They’ve been saying that too. You need to pull yourself out of the internet circle jerk.

Wait, you needed more than “not him”? Are you a fascist?

I dunno, one of them sent his personal army to fight trump’s personal army. That seems ballsy.

Of course, but that’s never been a serious proposal in this country so I wasn’t responding to it.

It’s feasible to do this today in the US at some schools, but your parents have to really push you to get a lot of scholarships. It’s not common.

Yeah I don’t think this covers the situation as much as it’s a nice feel good story.

Imagine for a second you are relatively poor, you go to a state school or community college in order to afford it. You have loans, but they are small.

Now imagine you’re upper middle class, you go to a private or out of state school and take loans out for a much much larger amount than the other person, with the expectation that you’re getting more value for your money (let’s ignore the labyrinth there for a second – this is something many people believe and believing it, for some, makes it true).

Now, both loans are forgiven

Youve succeeded in making the rich richer, giving them both the higher valued education and all of their money back.

Or imagine you’re that poor student but you’re smart: you got a grant or scholarship making your loans nonexistent, but only if you go to the state school.

Once again, forgiving loans makes the already wealthy person significantly more wealthy and does nothing to benefit the poorer person.

Yes, of course, there’s a wide range of reasons a person might go down either route, and I’m absolutely certain there are many millions of people who have gotten loans way above their wealth in order to go to a better school and jump out of poverty (or whatever). This comic ignores the nuance.

In the cancer analogy, this would be a poor person dying or otherwise experiencing terrible health problems because they couldn’t get the care they needed, then when a cure is developed, only administering it to the people who could afford care to begin with (ie american health care)

Now seems like a good time to do a backup.

For local use: https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/

If you have a server: https://blog.stefan-koch.name/2024/11/14/self-hosting-wikipedia

(Kiwix-serve is what you’re looking for)

Unfortunately I can’t vouch for either of these instructions as I followed instructions from a now defunct privacy podcast.

That’s a mighty deportable first name. Would be a shame if people reported him to ice until they managed to find someone so ignorant they try to arrest him.

Audiobook shelf is great, and they have several good client apps in addition to the browser app.

Never be above that sort of thing 😍

Well to start, the effectiveness isn’t possible to measure at this point.

However, the comment had nothing to do with that, and instead was about you comparing attempted protests to “participation trophies” which is a conservative dog whistle for “kids these days don’t have that dog eat dog capitalist spirit, do we need more lead in the air again?”

For context, WW2 was faught and won with participation trophy snowflakes. If it was good enough to defeat Nazis then, it’s good enough to defeat Nazis now.

As much as I wish I could agree, I think he looks more like Patrick Stewart at around the same age (maybe less sunscreen). I mean in a health sense, not in actual attractiveness. Hair loss can happen as early as your 20s if you’re a male.

Given how much he “melts down” shouldn’t he look more like trump by now?

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