• @Pechente@feddit.org
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            Except that most of Western Europe for example has essentially free tuition, exactly because people recognize how important education is. Germany for example even has interest free loans for students on top of very low tuition fees (500€ / year) and subsidized housing and transport.

            • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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              All my life I’ve heard that interest free student loans wouldn’t work because folks wouldn’t pay them and it made a sad sense to me… I’m angry-relieved to hear that isn’t the case.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race
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          the last thread I read had this same little chimp stating that steve jobs was essentially god like and that he could pay people 8 dollars an hour to work in his crypto empire.

          • Flying Squid
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            How funny, I just had a post in a year-old thread of mine where someone talked about how China was going to buy Apple.

        • Dhs92
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          Read their username

          Edit: oh woops, I read it as cybergeezer not cybergazer

        • @MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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          It’s a pretty good troll. They had some shit in a rust community when they joined five months ago that is either pretty smart or total bullshit, I’m not smart enough to tell.

          Now they’re doing this today. I like this one the best.

      • @FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee
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        Weird. I work at a college and there’s tons of money for everything except what directly relates to education. We have a nice new stadium and community theater, but they keep canceling classes and not replacing professors. I know for a fact that stadium was bankrolled by the alumni, so if my tuition fees aren’t going towards a professor that physically works at my university, where are they going?

        • @spacecadet@lemm.ee
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          Pointless administrators that physically work at the college. They will have titles like “alumni integration and diversity standards affairs events coordinator” or “student relations and planning manager for community engagement” or some other word salad title that you will receive spammed in your inbox constantly while your professors emails somehow get routed to your junk mail folder.

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    This isn’t an unpaid debt, it’s an illegal campaign contribution by city officials at their taxpayer’s expense.

    Every single one of them knew they would be providing free city services for Trump while charging the Biden then Harris campaign for the same.

    • TheRealKuni
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      This isn’t an unpaid debt, it’s an illegal campaign contribution by city officials at their taxpayer’s expense.

      The city can’t tell the Van Andel Arena they aren’t allowed to let Trump come in. And I’m sure they’re essentially obligated to provide a police presence and whatever else they’re charging his campaign for.

      The city of Grand Rapids is pretty blue, and its government isn’t conservative. Huge swaths of West Michigan are conservative, and sure there are far more churches in GR than in most cities (it’s the central location for a few flavors of Reformed churches), but still. The city government aren’t exactly Trump supporters.

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        Cities can refuse to provide services to venues who refuse to pay for them in most places. The city officials in every city that Trump screwed should have been demanding payment up front - they knew he routinely screws over everyone he deals with because he still has debts from 2016 that are unpaid. Those who haven’t been paid should have been making front page news by suing for what they are owed.

        47% of the people in Kent County voted for the felon. Even if the Grand Rapids numbers are lower, it’s not reasonable to suggest a significant percentage of those making city decisions aren’t Trump supporters.

  • WatDabney
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    Are there actually people who didn’t already know rhat Trump doesn’t pay bills?

  • @enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    This just in: lying cheating cheap piece of literal human garbage does an awful thing that he has a demonstrated history of doing several times in recent history.

  • irotsoma
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    94 months ago

    Anyone who provides services to Trump prior to payment is stupid. If credit scores applied to people born wealthy, his would be 0. And they won’t even go that low.

  • Chozo
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    This is why you require 100% upfront payments with Trump.

  • EleventhHour
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    64 months ago

    Oh no! And nobody will ever hold these crimes accountable!

    It’s almost as if the government wants us to happen