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Re:Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first c... by gruez on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:23PM (#41369288)
In other words she's not really powerful, because she's ultimately beholden to the electorate/political machine and has little leeway to affect change in anything she believes in.
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Re:Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first c... by knowaveragejoe on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:22AM (#41379849)
...yes? You have to win to do anything at all. Would you prefer she were ideologically pure and irrelevant?
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