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POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

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Obviously forgiveness can't be the only thing. Something has to be done to get costs in check. Problem is Biden can't unilaterally do that Congress has to and they're isn't 10 GOPers who would do it in the Senate. They would not even likely back reigning in for profit college let alone giving two years free. So we do what we can.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
tradeskills should get bonuses of some sort.
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Community college and trade schools should ABSOLUTELY be free.

As a proud Liberal Arts graduate, I'm fine having that be stupid expensive and not covered by loans. That path is best trod by the Mandarins -- always has been. Breeding shows. Occasionally.

Law School and Med School and Business "School" can fuck themselves, too.

STEM doesn't have to worry, they make it on the back end.

Raise the slobs up to where there is no difference between them and the "middle class" in terms of privilege. That will force them to stop hating each other and start working together to grab control back from the rich.
 
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MichVandal said:
State taxes should be raised to support schools and colleges like they used to be. Pretty simple. Tax cuts are the primary reason higher education is so incredibly expensive.
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That’s only part of the issue. Going back to campus recently, SCSU only vaguely resembles the campus when I was there from 95-99. They added so many buildings, completely updated a number of older buildings, and repurposed many of them, too. Certain updates are necessary to keep up with the times, but many of them seemed excessive to me. Those changes have to be made up somewhere, and SCSU doesn’t have many big donors in its history.

Last year I ran the annualized inflation figures against what tuition was when I started there. Tuition, books, room and board should’ve been a little under $10k/year. SCSU was over $19k on its website at the time.
 
St. Clown said:
That’s only part of the issue. Going back to campus recently, SCSU only vaguely resembles the campus when I was there from 95-99. They added so many buildings, completely updated a number of older buildings, and repurposed many of them, too. Certain updates are necessary to keep up with the times, but many of them seemed excessive to me. Those changes have to be made up somewhere, and SCSU doesn’t have many big donors in its history.

Last year I ran the annualized inflation figures against what tuition was when I started there. Tuition, books, room and board should’ve been a little under $10k/year. SCSU was over $19k on its website at the time.
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Go back and find out who paid for those buildings. Most of them are paid for by whoever is paying the research bill- which isn't the same tax dollars that should be paying tuition. Being a college professor these days is more about scrambling to get money to fund research than actually doing the research and teaching students.

Most of the tuition bill should be paid for by however your states fund education. That's how it used to be, until people demanded lower taxes at the expense of students having to take loans to go to school.

It may not be the only issue, but it's the most important one.
 
Right Wing Bots are all over Twitter trying to prove Biden lied about having a plan for COVID. They havent been this active before midnight in quite some time. Usually it signals something about to break. I guess it could be the Cawthorn story but that seems unlikely.
 
Handyman said:
Right Wing Bots are all over Twitter trying to prove Biden lied about having a plan for COVID. They havent been this active before midnight in quite some time. Usually it signals something about to break. I guess it could be the Cawthorn story but that seems unlikely.
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I think it's starting to dawn on them that Biden and the Dems are not necessarily going to go into the midterms with high negatives. Peace, prosperity, and competence are pretty soothing, especially after the incompetent virulence of the Nazis.

They really need to torpedo Biden with some nonsense before he gets momentum as an Eisenhowerian steady hand, and they know they can use the media to chase the shiny lie for ratings.
 
Could be...they just seem to be latching on to the wrong things. I mean sure they can gaslight their own people on COVID but I mean they are the reason we are the joke of the Western World and 2/3rds of the country knows that. I guess this is what happens when unemployment is low and the "Christmas Gift Crisis" never materializes...

Personally I think they should have stuck to CRT that seems to tick off the Old Whites in both parties.
 
Handyman said:
I think they should have stuck to CRT that seems to tick off the Old Whites in both parties.
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They never gave it up, and they will hit it harder and harder as the election gets closer, along with caravans and voter fraud and crime and the rest of the Racism Grab Bag. I'm sure we will be able to measure it by how our "independent minded" conservatives try to inject topics into the threads. Out of concern, you understand.
 
Kepler said:
They never gave it up, and they will hit it harder and harder as the election gets closer, along with caravans and voter fraud and crime and the rest of the Racism Grab Bag. I'm sure we will be able to measure it by how our "independent minded" conservatives try to inject topics into the threads. Out of concern, you understand.
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Well I locked Sicatoka so they will take care of reading half of it ;^)
 
A historical precedent for how to beat Dump and the Republican gangsters here.

In the 1990s, as the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO, Slovakia was called by Madeleine Albright, the then-US secretary of state, “a black hole in the heart of Europe”. Vladimir Mečiar, then prime minister of Slovakia, politicised the state administration. He sacked people he deemed disloyal from state-run media and sold off state-owned companies to Mečiar allies. His security services were involved in kidnapping the son of the then president, who was a known Mečiar opponent.

Mečiar could control the state institutions, and state-run media, and try to ensure powerful private companies were owned by his friends. What he could not control was civil society. In 1998 — with the help of US and European funders — a group of Slovaks ran a campaign to help ensure a free and fair election. Most of the campaigns were organised by a movement called Civic Campaign OK ‘98. Pavol Demes was a civil society actor in the movement, and when I interviewed him in 2019 he said: “The ethos that we created: it will be OK in ‘98 because we citizens will step in.”

And they did. Two months before the 1998 election, more than 50 per cent of Slovaks thought Mečiar would win again. But he lost.
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Handyman said:
He had to be drunk...
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It's completely on brand for him. He never met an issue he couldn't smother under his smug TED Talk don't-rock-the-boatism.

Tom Friedman in the 19th century: "Aggressively enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act is as radical and destabilizing as talk of abolition. We need adult solutions from established people who know what they're doing. So I am hosting this symposium of thought leaders from our leading plantations and mills to get both sides of the story."
 
I thought his book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, was good, but I have never been real familiar with all the related issues. Was I just suckered in?

Shouldn’t be commas around the title. I don’t know why that bugged me with all that other shyt I let slide.
 
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I thought his book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, was good, but I have never been real familiar with all the related issues. Was I just suckered in?
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As was I. That book is great. He just got sucked into his own as-shole and has been playing the connected Beltway Brahmin ever since. Now he makes Malcolm Gladwell look like a serious intellectual. He has Salman Rushdie Disease.
 
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