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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Great work. Hope there are strong enforcement mechanisms in place with the threat of additional punishment. Leftists always lie. Full reform and conquest may not be possible without mass firings of commissars. They view these fines as slaps on the wrist and will continue grooming red guards covertly. Look at how the weather underground subverted our institutions after they were let off the hook.

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Caterwaul's avatar

The institution where I work did react appropriately, but pay attention to state laws: some states require DEI (or DEI-like programs). So this doesn’t do mich to change the state laws (as in New Jersey). I’m currently watching them in other institutions change the names of DEI to “centers for belonging” and other shell-game word salads while casually saying, “We’ll just wait them out a few years. Don’t worry. Nothing changes.” They’re not taking this seriously at all. Something has to happen to an institution that’s playing the shell game before it REALLY gets their attention. These not-so-smart academics think they’re smarter than everyone else. Are they? They are unless this word salad shell game has consequences.

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Caterwaul's avatar

Google makes it look like there's "no statewide DEI law in New Jersey." But then if you dig, you find things like this: https://www.nj.gov/education/standards/dei/faqs/

And this: https://www.nj.gov/education/standards/dei/

How's that for no DEI? It's like this everywhere. It would be nice if leftists stopped lying.

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Pussy Piszel's avatar

How did WU “subvert our institutions?”

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Don Hank's avatar

Yuri, the Soviet Union is defunct. Don't worry. It is NOT coming back.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

It's a great start, however, I didn't believe the people should be funding any private universities with our taxes. The Dems are always crying about the rich paying their fair share..... But crickets when universities are given tax exemptions while sitting on massive endowments and charging hundreds of thousands to students for worthless degrees, burying them in mountains of debt. Which of course is also partially funded by the government( tax payers).

You want real reform? Get the government out.... Make all loans either personal or funded by the university and allow students and parents to sue when their useless degrees can only land them jobs they could have gotten without it. Watch how fast the free market transforms the playing field. The students have competed to get in to these schools for too long.... Let the schools compete for students. Government loans have enabled that because the schools have zero skin in the game ... They get guaranteed payment no matter what shoddy product they produce and the tax payer and students are left holding the empty bag.

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Tim R's avatar

Also, don't send your kids there.

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Pussy Piszel's avatar

No one in this thread has offspring that could get in.

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Paul Cassidy's avatar

University students are adults. They are not ‘sent’ there by their parents. They choose to go, where to go and what course to follow.

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DK's avatar

Really? Who is paying for the school? If they pay for their own education, more power to them. If parents cover the bill, their kids will go where the parent decides. So, yes, it is the parents' fault.

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gloxinia's avatar

One thousand percent correct! The Ivies and public universities have billions in endowments - they do NOT need our tax dollars which would be better spent on trade schools, apprenticeships and mentoring programs that lead to actual jobs with solid wages.

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JON HIGLEY's avatar

Nicely put! Let them maintain their own colleges. I find it interesting that these prestigious colleges are nothing more than an elitist diploma mill for the rich families to perpetuate their children's ability to maintain their elitist status; get those careers which keep them within the elitist enclave. It's something which has been maintained for centuries.

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Beverly's avatar

👏👏👏

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Pacificus's avatar

Very thoughtful comment, Sue. Keep saying it.

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Geoff Lenters's avatar

This is a good start but it doesn’t solve the problem of the faculty who push their ideological fantasies into their courses. I would be interested to hear how this problem is solved.

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Insufficiently Sensitive's avatar

I propose that it does begin to solve the problems of faculty ideologists who bamboozle their students. The requirements for pursuing truth, and for transparency in administration, are two good steps in that direction.

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Don Hank's avatar

Washington's ideological fantasies are FAR more dangerous.

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Don Hank's avatar

But can there be anything more dangerous than the child-killing ideologies of Zionism and "Christian" Zionism and the irrational Russophobia and Sinophobia taught on most campuses?

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Thomas Jones's avatar

There can! Denying Israel's right to exist is clearly much more dangerous. Perhaps one day the left and the Arabs will learn this!

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THG's avatar

Actually, Arab countries, having had enough of the KGB-sponsored PLO terrorism and Hamas terrorism, are moving towards the Abraham accords. The anti-Israeli aggression is now driven by Iran and global woke left, in full cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood, banned in most Arab countries as a terrorist organization.

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paula yokoyama's avatar

Good to know.

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Don Hank's avatar

The Abram Accords ignored the main obstacle to peace, ie, the Israeli terror and atrocities against Palestinians. ONLY the Arab dictators (mostly kings, unelected) accepted these accords because of the incentives Trump offered. The street Arabs refused them. Poll results: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/01/07/695904/Palestine-Israel-Arab-countries-oppose-normalization-relations-survey

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Don Hank's avatar

Scuse me, but it was the 3 "founding" European Jewish terror groups, Irgun, Lehi and Haganah, that denied Palestinians their ownership rights to the land that gave rise to the pseudostate of "Israel," and now they've turned it around and claimed only THEY, the usurpers, have a right to exist. Here is the history of "Israel": https://yandex.ru/video/preview/3485800108677787020

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Thomas Jones's avatar

Sorry Don but the history doesn’t help you. The UN mandated a two state solution to this very problem in 1948, the 2 states being Israel and Transjordan. Arabs who stayed in Israel became Israelis. Arabs who couldn’t accept the existence of Israel having been losing wars ever since. Israel will survive.

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Don Hank's avatar

I think I may have omitted to post the link to one of the few documentaries on the Nakba (aka founding of “Israel”). If so, my apologies. Here it is: https://yandex.ru/video/preview/3485800108677787020

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Joseph Little's avatar

Sorry Dan. I do not agree at all. I can imagine in some extreme cases that I might agree. Certainly you are correct to say that the Jews, the Russians, and the Chinese have many many people we could easily love.

But leftist systems are just bad. Murderous is the nice way of putting it.

See what Putin is doing in Ukraine right now. (Yes, Zelensky is not a saint.)

See the many bad things Xi and the CCP are doing now.

If you could make a fact-based argument, we would consider it. But leftism has failed over and over again. We have zero hope in leftism with a wave of the hand.

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Pacificus's avatar

"Child-killing ideologies," huh? Are you including the ideology of abortion on demand that is prominent on most campuses? I'm guessing not.

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Bob's avatar

Yeah. You are more dangerous. You're a mini-Hitler.

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Pacificus's avatar

"Mini-Hitler"? Is that all you got as a response? Pitiful.

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Bob's avatar

You're pitiful! Me? I'm palatable! So...there!

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BD's avatar

You, quite simply, aren't very bright.

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T247's avatar

Great place to start as Columbia has been the vanguard of Marxism and Progressive policy since the Frankfurt School moved there in the 1930's. They've been spreading that poison throughout academia ever since.

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Ben F.'s avatar

And embodied in folks like the Weather Underground, who become violent domestic terrorists. They are all cut from the same cloth.. with the intent to destabilize the United States and usher in some type of socialist utopia.

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BD's avatar

Correct. The words socialist and utopia have no meaning when combined into the same sentence.

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paula yokoyama's avatar

Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis! Evil duo.

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Don Hank's avatar

Predatory capitalism controls America. Salaries have fallen ever since 1987 because the billionaires control the government. AIPAC is also a destroyer of real democracy. Americans are so gullible. And yet, when the government threatens their social security -- a socialist construct -- they squeal bloody murder.

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Bob's avatar

Conspiracy theorist in action. What a waste of human life.

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Pacificus's avatar

I smell a university-type!

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Bob's avatar

You're a genyes. Yes, I teach the widespread acceptance of feminism in the Muslim world at Haaarvard.

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Pacificus's avatar

So that's your comeback, huh? Pitiful.

Satire doesn't work re: today's university, when there's nothing too crazy to be true. ..

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Bob's avatar

Good point. You're obviously a univeristy-type!

Should there be a hyphen between university and type?

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Marco Polo's avatar

I am disappointed. I expected nothing less than the dismantling of these treasonous institutions.

Decades of student ideological corruption forgotten with a $200 million fine. How long do you think these luminaires will wait to return to their old ways once a democrat gets to be president again?

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IsraelActivistCalendar's avatar

Defund academia and pull the plug on academia’s foreign student-visa cash machines!

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Pacificus's avatar

May I make a small change" "Defund, dismantle, and re-invent academia."

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THG's avatar

Agreed. The place is infested with the Marxist ideologues, with no diversity of thought even possible.

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Pussy Piszel's avatar

You know this how?

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Joseph Little's avatar

Good point.

Rufo’s point: if we can use this deal to log roll lots of other institutions, this “momentum” could have a substantial effect.

Yes, I agree, more is needed.

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Herodotus II's avatar

Vance will keep 'em in line for awhile. A couple of full-term student matriculations will at least serve as a start, if the admissions rules are rigorously enforced, towards a student body that could provide some needed pushback against the Marxist faculty. I myself would advise enforcement auditors throughout the schools. Another idea that would provoke flaming rage -- but so did this agreement...

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Pussy Piszel's avatar

Nonsense from a Rufo-sock

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paula yokoyama's avatar

3 years

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Brad's avatar

I would have liked to have seen mass firings, even those responsible for approving the widespread DEI (mass-discrimination) programs. Hopefully, there is also a mechanism to ensure the ideology doesn't creep back in.

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Ben F.'s avatar

I think the hope is some of these true believer left-wing faculty members eject themselves. Kind of like what happened in the New College of Florida.. did you ever see some of the videos that were produced showing the faculty flipping out over Rufo being there? They essentially eject themselves when the institution folds, like Columbia has. But I agree with your sentiment. Some of these folks won’t give up their dirty dog critical consciousness propaganda.. they’ll still be sucking on the nipple of this garbage trying to spread it to students behind the scenes. I think the administration knows this, but you can only show so much your hand to start with.

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Laurie Newsom's avatar

The Columbia agreement is significant and hopefully the Trump administrative appointees are not corrupt and will be ever vigilant in monitoring the university’s compliance

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Lloyd M Richardson's avatar

Princeton next, please....

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Kevin O’Malley's avatar

Forget Columbia. Go to Hillsdale.

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James A's avatar

Chris, Donald John Trump, the gift that keeps on giving.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

There is one huge problem with the Columbia settlement, and I hope a courageous student or faculty member with take a lawsuit to SCOTUS to strike down that clause. It is unacceptable that the university has to adopt the ridiculous Zionist claim that criticizing Israel or comparing its actions (rightly) to Nazi actions is 'antiSemitism.' That is unacceptable 1A violation, and needs to be struck down by SCOTUS.

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Ed Leventhal's avatar

Wave that flag. Just come out and say it. I’d suggest you go to the Holocaust Museum and take a a few hours. Maybe you’ll think before you open your mouth about the Nazis.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Oh dear, that old trope. Sorry, doesn't work. The Zionists have debased the Nazi Holocaust by perpetrating the Zionist Holocaust and using the Nazi Holocaust as cover. Principled people have no interest in any Nazi Holocaust museum now - I will visit the Zionist Holocaust museum wherever in the world it gets built. To remind us that the people yelling Never Again have their hands drenched in genocidal blood.

The Zionist Holocaust started in 1967 with Israel's invasion of Palestine, and is now at the Final Solution stage in Gaza, and long past the Kristalnacht stage on the West Bank.

So can your professional victimhood. It's long past its sell-by date

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Thomas Jones's avatar

Ha ha, professional victimhood - very droll Paulette, but the trick is to leave Israel alone, and it's a lesson that some have finally learnt (Egypt, Saudi, UAE), but some just don't seem to be able to learn, such is their hatred. What is happening in Gaza is called "war". Hamas started the war on October 7th 2023, a generation after Israel withdrew from Gaza. War sucks, especially when you lose! If Hamas want the war to end, they need to surrender.

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Don Hank's avatar

Leave Israel alone? So should we leave ALL mass murderers alone, Thomas?

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Bob's avatar

You're cracking me up! I hope I'm not annoying you and taking years off your life.

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Don Hank's avatar

Iran and the Houthis may decide when the war ends and who is left standing.

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Bob's avatar

You're a silly-billy.

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Pacificus's avatar

Paulette, Hamas effed around and found out, as they say, and the Palestinian people are paying the price for Hamas' treachery.... But you blame the Israelis... You are pathetic... And, I'm guessing, in some way tied to the university, where idiotic ideas such as yours are incubated. But you can (partially) redeem yourself by joining me in calling for Hamas' immediate and unconditional surrender. That, and that alone, will end this. You can do that, can't you? I'll await your reply.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

History didn't start Oct 7, contrary to Zionist hasbara. The Zionist Holocaust started in 1967 with steadily accelerating viciousness. Now genocidal.

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Pacificus's avatar

Yeah, and I bet you get your news from the NY Times... they of the fake news front page story about the "genocide" in Gaza... Give it up, the genocide lie has been debunked. But I'm sure you will still faithfully repeat it.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

"Debunked" only by genocidal Zionists. Who have no credibility outside of their genocidal bubble. But keep up the Zionist Holocaust Denial, why don't you.

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Bob's avatar

Paulette, do you identify more with an Ottoman, an Islamist or a Nazi?

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

I am a principled person, which is not a breed Zionists understand.

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Bob's avatar

Yes, Zionists are known for bein stupid. I mean look at how shitty Israelis are at technology. So. Very. Stupid. Bwahahahahahahahahaha....

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

HILARIOUS. The Germans were also extremely advanced scientifically and culturally. Didn't prevent Nazism, did it? No more has any intellectual pursuit prevented the rise of genocidal Zionism, adopted by apparently 80% of all Jews.

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Bob's avatar

You're wise beyond your years. Are you three years' old?

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THG's avatar
2dEdited

Beating up janitors does not equate to criticism of anything, it is violence.

Criticizing Israel doesn't equate to supporting its destruction. Columbia allowed widespread calls for violent destruction of Israel, from the river to the sea, which in Arabic literally means "from the river to the sea Palestine will be Arab". I have not seen calls from the left to destroy Myanmar for their genocide of Rohinga, or calls to destroy Russia for their 17 years of war on Georgia, 11 years of war on Ukraine- none of which is in self-defense after a genocidal unprovoked attack like the one on October 7. Your hypocrisy is on full display.

Finally, I don't recall violent attacks by the Jews on the Nazis as a trigger and explanation of the genocide that followed and reduced Jewish world population by 50%. Gaza population increased since 2023 even by Hamas official numbers. Jews in Palestine were subjected to massacres long before Zionism even existed. Stop siding with the Nazis and Hitler's personal friend Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was an SS officer.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Oh please, your Zionist hasbara is not interesting and the world is not buying it any more. Your genocidal Zionism is on full display.

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Bob's avatar

Oh please, quit boring us with your simpleton's mantra.

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Don Hank's avatar

Ok, but do you pro-genocide folks have any RATIONAL arguments based on logic and facts? Even monkeys can sling poop.

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Bob's avatar

Sling poop? That's a good one. You must hang out with monkeys a lot.

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Pacificus's avatar

"Hasbara," huh? Oh this one is definitely "woke." She knows all the cool terms.

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THG's avatar

Sure. Paulette should never get facts get in the way of her hatred of the Jews. Just like Fuhrer, just like Stalin, just like Sinwar.

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Don Hank's avatar

People who insist that opponents of genocide are anti-Semites are inadvertently claiming that genocidal behavior is a Jewish trait. Now THAT is anti-Semitic.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Anti-genocide and anti-ethnic cleansing is Jew hate? Epic self-own! And yet Zionists keep trotting out that self-indictment!

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Aryeh's avatar

The IHRA working definition of antisemitism does not consider criticism of Israel to be antisemitic. Double standards and demonization, yes, just as it would be Sinophobic to do the same to China. Your Holocaust inversion claim, however, is classic late-20th century antisemitism from well before the IHRA definition.

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Don Hank's avatar

I get it. If you have a conscience and are tired of seeing pics and vids of children starving to death you are a bad person. The Bible says woe unto those who put good for evil and evil for good. That is America today!

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Pacificus's avatar

Yes, the pics of starving children are tragic.. Problem is, you don't seem to get it that it is Hamas--and Hamas alone--who is responsible for the suffering. Join me in calling for their immediate and unconditional surrender. Then we'll see whether or not you are truly concerned about "genocide."

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

This lame justification for genocide is rejected by everyone but genocidal Zionists, but Zionists keep repeating it. I suppose they hope the Goebbellian claim that if they repeat the Big Lie often enough people will start believing it will hold true. Sadly for them, we believe our own eyes, and Israel and Zionism are now seen for what they are - a genocidal racist state and a genocidal racist ideology.

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BD's avatar

Wrong, wrong, and more wrong. You believe Hamas? You think Hamas has been helpful to their constituents? Do you think attacks killing women and children happen in a void, without repercussions? Your Jew hatred is pathetic. Hamas has caused their own genocide.

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Don Hank's avatar

Hamas is one of several RESISTANCE groups in the ME. Resistance is NOT terror though they kill terrorist. The only terrorists in the ME are the US and Israel. ISIS and Al-Qaeda are western constructs. You will note that neither of them has ever attacked Israel.

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THG's avatar

The only starving child that was paraded as evidence on the front pages of all the leftist press was the one with a genetic disorder who was evacuated by IDF and is now at the clinic in Europe. Even NYT admitted that it was a fake. However, the photo of this child was on the front page while retraction is in small print and buried in the back. This is how woke propaganda works.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Plenty of starving children. And the IDF shoots people for sport, uses children as sniper targets, has bombed every hospital, executed numerous medical personnel, run tanks over crowds.... The SS could learn something about callous brutality from the IDF. And who needs gas chambers when starvation will do? And it's so much more painful - a plus for genocidal Zionists. But I repeat myself - just 'Zionist' would do.

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BD's avatar

It is extremely clear that you have NEVER read anything about WWII. You need reassess your ability to think. Or non-ability.

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Bob's avatar

Isn't it ironic an evil person quoteing Isaiah about evil people. You have eyes but cannot see.

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Don Hank's avatar

I see. People who oppose genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and unprovoked attacks on sovereign countries are evil. I think that opinion is obsolescent and will soon be put out to pasture. Polls show that Americans no longer support the war against babies in Gaza.

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THG's avatar

Are you saying that Americans no longer support Hamas who uses babies as human shields?

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Your hasbara is a fail.

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BD's avatar

I actually believe you are even more of an imbecile than Paulette

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Bob's avatar

Yawn.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

LOL. That is FALSE. Typical Zionist hasbara.

And fyi, even your lying version is a 1A violation.

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Bob's avatar

yawn...

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Pacificus's avatar

Sorry, Paulette, the only Nazis I see are Hamas, AKA The Gaza Nazis... Join me in calling for their immediate and unconditional surrender. That is the only thing that can end this.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Genocidal Zionist opines....

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Bob's avatar

Paulette, do you identify as a woman or man?

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Unlike you, I know sex is not something to be "identified with." It's determined at conception. Educate yourself.

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Bob's avatar

So you're cis then?

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Herodotus II's avatar

You are a game changer for this country, Chris Rufo. Thank you for your work!

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Timothy Tobin's avatar

Let’s Flipping GOOOO!!!

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Lloyd M Richardson's avatar

Speaking of enforcement, the cap on tax-exempt status for university endowments contained in the BBB sent a powerful message to university boards that their tax exempt money printing machines are not sacrosanct, and must serve the public interest.

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Brad's avatar

Trump should have also fired much of Columbia's workforce and hired freedom-loving patriots, for the purposes of equity and diversity, of course.

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THG's avatar

As much as I would love to see that happening, it would be impossible as Columbia is a private U.

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Can Canolei's avatar

Well done! Hoping woke culture DEI and all that terrible agenda and indoctrination be stopped once and for all.

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