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    Conservatives don’t want to go to any college these days, and no liberal kid wants to be associated with this wacky school. You’ve made a product with no demographic, congrats Ron.

    Somehow he’s an even worse businessman than Trump, the fuck?

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      The goal was to destroy an LGBTQ+ refuge, which they have done.

      The only school closure baby dick would care about is a private Christian conservative charter school; even then he probably wouldn’t give a shit unless it impacted his children or he could exploit it for personal gain…

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      Are you telling me he’s going to become President of the United States of America?

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        That hit me in the feels. Can’t even call it a sucker punch because we’ve seen the writing on the wall since fdr.

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      There are always the religious colleges which they support. I was dragged on tours of a few of them with my church group in high school, they’re super weird and clearly feel like isolated bubbles even on the tours which are supposed to make them appear normal to potential students.

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    He still succeeded in removing a liberal college.

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      It’s the kids that wanted an education from a normal school that are getting hurt

      DeSantis is now using more public funds to push conservative christian “education”. If kids who want to go to a religious school enroll here, this is a win for the christian right

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        And unfortunately the state of Florida is suffering a brain drain because of that, along with a drain of low income immigrant workers.

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          Somehow, I get the feeling he doesn’t really give two fucks, though. I mean, he won’t until the barbarians (us) are at the gate.

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        I think you are missing the important part here. The school now has a football, baseball, and that other kind of football, team. It doesn’t actually have facilities or fields for any of these activities, but what matters is that now they can give scholarships for students in these vital academic pursuits.

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    In a free market, when a service provider changes their product, customers are not in fact obliged to treat it as the same as the old version.

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      Wasn’t this the goal from the start though? Change the curriculum, get the ‘woke’ kids to leave, replace them with conservative kids who get to trade on whatever reputation the school still has. Because their previous approach of starting Christian universities from scratch (eg. Liberty University) has failed when it comes to giving alumni decent job prospects outside the conservative sphere.

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    Everything he does backfires terribly. He’s running Florida further into the ground. Frankly, except for the innocents harmed (students and minorities and the like), let it burn. The people of Florida elected a monster. They get what they deserve.

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      Democrats who controlled the state legislature were worried that holding their gubernatorial elections in presidential years, when more Republican voters showed up at the polls, threatened their solid grip on state politics.

      So a group of rural segregationist Democrats called a special statewide election to change the year in which Florida elected its governors. Voters approved the change, shifting gubernatorial elections to midterm years, rather than presidential years.

      Several decades later, this backfired on the Democrats.

      Full story

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          more like benefiting rural folk both times

          And they’re more likely to vote during the midterms anyway.

          Also, it didn’t really backfire on the segregationist Democrats (aka Dixiecrats) who did it; they eventually migrated to the Republican Party.

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      Unless the entire goal is to make the population too fucking ignorant to understand what he’s taking from them.

      Seems successful to me.

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          If this were reddit, we’d have people replying to tell you that that never happened, and that the Republicans are, “The Party of Lincoln”™

          *This comment is sponsored in part by: the 2024 Lincoln Navigator. Lincoln. What a luxury car should be.

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            In my state’s sub, you’d have the (Dixie)*crats joining them.

            • Corrected formatting i hope
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              Yeah

              When you take the parties away and just think about who did and didn’t support the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (or 1964, Voting Rights Act, etc., it becomes clear who’s on which side.

              I was alive when Strom Thurmond died. I remember it. That dude was a hardcore GOP Republican until the day he died. The openly racist man who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and literally changed his party affiliation based on where each one stood on whether or not black people should be seen as people.

              We all know what party he chose, and it doesn’t sound like Lincoln’s values to me.

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                Tbf Lincoln opined that if continuing slavery were to spare the Union, he would be fully onboard.

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                  Lincoln was a complicated man, and politics is complicated…

                  But yeah, by today’s standards he was probably still pretty shitty.

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          Supposedly the Bible that he had purported to have turned to during his cancer fight was found in its original packaging, untouched.

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    I did a temporary research position at New College about a decade ago. It was such an awesome little University with great faculty and a great student body. The recent developments due to this clown saddens me so much.

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    Well then he HAS made the college conservative if the studsnts are fleeing, opening up the space for their preferred students. Headline makes it sound like he failed.

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      Exactly. It’s the entire point. He want all those liberal voters gone. It doesn’t matter if only a fraction of students stay. If those are all conservatives the county the college is in has turned solid red.

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      Sadly, the article is mistaken (in terms of “failing”). They started an athletics program where none existed before, so they more than made up for lost academic students and replaced them with student athletes. New enrollment spiked so high, in fact, that hey actually had a housing shortage due to too many students, and had to provide emergency housing off campus in local hotels.

      His plan worked for its intended purpose- to scare away any LQBTG identifying (or even LQBTQ tolerating) students and staff, and replace them with less tolerant people.

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        At some point (potentially not for years) one would think degrees from colleges like this one (plus places like Liberty, Bob Jones, etc) in a lot of fields would be greatly depreciated.

        I wouldn’t hire someone from one of these places if I saw it on a resume