How do you feel about paying groups to fight for causes you don’t agree with or causes that you might even fight against?

I feel quite okay with that. There’s an infinite number of good angles. First we must dismantle the idea that we are “fighting” – having opposite views is completely normal, and it’s healhty for society which wants to rule itself by democratic measures. No one is omnipotent and only by clash of ideas we can choose the best ones. I can see how you could feel offended by some ideas other than your own, as I’m just a mere human myself as well, but that’s also good, contrary to popular belief. All in all, having adversaries is helpful and keeps your views challenged and mind sharp.

Secondly, I can see how you can feel offended if you feel your side is not getting “enough” from that budget - but that’s the case for either your university council case or, in more drastic circumstances, for judicial system. Scrapping away all funding seems very much extreme as there are many important fields which need funding which would never be obtained if you’d ask ordinary students do they prefer to pay for it or new Netflix show. Zombie clubs are - for some funny, for some painful to watch - a bit pathological side effects but I strongly believe good causes outweigh jokes. And you can always challenge joke clubs in front of your budget council.

Third point is: if you feel there are some clubs doing what you dislike, you should be perfectly okay to run your own club to their dislike. Both initiatives will operate under the same law and, if used wisely, can only broaden the horizons of pupils in both groups.

My final thought is that I much more prefer a style of education that Seneca proposed by being very hospitable to Epicurus even though those two schools of philosophy where “fighting” with each other.

The thing is, fighting is good. Those enemies can’t hurt you, the biggest fear they can do is just chsnnng your mind - and that’s not bad. We all change our opinions all the time. That’s called learning and universities, with many clubs which you like and even more which you may dislike, were built just for that.

Challenge joke clubs, smile at the “enemy” -having your opinions challenged is not such a bad fight to have in a place of learning.

(Disclaimer: I also dislike ~70% of orgs mentioned by OP in the article.)