Authoritarian states have always attacked universities and academics. It’s a well-documented pattern of behaviour historically. It’s happening in Trump’s America. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

mikegalsworthy.bsky.social • 27 days ago

Authoritarian states have always attacked universities and academics.

It’s a well-documented pattern of behaviour historically. It’s happening in Trump’s America.

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pollik.bsky.social•27 days ago

"Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely" Chomsky

semaleena.bsky.social•27 days ago

Why do they assume we’re as stupid as them……oh wait it’s because they’re stupid isn’t it 🤦🏻‍♀️

semaleena.bsky.social•27 days ago

Keep the sheep uninformed & unintelligent so they won’t work out our evil plan

Pathetic

alex-harvey-1960.bsky.social•27 days ago

Ece knows:

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trishfln.bsky.social•27 days ago

Because they are the front line that stands between truth & lies, fact & fiction. Galileo sends Musk a message from the universe *🖕*

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martandelus.bsky.social•27 days ago

First they create a following/cult, then they assault information to cement the hold. They only have one singular purpose, to have a population that is barely sentient enough to be money slaves. All else becomes secondary, it's like a parasitic relationship between corporations and RW governments.

paulsageordie.bsky.social•27 days ago

😂😂 Musk went to the University of Pennsylvania, people actually call this clown a genius

mjgfaekbt.bsky.social•27 days ago

Will never understand why "clever people tend not to agree with us" is not a red flag

johngage1.bsky.social•27 days ago

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simonpease.bsky.social•27 days ago

America doesn’t need graduates. It only needs belief.

pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social•27 days ago

It BEGGARS belief ...

scott-macshlibber.bsky.social•27 days ago

He's an unusual person

perryds.bsky.social•27 days ago

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chopperholic.bsky.social•27 days ago

As in the UK the one thing the right fears and despises above all others is an educated electorate...

awm22.bsky.social•27 days ago

We all remember Gove’s infamous pre-brexit comment…..

Enough of experts indeed; concerning enough to see the infants with nuclear rattles

chopperholic.bsky.social•27 days ago

Gove took the history syllabus for GCSE and transformed it more or less from an exercise in reflecting on and analysing historical events to the rote learning of dates.. Basically a national pub quiz...I rest my case...

nxptvne.bsky.social•27 days ago

They can drag me off of my uni campus and throw me in a cell before I let them fuck with the current programs and organizations we have. It’s one of the safer places in my part of my state for LGBTQ+, women, bipoc, and other minorities because we have clubs and even a pride center on campus.

nxptvne.bsky.social•27 days ago

It’s a safe place for minorities to run for leadership positions in clubs related to their degree. There’s a women’s center and there are different cultural celebrations all throughout the year that everyone is invited to join to learn about other cultures. There are bipoc clubs and amazing

nxptvne.bsky.social•27 days ago

Disability accommodations (which I not only use myself for exam and in-class accommodations, but my job is also through the disability services program). We frequently have diverse speakers come in and anyone can go listen to their presentation. I’ll be damned if they try and destroy that.

halona75.bsky.social•25 days ago

And here’s why Dump is attacking universities:
Women outnumber men considerably.

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scullingmonkey.bsky.social•27 days ago

And what does the RSM say

gordhay.bsky.social•27 days ago

Where does he think all the clever people he employs (sorry, exploits) are educated?

mactakeshi.bsky.social•27 days ago

DARVO Mike DARVO.
Deny Attack Reverse Victim Order

ilikehottea.bsky.social•27 days ago

The more you know... 🌈

tpo-asd.bsky.social•27 days ago

📌

chloew1656.bsky.social•27 days ago

I cannot recommend this piece of investigative reporting by The Rachel Maddow show before the US election's VP debate last year highly enough. It's like being given a cheat sheet to understand what's happening to US politics now; including to universities... https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?si=RD1eK7RNx0vau3DU

whysocialmedia.bsky.social•27 days ago

I wonder how many people with university degrees he employs? I bet it's a lot. Musk is making himself look stupid, which is why generally we Brits don't like him

dmcarey.bsky.social•27 days ago

Education is bad.
Ignorance is good.

Only in Trump's America.

drewcleaver.com•27 days ago

I do not love the poorly educated.

daktangle.bsky.social•27 days ago

Don't hate them, hate the regimes that cause poor education.

juliankeil.bsky.social•27 days ago

See Cambodia.

drtobydriver.bsky.social•27 days ago

A shocking post from X's owner. Why is any official organisation still over there?

carolkilliney.bsky.social•27 days ago

Exactly!

angelm16.bsky.social•27 days ago

People who are taught critical thinking skills are less likely to fall for populist cons. Who ever would have thought it! 🤦‍♀️

russellengland.bsky.social•27 days ago

14 Characteristics of fascism

Number 11 - Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts

lucyarnold.bsky.social•27 days ago

There, fixed it

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gingextonic.bsky.social•27 days ago

This was my first thought too.

elainegribben.bsky.social•27 days ago

Universities enable students to undertake their own research and question everything they read. It is that ability to perform critical analysis that they don't like.

camonks.bsky.social•27 days ago

As Bertrand Russell said: first they fascinate fools, then they muzzle the intelligent.

Do not obey in advance.

simona62.bsky.social•27 days ago

Is that not happening in the UK where the UK government (Tories but Labour hasn’t done anything AFAIK) has making it more difficult/expensive for foreign students to study here, as well as demonising them. Also calling some courses a ‘waste of time’. Shameful. Variety enriches our culture.

carolkilliney.bsky.social•27 days ago

It’s the number of Likes that concern me.

manraisedbypuffins.bsky.social•27 days ago

with the number of bots over there it's impossible to tell how many are genuine

rktecture.bsky.social•27 days ago

From my time on twitter I'd guess at at least 75% bots

carolkilliney.bsky.social•27 days ago

I should be more cynical, as in…Musk is employing an army of bots, human or otherwise, to like Trump’s words of “common sense”, and everyone else’s in the administration. And of course his own.

bnanou.bsky.social•27 days ago

They need uneducation for uneducated people to believe in their lies

strikenstein.bsky.social•27 days ago

If it wasn't for universities, there'd be no PayPal, Tesla, or SpaceX because MusKKK sure as hell wouldn't have been able to build those companies alone, so maybe he should keep his mouth firmly shut.

bg-pete.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's happening in the UK and elsewhere too.

bg-pete.bsky.social•27 days ago

Rightwing populism for the stupid seems to be the flavour of the day in several western democracies.

ziggysden.bsky.social•27 days ago

By Trumps own admission, he loves the uneducated. I wonder why that would be then?

d0gm3at.bsky.social•26 days ago

So according to elon college makes you a Redditor?

julrose.bsky.social•27 days ago

No surprise from Musk. Keep the plebs in their place.

monde-autrement.bsky.social•27 days ago

@afdverbotjetzt.bsky.social

jmurkin.bsky.social•27 days ago

Anyone else getting flashbacks to history lessons about the cultural revolution in China?

delsorou.bsky.social•27 days ago

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frankly-me.bsky.social•27 days ago

F*** Musk.

realmsofmemory.bsky.social•27 days ago

The strength of our democracy hinges on what we choose to remember or forget. https://realmsofmemory.com.

katky0t0.bsky.social•27 days ago

So that’s what we look like?

lechat84.bsky.social•27 days ago

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drvickyharris.bsky.social•27 days ago

Musk is insecure about his “genius”. He’s a coder. He hasn’t the brain for a serious academic education. He just knows lots of people who do and it shows.

Massive shoulder chip.

therepublicisover.bsky.social•27 days ago

It is not lost on me that in the process he has attacked his next largest direct competitor.

timobetcke.me•27 days ago

Let us remember that the @royalsociety.org refuses to expel Musk.

timobetcke.me•27 days ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/25/oxford-scientist-resigns-from-royal-society-over-elon-musks-continuing-fellowship

juniperjump.bsky.social•27 days ago

Make no mistake, the only thing Elon Musk is good at is paying other people to be clever on his behalf! He’s being worshipped for being rich, makes my blood boil!

georgiethegeek.bsky.social•27 days ago

I'd rather be woke than a nazi

tracylacy84.bsky.social•27 days ago

He has 2 degrees from an American university.

pbrainedoptimist.bsky.social•27 days ago

Musk studied at the University of Pennsylvania, so what is he telling us here about himself?

jallenkaiser.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yet Elon complains that he can’t hire qualified technically skilled ppl without the H1B visas…because—due to skyrocketing tuition rates, gov’t edu spending cuts, & falling income:cost-of-living ratio—US isn’t sending enough of its own ppl to…wait for it…
College.

Elon’s MAGAganda never makes sense.

philt602.bsky.social•27 days ago

Musk wants talented, cheap & obedient technical staff, but then he wants dumb, compliant, ill-educated drones to vote & buy his products.

jallenkaiser.bsky.social•27 days ago

When the other economic shoe drops from his destruction of the fed govt in collusion with Trump & Heritage Foundation / Federlist Society…nobody’s gonna be buying anything with the money they don’t have anymore.

Absolutely dumbest self-own, unforced error ever in the history of dumbf🪦kery

philt602.bsky.social•27 days ago

Don't disagree, but if there is one thing that recent economic crises have proven, it is that recessions don't impact rich people anyway near as bad as ordinary folk. The ultra rich seem to just do slightly less well!!

jallenkaiser.bsky.social•27 days ago

Fair point…but he’s destroying the customer bases for ALL of his companies: consumers, & even more $—the fed govt.

Maybe he thinks this is his early retirement golden parachute severance package.

Or maybe he plans to steal the whole US NatSec dataset—then sell to Putin & Xi. I mean why not right?

philt602.bsky.social•27 days ago

Anything goes, anything goes!! It is truly the end of days!

highpoh.bsky.social•27 days ago

But the visa workers are tied to his companies because if they get fired/leave they get deported. Which is a nice lever to hold if you want to pay people badly for working a million hours a week.

evansthebass.bsky.social•27 days ago

Hasn't he just alienated a large proportion of his Tesla/X/SpaceX employees by posting this?

hnowlinlaw.bsky.social•26 days ago

Ignorance and undereducated are their strengths.

perigominas.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's Musk's America now though, isn't it? Yesterday's tragic air accident showed Trump still has no interest in his executive role beyond airing grievances and passing blame. Musk is the activist here. It was musk who wanted the FAA gutted for daring to challenge his rocket exploding project.

yesfan1.bsky.social•27 days ago

For rather obvious reasons.

dstamos-jetdriver.bsky.social•27 days ago

Somebody ask Elon how many non college educated rocket scientists, EV designers, production managers, biochemists and software engineers he has hired across his companies.

arj2024.bsky.social•27 days ago

Mind you what was going on in Cambridge in the 1990's to produce Braverman (Queens) and Jenrick (St Johns)?

redpandamoniums.bsky.social•27 days ago

Gotta laugh at this as Muskrat when to uni. He didn’t come out Woke. Notes the pity. He came out a clear and present danger to the planet.

redpandamoniums.bsky.social•27 days ago

Blasted autocorrect!!! I type the right words!

chollands.bsky.social•27 days ago

Ironically, little kids are as woke as it gets, they don’t hold prejudice and empathise fully, it’s only when we mature that the pressures of life squeeze the humanity out of us

chollands.bsky.social•27 days ago

Educate people and, shock horror, they change and, maybe, begin to show concern based on what they’ve learnt

keithhill.bsky.social•27 days ago

Remember, rich people aren't telling their own kids not to go to college, just yours.

joejoecoven.bsky.social•27 days ago

This 💯. Happening in the UK for the past 3-4 years too.

stathio.bsky.social•26 days ago

He really is just any loser from 4chan with money, huh?

davidjcourt.bsky.social•27 days ago

What Universities do is get young adults outside of their regular environment and expose them to the rest of the world, seperating them from their bubble. Understandable that the right wing consider that a threat.

ghastlysundae.bsky.social•27 days ago

I can't think of any conservative art

matunos.bsky.social•27 days ago

wtf is that tree supposed to represent?

marionbe.bsky.social•27 days ago

And at school level.

dpaxorales.bsky.social•27 days ago

typical drop-out.

golfwriterkiel.bsky.social•27 days ago

They always come for the intelligentsia first.
That's how you know Leon isn't one of the intelligentsia.

savic.bsky.social•27 days ago

Musk probably would appreciate Der Stürmer

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/sturmer.htm

rosiemog.bsky.social•26 days ago

I have to say I am a proud woke activist. I happen to care about other people.
Oh no , quick, lock me up 😱 😜

wokey42.bsky.social•27 days ago

I assume Elon is using 'woke' in its meaning of 'not a small-dicked fascist [rhymes with Jeremy Hunt]'. What a hypocritical shitbag he is.

xala2cats.bsky.social•27 days ago

Universities encourage thinking

adybee.bsky.social•27 days ago

First they fascinate the fools …
#MemeForToday

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tattieboy.bsky.social•27 days ago

I see Leon Skum used a design sketch from one of his shitty cars as the basis of his "college machine"

splootman.bsky.social•27 days ago

Dumb people are much easier to manipulate, just look at the MAGA cult.

clouddawg.bsky.social•27 days ago

Nope. Univerities (usually) broaden minds, encourage ideas and critical thinking and foster creativity across a broad range of disciplines. Clearly, this is too much of a threat for the likes of Mr X.

buric.co•27 days ago

Can't have broadened minds! Turns 'em "woke"! /s

clouddawg.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yep!

cfayin.bsky.social•27 days ago

Musk wants the people to not protest about social injustice, because he cannot pray on them so easily if they’re aware.

eviwool.bsky.social•27 days ago

Too true, Mike. In 1966, Mao, in order to reestablish his hold on China, encouraged students to attack their teachers and report their parents on grounds as vague as Musk's rhetoric. 2 million chinese were killed. Many of them had been loyal communists.

teelasthrupenneys.bsky.social•27 days ago

The message he's trying to send is "the uneducated are superior... take pride in being uneducated"

So he's trying to embolden the uneducated, which of course suits his agenda perfectly

djmarkymarc.bsky.social•27 days ago

They don't what their own kids to skip university, just ours! Should make you think

ptp335.bsky.social•27 days ago

Musk is a real and present danger. The man is insane.

lm-entertainment.com•27 days ago

they develop critical thinkers. that’s why they hate them. can’t have intelligent people who think for themselves.