The new WVU budget slashes nearly 10 percent of majors and 7 percent of all faculty—but students and staff aren't going down without a fight.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1806644

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  • duderium [he/him]11•10 months ago

    “Left-wing” is pretty vague. I’ve seen people say things like “now I’m as leftwing as they come, which is why I support sending tens of billions of dollars to Ukrainian Nazis! Slava Ukraini!” Under the capitalist mode of production, there are communists, liberals, and fascists. That’s pretty much it.

      • duderium [he/him]11•10 months ago

        Not really. You either support capitalism or you don’t. And if you do support it, you’re either comfortable with its nastier aspects (genocide, slavery, the annihilation of the human species via climate change), as fascists are, or you find those aspects uncomfortable, as liberals do, though they aren’t an issue for you if they’re kept out of sight. Is there some other group I’m missing here?

        • 摆 烂@lemm.ee4•10 months ago

          I don’t like capitalism, but I’m not a communist. 🤷‍♂️ I must not exist.

            • 摆 烂@lemm.ee3•10 months ago

              What actions have you taken that have had a measurable impact on destroying capitalism that I can verify?

              • duderium [he/him]8•10 months ago

                Why would I want to destroy communism? It doesn’t really exist outside of a few extremely isolated communities. I’m trying to make it a global thing!

                  • duderium [he/him]8•10 months ago

                    Ah, okay, capitalism. I can’t doxx myself because that’s fed shit, but the thousands of comments I’ve made on this subject on hexbear should strongly suggest that I am quite dedicated to the destruction of capitalism. Do you even believe that destroying capitalism is possible or desirable?

          • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]5•10 months ago

            I'm going to have to ask you to place your dot on one of four quadrants so I can hurry up and assume everything else you've got to say

            • 摆 烂@lemm.ee3•10 months ago

              I feel like a pre-trans person when asked to check [ ] male. [ ] female.

              I guess my options today are:

              A. Poor because I tell myself I’m a communist

              B. Poor because the rich are taking my wages through over taxation and artificially increased prices

              C. Poor because the rich have told me I’m poor.

              Man, fuck that world 🤪