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Water either is or is not wet. 🤷🏻‍♂️
But strangely not judges >

Or their own jobs. 
Edit: for those being naive I’m talking about term limits. >

Um...they are up for review every two to six years. They just aren't being fired by the people in charge--the voters. >

Gerrymandering enters the conversation >

The cure for Gerrymandering- all seats run as ‘at Large’ — yep >

That's close to a Proportional system, which would fix the problem. The system mostly stays as it is, with a new rule that means a party's proportion of seats must equal it's proportion of votes - so if a party wins 55% of the vote but only wins 50% of the seats, it can add 'at large' members (aka 'list members') until the proportion is correct. That is how most democracies operate. Usually parties only add one or two 'at large' or 'list' members, if any, since there is no motivation to Gerrymander to begin with. >

Whoa! You have too much faith in the American voters- they cannot understand that >

Well, a large chunk of the electorate really does not want to understand that. >

Hoo boy.  What could possibly go wrong here?  Texas science departments about to become vast wastelands of biological and environmental chaos. >

Universities going bankrupt because "only liberals send their kids to college, everyone else goes to trade school".
Seriously though, enrollment is going to drop because who tf would pay good money for our children to come out dumber than they were when they went in? Especially in the science and history areas of study. >


who tf would pay good money for our children to come out dumber than they were when they went in?

Have you seen the enrollment numbers at Liberty University? >

The main University is depressingly lucrative. But the soul-crushing depression sets in with their online 'university' numbers, which is a massive money pipeline selling useless/negative education through a real-estate grift masquerading as a church masquerading as a school. >


real-estate grift

What do you mean? How does this connect to their online programs? >

They buy or lease real estate for satellite campuses in other cities and sell them later on. Similar to how storage facility companies mainly make money via real estate >

Wow, I had no idea >

I mean lots of businesses are substantially real estate plays adjacent to their other businesses. One reason there's Banks on every corner. McDonald's corp is a real estate holdings company. Chain Hotels etc. >

I've wondered at the placement of a lot of chain establishments >

"The share of Republicans and independent-leaning Republicans who said higher education was having a negative effect on the country grew from 37% to 59% from 2015 to 2019 in Pew Research Center polling."
What happened in those four years, I wonder? >

I'd love to hear what that perceived negative effect is. There's an argument that too many jobs require degrees when they really shouldn't, but I suspect that's not the problem for them. >

Something, something vague complaints about liberal indoctrination >

w o a k >

Stopping people from telling the truth will not make things less true. You do this at your own peril, and hubris is a fickle, chaotic mistress. >


Stopping people from telling the truth will not make things less true.

Except it will. We've learned by now that truth is relative. Conservatives in the US have whipped up such a fury over Critical Race Theory that they've convinced half the country it's being taught in grade school. It isn't and never was. That truth simply didn't matter.
Donald Trump and those around him used violence and tried to overthrow a democratically elected president. In the old days, he and they would have been hung or shot. That's the truth. The other day, the speaker of the house THANKED HIM.
Truth doesn't matter. >

I'd swear to God if I believed in him that these idiots see the phrase "Critical Race Theory" and think it just means being critical of white people. Their lust for victimhood never fucking ends. >

holy shit they are trying to put Dolores Umbridge in charge of education.
It's the first step to Government Approved Thoughts. >

One thing HP did was get a whole generation to understand fascism, that’s not all bad. >

And a whole lot of people want to be Slytherin willingly, either to be edgy or because fascism is their kink. >

I mean, slytherin traits are not exactly evil…  ambition, cunning, resourcefulness and determination. None of those are inherently evil >

Those are the triats of a lot of people who get into politics or leadership roles because they want absolute power. >

I mean… in the books Merlin was in slytherin lol 
Those traits can be in anyone. Just like a gryffindor hufflepuff or ravenclaw. Any of those traits can also be put towards your example. >


in the books Merlin was in slytherin lol

No. That was an expanded item from "Pottermore". I personally don't consider any of JK's after the book add-ons valid. >

Man, why? Colleges hardly even offer tenure-track jobs anymore.  I've been job hunting for a few years and everything is "visting" this or "adjunct" that.  You want to ban people drinking sasparilla too? >

Conservatives dont have a moral or logical backbone, so if youre looking for a well thought out argument for anything they stand for, its simply not going to exist. >

Another example of a system that does need a few tweaks through reform just getting smashed with a hammer.  There are about 50 other issues state universities need to address before they even get to shitty tenured professors.  Starting with the NCAA and how college coaches are usually the highest paid state employees in every state. >

The problem is not with tenure, it's with administrative bloat. Universities are switching to more part-time, adjunct professors and raising tuition while paying administrators like they're executives at a Fortune 500 company >

Professors got tired of administering the day to day operations of the university and so brought in a managerial class of deans and other administrators. The results sadly were predictable. >

I don't think it was the faculty choice. >

It was, historically. There are still some remnants of shared governance at universities (the deans are technically professors, so is the Provost, often there is a faculty Senate that votes on things, etc). But power concentrated in the administrative class over time. >

I understand that. I'm just not so sure it was faculty who initiated or wanted such a switch. A few years ago a paper came out that, if I remember correctly, put this shift on college BoTs (at least at state institutions). >

More protection of "free speech" by Republicans who bemoan "cancel culture."  Is there a word for hypocrisy beyond just hypocrisy? >

The etymology isn't clear.  "hypercrisy" just looks like a misspelling.
Attacking academic freedom is not usually the act of "freedom fighters". It's more aligned with tyrannical regimes.  Iran comes to mind. >

Since the Greek word 'hypo' actually means 'below' or 'under', 'hyper' would be the exact opposite, meaning 'above'. Bathocrisy would at least be linguistically okay, but that's all a Classics degree gets you. >

I'm trying to work something out with elachistos but I'm losing ground.
Elachicrisy sounds and looks bogus, elachistocrisy seems unwieldy. >

Wow, conservatives being anti-intellectual? What else is new?