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		tencentshill 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred mil... It's one of the only ways people can still get into "The Club" without having a lineage of wealthy connections.

mandmandam 3 months ago [–]

Not a selling point.

The Ivies do a hell of a lot more for 'The Club' than for the people not in it.

(To be clear, I don't think giving Trump the authority to pull hundreds of millions in funding if they teach things he doesn't like, or allow anti-genocide protests etc, is in any way a solution to the above issue.)

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