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posted ago by tfinley ago by tfinley +4092 / -2

Never give up. I'm old. Do you know how easy it would be for me to sit back and say I quit. Chances are I won't live long enough for it to get really bad. Reality is it's not about me. I'm a patriot. I was raised to salute the flag, that pledge of allegiance I made actually means something and that the united States of America is the greatest country on the planet. To sit back and let it fall goes against everything I believe in. My sweet little granddaughter at 10 years old is truly the most innocent loving person I have known in my lifetime. She is so inherently good she doesn't see evil in anyone or anything. She can and will find good in every situation. I cannot/will not let them destroy her and the other innocents like her. I will do whatever is necessary to take my country back! Stand up! Make the commitment! If our fore father's had given up we wouldn't have a country. NEVER back down. You are a patriot!

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Greg867 30 points ago +30 / -0

Same. Just turned 32. Went to an engineering school and pretty much all my friends who are engineers....I thought they could think independently..... but almost every single one of them is obsessed with this critical race theory cancer.

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muy_libre 18 points ago +18 / -0

I’m an engineer too. Most are vapid lefties.

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Belleoffreedom 18 points ago +18 / -0

This is sad. Chemist, here. Engineers used to be smart.

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10MeV 19 points ago +19 / -0

Engineers are smart. But like any smart system, garbage in = garbage out. Smart people still do some dumb things.

People are being brainwashed, propagandized, and they don't seem to even care. Social acceptance is paramount. They won't stand up to any criticism, any mockery of their position.

A big reason is the women, who lead men around by their.... appendage. Men want sex, women will deny it if the men don't cater to the women's concerns. So the men give in, over, and over, and over again.

The real problem, the biggest problem, is the millennial women. The culture for the last 20 years or more has been all about "empowering" the "fierce" women. So now they have embraced that. Sorry, that becomes a whole rant of its own.

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DiamondInTheWeeds 9 points ago +9 / -0

You are right. We're witnessing this in our own family. Conservative stepson is kowtowing to pussy-whipping lib wife. Disgusting.

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CSIS_CIA_pure-evil 6 points ago +6 / -0

Engineers used to be very independent and creative. Now they are pumped through the system in great numbers and want to be "professionals". They value their linked-in profiles and spend a lot of time networking. Many want to get out of design work and get into management. They think they ought to be directors at age 30. Most have no interest in engineering (as in designing things, solving problems, prototyping things, understanding how everything works).

In the 1970's, engineering classes were far smaller, and the characters (mostly men) were quite independent. Often they studied math/physics before they decided to get into applied science. Electrical, Civil, Mechanical had common courses until about half way though the program -- so even an electrical engineer understood thermodynamics. The trend now is to differentiate much earlier.

Now universities take engineering classes right out of high school with predictable results. Things like single digit grades in important courses, but getting passed anyway when they challenge it.

I find science and math students to be more free thinking than modern engineers.

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LazySusan 2 points ago +2 / -0
 Same situation here. I even had a few conservative leaning engineer friends in college who switched sides after graduation. Some no longer speak to me because orange man bad. We were one of the majors where our professors didn't have time to talk about politics. We weren't being indoctrinated directly in class (although this was a lefty school).

 I'm not sure that engineering specifically trains people to think critically per se, but it definitely encourages people to think creatively. When your goal is to have an open mind and solve the problem most efficiently, you don't automatically go with the status quo. In today's society, the status quo is rampant leftism. These leftist beliefs are not based in logic or reason at all. It makes no sense to me that engineers of all people would adopt this viewpoint.

 I worry about the future of this country for many reasons, but what is going on in our professions? Woke concepts will destroy them all. We'll have a generation of engineers who are incapable of understanding advanced concepts let alone doing math (2+2=5). What will our nation be capable of producing then?