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I think people really should boycott the USA as a place of higher education as well… (apnews.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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Apparently the USA now thinks referring to literal demons in a psychology essay is hunky dory.

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[–] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

higher education in the USA has largely been a racket for at least two decades now.

insane tuition, predatory and un-banckruptcy-able student loans, broken promises of tuition forgiveness, textbooks and coursework license fees being a racket of their own, utter uselessness of degrees to get jobs, utter uselessness of a lot of people with degrees, nepotism in admissions, fascist attacks on students' free speech, and so on

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The predator class learned many lessons during the Vietnam war, one of which was to make sure students never again had the financial security to engage in mass protests. That and buying up the media to more directly manufacture consent, and keeping all other working people too desperate to organize. All going according to plan.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    This applies to every law and regulation that benefits the majority, and is specifically why the oligarchy coopted libertarianism in the 1970's; to promote environmental destruction, and the mass exploitation of the working class, under the guise of "freedom" (eg deregulation).

    Prior to the massive sustained investment from nepo baby sociopaths, like the Koch bros, libertarianism was considered a leftist, progressive, ideology; just as anti too-big-to-fail corporate-monopoly as it was anti-government. Hippies were far more libertarian-socialist than they were authoritarian-communist.

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