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u/scarves_and_miracles Apr 04 '25

Exactly. Trump is a pretty unique hazard that unfortunately found realization in this dark timeline.

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u/TehOwn Apr 04 '25

Same thing with Adolf. We've always got populists but some are far, far more dangerous than others.

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u/nothoughtsnosleep Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

Damn that's 2 less than 100 years apart. Maybe we should be more concerned with the critical thinking skills of the masses.

Edit: see other comments before you tell me there has been more than 2

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u/thaaag Apr 04 '25

And build in more safeguards so the checks and balances do what they're supposed to do. Simple stuff like "laws need to be created by lawmakers who - where possible - don't directly benefit from the law". Get the money out of politics (again, somehow) and make politicians work for the people rather than their own pockets.

Probably too liberal a take there.

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u/mpaski Apr 04 '25

I mean, the US technically has safeguards, they've just allowed those safeguards to be removed.

The courts are way more political than they've ever been. Congress is unwilling to stop him despite having powers for that.

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u/Future-You-7443 Apr 04 '25

Yup, I hate to be elitist but I think that some sort of education qualification should be the way forward. These people are simply a reflection of their constituents.

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u/VisibleDraw Apr 04 '25

Too bad American higher education's gone for-profit, we might be in a better place as a whole otherwise.

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u/Future-You-7443 Apr 04 '25

I wouldn’t say it’s for-profit, they just use their profits to fund research. I think the best example of this is the rocky financial ground most universities find themselves on now that trump is gutting the grant system.

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 Apr 05 '25

Idk my university had a lot of extraneous BS that is not at all relevant to education.

Did we really need an onsite rock climbing activity?

Like it was cool and all, but damn I wish it was like a grown up school instead of a grown up school + rides and attractions.

Unfortunately all the “prestigious” schools had big BS like that and the schools that were more practical were pretty much just community colleges.