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   Grimm :bc: (grimmreality@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 06:05:15 JST Grimm :bc:

   GRADS, CONGRATS, and if you are the Indiana University student who put this on your mortar board for your graduation 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.

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     Grimm :bc: (grimmreality@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:59:06 JST Grimm :bc:

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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.

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     Virginia S. O'Possum (virginiasopossum@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:59:11 JST Virginia S. O'Possum

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

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:59:16 JST 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

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     Shadowbottle (shadowbottle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:59:21 JST 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.

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     A. Rivera (bloodravenlib@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:59:24 JST A. Rivera

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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. . . .

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:59:29 JST 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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