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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  • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, can’t tell ya all the people I’ve killed, cause that’s fed shit. 🙄 Real convincing.

    Do I think it’s possible to destroy capitalism entirely? No. People don’t give up power and property. Also, humans are greedy and corrupt—but that’s a different topic.

    Do I think we can get to the point where there is significantly less suffering and class gap? I think it’s possible.

        • duderium [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          You can disguise your actual identity with whatever words you like, but excusing capitalism is liberalism.

          • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            I never said I excused it. I’m just not deluded enough to think that people, as a whole, WILL actually change even if I want them too. And I don’t go around pretending I’m a badass fighting capitalism, when all I do is shitpost in my echo chamber and lump people into two categories: good and bad.

            But, you keep fighting the good fight, my keyboard warrior comrade. Eventually those memes will capture the youth and pretty soon we will all be communists.

            • duderium [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              I never said I excused it. I’m just not deluded enough to think that people, as a whole, WILL actually change even if I want them too.

              I’m not excusing it. I’m just saying that destroying it is impossible. See the difference? /s

              Do you think that feudal lords thought it was possible (in the 1500s, say) that capitalism would destroy them and take over the world?

              • 摆 烂@lemm.ee
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                1 year ago

                I think you’re confusing my disappointment in humanity as acceptance of their behavior.

                Like I said, “good” or “bad.”

                Do you have anything that was produced in a sweatshop? Of course you do. You’re typing on it. So, don’t be all high and mighty now. A real communist would reject such things. I guess you’re just making excuses for capitalism too, liberal.

                As for the feudal, lords… I’m pretty sure we still have a group of rich people making decisions for all of us, and we just think things have changed—but they really haven’t and most of us are still forced to work to live. Not terribly far from indentured servitude.

                • duderium [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I think you’re confusing my disappointment in humanity as acceptance of their behavior.

                  I assume you believe that human nature is an omnipotent and unchanging concept that influences the material world without being influenced by it. If I am correct, how is your conception of human nature different from the Christian conception of God? And if I am incorrect—if you believe that human nature can change—doesn’t that mean that communism is therefore possible and that we should do everything we can in order to achieve it?

                  Do you have anything that was produced in a sweatshop? Of course you do. You’re typing on it. So, don’t be all high and mighty now. A real communist would reject such things. I guess you’re just making excuses for capitalism too, liberal.

                  Did capitalism randomly originate one day out of the void? Or was it created by feudalism’s collapse? Were the first capitalists hypocrites for using feudalism (long-term rents, for instance) to destroy feudalism itself? Do you think that any of them cared?

                  As for the feudal, lords… I’m pretty sure we still have a group of rich people making decisions for all of us, and we just think things have changed—but they really haven’t and most of us are still forced to work to live. Not terribly far from indentured servitude.

                  Do you live on a manor and are you a peasant, like 90% of feudal people? Do you pay half your annual harvest in kind to your lord and to the church? Are you forbidden to leave this manor by law? Are you able to access the commons for your own material sustenance (food, firewood, construction materials)? If you answered no to any of these questions, then you aren’t actually living under feudalism and there is actually a difference between good and bad things!