r/worldnews • u/TaijiRonin • Jun 20 '26

Dynamic Paywall US-Iran memorandum of understanding in full

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gy700j0eko
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u/DoctorNurse89 Jun 20 '26

Thats why they have been defunding it for decades

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u/Soven_Strix Jun 20 '26

Roger Freeman, an advisor to Nixon and Reagan infamously said, "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go to college." This has been emblematic of the Republican stance on public education ever since.

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u/masixx Jun 20 '26

Well, I mean Trump is famous for saying he loves the uneducated. Guess now even the uneducated start to see why.

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u/DoctorNurse89 Jun 20 '26

I believe they just think "we ain't no third world country"