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How the media would describe this in another country: "This is designed to cripple their universities, seen as a center of resistance to the regime"

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Starting recipe for a revolution of a more cultural nature, from a half-dozen historical cases:

- Target schools as centers of dissent and either co-opt or failing that, dismantle them.

- Portray 'intellectuals' as enemies of the people or agents of foreign/cosmopolitan influence. Use the state apparatus is to punish, exile, or eliminate intellectuals to make examples of them and enforce ideological conformity.

- Elevate the the "common man" or "true proletariat" as the ideal citizen embodying folk wisdom, in opposition to educated elites.

- Frame any opposition as existential threats to the nation's values or vitality; invoke religious or nationalist themes.

Would you say this comment needed major changes, in order for a MAGA supporter to feel that it is applicable against his own political adversaries?

The choice of words doesn't affect how a MAGA supporter "feels" about anything. It matters much more who says them and in what tone.

> Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January, “you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvi...

It wouldn't be wrong in this case, either.

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