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      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…

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

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

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    Jordan Peterson announces he’s launching a new scam.

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    Those who can, do.

    Those who can’t, open their own university and grift people.

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      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

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      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.

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

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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.

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

    This is just one more embarrassment for the conservative movement.

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    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.

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    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

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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.

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

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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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    I thought he did this 5 years ago, and then never heard anything of it again. Was that a fever dream, or did he fail to find his blackjack and hookers?

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        I think it was before that, but after publishing lists of U of T faculty he wanted his incel army to harass and threaten.

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          Kinda wild, because at first he seemed reasonable and offered decent, if somewhat generic, advice. Then I looked into some of the stuff he was claiming, and… woof.