Or why incur the debt in the first place? It is possible to go to school for free. Yes it may include going to community college for a couple of years and an in-state school, working alot, not partying as much, and it may take longer than four years, oh and an actual major that will actual be profitable to you. You’re…

How can any veteran or family of a veteran (let alone a fallen soldier) support this man?

when rich people hear that we want everyone to get equal access to healthcare, they naturally assume that means they’ll have to suffer the way we do, because they know that their extreme wealth depends fundamentally on our poverty

This isn’t an answer, but an example: I’m a white Canadian. I wouldn’t ever wanna face an American white nationalist cop while vacationing to the US. To an American, white nationalist and white supremacist are close to the same thing (both are utterly disgusting). But to anyone from another nation, perspective is a…

Also…

No, they pull out the hateful words because they know perfectly well the impact those words have. They know the words are wrong, they know the words are hateful, and they damn well know the effect those words have on the other person. They understand perfectly well that “those people” don’t want to called those…

“Black People Use Motherfucker in Normal Conversation”....

On most of these “Rich people are terrible and corrupt” stories, it usually feels to me like the national mainstream media — comprised mostly of rich people itself — really makes an extra effort to act shocked and appalled so that the peasants don’t get the idea that these kids of things are common and known. 

It’s been common knowledge that prestigious colleges have lower standards for children of alumni, and would happily admit a pet turtle if the turtle’s owner gave them a few million bucks. The big surprise, for me at least, is that this bargain-basement scheme existed for the “moderately” rich (or the terminally…

I have absolutely no difficulty believing that most of these kids 100% believed that they belonged at the elite schools. They have lived entire lives of getting whatever they wanted and being told that they earned it, why should that stop now? Did some (many) of them struggle? Sure, but they probably just thought that…

The assumption is that they pay *the school* and that it isn’t guarenteed. Not some guy who runs a fake non-profit to bribe SAT proctors and coaches in order to get around the not-guarenteed part/make the kid think they got it without a trampoline-level leg-up. The shock is really more about how stupid and wildly out…

I have a really hard time believing these kids weren’t aware that something was up. Whether you’re on scholarship or not, if you’re going to a school based on some spot on an athletic team, there are certain expectations of your time, such as showing up for practice, working with coaches and tutors, etc. At the very…

The biggest surprise to me is that people actually seem surprised. Didn’t we always assume that the rich paid to get their kids into whatever school they wanted? I know I always assumed that was the case. Maybe we’re just all collectively amazed that they’re actually finally getting in trouble for it, even though…

Please provide an example. Theft, fraud... We’re splitting hairs here. If you’re there through fraudulent means, there is no right to stay, whether you knew of the fraud or not.

I think it’s clear in the indictments that at least some of the kids didn’t know, since there are records of communications where parents are desperately trying to keep their kids from finding out.

I had some idiot arguing with me in the comments of another article that if the kids didn’t know of the malfeasance, that they have entered into a contract with the school and can’t just be expelled, and besides there is no evidence that the kids wouldn’t have gotten in on their own merits anyway.

I’m surprised the dullard kids didn’t all flunk out after they got admitted. Since they weren’t real athletes, they weren’t getting any help from the AD with tutors or cushy classes. These were kids who pissed away the benefits of wealth and failed to get into USD on their own. They weren’t going to magically start…

At this point, I couldn’t care less who the parents are. I want to see these kids kicked out of their respective schools, revocation of credits “earned”, and (in the case of public universities) see them banned for life from attending the entire state school network.

Hmm, well I try to live my life by what the Bible teaches. Not just parts of the Bible, but the whole thing. The parts you’ve so graciously selected are part of the Mosaic law which was given to Israel to show them that they could never hope to attain righteousness because by breaking one part of the God’s law, you…

Of course not. God invented marriage.