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It would, I think, be genuinely useful if Chuck Schumer were politically ruined after last week.
There’s a limit to how useful it actually is to direct our energies specifically at elected politicians right now. Politicians aren’t going to save us. BUT: institutional leaders of many stripes (.gov, .edu, .org, and .com alike) are still acting much, much more afraid of the consequences of •fighting• than they are of the consequences of •compliance•.
We can change that. Make compliance ruin some high-profile careers. Make examples out of a few people. Schumer. Newsom. The Columbia admin. Tar and feather them. https://flipboard.com/@vanityfair/top-stories-ur1oga9sz/-/a-CUoIJMw5TYa3em_8zTUjJg%3Aa%3A3195374-%2F0
Speaking of which:
What’s going on at Columbia? What’s the state of the resistance there?
Columbia just •rescinded• degrees they’d granted. This wasn’t even just a politically motived expulsion, which would already be utterly horrifying. They ••revoked diplomas•• already granted.
That means if you get a degree from Columbia, you might suddenly, at the political whim of any random president, not have a degree anymore. All that money you paid, all that work you did? Poof! It can disappear overnight!
Can you imagine?! Can you imagine what that does to the expected value of a Columbia degree??
@inthehands Well, anyone worth dealing with will understand that having EVER held that degree is proof of academic achievement unless the reason for revocation was cheating.
NOT worth the money though! Anyone who degree is revoked should immediately hide their assets, then default on any student loans.
Along the same lines, when cities passed laws 30 years allowing the cops to steal the cars of those looking for sex workers, the bankers were in the bill hearingd every time.
The banks understood that almost all johns and sex workers who had cars stolen by cops and had car loans outstanding would immediately stop making car payments. The car dealer would then be "welcome" to attempt to reposess the car from the cops.
The banking lobbyists forced these jurisdictions to either not steal the cars or pay off the car loans if they siezed a car with outstanding loans on it. The result was that sex workers themselves (also targetted under these laws) quickly learned to always keep a car title loan outstanding, so their cars could not be stolen by the cops. Probably so did the smarter johns.