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Saturday, February 08, 2025

Here's some breaking news for you: Going to college plus making noise with your mouth does not equal saying something intelligent. Shut up - I'm tired of hearing you blabber.

I cannot walk 10 feet without hearing another one of you babbling about socioeconomic issues that you do not understand, and how we have to change them.

I constantly overhear you telling each other about how you won't buy this or that because of the moral atrocities the company has committed, but you walk around with electronics in your pocket worth enough money to feed the entire Christian Children's Fund for a month.

Stop talking about banning dihydrogen monoxide - it's water.

Don't open your mouth about the viability of ethanol fuels - it's your fault corn prices got so high and gas prices didn't do a damn thing except keep going up.

Stop trying to solve world hunger. People have to be hungry; it's the way the world works. We have the ability to feed the entire planet. We can do it. Here's the problem: If we put that much food on the market, food prices would plummet, the farmers would go bankrupt and then no one would have food. Solving world hunger is a bad idea. Shut up and live with it.

Stop talking about how we have to change the world and how China is such a terrible place. Their culture wants the government they have because they have a different social paradigm than we do over here.

For you to tell them they don't have enough freedom is oppressively arrogant. For the U.S. to force its understanding of the social contract on any other nation is the restriction of freedom of which you are accusing the Chinese government.

Stop babbling about genetically engineered foods. Genetically engineered foods lower the cost of production, which allows us to feed more people without bankrupting the farmers.

And no, putting jellyfish genes in a tomato so it will glow in the dark will not make you glow in the dark. If that was how it worked, we would be walking around with an udder or two, filling our own milk glasses, and teenagers would knock us over while we slept standing up.

Do not tell me about fighting for people's freedom. No one is free. That is the summation of the social contract. If I eat an apple, you are no longer free to eat that apple.

By existing, I am infringing upon your freedoms and vice versa.

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People who have to spend their day working to pay for rent, food, utilities and gasoline, but can't afford the spare time or money to play the sport or instrument they love, whenever and wherever they want is free.

To the UF population (save for a few): You are morons. More coherent thoughts can be found in a randomly chosen preschool. Of course, preschoolers have the advantage of not having been intellectually corrupted by two decades of being told what is important, what they should be doing and where their lives should go.

Please, close your mouths. Anyone who understands the implications of your words will just find you to be an idiot.

Anyone who doesn't is an idiot. You're all giving me a headache.

Wes Hunt is a history senior.

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