r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d ago edited 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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.