• @[email protected]
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    302 years ago

    Haven’t we already tried Trump U and Praeger U?

    This is just one more embarrassment for the conservative movement.

  • 🍔🍔🍔
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    202 years ago

    jordan peterson cooking up a whole new type of idiot. can’t wait to see the first cohort of freethinkers launch a series of startups based on stuff like reselling the breadsticks from olive garden

    • eighthourlunch
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      402 years ago

      The new age of anti-intellectualism persists. Continues. Stubbornly endures.

  • @[email protected]
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    352 years ago

    Cool, well, HR software can add a filter for his university so apps get auto rejected.

    Grifters gonna grift.

  • Chariotwheel
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    272 years ago

    The former psychology professor vowed the program would be 95% less expensive than a typical university.

    Not that hard when I look at what the hell American universities cost.

    • Endorkend
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      They’ve been doing that for a long time.

      PragerU has been infecting education since its inception and is now having its propaganda adopted by right wingers as official course material in genuine schools.

      Trump University was disbanded in 2010.

      Brigham Young has been around well over a century, started by an outspoken racist shitbag and still having extreme right wing and racist policies and views today.

      They know full well that controlling and infecting education is the only way to breed sufficient amounts of people dumb and prejudiced enough to vote for their side.

      It’s why cutting public education has been a number 1 target for the right wing since forever.

      • @[email protected]
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        BYU, no matter it’s history, is at least accredited and has a decent academic reputation. You can get your degree from there and it means something. You might not want to go there if you’re not Mormon (or are a Mormon who doesnt “look” like one), but it’s not like you are setting your career back if you do.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yes - it’s important to remember that these guys don’t want public anything .

        They sometimes hide it behind economics, but it’s ideological.

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        42 years ago

        For a while I kept getting Liberty U ads on my LinkedIn feed even though I kept reporting them.

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      192 years ago

      Only real men who have their house in order, at the peak of human intelligence, grift the most mentally unstable, and attack the most vulnerable, members of society; get addicted to benzos and fly to Russia to be put in a medically induced coma to avoid enduring the consequences of their actions, ostracise themselves professionally, then spend the rest of their lives a talking head for the right wing propaganda machine.

      You’re just to woke to understand his genius…

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        Hi, woke moralist here. Please reconsider framing addiction as a moral failing. It’s a disease.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          “Mikhaila has consistently and emphatically claimed that her father is suffering strictly from physical dependence, and not from addiction.”

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    Spreading this sort of announcement only gives these people more motivation to continue devaluing the country as is.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      142 years ago

      Because people on Lemmy will be inspired to take his “university” courses? I doubt it.

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        That isn’t what I meant. If you are in a room full of a thousand people and one person in the back, the loudest, is shouting hate, why would you listen to it and then announce it to others

        • Flying SquidOP
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          Because that ‘one person in the back’ influences a huge number of people. Are you really suggesting Jordan Peterson has no influence?

            • Flying SquidOP
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              152 years ago

              How is he a nobody? He has a massive following. We’re nobodies here on Lemmy. He is not.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 years ago

                I wonder why he is continuing to gain followers?! People must be sharing his messages everywhere… hmmm. How could this be?

                • Flying SquidOP
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                  72 years ago

                  You really think he will gain followers from a post on Lemmy? Have you ever been on Lemmy?

    • @[email protected]
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      142 years ago

      I’m neither smart nor well educated, but the biggest mistake I made in my life was underestimating how widespread deep stupidity seems to be.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        George Carlin — ‘Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.’

        • nyoooom
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          Funny part is that technically even that statement is wrong.

          This is true for the median intelligence, not the average.

          Although both numbers are probably very close it’s still funny to me.

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy
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      232 years ago

      all you really need to do is say stuff with conviction that supports a groups politics and sound vaguely plausable/intelligent while you do it. they will then tout you as an infallible expert