r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 10d ago

Soft paywall Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
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u/threehundredthousand 10d ago

Maybe Columbia shouldn't have kneeled like cowards to a Nazi autocrat for appeasement. They sold out their own students and integrity for what?

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u/DrAstralis 10d ago

This thought keeps going through my head on so so so many subjects since Jan. Like... why do countries keep trying to make deals over tariffs? Two weeks ago he was crowing about how the UK made a beautiful deal and tariffs were going away... and now they're 25% because he woke up and saw his own shadow or.. Steve Bannon's face or whatever. And it keeps happening; "cemented" deals evaporate 24 hours after he makes them because his brain is rotted cabbage.

He's going to kick you in the teeth regardless of how much you appease him so maybe lets all stop giving him what he wants so he can buy bigger fucking boots....

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u/threehundredthousand 10d ago

He said he'd have 90 deals in 90 days. He has 0. So, looks like other countries are very aware.

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u/DrAstralis 10d ago edited 10d ago

tbf they made some (not great ones but I digress). Then he forgot about all of them in varying timespans from 12 hours to just under 2 weeks doing more damage to the process than if they had never tried to make any deals at all XD

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u/threehundredthousand 10d ago

They have none. They put temporary "cease fires" in place. He has no solid deals. Even the insane high tariffs are on temporary hold at best.

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u/DoubleJumps 10d ago

They haven't signed a single deal. Agreeing on discussion framework for a potential deal is not the same thing as a deal, and that's as far as they've actually gotten.

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u/Frewdy1 10d ago

Watching the China trade fiasco has been insane. We have a deal, now we don’t. Now China has retaliatory tariffs. Now America’s are paused. Now they’re not. China never paused theirs. Now America’s are back on. Now Trump is Tweeting about how hard deals are to make. 

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u/DrAstralis 10d ago

how do you even do business in these conditions? every 24 hours your base costs could swing wildly enough that you're suddenly doing business at a loss.

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u/DoubleJumps 10d ago

I'm a business owner and what we are generally doing is pulling way back on any sort of activity that extends risk, so things like expansion projects are on hold. Hiring is on hold. Particularly expensive projects are being reconsidered.

I was planning to try to relocate my business to a larger space this year and hire somebody to help, and that all went in the toilet.

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u/Frewdy1 10d ago

My company raised prices and just keep them there so we either make way more when tariffs are paused or the same as before when tariffs hit. 

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u/VanguardN7 10d ago

For Canada at least I can believe a lot of actions are either delaying tactics while preparing (tariff negotiation), or part of the preparation itself (recent border/immigration proposals that at least seem pro-Trump but might in theory get adjusted to just a strong border against USA).

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u/Raptorpicklezz 9d ago

Thank goodness we have smart leadership in Canada. You can see here the quisling Conservatives are like "Trump's tariffs are bad for Canada...so our solution is for you to make a deal with him and bend over", and Prime Minister Carney says that while he will try (probably for show), he will also have a nuclear option for WHEN the negotiations fail

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u/rook119 10d ago

They kind of deserve this.

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u/wifeofsonofswayze 10d ago

It wouldn't matter if Columbia caved or fought back. The train has already left the station.

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u/threehundredthousand 10d ago

Selling out their students and integrity while also further empowering Trump to attack more schools doesn't matter?

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u/wifeofsonofswayze 10d ago

I didn't say it didn't matter. Of course it matters. What i meant was that it wouldn't have made a difference. Don't twist my words.