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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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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. AlecSchueler ◴[29 Mar 25 19:32 UTC] No.43517959[source]▶
The "balling out Europe" stuff again. Their goal is to ultimately normalise the idea that the EU is an enemy in advance of the Greenland invasion. The leaking of clarified information doesn't matter because A) US service personal are expendable and B) the involvement in Yemen is now only to keep up appearances of being allied to Saudi Arabia who will in the long term also get the same treatment as the EU because their fuel output competes with US/Russia.