{"id":42147,"date":"2016-02-03T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42147"},"modified":"2020-07-18T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T01:00:11","slug":"is-this-conservative-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42147","title":{"rendered":"Is this conservative of me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-42148 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dumbasskid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dumbasskid.jpg 490w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dumbasskid-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Now you\u2019ll have to forgive me if I\u2019m not entirely getting the facts straight; politics interest me as much as Michael Cera movies, so I will be the first to admit that most of the things I think I\u2019m aware of, have mostly come via half-heard news broadcasts, and skimming through daily news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But apparently, the State of Georgia\u2019s Supreme Court made a ruling that stated that unauthorized immigrant students would not be eligible for in-state tuition.\u00a0 To me, this seems kind of like a no-brainer; if you haven\u2019t lived in Georgia for a substantial period of time, why should you get in-state tuition rates?\u00a0 This is irrelevant if the students are coming from Nebraska or Nigeria, if you\u2019re not a resident, why should you get resident benefits?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Apparently, not everyone seems to think it\u2019s as clear cut as I do, as dumbass students do what dumbass students do,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/students-arrested-protest-supreme-court-decision-a\/nqHN5\/\">which is protest things that they are probably as clueless to as I am<\/a>, and get arrested for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But yeah, I don\u2019t see why it\u2019s up for such contentious debate.\u00a0 If I were a concerned citizen, I think I\u2019d be a little against the idea of for example, a Hispanic family crossing the border illegally, landing in Georgia, never doing whatever it takes to become legal and documented, and then the children growing up and expecting in-state tuition &#8211; and\u00a0<em>getting it<\/em>?\u00a0 That seems a little bit like using underhanded means to get to a position to where benefits can be capitalized upon, which to me, is not okay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Colleges are seemingly competitive enough to get into, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily right to include a pool of potential students who don\u2019t even exist as U.S. citizens to compete against.\u00a0 It\u2019s like paying and registering to run in a marathon, but then a bunch of people show up on race day to run unregistered, and expect accolades if they do well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Ultimately, this is a matter that doesn\u2019t concern me one iota, but I don\u2019t understand why people are protesting this matter; maybe that\u2019s very conservative of me sure, but seriously, the phrases \u201cundocumented\u201d and \u201cunauthorized\u201d typically have a deceiving connotation to them, and deception is a negatively perceived idea, so why should anything inherently negative be privy to such a useful concept such as in-state tuition?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you\u2019ll have to forgive me if I\u2019m not entirely getting the facts straight; politics interest me as much as Michael Cera movies, so I will be the first to admit that most of the things I think I\u2019m aware of, have mostly come via half-heard news broadcasts, and skimming through daily news. But apparently, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this conservative of me?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,8,165],"class_list":["post-42147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42149,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42147\/revisions\/42149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}