• doug@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    A chunk of my savings is going to be spent celebrating the day this guy fucking dies.

      • entwine413@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        He’s a textbook narcissist. He’s the only person he doesn’t hate.

        Although with his advanced dementia, you might be right

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          1 year ago

          See, my theory is that narcissists absolutely hate themselves, to the very core. It’s what drives them to work so hard at constructing and projecting a flawless idea of who they are

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    The pell grant is one of the few guaranteed opportunities of social mobility in this country. If it is taken away, colleges and universities will return to being something accessible only by the top 50%. Community colleges will crumble without the financing provided by pell grants, which usually cover the full cost of tuition for many people. Community colleges that produce massive segments of the technical workforce in the communities they serve.

    Without the pell grant, I would not have a bachelors degree, just like many other people out there. Even with the pell, I had to fight like hell to earn scholarships that would cover everything I couldnt afford on top of grants and federal loans. Social mobility is already a joke even with the pell grant, but if we take it away shit will be infinitely more dark than it already has been