Post AXkyB7EI71FRatNSPA by Benfell@hcommons.social
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(DIR) Post #AXju31I3iTVNsm41dg by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:55:55Z
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"Rishi Sunak will announce on Monday that he will CAP the number of students wanting to study "low-value" degrees."Want to know what I think?https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees
(DIR) Post #AXju328sY5kwWamCy8 by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:56:32Z
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"Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business"From now on, philosophy, language, religion, politics, and culture will be exclusively the purview of the very rich. For everyone else, college is where you will acquire specific skills that you will trade for wages on the capitalist market. Nothing else.
(DIR) Post #AXju32kSINoWP8MDXU by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:56:55Z
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Let's be clear. Those "low value" degrees are all the degrees were you learn how power works. How knowledge is made. Where hierarchies and ideologies come from. And why all of that is considered "low value" and by whom.
(DIR) Post #AXjuTkDlHtd0lHnUUS by truth@freespeechextremist.com
2023-07-16T03:36:58.866938Z
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@Manigarm study anything you want on your own dime
(DIR) Post #AXjupC9qc8lBUIC92W by SunMcNukes@xmrposter.club
2023-07-16T03:40:50.129963Z
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@Manigarm the Market provides and declines. Study your hobby in your spare time with your own money, not with the taxes stolen from the proletariat.
(DIR) Post #AXjv2rBZNwPUUuVyoi by kkarhan@mstdn.social
2023-07-16T03:36:49Z
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@Manigarm EXACTLY!It's a derogatory term pushed by anti-intellectual christofacists!
(DIR) Post #AXjv2rn98ET4NS5zO4 by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-07-16T03:43:17Z
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@kkarhan @Manigarm maybe if we vote hard enough, they'll let us keep access to this knowledge which endangers their stranglehold on society
(DIR) Post #AXjvA09QRyuyKXv1Tk by krypt_skiddy@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T03:41:51Z
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@Manigarm Yep. I went to school for criminal justice, because I wanted to be a cop - because I thought that was the best way to serve my community (being that I was a stupid teenager lol). Instead, I learned about how society, deviance, and social control *actually* work, and I learned about how the cops exist to serve the rich at the expense of the poor and marginalized. Doing that "low value" program turned me from a weakass wannabe-cop liberal to a committed anarchist and labor unionist. 100%
(DIR) Post #AXkyB7EI71FRatNSPA by Benfell@hcommons.social
2023-07-16T15:53:04Z
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@fcktheworld587 @kkarhan @Manigarm What makes you think Democrats aren't part of the problem? They have derided the humanities and social sciences as well.Under neoliberalism, those parts of academia that fail either directly to generate profit or to tell the powers that be what they want to hear are being defunded as "useless." It's been going on pretty much my entire adult life.https://disunitedstates.com/neoliberalism/u-of-illinois-boards-denial-of-job-to-salaita-is-unlikely-to-quell-controversy/
(DIR) Post #AXl2ily845WrJl7dBY by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-07-16T16:44:00Z
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@Benfell @kkarhan @Manigarm my statement was sarcastic. These are the actions of a threatened ruling class. They're going to continue down this path, until they no longer sense any possibility of challenge to their power. Voting isn't going to change shit, unfortunately
(DIR) Post #AXl42xks3OsTcM701Q by alexanderhay@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T10:54:32Z
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@SunMcNukes @Manigarm One key trait of anti-intellectualism is the near pathological desire to drag others down to one's own wretched state.
(DIR) Post #AXl42yhMXvfKXlTiC0 by SunMcNukes@xmrposter.club
2023-07-16T16:58:52.164560Z
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@alexanderhay @Manigarm correct, that's why I told her to do it as long as I can opt-out. I'm not cancelling your beloved studies but don't want to be part of them. Can I?
(DIR) Post #AXl45f6bqeUke8ZDai by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
2023-07-16T11:14:33Z
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@SunMcNukes @Manigarm The difference between typical wages and fair wages is the bulk of what's stolen from the proletariat, and the difference between what the rich pay in tax and what they should pay in tax is the rest of it.There is no sane economic theory where higher education for all funded by income tax is "stolen" from anyone.
(DIR) Post #AXl45fpz7wn6urnSJk by SunMcNukes@xmrposter.club
2023-07-16T16:59:22.282619Z
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@petealexharris @Manigarm nobody should pay taxes in the first place.
(DIR) Post #AXl4DDLKx6LwrL3aWO by johnbessa@fosstodon.org
2023-07-16T16:28:02Z
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@SunMcNukes @Manigarm The internet as we know it as built on the job, not by academics. We were building workstation environments for traders.When the tech market crashed 2000, HR and edu were overjoyed. They could use expensive degrees to sort through piles of resumes. Reinstated the student factory pipeline.Two popular phrases were "tweak a system" and "massage a database".From engine builders who became programmers:* tweak an ignition (system), and* massage a piston head
(DIR) Post #AXl4UuSLuambUlmBG4 by kkarhan@mstdn.social
2023-07-16T17:03:52Z
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@fcktheworld587 @Benfell @Manigarm actually, you're wrong on the latter...https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110724642220552765
(DIR) Post #AXl9rgzid0e8Aw49ho by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-07-16T18:04:02Z
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@kkarhan @Benfell @Manigarm I think it might _slow_ things, but I don't think it will do anything to change the course, to the benefit of anyone but the ruling class
(DIR) Post #AXlArNQXTmFnRU1ZPk by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
2023-07-16T17:18:30Z
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@SunMcNukes @Manigarm In an anarchist collective, sure. But then there isn't a proletariat either. You can spend all day saying what "should" be in a world we don't currently inhabit and all I can say to that is "OK"
(DIR) Post #AXlArO9YmOGZh75WaW by SunMcNukes@xmrposter.club
2023-07-16T18:15:13.328273Z
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@petealexharris @Manigarm a world we currently inhabit? Speak for yourself, I'm glad that globalist pest of Sunak defunded a bunch of useful idiots. Stop feeding The Machine™️, evade taxes and use #Monero.
(DIR) Post #AXlLYBIxQNWbq6WlsG by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-07-16T20:15:00Z
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@Manigarm Okay... I'll bite... what is "low value" degrees? 👀 *Quickly reads your later posts*Ah. I see. No critical thinking... Or actual learning for the right way to your life way... just like the USA... what could possibly go wrong? 🤑
(DIR) Post #AXlMot3QdGiK76nHBQ by alexanderhay@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T20:06:53Z
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@SunMcNukes @Manigarm This is like arguing that you shouldn't have to pay for schools because you have no children.
(DIR) Post #AXlMotfMMF3U0kXZJ2 by SunMcNukes@xmrposter.club
2023-07-16T20:29:13.850859Z
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@alexanderhay @Manigarm yes, you shouldn't pay for anything you don't want because of coercion like the State's monopoly of violence.
(DIR) Post #AXlOG2gB3SkvjoQlQ8 by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T20:45:18Z
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@Aviva_Gary What are you talking about? I never said anything of the sort.
(DIR) Post #AXlPQ8POhxKUMCxTrE by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-07-16T20:58:22Z
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@Manigarm I meant the people who are trying to get this thing done...Not you, if anything I think you agree with me when I say this is a BAD IDEA and maybe like don't copy how the USA does things especially in the arts of education a thing the powers-that-be there don't care about...(Sorry for the confusion 👀 🙏)
(DIR) Post #AXlPc32aUXBVBSyCP2 by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T21:00:24Z
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@Aviva_Gary Ah, I see! Yes, I think it's a pretty safe bet to say "don't copy the US in terms of education' (along with a few other things). (No worries and sorry for the confusion. This thread has brought out some....interesting responses.)
(DIR) Post #AXlPwjROYgloTeR73Y by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-07-16T21:04:14Z
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@Manigarm I bet...(And you right)
(DIR) Post #AXlQQTzAaLSXEOQ7iC by alexanderhay@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T20:55:13Z
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@SunMcNukes @Manigarm You are very strange.
(DIR) Post #AXlQQW24yUyVZznTWa by Manigarm@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T21:01:32Z
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@alexanderhay @SunMcNukes This thread has really brought out the strange, that's for sure.
(DIR) Post #AXlQQXNjxRtblSwHvU by SunMcNukes@xmrposter.club
2023-07-16T21:09:37.954301Z
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@Manigarm @alexanderhay welcome to fedi.
(DIR) Post #AXlZ5gaJRj0poRx4dc by mathew@universeodon.com
2023-07-16T22:46:41Z
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@fcktheworld587 @Benfell @kkarhan @Manigarm If voting wasn't going to change shit, the Tories wouldn't have spent so much effort introducing voter ID rules to discourage people from voting.
(DIR) Post #AXlZooCdy6bOTIOgCm by Soma@detroitriotcity.com
2023-07-16T22:54:53.644443Z
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@Manigarm >How knowledge is made. Where hierarchies and ideologies come from. That's funny, I don't see colleges teaching Platonism. In fact they're usually preaching some faggy materialist gobblygook. Maybe this street shitter PM is on to something :loli_think:
(DIR) Post #AXldkX8XsT12CThHFY by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-07-16T23:38:55Z
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@mathew @Benfell @kkarhan @Manigarm it'll change how much they, individually, receive, monetarily, and how much power they, individually, hold - but, to the people they govern very little material difference is likely to be made, on the whole. I care more about the fact that a person is stabbing me than I care about what color clothing they happen to be wearing.
(DIR) Post #AXljN3bO7XBNfFNQ9I by DrRyanSkelton@mugicha.club
2023-07-17T00:41:55.470554Z
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No.