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I may be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but it sounds like you’re assuming that women only continue wearing hijab because their families force them to. That’s certainly not the case.
Many are forced.
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A constitutional amendment requires ratification by 3/4 of the states. Even getting one proposed requires 2/3 of both houses of congress. This is not going to happen. Simply ignoring the constitution and cancelling the vote? There's no way he will be able to shift the Overton window that far in ~3 years.
https://www.thirdtermproject.com/third-term has some ideas: > Constitutional Amendment: The U.S. Constitution can be amended by an act of Congress. Republicans must publicly get behind the third-term project. > Running as Vice President: President Trump can run as Vice President with a space filler as President in 2028. Perhaps Donald Trump Jr. could run on a Trump/Trump ticket before gracefully resigning on Jan. 21,…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
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Before the 2000s, depending on how overtly conservative you were and who was in govenenent (coups, counter-coups, and fits of "democracy" happened every couple years), you might not have been allowed to attend at all. An entire generation of women from conservative backgrounds couldn't attend university in Turkiye until the 2000s because of the hijab ban. Unsurprisingly, once conservative Turkish politicians like Erd…
Or they could get out of the middle ages and stop caring if women cover their hair?
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Ekrem İmamoğlu, the man whose degree was taken away, is 55 and got his degree in the early 90s. What is "recent" about that?
I was replying to someone comparing the article to pro-palestine protestors from columbia who had their degree removed. I agree 100% that people like Ekrem İmamoğlu is a totally different situation. That was the thing i was trying to argue.
In any case Columbia had ample time to address it's students before granting them diplomas - no facts have changed between them and now, nor have any new facts been made public. It's only turning heel because of political pressure by the President of the United States.
I am from Turkey and this really concerns me. If we don't protest this in the streets and fight back I am afraid we don't have any kind of law anymore.
Isn't this just the latest cut in your democracy's death by a thousand cuts?
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> Prosecutors accused him of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, calling him a "criminal organisation leader suspect". * https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yren8mxp8o > Authorities also closed several roads around Istanbul and banned demonstrations in the city for four days in an apparent effort to prevent protests following Imamoglu’s arrest. * https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/19/turkiye-police-deta...
interesting how we even see this happening constantly in the US, on both sides. just accuse your opposition of being a criminal as much as you can, and throw as much at them as possible, and when the absolute smallest thing sticks, you blow it out of proportion
It also works on people who don't believe in an objective reality, people who can't tell two shades of gray apart, and on people who are just looking for some thread of motivated reasoning to excuse your behavior.
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> Just another reason not to invest time and money into it. No it’s not. Not unless you plan on taking over campus buildings and vandalizing them, I guess. The degree isn’t some unrevocable item that you own. It’s an endorsement from the university. There are contractual agreements involved and it doesn’t take much imagination to think of how taking over a campus building and vandalizing it (while encouraging current…
> The degree isn’t some unrevocable item that you own. This is what I find so surprising. Having contractual stipulations I would need to abide by AFTER getting my degree for fear of revocation is nonsense to me, gross even. I don’t care if you’re the Unabomber. It’s silly for a university to be policing that. I guess I’m naive. To be clear, so there’s no temptation to move the goal posts, I’m talking about a degree…
The conduct in question happened pre-degree even if the punishment was after. I think that is a pretty important distinction.
most contracts cover conduct during the contract even if it only comes to light after the end of the contract, so that wouldn't be so unusual.
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Well, formally the Prime Minister is just some random bloke appointed by king to help him run the country. The PM doesn't even need to be a member of parliament! Now the king, that guy can't even be catholic! And until recently, couldn't even be female with living brothers.
Tradition does dictate that the PM is an MP, and tradition in UK parliament is pretty binding. However, an MP does not even need to be a British citizen: an Irish or a Commonwealth citizen can become an MP and go on to command the confidence of the house.
I hope it stays that way.
The US had pretty strong traditions in politics, too, but they are increasingly being eroded.
To give an example that's hopefully far enough in the past to be non-controversial: when they banned alcohol in the early 1920s, they felt that their constitution did not already explicitly give their federal government the power to do so. So they passed the 18th amendment to give the feds that power to specifically ban alcohol.
Decades later, in the context of the war on drugs, everybody seems to take it for granted that the federal government can obviously ban arbitrary substances.
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Well, you could at least move to Approval voting instead of first past the post. Or you could try sortition, which you haven't even considered at all.
The dream is probably dynamic voting through some login system where it's not done every X years but whenever you decide to change your vote maybe using ATMs as physical voting terminals for accessibility. Then voters can change their mind at any time and cause a change in leadership should the vote not be corrected over Y time. Then on top of that you can add multiple parties, individual person voting, etc. It proba…
Have a look at Bryan Caplan's "The Myth of the Rational Voter" for more background.