Columbia University has announced a series of new policies following President Trump’s revocation of $400 million in federal funding over campus protests.

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    19 hours ago

    We need to remember, and when we take back control every capitulation needs to be punished.

    These traitors should receive 0 federal dollars under a democratic administration. Permanently.

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      14 hours ago

      What do you mean, “when we take back control?”

      Fascist collaborators are not protected the way Trump is. Personal consequences can be applied now, without waiting.

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        13 hours ago

        I mean… I’m doing my part when it comes to boycotting businesses, but how the hell do I apply consequences to a university I will never attend.

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          10 hours ago

          I didn’t say consequences could be applied to the university. I said that consequences could be applied to the people running the university.

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      18 hours ago
      1. Not how any of this works. They had a choice between bowing down or closing down. Many other universities will soon get, and make, the same choice.

      2. There will be no return to pre-2025. Ever. The damage to all institutions and the entrenchment of the victorious billionaire class are too severe. I wish people would finally understand that. Be prepared to fight a literal civil war, you will not vote your way out of this.

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        18 hours ago

        They had a choice between filing a lawsuit and capitulating if they lose, or bowing down to king Trump.

        They chose the latter.

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          17 hours ago

          At first, I wrote a reply asking what tangible good a lawsuit would do. I wrote that Trump would ignore any ruling that was in Columbia’s favor.

          I deleted it ten minutes later. No, a lawsuit may not do any tangible good, but I was missing the point. RESISTING is the point. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of speech is the point. Fighting fascism is the point.

          Fuck Columbia. I hope they carry this shame for the rest of their existence.

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        17 hours ago

        If missing $400 million would have them shut down, what’s that $14 billion endowment for? Show? It accrued 11.5% last year. That’s three times what Trump was threatening to not give them