• grimoire@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    Why is the bottom tweet acting like Charlie Kirk was some paragon of intelligence? Ah yes, we must defend colleges because this random guy didn’t go to one.

    Also, aren’t the students the ones funding colleges in the first place? What funding would be getting taken from them?

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      Conservatives think all colleges would have to shut their doors without government grants and program funding. They ignore the fact that many of the college systems are some of the most wealthy companies (because they ARE companies) in the nation

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        Which is also a travesty. But it insulates them from government somewhat.

        Also: the government grants they got was for stuff like “trying to cure cancer” and “experimenting to figure out better battery chemistry”. You gotta be a fucking idiot to stop doing that because they aren’t deferential enough to you.

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        Yeah but the ivy leagues only use a fraction of their endowment to fund research and education. It’s why some have bend the knee for the Trumpanzee. They rather grovel to Trump for more money than to take money out of their hoard of cash.

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        and they are pipeline to politicial positions, lawyers, and sustaining the pro-israeli agenda through “weapons and tech”