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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores

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235 points nickcotter | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 08:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mesk ◴[29 Mar 25 10:11 UTC] No.43514243[source]▶
USA, the land of unlimited possibilities...of how to get detained without a process...for expressing opinions...by the government repating that we have finally free speach and the dark ages are gone...while revisiting history to avoid dangerous words such as a 'women'...

And I've thought our wana-be-authorian politicians are greates idiots of all, but there seems to be running some kind of global world competion to find them and let them ruin their countries.

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vkou ◴[29 Mar 25 10:22 UTC] No.43514291[source]▶
The politicians aren't idiots, they don't actually believe anything they say.

The idiots are the people whose support they politicians are courting.

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1. yapyap ◴[29 Mar 25 11:22 UTC] No.43514581[source]▶
whether you pretend to be an idiot and do idiotic things or are an idiot and do idiotic things doesn’t matter, the outcome is the same.

Matter of fact pretending to be an idiot and doing idiotic things might be worse cause you know better, an idiot’s excuse would be that that’s all they know to do.