• ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Fundamentally misunderstanding why Ivy League schools have so many foreign students. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not to generously bolster those countries and educate people of the world. Those are the people you send back to their home countries to institute pro-America policies.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      If I can keep it a buck, I’m not in focus mode and feel dread opening the article. But when I see

      The former governor of South Dakota also accused Harvard of “fostering violence, antisemitism and coordinating with the Chinese Communist party on its campus”.

      and think about this post, then all I can think is lol. lmao even. Watch yo jet, bro, WATCH YO JET!

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      2 months ago

      The Chicago School was critical for neoliberalism to spread to Chile, the US is shooting its own foot here (again)

  • hellinkilla [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Pippa Norris, an author and Paul F McGuire lecturer in comparative politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, told the Guardian on Thursday that Trump “is basically cutting off international knowledge to American students, he is reducing soft power, and therefore weakening America … And for me personally, it’s going to mean tremendous problems in terms of teaching.”

    Hard to feel bad for anyone here.