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

(christinapagel.substack.com)
235 points nickcotter | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 08:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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hapticmonkey ◴[29 Mar 25 11:30 UTC] No.43514629[source]▶
The recent signal leak shows that they really do believe this stuff. insert american flag and prayer emojis
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lotsofpulp ◴[29 Mar 25 11:35 UTC] No.43514659[source]▶
The vice president writing they were going to pray makes me think the editor of the Atlantic was intentionally added to the chat.

I don’t see how it could be believable that Vance is actually religious and isn’t just using it as a way to get votes.

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sofixa ◴[29 Mar 25 11:36 UTC] No.43514669[source]▶
For what purpose? And if it was just for that, why did they also share classified information?
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1. lotsofpulp ◴[29 Mar 25 11:38 UTC] No.43514681[source]▶
Maybe publicity? The group in charge knows they can do no wrong, and I would bet their voters liked the rhetoric in the chat. Maybe they use controversy as a tool to keep people distracted (or even lead them to check out).
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2. KoolKat23 ◴[29 Mar 25 12:46 UTC] No.43515115[source]▶
Agreed, absolutely everything done needs to be viewed through the lens of what will the ratings/viewership be. Everything makes more sense. Just think of the public spectacle, interviewing world leaders in the pulpit at the Whitehouse for example. It's a live TV show.