GrimmReality, (edited )
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GRADS, CONGRATS, and if you are the Indiana University student who put this on your mortar board for your ceremony, please DM me so that we may figure out a way for me to buy you every last beer or cocktail you would like to consume to properly celebrate your graduation.

GrimmReality, (edited )
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I can't emphasize enough how anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals [EDIT, per the incisive and spot-on replies--> and corporate MBAs] who run major universities and who, in that role, sent armed-to-the-teeth goons after their own students, should not only not have their jobs as of the summer, they should be marched across campus and pelted with garbage. You betrayed a MASSIVE trust and, in an actual just society where half the country didn't celebrate violence and "iron-hand" policy prescriptions because it gibes with their bigotry, you would now be fucking unemployable.

VirginiaSOpossum,
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@GrimmReality A lot of them are not lofty smart intellectuals, they're business administrators.

GrimmReality,
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@VirginiaSOpossum Yup, anymore, good point.

ErgonWolf,
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@GrimmReality "in loco parentis" indeed.

zdl,
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@ErgonWolf @GrimmReality I may have the declension wrong (because Latin is crazy) but more like "in loco parentes abutentes", amirite?

ErgonWolf,
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@zdl @GrimmReality Well, in the US, it's a literal legal phrase, which is when some other authority, individual or organization, takes the place of the parental authority in terms of the law concerning a minor. Schools, from elementary to Colleges and universities are known to have "in loco parentis".

It's a specific legal phrase and concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_loco_parentis

zdl,
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@ErgonWolf @GrimmReality I'm aware of this. This is what we call, in English, "a joke".

"In the place of a parent" becomes "in the place of abusive parents".

See how the joke unfolds? The university abused its students. Ergo they are now abusive parents.

shadowbottle,
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@GrimmReality when was the last time you walked through the administrative parking lot of a university? It’s all luxury cars. They’re all corporate ghouls, what do you expect? This is what happens when you run institutions like a business.

GrimmReality,
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@shadowbottle yeah, somebody else made this point and it is spot-on.

strypey,
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@GrimmReality
> anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals who run major universities

That's not who runs universities anymore, and hasn't been for a decade or more. Graeber wrote about this back in 2014;

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class

GrimmReality,
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@strypey Yup, addressed already and acknowledged in the noted edit.

GrimmReality,
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For what it's worth, "the fascists literally, provably wrong and aggressively malicious about EVERYthing they have ever said actually make a good point on this one thing and we should support their position" is perhaps as stupid and just morally abject a thing as anyone can say so, if people call you out for it or perhaps just stop listening to anything you say ever again, please understand it is for a genuinely good reason and your credit is pfft gone at this table for all of eternity. Just a thought.

GrimmReality,
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"But we need to unite against Trump!"

Then stop validating his and his allies' stupid stupid fucking opinions, dipshit.

GrimmReality,
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Vorsos,
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@GrimmReality “Now that it’s been correct once, we can use this obviously broken clock to tell time.”

weezmgk,
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@GrimmReality even out of focus, I'm astounded at how many drooling goatfuckers the MAGAts can muster for one event

GrimmReality,
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@weezmgk Not just drooling goatfuckers but Straight-Over-From-Central-Casting drooling goatfuckers. Like if you told them to put on Klan hoods they would've said "Hell YEAH, bro!"

bloodravenlib,
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@GrimmReality As someone commented elsewhere, I can't wait for those development officers to start calling those new alumni for fundraising. . . .

Deus,
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@GrimmReality The 2nd picture of her post (for Fedizens who aren't on FB).

jarich,
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@Deus @GrimmReality wow, and thanks for sharing

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GrimmReality

My mom went to Berkeley during Vietnam protests. At one point she had a t-shirt with a target printed on the back, after Kent State.

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