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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, forgot all about the tenure system, which I barely understand beyond the memes as it is.

  Still, earlier discussion holds; outrage that they didn’t fire him yet makes zero sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, as Devil’s Advocate arguing against you and me, Harvard could choose to drop him at the mere hint of an accusation. You don’t have a right to a job and not getting fired without proven cause in any state but I want to say Montana? The rest are “Right to Work.”

  Back on Team “Give them a second for crying out loud,” we’re talking about Harvard, allegedly one of the best colleges in the world. We can expect them to do right by probably investigating this properly, and we’d hope any employer we’d ever work for would bother to take more than a femtosecond to figure out if there’s evidence supporting an accusation against us.

  Obviously a lot of countries do have Big R “Rights” as far as labor goes, but the US is not one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Administrative Leave starts when a formal investigation begins. You’re basically calling for Chapter 10 of a book to be over when Chapter 1 barely started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MAGAs see that reading the Communist Manifesto is a requirement for entry and simply don’t bother. They have X, Truth Social, Reddit, etc. to party on, and they’re fine with the downsides of those platforms, i.e. supporting oligarchy/technocracy.

  It’s not that they “get their asses handed to them,” they’re just not here.

  Compare your perception of reality with election results. Even if Trump cheated like he probably did, I doubt it was bigger than single digit percentages.

  TL;DR: You simply don’t witness enough MAGAs and you naturally assume they must not exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate seeing this comforting fiction.

  The truth is there are absolutely tens of millions of people who think Trump is fantastic and will bend over backwards to vocally support him for virtually anything he does. Some of those people have Reddit accounts. Most of those frequent /r/conservative.

  Are there bots among them? Almost certainly. We do see slowdowns there whenever overseas propaganda mills go down. Then there’s the Twitter fiasco where so many of their MAGA influencers turned out to be from Eurasia.

  But patting each other on the back about how 80% of them are bots serves only to undermine the passion with which people should be opposing MAGA. I guarantee many would-be Clinton and Harris voters stayed home because they were sure MAGA was an extremely vocal minority almost entirely propped up by bots. Just look at the aftermath of those elections on Reddit and Lemmy; it’s generally mass confusion.