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  Easy.... He's a sociopath that carefully crafted his career/life to make a run to the White House
context: Conservatives: Liberals are taking over colleges!
  DeSantis: engages in a hostile takeover of a college
  Conservatives: Liberals want to control private businesses!
  DeSantis: attempts to appoint a government office to take over DisneyWorld
  Conservatives: Liberals want to indoctrinate kids!
  DeSantis: pushes laws that seek to indoctrinate kids into ultranationalist anti-LGBT attitudes
  Everything these fuckers complain about is projection. >
  
  Conservative hypocrisy is truly something to behold, but much worse to experiance. >
  
  Real, genuine, fascist shit going down in that shithole state. >
  
  Shithole resident; Can confirm. That shit roles downhill into the red counties too. Even local school boards are getting ridiculous. >
  
  Something something small government >
  
  Ron DeFascist is testing out his policies before his POTUS run. 
  There’s blood in the water for the GOP leadership (tRuMp) and the sharks are circling. >
  
  Freedom to learn "only what I want you to learn!" 
  Do better America! >
  
  "Unfortunately, like so many colleges and universities in America, this institution has been completely captured by a political ideology that puts trendy, truth-relative concepts above learning," Says DeSantis - So we are going to quite transparently recapture it with our imposed political ideology that is totally truth belligerent. >
  
  The truth is, it's the truth that's the problem. >
  
  I can’t wait to leave this sweaty right wing shithole.  The only reason I moved here was to be close to family, but I just can’t fucking stand it anymore >
  
  This is really, really bad. New College is a really great and special school. >
  
  The comments from the appointees make it obvious they are counting on public ignorance of NCF or how the degree program works. I transferred out, but half of my classmates there went on to get PhDs. I know 4 Fulbright scholars, which is a lot considering the enrollment. Naturally, it's situated in a city full of entitled old white republicans, so it's better known for the student body's social attitudes and the prime real estate than the rigorous curriculum. I would bet good money this has been a hot topic at local GOP fundraisers for a while. >
  
  Oh yeah, I am sure they have been wanting to destroy it for a long time. Can you imagine how much they hate that school being in their midst? Back when New College was part of USF my friends who went to NC hated being under USF's thumb and were excited when it was spun off to be an independent state college. I wonder if in the long run it would have been safer to stay under USF. I love how the talking points are about returning it to its original purpose as though it's been perverted by the left... it was always lefty. I have to wonder if enrollment is down because the kids who want to go to NCF do not want to come to Florida under Desantis... I sure wouldn't. >
  
  
  I wonder if in the long run it would have been safer to stay under USF.
  
  That is exactly why USF lost NC and the polytechnic collage. It would have been too large to easily control. USF may have had issues, but it concerning the radical right enough to break it apart makes me proud to be an Alum. >
  
  NC spun off almost 20 years ago and the students pushed for it. Not sure the politics of it at the time but I never got the impression it was motivated by the right. As far as Polytechnic, I heard at the time it  was so some guy, forget his name, in the FL legislature could sell a bunch of land for it to be built there. I'm guessing there were other motives, but that is what faculty were talking about at the time. But the State definitely has had it in for USF for a really long time too - they have always found ways to screw USF out of funding that other schools get. There was something some years ago with Preeminence funds - once USF met the standards for that they did something to change things so USF wouldn't get the extra funding. It's an open secret they hate USF for some reason. I honestly don't know why. Seems to me the guy at USF who makes like over 400k to do state-level lobbying for USF isn't earning his keep. >
  
  I work at a university where this type of takeover has been attempted. It led to massive staff layoffs, but the takeover failed otherwise since they could't fire and replace faculty or substantially change the student body. >
  
  It doesn't matter whether it works or not, it's all just a vanity project for DeSantis's 2024 run. >
  
  ~~Defense Against the~~ Dark Arts >
  
  Hey now. What we're dealing with is a version of Dolores Umbridge. The practice of the dark arts against people like her could save us all a lot of trouble. That said, the first step in using the dark arts is learning how to protect yourself against them. For example, one does not simply summon a demon to unleash them on the world. You bind the demon to your service and then unleash it on the world. >
  
  so what you're saying is that somebody has to make a blood-pact with Charlie Crist if we are to have any hope... >
  
  Maybe Charlie Anti-Crist >
  
  This is a crazy story. He's putting Rufo on the fucking board.
  Utter nightmare for those that teach there. >
  
  Rufo is actually one of the most self-reflective of the bunch- he knows exactly what strategy he’s using at all times and has coached media personality and other pundits on the language to use when addressing topics. He will be a calculated and dangerous member of the board, especially because he is much more subtle than your average Alt-righter >
  
  Florida was a shot state for education to begin with, only making it worse. 
  BTW - my kid is not allowed to apply to any college in these shithole states. Florida is even more off the list. >
  
  Because in Florida 👇
  "You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
  Robert A. Heinlein >
  
  Literally creating indoctrination centers >
  
  I'd love to know how a man with degrees from Yale and Harvard could've possibly avoided all that liberal indoctrination and remain a proud conservative?