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I think Harvard does too. We're not fixing antisemitism in western society until non-Jews start dealing with it when it's not politically advantageous for them along with the politically advantageous kind. Lots of Jews being present isn't enough.

Why should Rutgers be any different than just about everybody else?

Dude, after October 7, you're still shocked?

@sickmatter Yeah maybe he should. But since when have voters done the right thing. A sizeable number of them can't be convinced that preserving democracy overrides their getting a pony, and another sizeable number is attempting to ram their religion down our throats and wants to make it legal for their nutcases to skip vaccines. And I haven't even gotten to things that would make other people's lives marginally better, like an actually enforceable and enforced ADA for example.

@sickmatter I don't know, attempting to ban encryption is pretty serious given all the things you literally need it for. If anyone ever suceeds at this, modernity comes to a hault.

@sickmatter There are a whole lot of criteria that strictly speaking prevent people from voting for whoever they want to. Like age restrictions on the lower end for some positions, whether or not someone was born in the US, ETC. According to your logic, we should just have no limits on anything at all in order to preserve voter choice, and that would create all sorts of problems.

@sickmatter I fail to see how term limits is anti-democracy. We have them for the presidency and things seem to have chugged along just fine.

@sickmatter Experience is good. But this thing where we essentially have people like Dick D who are refusing to learn how technology works so they'll quit trying to do things like ban encryption is a problem. Experience doesn't do a bit of good when it prevents you from keeping up. Also, we have a voting population that has convinced itself that electing people who refuse to learn anything is a good thing and I don't see this changing anytime soon.

@sickmatter Why? It's clear that we have a problem with congresspeople and judges staying past the point where they're doing anything other than doing damage.

We need to get serious about changing the constitution to allow for term limits.

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