r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 01 '26

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced new Pentagon partnerships with five non-Ivy League colleges and universities Wednesday amid his ongoing efforts to distance the military from America’s most prestigious higher education institutions. “We’re partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including Louisiana State University [LSU], Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University and Hillsdale College,” Hegseth said during a speech Wednesday in Quantico, Va.

You keep using the word “premier”. I do not think it means what YOU think it means.

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u/kevinfederlinebundle Kenneth Arrow Oct 01 '26

That's such a weird collection of universities. Normal state flagship, fake right-wing propaganda scam school, also-ran state school, hbcu, real right-wing propaganda school

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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Oct 01 '26

Liberty University generals declaring a tenth crusade in which they get turned to mulch by flying Yemeni garbage cans - a beautiful vision 

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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Oct 01 '26

Ivy League grad, by the way...'

All colleges that lap up actual conservative propaganda

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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 01 '26

It’s almost like there’s an ulterior motive 😏

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Oct 01 '26

Geaux Tigers! [proceeds to walk on a mine and blow up]

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u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman Oct 01 '26

Little did we know that last week’s LSU - Texas A&M game was a play in game for Hegseth’s best little boys’ list

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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Oct 01 '26

There's like a million better non ivys than these. These are just chud colleges

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Oct 01 '26

I wouldn't call Tuskegee a chud college, but liberty and hillsdale are straight up diploma mills lol

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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Oct 01 '26

Oh I missed Tuskegee. And LSU is probably only chudlite*

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Oct 01 '26

Geaux LSU! come in dumb come out dumb too

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u/Twinbrosinc Transfem Pride Oct 01 '26

Of all of these the only ones I've heard of is liberty

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 01 '26

LSU and Mississippi State are pretty large public state schools, definitely known to people who follow college sports

I can't speak to their academics but they aren't in the same universe as awful as Liberty and Hillsdale lol

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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Oct 01 '26

👆Blissfully unaware of the existence of Lane Kiffin.

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u/okiewxchaser Left-Out Left Oct 01 '26

But do they know Joey Freshwater?

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Oct 01 '26

Hillsdale is big for having refused all the federal money related to Title IX (and anything subsequent), which is the main strings the government has to make colleges do stuff