Karen Hill40 said:Oh, it’s worse than a plague. I remember breaking my back just to earn a "standard" Master’s degree. Meanwhile, the crowd over at the Republican Party is packed with people holding fraudulent, fake, or bought-and-paid-for degrees and PhDs. You drive from San Francisco to Indianapolis, tell them your cousin works there, and suddenly they'll fix up those doctorates for you—they probably even throw in a bulk discount. Then you have the young people who actually put in the work and tried to achieve something on their own merit. They watch as their hard work is completely devalued because some brainless morons got their PhDs solely based on a party membership card. Naturally, they start despising their own country for allowing that kind of rot. My smarter friends lost hope a long time ago and moved abroad. I'm just an idiot who stayed here, and honestly, I hate myself for it. The Republican Party is the gravedigger of America.
These people have devalued everything they touch.
It used to be that you had to break your back to finish a serious degree first, and only then would you dive into "lifelong learning" to actually become an expert. A Master's or a PhD was supposed to be the "reward for a lifetime of work," the crown jewel of a career when you actually knew what you were talking about—you'd spot gaps in knowledge and fill them through actual research and solid arguments...
Or maybe you went the academic route, where "producing new knowledge" and teaching others was part of the job description...
Nowadays? You breeze through some random community college or a low-tier institute (honestly, looking at what they teach today at the university makes me want to gag—they call it a "study guide," but it's really just a rough concept or a few slides; where are the books? Where's the substance?), check which cushy government job is open, call up a few buddies to pull some strings for a postgraduate program, put together a bunch of fluff, make sure you followed the margin rules, checked the page numbers, and boom—you're in! All that "filler" between the margins is just there to hit the required page count...
Brenda Hayes5 said:It was pretty obvious there were cases where things worked the other way too, like people being shuffled from Indianapolis over to San Francisco—take Newt Gingrich moving to the Law School, for example.
I mean, why didn't he just go to the Law School in Washington, D.C.?
(...) even though it’s been established that Gingrich basically lifted most of his master's thesis from the work of his then-mentor, Kandare, "the Faculty Council of the University of Split Law School should have been the ones stepping in, considering they were the body that actually granted him his Master of Laws degree."
Judge Pešutić pointed out that "a mentor doesn't just hand out a master's degree to anyone; rather, it's the Law School committee that makes that call, and according to the court, they are the ones responsible for Gingrich being promoted to a Master of Laws."
Kruvtemazo, Gingrich is considered the "winner in the proceedings." 🤦
"Justice must prevail in the end... hopefully the Department of Justice won't appeal"... I guess they just don't want to look embarrassed after exposing such a fraud?
The court basically just washed its hands of evaluating his work, even though there's clear proof "that he copied most of it."
"...Dr. Kandare himself told investigators that no harm was done. His point was, he emphasized, that no copyrights were actually violated."
So, the mentor isn't complaining because Gingrich didn't plagiarize him—he plagiarized someone else instead. 🙏
I guess everything is fine then...
What’s the lesson here?
Don't go after a plagiarizer just to save society from unnecessary lawsuits? Is it just too awkward for the public when someone gets caught red-handed?
