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I think you’re confusing socialist countries with socialist programs. There is a huge difference. Medicaid is a socialist program. That doesn’t make us a socialist country. If you look at countries that do provide free education you’ll find that they have several socialist programs

While there are MANY Capitalist countries which provide free college there is only 1 Socialist country that does - Cuba. China doesn't by the way. Think I'm wrong? Send me your list. I sent you mine of Capitalist countries. The USA failed - not Capitalism. Stop misleading people

Capitalisim fails? How come MANY Capitalist countries provide free or subsidized education? And how do you not know that or why do you deny it? The US failed not Capitalism - fun fact the Nordics are Capitalist - Social Democracies not Socialist worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Came here to say this.

This is what is known as “leveling down.” MAGA can’t deal with educated people. The ideal deplorable is one tooth to match with their single brain cell.

Ttump, who really didn't earn a degree.

fully expecting "salt dumped on american crops" at this rate

Maybe, and bear with me, we should pay teachers more.

Well maybe we don't need athletes or people who major in physical education. Most of them don't make big money. Only a small percentage actually cash in.

Wait, Mr. Default wants a say in how other people spend their loan money? Fuck you trumpf

Read Project 2025….🤮It explains everything that the corrupt 🤡 and his administration is trying to do to destroy democracy from within….control!

Insane

So the president of a country is "banning" (how? By fiat? Show your work) student loans based on degree? Yeah that seems totally legal, just a legal thing POTUS can do, you fucking spineless chuds. Great "reporting", you fucking hack.

And evangelical preachers make millions

But artists and musicians can make a ton of money.

It's the criminals, grifters and con artists.

This is horrific Worried about my alma mater. The only public art school in the country.

Party of freedom strikes again.

Search these terms to understand what is really happening and why. This is very important we see what this means "fascist controls social work, art, religious studies, and music"

Search these terms to understand what is really happening and why. This is very important we see what this means "fascist controls social work, art, religious studies, and music"

Via @noncompete.bsky.social youtu.be/Q0GQP-IRVqM

Vile and anti-humanity. Creativity is at the heart of the best parts of America.

We live in the stupidest times. Prohibited from BORROWING money because someone who has billions doesn't think you have the potential to make a shitton of money.

Fuck him. He’s a pig

If the borrower pays back the loan, then the loan "paid off." That's typically the measure of success for a loan.

They should just enter "general studies". How many young people change their majors in the course of their college studies? This is arbitrary and capricious. No one knows how much they will make when they get out of college. How many engineer majors worked fast food after graduation?

My other thought was gonna be: gross as this move is, the attack on liberal arts education started a long time ago.

I have not one -but two- fine art degrees & my critical thinking skills are such that I can say this: if this administration were really concerned about student debt & folks being able to support themselves, they would strive to make higher ed affordable for all, no matter the major.

More abuse of power by this criminal regime. Thx to Republicans

Caesar has spoken.

We should do tuition-free college and universal basic income, not this bullshit.

Surely this man won't survive another 2 years. 😒

Absolute madness. Is there any part of society that he doesn’t want to upend?

large institutions will be able to make the numbers work, ie Yale Divinity and RISD etc won't be effected. this will contribute to collapse of small regional schools that already have a murky future.

Can’t we just cut funding for golf instead?

That a-hole really doesn't want anyone to ever feel joy.

Well, I guess that a majority of Americans are Ok with this (51%+) or dgaf. Which is great for the rest of us in the world. This takes the USA out of the competition. Plenty of countries that don't have this infliction. And it could happen where I live, but unlikely. Sorry to see this happen there.

If they weren't trying to kill fields that teach students to think critically about such things as politics & humanity they would not be looking at entry level jobs, they would be looking at the rates of repayment. Also, during a teaching shortage they are cutting teacher training.

Checking it at 4 years is evidence they are not serious. In many of these fields those people aren't even past entry level jobs, if that. That doesn't tell you what they might make even 5-10 years later

“The point of learning is to make money” is an idea that only a stupid person who hates learning would have.

Maybe social workers should be paid more.

Wtf???

As one who majored in Religious Studies I can perfectly understand why Christian nationalists want to kill that.

I took out a loan to get my Masters in Teaching. I was a double major Art & Social Studies & taught US History for 3 years & Art for 20 years. It took 15 years to pay off my loan. I was OK with that because I was doing what I loved. Sounds like drumpf would disallow that from ever happening.💔😢

🧐🇺🇲

Says the man who ran a fake college.

What a trash human

"Let's not target predatory lenders, let's target the schools and students." Nobody is surprised. Can't wait for the trump family trials.

social workers and teaching aides are telling me all the time how super well staffed they are and how annoying it is that so many people are applying to work with them

Let me guess, he thinks AI is better than all these.

Fuck that guy

How is this remotely legal

Surprise, nobody makes enough money (secret feature: it was designed to function like that)

🗣️ UNIVERSITIES AREN’T JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS!

Fuck these fascists!

I predict religious studies will be removed from the list

This is some actual fucking bullshit. I fucking hate this POS POTUS and the slavering fucking jackles that surround him who are all actively working to make life and our nation worse.

Such a fucking cunt rag.

he's trying to weed out those who care

Trump "defaulted on a $640 million obligation and sued the bank, blaming it for his failure to pay back the debt." www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tru...

Isn't this the sort of executive action SCOTUS previously viewed through the lens of "major questions" doctrine?

I’m just a small-town country lawyer, but wouldn’t this piss off private lenders something fierce? They love saddling people with life-ending debt, and this would cut into their profit margins steeply.

Without reading the article, part of me thinks this is a ploy to make journalism an endangered species. That way the "fake news" can't kiss his ass and tell him what he wants to hear.

The last thing our AI oligarch overlords want is informed people capable of thinking critically and rationally for themselves

WTF

Fuck him!

Authoritarianism requires an anti-intellectual society.

This is what happens in a society where capital is king and humans its subjects

Pretty rich coming from the guy who bankrupted Trump University

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

“The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money,” said Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit that the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a designated hate group.

So companies refusing to pay higher wages will destroy whole fields of study.

took 50 years but they finally figured it out

He needs to be gone

Calling these degrees “unprofitable“ is a ruse. They are mostly female dominated professions that give women independence. Republicans don’t like that. RN (Registered Professional Nurse) is female dominant profession. This administration took “professional” out of the title to belittle women, again.

Yet political hopefuls will gleefully take campaign funds many times over what they will be paid if they win the election.

Sigh. OF COURSE it will be all about $$$$. It’s the only thing they understand. Everything else is useless. The things to eliminate are the things that make us more human, more in touch with our humanity. We certainly can’t have THAT, right?

The Proles do not need any education that doesn't further their usefulness to the State. Workers need to read, write in block print, and do basic math. All higher thought processes will be handled by oligarch controlled AI systems. A liberal arts education is a threat to the new Techno-state.

This will be sued and he will lose. Next.

Hell, in the US STEM degrees are now a waste, thanks to decades of offshoring and H1B visa abuse by the likes of Trump and Elon and their new Silicon Valley buddies.

This is insane. The dumbest fucking country on earth

"President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans."

Yet he does not have a degree, he’s known for decades of corrupt deals - that is how he ‘got’ money, which is different than earning.

Wake up people! Authoritarian's formula to ease their take over. The Arts, Education, and social justice are the soul of a democracy. My daughter (social worker) and husband (Presbyterian minister) are doing just fine as they put their 2 children through college.

This is new lvl stupid. 2.5 more yrs and this nightmare ends.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Sadly in today's America a person's worth is measured by the amount of money the make or wealth they have accumulated and not by the contribution he/she may have made or may one day make to the country and society.

I would love to know what, if any data, they used for comparison between people with these degrees and those people who did not go to college. How were the groups defined, etc.?

So one president cannot forgive student loans, but the next president can ban them?

And all this nonsense will be reversed and improved and reformed after we drag his ass out of office when he doesn’t leave.

Fascists

So much for the things that make life worthwhile.

14th amendment says he isn't the president, and it's doubtful even a legitimate president has any unilateral authority to rewrite these eligibility regs. But nobody with legitimate power seems willing to enforce the constitution anymore, so 🤷‍♂️

Im stuck on social work. There is a shortage of mental health professionals and they want to cut off loans that encourage more people to pursue social work. Brilliant. Also social workers are clearly underpaid.

No one makes a ton right out of college. This is stupid.

And excellent teachers, IT professionals, marketers, managers, entrepreneurs... or, horror of all horrors, excellent successful professional musicians! We cannot abide a system where only the rich are allowed to study what they will, and everyone else needs to pick a Practical Vocation at 18 or else

Nursing was a weird major to cut off, but Trump, Vance and Vought don't care about human beings.

USA is a dystopian world Here, the most expensive private schools, the top of the top of the top, usually cost a THIRD of the average student loan in the US Public university, which most people attend, is a TENTH of the average US student loan It's by no means perfect, far from it, but still better

Great, so only the Epstein class gets to get those degrees. 🤷

This will really fuck over future Catholic priests.

Working hard to be the number one shit-hole country

???????????? we need people doing these jobs! literally what are schools and hospitals and shelters and child welfare and nursing homes and and and supposed to do for a workforce?

The only knowledge that matters is the kind that leads to profit. The natural end of every conversation about kids needing to pursue "practical" degrees is a society where teaching and theology require coming from a wealthy family.

Yeah, that's not going to end well. They didn't bother to ask exactly what people do with those degrees, did they?

These are all things Trump doesn't value. And is he gonna tell the loan companies he just reduced their customer base?

This isn’t just about attacking gendered disciples/fields - history tells us that when only upper class white girls become social workers, the profession focuses on moralising & attacking racialized and poor families. Our profession needs workers with lived experience of social policy’s harms!

Maybe the point is just assaulting education under any premise available. Fewer libs, fewer colleges - what’s not to like?

Hmm, and why don't those fields make "enough" money? Could it be they aren't valued in our society because they don't simply make more money for other people? Also, to become a licensed social worker, one needs a Master's degree.

Are they planning on addressing the women’s wage gap? In fields that are majority women, pay is less, & that’s not because the jobs aren’t necessary to a healthy society. It’s almost as if they want us back in the Stone Age, because that’s where we’re headed.

Some of these jobs are things AI could never hope to replace. This says a lot about what society values (or doesn't)

John Baptiste has a degree from Julliard…made him a millionaire…

If you aren’t rich, we won’t help you

Basically what first the Tories, then Labour are planning in the UK as well. If they hadn't forced students to take out loans, there wouldn't be such a persecution of humanities degrees.

As someone else pointed out, these are often majors chosen by women...

Sure, because who needs social workers or nurses or teacher’s aides. He is such a dumb fork.

🏫 Well then find a school, well-enough endowed, like mine, damn fool enough to treat us as scholars📜, and give us full scholarships in the arts and humanities. 🎓