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Universities are done, public education is done (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 OP
The salvation of higher education will be in the smaller, lesser-known colleges and universities Ocelot II Aug 2025 #1
Maybe, my attitude when I post is mostly about Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #2
"But...Palestine!" DSandra Aug 2025 #5
I imagine there are more than a few happy with this iemanja Aug 2025 #3
To think some on the left voted for a third-party Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #4
Another day, another shakedown dlk Aug 2025 #6
me either, but her email.... Figarosmom Aug 2025 #7
Though I'm now poorly paid... róisín_dubh Aug 2025 #8

Ocelot II

(131,242 posts)
1. The salvation of higher education will be in the smaller, lesser-known colleges and universities
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:02 PM
Aug 2025

that don't provide fat targets for Trump's extortion. Faculty and students who have been disillusioned by the capitulation and cowardice of the Ivy League schools might start looking elsewhere, and provide and find high-quality education while flying under Trump's radar. I wouldn't give up yet.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
2. Maybe, my attitude when I post is mostly about
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:05 PM
Aug 2025

How every bit of this was avoidable if the left had come together and supported our candidate in 2016, and if a certain someone had not bashed her right up to the point, never mind I can’t even talk about it that’s how insane this is😡

DSandra

(1,726 posts)
5. "But...Palestine!"
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 12:52 AM
Aug 2025

The pro palestinian left are a bunch of suckers, even if a bunch of the messages were from Russian bots. As much tension as there is between Democrats and the left, the presidential vote is not where you express it, for the stakes are too high.

In Europe, somewhere far more free in terms of parties representing voters' actual views, even there the left there is not big enough to make a ruling coalition without the center left. If the left can't ever manage to get more than 50% of voters, it's wishes to not need the center left are pretty much fantasy. But this is not the time of chasing fantasies when the stakes are so high.

iemanja

(57,780 posts)
3. I imagine there are more than a few happy with this
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:40 PM
Aug 2025

Including those who promote geocide in Gaza.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
4. To think some on the left voted for a third-party
Fri Aug 1, 2025, 11:49 PM
Aug 2025

Candidate instead of Kamala because of Gaza. Absolute madness.

Figarosmom

(13,420 posts)
7. me either, but her email....
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:45 AM
Aug 2025

And this time, same ole shit

But she covered up for Biden
But she didn't even have a primary

And with both of them

But that laugh

róisín_dubh

(12,380 posts)
8. Though I'm now poorly paid...
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 02:07 AM
Aug 2025

Vastly over qualified and an immigrant in Europe, the best thing I ever did was walk away from my tenured position at a major research university

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