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Yay, Rand Paul! I’d forgotten about him for a while.

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The video with Jason Stanley on Amanpour referred to a Guardian article on the topic of how the Trump admin wants to define university policies and practices. As Enco notes, they can do this when they have powers of the purse. (Yo MAGA, the left may have set the scene, but you made governmental interference inevitable.)

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PopeBeanie,

This is a moment in our political history when grabbing power with big money, packing SCOTUS starting way back with ignoring Obama’s SCOTUS nomination, GOP demanding full political loyalty to Trump’s takeover and narcissism, promotion of conspiracy theories, Christian Nationalism, other false narratives, even growing support for Put…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
In other words, it takes more than just making stupid noises on EuroVision or not furnishing the apartment for me to use the term: “Fascist.”

Same here, actually. And using that word lowers his credibility, imo, while I guess I took advantage of the clickbait opportunity when I posted it here.

However, I’m not con…[Read more]

The concept of “government free” free market is so cute. The drive for any company is always to monopolize, crush start-ups, control pricing and optimize profit over any and all social, environmental, or human welfare concerns. As an engineering manager with a 20 million annual budget working on a 250-million-dollar project; I was high enough to…[Read more]

PopeBeanie and Robert,

Now here below is where Trump earns the label of “Fascist”, as well as exemplifies the folly of central planning.

Trump wants to impose tarriffs ostensibly to serve the U.S. auto industry, yet in his pretension of Omniscience, he failed to consider that U.S. auto makers use foreign-made parts and have foreign plants and…[Read more]

Wondering if all of this slashing of services and tariff waring will actually result in tax cuts for what is left of the middle class. I doubt it will be more than a token break. It is the upper middle working class that carries the burden. People such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants who get a W2 and honest small business owners as…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

In other words, it takes more than just making stupid noises on EuroVision or not furnishing the apartment for me to use the term: “Fascist.” 😁

PopeBeanie,

Enco, I promise I was only reviewing this thread, starting with its first post back in December, and my purpose was not to find examples of the kind of stuff that you write. But the following comment spurred me to point out that Jason Stanley is not the only pontificator conflating “Fascism” with policies they criticize:

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PopeBeanie,

To “wants to put an end to all this nonsense”, ok, but the level and speed of destruction is justified like claiming the Titanic was all about trying to put an end to those nasty icebergs

The exaggerated sense of invulnerability and omniscience of Academia is real, unlike urban legend quotes about the Titanic. Everything rotten hap…[Read more]

Enco, I promise I was only reviewing this thread, starting with its first post back in December, and my purpose was not to find examples of the kind of stuff that you write. But the following comment spurred me to point out that Jason Stanley is not the only pontificator conflating “Fascism” with policies they criticize:

TheEncogitationer…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And now the Universities and this psycho, self-hating, suicidal egghead Jason Stanley have the nerve to scream “Fascism” when anyone–and this is not just Trump and MAGA–wants to put an end to all this nonsense???

I’ve made it a habit to just skip comments like this, so I’ve lost count. How does that come out so easily…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If Universities accept taxdollars, they are by definition willing instruments of the State.

OK, “by definition” according to certain idealisms, but not long-standing traditions of giving academia and upper educational institutions some freedom to define curriculum and policies. Otherwise, an “instrument of the state”, by…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Leftism vs Authoritarianism in America, are those the only main characters left playing now?

It’s Authoritarianism all around and all the way down.

All these universities who have been on the taxpayer’s teat all these years have been imposing speech codes and speech regimens on students and dangling tenure over the heads of…[Read more]

Leftism vs Authoritarianism in America, are those the only main characters left playing now?

The 19-1/2 minute video is about Fascism taking down or converting universities into instruments of the state. Side note, “they” now want NPR and PBS to be next on the chopping block.

Reg,

The correspondance Theory of Truth should be the only governing principle for any government document, curricula, or media. You can use any word, as long as it corresponds to something real.

“Transgendered” can stay, but a sex-neutral “birthing person” will have to wait until there are successful ovary and womb transplants.…[Read more]

As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents.

accessible
activism
activists
advocacy
advocate
advocates
affirming care
all-inclusive
allyship
anti-racism
antiracist
assigned at birth
assigned female at…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Isn’t the root of all the corruption in the fact that the Federal Govenment has all that power to tax and redistribute wealth, or to regulate whether products can come to market or whether whole forms of energy can be permitted or has questionable functions that require purchases of armored electric vehicles?

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Unseen wrote:

PopeBeanie wrote:
I do wonder if SCOTUS might possibly evolve a change of heart about Trump & Company?

Justice Barrett seems clearly to be signaling that nobody bought her vote.

What…endanger their dismal record of being the most unconstitutional, ass-kissing, political, gift grabbing, SCOTUS in history. Jim Crow has nothing on…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I do wonder if SCOTUS might possibly evolve a change of heart about Trump & Company?

Justice Barrett seems clearly to be signaling that nobody bought her vote.