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“If Martin Gurri is right that the “identity virus,” which has caused so many of our problems, “was first incubated in academia,” then it’s worth asking whether the universities are even worth saving.”

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The universities can easily be saved by cutting their funding. Elon Musk fired 80% of the people at Twitter and it’s fine. We created all of these parasites by giving them money to do nothing.

I think the first example of the oppressor oppressed virus was in Genesis when the snake showed up to tell Adam and Eve that God was screwing them over, actually

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Babe-TheBlueOx's avatar

Kevin, you made my day! To see the similarity between the Great Deceiver's work in Genesis and that of his minions today is brilliant.

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vsm's avatar

And Satan, the Great Deceiver, lied -- just as the woke DIE mob does now.

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Chris's avatar

If they REALLY did *nothing* the problems would be near as bad as we find ourselves; it's that they do *something* which in turn really fucks up a lot of shit.

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frank tarascio's avatar

Snide Genesis comment aside, the way to fix universities is money, yes. Eliminate funding other than from students. Period. Tax endowments. Heavily.

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Kevin Durant?'s avatar

Funding students is the bulk of the problem. It’s almost the entire problem. If you don’t delete funding for students who pursue Trump University-style useless degrees you’ve done almost nothing.

The comment about Democrat oppressor ideology being Satanic is accurate, not snide.

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frank tarascio's avatar

Huh. OK, I can see that.

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Comprof2.0's avatar

Yeah....Twitter is doing great....profits are totally up.....

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Kevin Durant?'s avatar

Yeah but clearly it’s losing money because he offends Democrats and the government. It’s really easy to ingratiate yourself to Democrats and the government so it easily could be profitable. But then the downside is that ingratiating yourself to Democrats and the government (redundant) makes you a huge piece of shit.

So it’s a trade-off.

Twitter basically never made a profit (except 2019 I think) before Elon took over which is actually quite a scandal because they obviously could have made a profit by eliminating all of the useless douche bags Elon fired. Old Twitter was defrauding shareholders and the useless employees were embezzling funds.

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Comprof2.0's avatar

Nah. I think he's offending companies who don't want their ads running next to white-nationalist groups and tweets. It's losing money because of lack of engineers, incoherent moderation, platforming of lunatics, stupid upgrades and poor leadership from a antisemitic-friendly CEO who is conviced the "woke mind virus" is destroying the Earth.

Outside of that and the massive loss of revenue of both Twitter and Tesla, everything is fine....big difference from "not turning a pofit."

If only someone, anyone, would have predicted this.

"Old Twittet was defrauding shareholders and the useless employees were embezzling funds."

Lol!! And you have evidence for this claim?

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Kevin Durant?'s avatar

All of that was fabricated. You do not think he is offending companies. You are fully aware that those companies are being extorted by the organization that pays you to post here.

You obviously don’t care about antisemitism, given that you are a Holocaust denier. You are just exploiting Jews to push your own psychotic agenda. Elon banned “from the river to the sea” because he cares about the Jewish people and the actual threat to their existence which is Democrats and Muslims.

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Comprof2.0's avatar

Lol. Fabricated? Nah. Elon said what he said. Documented in his tweets. Irrefutable.

No. I 1000% believe he is offending companies....because that's exactly what they've said/rational as they bail from advertising on the platform. Don't want their brands showing up around a bunch of KevinDurants.

He has done what he has done - says what he says and the free market/Wall Street has responded.

Seems they don't like his whole "Jews are promoting white genocide" take.

Extorting? Lol....yeah...sure you have evidence of that....is that what Elon said?

I said a while back, after he acquired Twitter, that he'd turn it into 4Chan within 2 years. He is on his way to doing that.

Banned "from the river to the sea" - what?! Outrageous! I thought you and Elon were all about Free Speech, right? Aren't you guys all about non-censorship? "Words aren't violence," right?

Hmmm.....apparently that doesn't apply for one group in particular. Why is that?

Sticks and stones....or are you a hypocrite?

ThReAteninG tHeIR eXiSTeNCe!

Lol. Israel has nukes. They're fine. Yeah...those Gazans are really sticking it to them. I wonder who will win?!!

Oh...so now I'm "exploiting Jews?" Well....that's a refreshing take from your claim that I'm "exploiting black people."

Funny....you've never actually explained how exactly. You sound woke. Sorry. Your "Gentile guilt" isn't going to work.

However, I'm not a Holocaust denier. I have challeneged you repeatedly to provide evidence of such. You cannot. Yet, you continue - because you are a pathetic liar and are incapable of winning a debate/argument without strawmen or lies.

Antisemitism? That does not exist in America. There is no "systemic antisemitism" in America. This is the best country in the world for Jews. That is why they keep dual citizenship.

There is a lot of anti-Zionism, though. Because Judaism and Zionism are two separate things.

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QX's avatar

You can't cut funding fast enough when the elite ones have immensely huge endowments and charges tuitions that bankrupt families

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Kevin Durant?'s avatar

Propose eliminating federal student loans and the violent reaction will tell you how successful this would be. It would not be a utopia and Retarvard would be less impacted as you suggest.

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QX's avatar

I've long thought federal student loans should be eliminated for students not choosing STEM fields or business majors. Also it should no longer be guaranteed. Even when I was in school back in the 90s, my roommate and her friends who all had parents who paid their tuitions in full took out guaranteed student loans to invest in stocks. Talk about head start. I was scrambling to pay rent after graduation.

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Robird's avatar

Yes, especially the proliferation of the administrative class at universities. These folks all need to justify their positions and salaries; and having no academic mission create problems only they can solve through micromanagement of campus thought and behavior. The classic “self licking ice cream cone.”

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Anne Dobson-Mack's avatar

BDS the DEI industry!!

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