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I’m genuinely curious how any of this reply negates my original post.

I had a few of those. I was the reason one of them banned laptops in her class after my semester because I fact checked her so much. She would say shit like, "the CDC says that condoms are 100% ineffective."

Luckily she couldn't ban my laptop because it was a reasonable accommodation for my disability.

A magat professor?

Far more common than you'd initially guess, especially in big red states like Texas and Florida.

The Charlie Kirk-ification of academia has systematically removed much of the so-called Liberal Academic base and used their chairs as sinecures for conservative cronies and nepotism hires.

I think a lot of people still have difficulties understanding that the US will be dismantled down to the dirt. I understand. It sounds unreal to think that every single piece of this country will be eliminated and rebuilt into a country that is totally unrecognizable. People are fighting it mentally… They are denying it. Even when it happens, they make an excuse for it not being the end of the country… but if you look back in history, every civilization eventually ended.

Red states are excelling in this regard. Vaulting unqualified and downright damaged/damaging right-wingers into teaching positions so they can further pollute our young. There was even a recent scandal (Texas) about having other people take their yearly assessment/qualification exams for them. And even now Texas is wholly de-funding public education in favor of private indoctrination schools. Yay. :-|

It was an operating systems class. He spent half the time waxing poetically about Microsoft in the 90s and the other half calling Elon a tech genius.

There do indeed exist educators who have heavy ideological biases and horrible personalities, and likewise some supposedly educated people who are into extreme ideologies either because they absolutely hate specific groups and/or because they're in for personal profit that could happen once they're in charge.

Pretty soon the title of Professor will be meaningless…

Median pay in the U.S. for no high school degree is 37,492. Median 1 bedroom apartment- 1,500. At $18,000 a year before utilities they can't get approved for a lease. So unless they are crashing at someone else's place the beer isn't cold, and the truck is their house and depending on what state they live in they are considered to be illegal to live in it..

So much for having a trad-wife or whatever, they'll need a sugar mama

You're not wrong. State rights is bit of a right wing soundbite.

Time well tell.

I think you're describing the plan, while I'm predicting the chimaera that will be born from conflicting politics. Billionaires have a plan but they aren't gods. How will the country exist when we're all sidelined and corporations import slaves? Will Palantir et al usher in a new paradigm? Is modern surveillance the eponymous straw on our backs? I just think that billionaires won't get what they want, and that they hit very hard, and the result of those two facts implies we're going to be beaten to within an inch of our lives.

No part of the contract I signed allows them to do that. It will be in the courts for years. Just like the public service loan forgiveness program suit that still has my loans in forbearance 3 years later.