Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@sdm350 @Pat That one... actually kind of makes sense. That's a check to make sure you own the actual number and aren't just spoofing their caller ID.
But they should already know the number to text the code to if you're an existing customer.

@freemo I don't know how much we actually expect them to support democracy, but the least they could do is pay it some lip service, lol. That became a requirement when Trump took over and went blatantly authoritarian.

@freemo I'd take BIden over either of those. At least he's relatively predictable and is vocally supportive of democracy. That second one is my baseline requirement that the others fail to meet.

@freemo I can think of a few others... DeSantis and RFK Jr. are really bad too.

@mentallyalex Did you forget you spent a skill point on that?

@cadenza Well, sure, but that applies to everything in life, including college; what's your point?

@freemo The problem with that is that proving poverty is much more onerous than proving race. That adds paperwork hurdles that have to be jumped, usually not by the applicant themselves, but by their guardians. This phenomenon is responsible for some of the poorest families in our country failing to qualify for free student lunches for their kids.

Given that no system is perfect, requiring representation equal to the demographics of the overall population in our most critical institutions seems to be the best step forward we can reasonably expect at this time.

But also, on the other side of the equation, even the population of rich kid students shouldn't be homogenously white... it should apply to all, not just the scholarship crowd.