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Durov has been compromised. What the Russian government couldn’t do, the Western governments have managed to accomplish.

I just finished "The College Scam" by Charlie Kirk. I've got to say that although Kirk is a notable Con Inc. figure who I (and Ubersoy) heavily disagree with, this book has a lot of good arguments and very concerning data. Every statistic I cite in this post is in the book.

Cost: The cost of attending an American college is absolutely ridiculous. Only 62% of full-time undergraduates graduate within six years, and many incur significant debt without a degree. Borrowers in their sixties owe $86 billion in student loan debt, with Social Security checks being garnished for payments. Student debt negatively affects homeownership rates and related industries, with 35% of the decline attributed to student loans. Then there are individual cases such as the graduates from the Columbia film program who have a median debt of $181,000 but earn less than $30,000 two years post-graduation.

Value of Education: Then there is the issue of whether or not one actually needs to go to college. A survey showed that 44% of respondents felt their college education was not worthwhile. Prestigious universities reportedly show little improvement in graduates' critical thinking skills over four years and only 27% of graduates work in fields related to their majors, with many STEM graduates not employed in STEM roles. In fact, American education is so bad that the Chinese have a literal tendency to send their children to prestigious American universities as "back ups" for if they don't get accepted into Chinese universities.

University Corruption: There is the issue of just how corrupt and greedy the education system is. The biggest problem is the lending companies who lobby both sides of Congress to keep students from defaulting on their student loans. Student debt service companies spent more than $4 million lobbying Congress in 2020 alone. Then, when Obama signed legislation in 2010 that made the federal government the lender of choice for most students, that flooded these universities with millions of dollars, allowing them to jack up tuition prices because they know they'll get paid no matter what.

Radical Leftism: This doesn't need much of an explanation. Colleges are filled with libtards. But it's not that they're just libtards; it's that they're genuinely insane. For example, three researchers wrote twenty academic papers and submitted them to peer-reviewed academic journals. These papers were filled with the most insane ideas and fallacious arguments one could think of. My favorite paper that they published was "Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism." This paper literally just copied and pasted a chapter from Mein Kampf then reworded it to sound feminist. You get the point. Universities tolerate the most insane, dysgenic, harmful leftist views you can possibly think of.

Foreign Influence: Finally, there is the issue of foreign influence and radical leftism. Countries hostile to America (Such as China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc) spend billions of dollars in setting up "cultural institutions" on university campuses, only to serve as a gateway to spreading their propaganda. Even the Palestinian Authority donated a million dollars to Harvard. Why do all these countries do this? Because they know it's a good investment to spread their ideas to young Americans. They sponsor foreign students to infiltrate these universities, get an American education, then possibly infiltrate the government. This is fundamentally a national security issue.

That's basically the summary of Kirk's book. He makes other arguments, but these are the biggest ones. I didn't include every piece of data I read or every funny anecdote, because the point has already been made. I recommend reading this book and thinking very wisely about college if you live in America.