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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 116 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So... he created his own safe space?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is an insult to the Muppets and the memory of Jim Henson.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I feel bad for it.

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 79 points 2 years ago

Jordan Peterson announces he's launching a new scam.

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all.

His own quote. I can't make this shit up.

[–] DranktheKool@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What's wrong with this quote? Trying at something and failing is better than never trying at all.

[–] AnnaLogg@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Depends on what it is. Failure can cause harm to others. Do we want bad safety inspectors, cops, or educators?

[–] corship@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doing bad safety inspections is still better than doing none at all tho...

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Soft disagree, if you know that no inspection has been done, then you are aware that there may be unknown risks and act accordingly. A safety inspection done poorly creates a false sense of security that can be dangerous.

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[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

He isn't saying to do something and fail at it, but to do something and do a terrible job at it is better than to have never done it. You're conflating what he said with sayings like "It is better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all."

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Trying at something and failing is better than never trying at all.

Sure you wanna say that about parachuting?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I dunno. I think it's better not to attempt genocide, fascism, bullying, propaganda, etc etc etc. No matter how good you are at it.

[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope someday he gets the help he needs so he can leave everyone alone.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He tried to get the help he needed in Russia. It did not go well.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

At least he didn't go to China. I've seen what they do to people there. Peterson showed me.

[–] Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A new age of anti-intellectualism awaits us.

[–] eighthourlunch@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago

The new age of anti-intellectualism persists. Continues. Stubbornly endures.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 years ago

Those who can, do.

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

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Cool, well, HR software can add a filter for his university so apps get auto rejected.

Grifters gonna grift.

[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago

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

This is just one more embarrassment for the conservative movement.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Of course, they give you real degrees.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but none of that money was going into his pockets.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

As you said this, he stared off, just to the right of the camera in the middle distance, eyes quickly turning red and glistening...

[–] burgers@toast.ooo 21 points 2 years ago

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

[–] mancy@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

Grifters gonna grift.

[–] 3rihskerb@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Now the right is devaluing the word university. SMH…

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

BYU, no matter it's history, is at least accredited and has a decent academic reputation. You can get your degree from there and it means something. You might not want to go there if you're not Mormon (or are a Mormon who doesnt "look" like one), but it's not like you are setting your career back if you do.

[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes - it’s important to remember that these guys don’t want public anything .

They sometimes hide it behind economics, but it’s ideological.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] nueonetwo@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

The dorm room policy is gonna be strict af

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think back then he was going to create an alternative to Patreon.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Narcissism never ends.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

"We'll see who cancels who!"

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[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I’m here for it. Go Croaking Cryers curling team!

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spreading this sort of announcement only gives these people more motivation to continue devaluing the country as is.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Because people on Lemmy will be inspired to take his "university" courses? I doubt it.

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