Today, my parents decided they won't pay for college because of a Fox News story that said higher education "makes you liberal." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out why my parents have been trying to convince me not to go to college this year. I also found out where the $20,000 they just spent on landscaping came from. My college fund. Which is now $0. FML
Today, my parents threatened to take away my college funds. Why? Because I complained about my 10 pm curfew during break as a freshman in college. FML
Today, after 25 years of marriage, my parents decided to get a very nasty and extremely expensive divorce. Using my college tuition to pay for it. FML
Today, I discovered that when my parents offered to help me pay for college, what they really meant is they would get the forms for me to apply for student loans. FML
Today, I was offered a job that pays far more than I expected, being a high school senior. My parents decided they aren't letting me take the job, saying I should enjoy my childhood. They're also not paying for my college, which is why I was looking for work in the first place. FML
Today, I was accepted to college and received a scholarship equal to almost half the tuition. After sharing this news with my parents, I spent the next 35 minutes getting yelled at about how I wasn't allowed to go there because my boyfriend might go there. FML
Today, I finally got the nerve to tell my parents that I'm no longer going to pay them a flat percent of my salary, but only what they need to cover my expenses. Their response: "Better find a place of your own then, you freeloading bastard." FML
Today, I found out that not only does my sister consider Fox News "reliable" but her husband has been buying Trump merchandise. They owe me $1,900 but they're literally giving a millionaire money instead of me. FML
Today, I told my conservative friends over dinner that I was a bit of a liberal. They then went off on me about how liberals are lazy, stupid, and a financial burden on society. I was the only employed person at the table with a college degree and not living with my parents. FML
Today, I discovered my parents have spent my college fund because "2012 will happen" before I graduate. FML
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Top comments
PinkRoseLove 0
Going to college doesn't make you liberal, it makes you smarter and more prepared in the world. Your parents are really ignorant
FernandoTorres_fml 0
Fox are idiots, they just implied that Liberal people are highly educated. They're right for once; their right wing nazi-fest is for retards.
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Comments (310)
galtybum 0
**** everyone who thinks that fox sucks. fox is the absolute best news station in history
Jake_the_Giraffe 7
I'm willing to bet that you are a Republican who doesn't want Obama in office.
GuitaristFrom94 0
Its hard for me to read anything about politics without facepalming these days.
aDropOfSunshine 2
Too true. Last time I checked, bickering and name-calling were not great substitutes for legitimate, thoughtful arguments.
Airborne2002 7
biged522 is a democrat
Quiet_one 22
Higher education doesn't make you liberal. It just makes you smart enough to decide for yourself whether you want to be liberal, conservative, or something else entirely. However, I'm not sure I even believe that, because after 3 years at a state university my views on all that political crap haven't changed a bit. And if your parents absolutely can't be convinced, there are several Christian colleges you could go to. They're way more expensive because they're private colleges, but they certainly couldn't be called "liberal."
bugmenotmofo 34
Couldn't have said it better. Truth is, being in a place where you meet a lot of people from different backgrounds tends to make you more empathetic of other people. It's pretty hard to go "them gays are gonna destroy marriage!" when you have a gay lab partner. I knew plenty of conservatives and liberals in college, but it's pretty hard to be a hate-filled fundie in a place where pretty much a rainbow of people are getting along with no problems. They're terrified of college, because they don't like things that challenge their views.
Lisa89 3
^ this and FYL :( Poor you.
astro2 0
i'm glad i don't live in america. My country pays for 80percent of education here irregardless if its university or TAFE (TAFE is similar to community college i think)
minifcar 0
'Irregardless'? The 20% they don't pay for must be grammar.
urlifeiseffed 0
goddamn I hate faux news....and I also hate parents that believe anything they hear
glock17wielder 0
So were you inappropriately touched by an apostrophe in your youth? You seem to be unable to use one and I would like to know if it's psychological or voluntary.
derhammer 0
u guys just hate fox news cause what they say is true and u guys are just too oblivious to realize that
myaccount157 0
Uhh... no, they're not. Anyway, to most of you, shut the **** up. Obama sucks dick. Free health care sucks; look how it worked out in other countries. Besides, it raises the debt and your taxes. If Bush hadn't started the wars, we'd all have lost our lives to Taliban attacks long ago. Obama quadrupled the debt and raised the unemployment rate by... how much, 5%? Seriously, it's completely retarded to blame Bush for the economy. As for Fox News, they're conservative. There's nothing wrong with that; **** off. Also if you haven't noticed most Fox News hosts have several masters degrees in great colleges and universities like Harvard. The amount of stupidity most of you Obama worshippers are blurting out on here is off the charts. Also, have you noticed all the liberals here only post personal attacks and never make any valid points about why they think their policies are better? Honestly...
KateeJo 0
@138 What about my complete retards?