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@auspexrex.bsky.social

nah

There are at least *three* right-wing text-based social media sites, one owned by The Actual President, another by the richest man in history, and all of which openly foster white supremacy. But those are not the ones every op-ed page in the western world is sneering about

My thoughts on being welcoming to MAGA chodes here is that during the Paleolithic, if people displayed antisocial behavior, raped/ were found to be pedophiles, our ancestors let them test their luck against the saber-tooth tigers one v one mode, and sadly there are no tigers around...

1/2 Trump is taking the reactionary Republican educational agenda into overdrive. Roger Freeman, an advisor to Nixon and Reagan, was the last one to state things so openly. Ignorant citizens are much easier to subjugate and steal money from. The goal is to manufacture public ignorance at scale.

We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.

Roger Freeman, as quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 30, 1970.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Also, given how quickly this version of the country and society burst up through the ground, it's kind of disturbing to realize that it must have been always latent, simply waiting for permission and its moment

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

Bluesky was designed for people who want 🚫 Porn and 🚫 DMs. For people who have 40 thousand followers and who follow 40 thousand accounts. For people who will respond to each one of your posts by asking if you are “SURPRISED by this?”

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."