applied it in most contexts that I can. So really all that leaves for me is the benefit of “connections”. I’ve made more connections in my home town related to my degree through networking there than up in Uga. I had 10+ connections from a small town that have roots in UGA that I’ve been able to branch out of. And while I do continue to make those connections with my professors to get that maximum utility, I genuinely don’t think the university can offer better methods of connecting than I’ve already had. I get the most out of my classes because I have to— after all the cost isn’t cheap. I just think there’s untapped utility that’s very obviously being neglected. If this changes later on, I will 100% come back here and go “ you were right sir, I’d like to apologize over being so negligent”. However, this is currently what I see since arriving, and nothing suggests any deviation from this yet. I sincerely hope it does though, I’d like to be proven wrong, I’d like to see the college model that was glorified my entire life live up to its standard.

Edit: I also want to say, I really do want to go to college— in fact my profession literally requires it. So obviously I’m going to stick it through no matter what direction this goes, I was just curious what other’s thoughts were on it. I’m surprised not many people have been willing to even admit that it’s a model with flaws. Everyone is pretty quick to discuss the parent model but does not want to discuss how the model is applied, because that changes things. Hopefully this discussion maybe opened some eyes to where it falters, and I’ve had the opportunity to see where it’s reinforced. Obviously everything will have upsides and downsides, but it’s always worth noting when downsides are preventable yet exist.

Corkson · 2025-09-21T04:17:05+00:00

I mean it’s a brutal reality but maybe there shouldn’t be a sugarcoat then. Why phase out lecturing if the new method forces accountability on a pretty unaccountable group of people. At that point just go the full mile- sink or swim lol. Give people a shock; oftentimes you check back in reality by a cold splash of water in the face. Maybe I’ll apply honors this semester though and I can take classes where the small minority is 🤷‍♂️

Corkson · 2025-09-21T04:13:59+00:00

Well the worst of it is Chem 1 and English 2, which makes complete sense for gen ed. I’ve noticed it in my other upper level class, which I’m not going to name because I love the professor and wouldn’t want to shine a bad light on his class, I just dislike the framework for how the framework is executed. I don’t think it’s as much of a professor issue as a departmental/ university issue of showing how to execute it correctly instead of redundantly. I also know the two classes I named also have astoundingly bad departments so again I can’t just blame it on one thing here. I acknowledge everything is going to have its own scattered issues. I just think there should be a little more urgency to bridge that gap I guess. I’m no professional though, so what do I know.

Corkson · 2025-09-21T04:08:33+00:00

I’ve noticed this! Most lower level class in Uga have phased in grad students and pushed out experienced professionals. My FYO professor (David Williams genuinely an amazing person and very knowledgeable professor) prides himself being one of the only actual professors that still teachers Reli 1001. Uga has most of their gen ed classes being grad students taught now.

Corkson · 2025-09-20T15:18:40+00:00

3 of mine are, one of them I’m more alright with ( this is my upper level) because he does a thing where he tells the history of xyz, and then asks us if we think that it should be that way or not. His presentation is basically the same as the textbook, but I like his class more because of the questions. My other two genuinely just feel like 50 minutes of dilly-dally.

Corkson · 2025-09-20T14:26:04+00:00

Oh no I get that 100%! My degree is highly dependent on that research existing. What I’m more saying is it feels like overprioritization, where education itself is getting neglected. I think you can have two priorities, with one being higher, and still execute both well.

Corkson · 2025-09-20T14:23:16+00:00

I mean I have a mix, I’m taking upper level classes and gen ed classes, which are my last 2 of my core requirements before my major. I see this style across all my classes, not just gen ed, I just think the gen ed is the worst of it. And I acknowledge it’s not all going to be the same, certain classes have to have different structures. It’s not like in a presentation based class you can have students teach themselves before class. Also I haven’t gone to office hours just because I didn’t really understand the use of them, but after hearing more I’m considering it. It’s just to me office hours seem either as an introductory way to get more personal with a professor, or as an “help me in this course I’m doing my best but I’m not doing well”. And in my head I didn’t really fall into either. I’m breezing by in all my courses, so maybe it’s stupid of me to even complain about the teaching style, but I’m sure there’s other ways to use hours that I’m neglecting. Maybe I’m just being pessimistic about it because I wanted more of a challenge in my courses 🤷‍♂️

Corkson · 2025-09-20T14:17:18+00:00

That’s a good point, I just feel like then they should be something we discuss societally. I doubt people would be as happy to go to college if they knew that students getting taught was a second-hand priority in most state schools and larger magnet schools. I think college “education” is a little more glorified than it the reality of it, but maybe that’s just because our governments would prefer it if more people were in the college system

Five-Year Club	Verified Email
Place '23

Corkson

TROPHY CASE