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just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago

‘What a travesty’: Outrage as Columbia University 'surrenders' to Trump's $400M threat

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‘What a travesty’: Outrage as Columbia University 'surrenders' to Trump's $400M threat

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just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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Columbia University on Friday gave into demands from the Trump administration when it agreed to a sweeping set of changes in order to restore $400 million in federal funding suspended earlier this month, according to media reports.The university’s changes include new powers for police to arrest stud...
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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    CU would have to have stood for something in order to surrender. That was never the case. Those debt profiteers have always been collaborators.

  • tree_frog@lemm.ee
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    Because giving bullies what they want stops them from abusing you or something

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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      Of course. It’s worked so well for everybody else, hasn’t it?

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        If history has taught us anything, it’s that appeasing Nazis always results in them becoming quietly content and leaving everyone alone to live their lives in peace.

        • oxysis@lemm.ee
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          Mhmm just ask Czechoslovakia!

        • Tm12@lemmy.ca
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          IBM did alright.

  • Gigasser@lemmy.world
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    I wonder if people should start organizing into clandestine cell networks?

    https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_cell_system

  • TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml
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    Why does Lemmy posts share websites I’ve never heard of? How do I know if something is credible?

    • hyperhopper@lemmy.world
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      You are free to do your own research or submit stories from other sources yourself

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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      Because mainstream media isn’t the only source of news.

      If you question the source, feel free to do your own research and post where this article is inaccurate, or reasons you believe the source should not be trusted.

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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    Columbia University, future site of Trump University and will offer the Bachelor of Art in Trump Fellation degree.

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    Just remember. No one has really defied the orange toddler yet. None of these fat satisfied trash humans will.

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      Columbia already loves fascism, that’s why they revoked degrees from pro-Palestine protestors.

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        Ah, that’s a great article. Thanks for sharing that. Columbia really cracked down.

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    America is an unserious country.

    • Randelung@lemmy.world
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      On second thought, let’s not go there.

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    Trump himself is untouchable, but fascist collaborators are not. Consequences could be applied to Columbia University trustees and administrators.

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      What does his unfuckability have to do with it?

      And, no, Trump is not untouchable. He is not Voldemort and he has no magic powers.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        And, no, Trump is not untouchable. He is not Voldemort and he has no magic powers.

        He has the Secret Service.

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          Do you think they get to touch him?

          • grue@lemmy.world
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            Is there some point you’re trying to make, or are you just being stupid?

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              Yes, I refuse to let people say he is untouchable. He has earthly power and that can be taken away, by time or by the actions of people.

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    Yeah good job Columbia University. The bully definitely won’t be back tomorrow and shake you down for your lunch money again

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      At this point I hope he does. Shake 'em by the ankles until change stops falling out.

      The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

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    Maybe let principle be your guide, and not the dollar.

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    Good! History has shown us that Capitulating to Trump NEVER backfires EVER because Trump is an Honest Man of his Word!

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    I feel sanity returning.

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    @just_another_person I believe the term we’re all looking for is “Collaborators”.

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    And all because Columbia backed out of a $400 million real estate deal with Trump decades ago, and Trump is profoundly mentally ill.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-university-400-million.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k4._mce.EeQP47eDVqah

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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      Imagine being such a miserable human being that you hold a grudge for 30 years over an unsuccessful business deal.

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        You should look up Graydon Carter. But the tldr version, he’s a reporter who commented on Trumps baby hands, mentioned it waaaaay back in 1988, Trump would send him photos or pictures of his hands from magazines…for almost 30 years.

        • Kitty Jynx@lemmy.world
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          It’s even better than that. He called Trump a “short fingered vulgarian” aka a common pickpocket. Trump didn’t get the phrase and thought Carter was saying he had small hands.

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        As I point out over and over, it’s all actually clear evidence of the simple fact that he’s profoundly mentally ill.

        By any objective standard, the man is a raving lunatic, and deeply emotionally disturbed. He not only shouldn’t be president - he shouldn’t even be allowed out on his own. He needs extensive mental health care, or barring that, he needs to be kept away from any opportunity to do harm, because he self-evidently is incapable of moderating his own behavior into anything even vaguely approaching healthy.

        And the most insane and incomprehensible part of this timeline, to me, is that there are so many people who apparently can’t see that, when it’s so bludgeoningly obvious, or who can see it but pretend that they don’t.

        If I didn’t know better, I’d assume that somebody went out and found a smelly old derelict locked in an argument with God in a dirty alley somewhere, gave him a shave, a suit and a layer of bronzer, and made him president.

    • hyperhopper@lemmy.world
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      Trump’s Appetite for Revenge Is Insatiable

      https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/political-enemy-retribution-efforts/682095/

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    $400 million is a significant lever.

    If you stop to ask yourself “Well, that’s really stupid, why did they do that?” the answer is typically “Money.”

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      University boards and administration don’t care about students, it’s all about empire building and increasing personal salaries.

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        Yup. Money.

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