Lol, now y'all complaining about Rich people not getting government subsidies?
politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
Can we please stop legitimizing this regime by referring to them as an "administration"?
I agree, but it is a big ask from a major us news outlet.
lol are they saying Harvard is in financial ruin? Harvard? Land owner Harvard? With an endowment in the billions Harvard?
A large part of what they do is research. Taking away a couple billion a year that the government spends on that at Harvard is a big deal, even if the institution can ultimately survive it
I feel like the thing GOP and conservatives fail to really understand is that those liberals of us don’t hate this country when we protest. We want this country to get better. We see unfairness and we want to fix it. We see corruption and want to eliminate it. We as a country get better if we look at all angles to problems and hear all voices.
GOP just wants to hear only the voice of their Orange God.
MAGA hates the country unless they’re in power.
I think they understand but do not agree. Their vision of making the country better is just different, so much so that liberals are unable understand it IS actually what someone could want. They do want to live in a nationalistic distopia.
That kind of thinking sees no progress as a society. I get it. There are people who don’t want anything to change…. But that’s a horribly limited vision.
The 1950s were not better in every way. In fact, the only thing I see that was better was income inequality, and that’s the only thing the GOP is actively trying to not fix.
Exactly, that's why they're called conservatives and not progressives.
She accuses it of admitting students who are contemptuous of America,
OK. So what?
Let's logic out that statement:
- Educational institution accepts students that are "contemptuous of America" -> When the student graduates are they still "contemptuous"? Did they become moreso? No change? Less? None at all?
- Educational institution actively seeks to deny students who are "contemptuous of America" -> Did they produce "contempt for America" in their graduates? Same problem.
I wonder what would produce "contempt for America"? Maybe deporting people without due process? Or not recognizing human rights?
Maybe we should agree, then: Harvard shouldn't accept students that hate the Bill of Rights. Reject conservative ideology that suggests that due process shouldn't be followed. Reject conservative ideology that actively seeks to undermine the US Constitution.
Let's get keep those people (conservatives) with "contempt for America" away from places like Harvard 👍
In a 2021 speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy,” then–Senate candidate J. D. Vance declared that universities, as left-wing gatekeepers of truth and knowledge, “make it impossible for conservative ideas to ultimately carry the day.”
Yes - universities are by their very nature in opposition to irrational positions borne of ignorance, hatred, greed and fear.
That is as it should be.
It's always "liberal indoctrination" to them. Because they can't understand that being more exposed to more ideas tends to make you less conservative. Also, it feels like a tacit admission that their own "education" was really indoctrination. That's probably one reason why they think all education is such.
They have to work so hard at just propping up their biases (on penalty of hell in many cases) that it's hard to conceive of a world where other people aren't also secretly doing that.
Knowledge is the cure to conservatism.
You cannot simultaneously hold right-wing views and know enough about the world to have any valid opinions about how it should be run.
Because they can’t understand that being more exposed to more ideas tends to make you less conservative.
Vance is Yale educated and the professor who set him up with his wife also got her SC clerkships... He and his wife were literally groomed to be a political power couple similar to the Clintons.
Stop acting like hes stupid and uneducated.
He 100% know what he's saying is bullshit, hes a liar not an idiot. trump is an idiot, and believes it.
That's why Vance is so much more dangerous, it's like comparing HW to Reagan. Both evil, but an evil elderly person with dementia does less damage than an evil intelligent person.
He's not uneducated, but he still seems pretty stupid. Brother can't give a single public speech without seeming like a complete idiot.
Same with HW bush..
Didn't stop him from becoming president on Reagans coattails.
And HW not only caused just as much damage as Reagan, he was smart about it so still gets a fraction of the blame. His name is almost never brought up anymore.
People just talk about the idiot fall guys, because the whole reason they're there is to be the lightning rod of criticism so no one looks at the ones calling the shots.
It's a shell game, but at least when it's an idiot they'll get caught and some things will be stopped, or at least noticed.
lol, as if Harvard were liberal
they're infamously, thuggishly conservative
Yep.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/harvard-university-palestine-solidarity-committee-letter/
But no matter how "tough" they were to appease Biden's admin and their own donors, it's not enough for the rightwing.
It's the base reason you can't meet fascists halfway.
They fought against free speech and watched their students be abused, and now they're getting shit for not going further.
It's literally the plot to First They Came For
Its the students themselves who are criminally conservative, in addition to the schools administrative hierarchy promoting far-right neo-feudalism and calling it capitalism.
Rape, assault, and battery are the accepted norm among the Harvard student body.
For example:
Today, a university-wide email went out from Harvard President Drew Faust detailing the initial results of a survey completed by Harvard students which asked about individual experiences with sexual assault and campus perceptions of sexual assault.
You find things where you look for them...
Of all the schools surveyed, Harvard had the highest participation rate: 53% of all degree-seeking students across Harvard schools responded. This was significantly higher than the 19% average across all the schools surveyed.
And you only find them when people feel confident and safe enough to speak up.
You seem to be arguing for the trump/RFK method where you don't count things and then deny they happened...
It was never about antisemitism and always about control. The Trump administration wants to control all the "W's" and how at all levels of education.
“like hiring the captain of the Titanic to teach navigation”
I have to refer to this podcast, which is brilliant, and puts the ill-fated journey of Titanic in terms I hadn't heard before. There were so many things that went just the right (wrong) way, and it's pretty clear that up until the point of impact, nobody did anything wrong, considering the conventional wisdom of the time.
They called it unsinkable.
It was hubris. Just like the US on September 10, 2001. We never expected or even imagined someone attacking us here.
Until it happened.
It was indeed hubris, but 9/11 wasn't expected. Anyone at the time with half a brain and access to the intelligence apparatus knew an attack was coming. Sadly, that left out then President George W. Bush due to his grey matter deficiency. Two months before 9/11, Gee Dubya was handed a Presidential Daily Brief with a clear warning about it and that wasn't the first warning he ignored.
“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA’s famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack. But months earlier, starting in the spring of 2001, the CIA repeatedly and urgently began to warn the White House that an attack was coming.
They knew that the World Trade Center towers were a prime target for terrorists because of the last attack on them. Fortunately the 1993 terrorist attack failed to knock the towers down and the law enforcement was able to track down the attackers before they could try again.
We later learned from Yousef that his Trade Center plot was far more sinister. He wanted the bomb to topple one tower, with the collapsing debris knocking down the second. The attack turned out to be something of a deadly dress rehearsal for 9/11; with the help of Yousef’s uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda would later return to realize Yousef’s nightmarish vision.
We knew that Yousef's uncle was working with Al Qaeda and we knew they wanted to knock down the towers. Bush was warned but he, as you say, could not imagine anyone attacking here. That is indeed hubris because everyone else in a position to do anything about it knew an attack was coming in some form or another.
How do you think the unthinkable?
With an itheberg.
They said it was Great.
Everyone’s — many people are saying it. And you look at these icebergs, they’re these little ice cubes floating, and then “global warming” — the lying media — we’ve got all these ice cubes! Unbelievable.
It’s very bad what’s been done to these captains. It used to be, you could drive your boat and if you were a good captain they would go “yes sir” and you were all set. Horrible. They’ve got all these, we have to hire DEI now, and suddenly these ice cubes are a problem for these big beautiful gorgeous boats. Horrible.