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    They also like to deride AOC as a waitress and say she knows nothing when she has a degree from Boston University in international relations and economics. Facts are not really their strong point.

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    Remember when everything Obama did was unconstitutional? Yeah. A professor of Constitutional law, at Harvard.

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      2 months ago

      I remember thinking that constantly. Like, no, idiots, this is his job, and he’s good at it

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      Knowing the law and upholding the law are not necessarily the same thing though.

      Britains Labour party leader Keir Starmer is also a lawyer specialised in international human rights, yet he repeatedly claimed Israeli war crimes not to be war crimes.

      Germany currently has a scandal, where the ministry of education tried to defund researchers who signed an open letter, defending students rights to protest. First of all this is highly unconstitutional and unethical, because the constitution grants both freedome of speech and freedom of science. Second of all, targeting dissident scientists is particularly icky in Germany, given the Nazi history. The executor of that ministers order, who was then sacrificed to take the whole blame for it, was the head of Germanys ethics advisor council to the government.

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    don’t forget trump threatened to basically firebomb his college if they released his transcripts

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      https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09/14/donald-trump-at-wharton-university-of-pennsylvania/

      It’s rare for a professor to disparage the intelligence of a student, but according to attorney Frank DiPrima, who was close friends with professor William T. Kelley for 47 years, the prof made an exception for Donald Trump, at least in private. “He must have told me that 100 times over the course of 30 years,” says DiPrima […] “I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’” He would say that [Trump] came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.” Kelley, who passed away in 2011 at age 94, taught marketing at Wharton for 31 years, retiring in 1982.

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        it’s absurd and terrifying that someone who can’t be assed to sit through a daily briefing as president because he thinks he “already knows enough” was able to attain to such a powerful position. arguably the MOST powerful position in the world

        it’s by design that people are so fucking gullible. useful idiots. it takes a special kind of stupid to think that a blatant con man muppet like trump actually cares about anyone or anything except himself

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    If you elect me as president, Linux will be the must have OS for public sector, Self-hosting will become a recognized extreme sport and your specific Linux distribution will be the best one by law.

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    Remember when W was the dumbest president we had? Like people mocked the shit out of him, and yet, he read books that would guide his domestic policy actions, showed up to work everyday, and could read at a 12th grade level. What a time to be alive.

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      W was pretending to be dumb. He’s not a genius or anything like that, but there are plenty of clips of him from the '90s as governor of Texas where he speaks like a normal, educated person in complete sentences and everything, and he even pronounced “nuclear” correctly. Republicans these days intentionally speak at a 5th grade level; Trump’s big innovation is just speaking at a 4th grade level.